Showing posts with label Logical Puzzles. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Logical Puzzles. Show all posts

Saturday, 26 November 2011

Where is the missing £1?

Three people check into a hotel. They pay £30 to the manager and go to their room. The manager suddenly remembers that the room rate is £25 and gives £5 to the bellboy to return to the people. On the way to the room the bellboy reasons that £5 would be difficult to share among three people so he pockets £2 and gives £1 to each person. Now each person paid £10 and got back £1. So they paid £9 each, totaling £27. The bellboy has £2, totaling £29. Where is the missing £1?

Tuesday, 27 September 2011

How many of the socks...

Michael have ten pairs of black socks, eight pairs of white socks and seven pairs of green socks. Everything is mixed in a draw. As there is no light he were not able to identify the color of the socks.
How many of the socks did he want to take to match one pair.

How can Mr Om do it?

Mr Om has eleven kids in her class. He has a bowl containing eleven apples. Now Mr Om want to divide the eleven apples to the kids, in such a way that a apple should remain in her bowl.
How can 
Mr Om do it?

Friday, 9 September 2011

A Strange liar

Rahul is a strange liar. He lies on six days of the week, but on the seventh day he always tells the truth. He made the following statements on three successive days:

Day 1: "I lie on Monday and Tuesday."
Day 2: "Today, it's Thursday, Saturday, or Sunday."
Day 3: "I lie on Wednesday and Friday."
On which day does Rahul tell the truth
?

Thursday, 8 September 2011

Three cannibals


Three cannibals and three anthropologists have to cross a river.
The boat they have is only big enough for two people. The cannibals will do as requested, even if they are on the other side of the river, with one exception. If at any point in time there are more cannibals on one side of the river than anthropologists, the cannibals will eat them.
What plan can the anthropologists use for crossing the river so they don't get eaten?
Note: One anthropologist can not control two cannibals on land, nor can one anthropologist on land control two cannibals on the boat if they are all on the same side of the river. This means an anthropologist will not survive being rowed across the river by a cannibal if there is one cannibal on the other side.

The Waiter


Three men in a cafe order a meal the total cost of which is $15. They each contribute $5. The waiter takes the money to the chef who recognizes the three as friends and asks the waiter to return $5 to the men.
The waiter is not only poor at mathematics but dishonest and instead of going to the trouble of splitting the $5 between the three he simply gives them $1 each and pockets the remaining $2 for himself.
Now, each of the men effectively paid $4, the total paid is therefore $12. Add the $2 in the waiters pocket and this comes to $14.....where has the other $1 gone from the original $15?

Tuesday, 6 September 2011

Bullies and Mangoes

You lived in 7th floor of an apartment building without elevator (only stairs) with your pregnant wife. She tells you to buy two Mangoes on the ground floor for her dinner.

Every floor from that apartment has a bully (from 1st Floor to the roof top) and they take whatever they want from everyone who goes up and bought something from the ground floor. And this time you are up to the challenge to bring exactly 2 Mangoes to your wife.

These Bullies has condition on taking items to everyone, they will take half of what you bought and will give you one (1) piece back. This condition applies to every bully in every floor.

Question is … How many Mangoes should you buy to reach your room with exactly 2 mangoes in your hand to give to your wife?
You have bullies from 1st to 7th floor. 

A Man in Elevator


A man who lives on the tenth floor, takes the elevator down to the first floor every morning and goes to work. In the evening, when he comes back; on a rainy day, or if there are other people in the elevator, he goes to his floor directly. Otherwise, he goes to the seventh floor and walks up three flights of stairs to his apartment.
Can you explain why?

(Give your answers by  comments)

Monday, 5 September 2011

Sailor, Monkey and Coconut

5 Sailors and a monkey landed on an island in the southern Pacific Ocean. They found a big pile of coconuts. Since they were so tired and it was getting late, they all went to sleep instead.

Allan woke up at night. He wanted to get his share right then. He divided the coconuts evenly into 5 piles, but one coconut was left. He hid one pile for himself and gave the extra one to the monkey. He went back to sleep.

Brad woke up (without knowing what had happened) after Allan. He divided the rest of the coconuts evenly into 5 piles, but one coconut was left. He hid one pile for himself and gave the extra one to the monkey. He went back to sleep.

Charlie woke up (without knowing what had happened) after Brad. He divided the rest of the coconuts evenly into 5 piles, but one coconut was left. He hid one pile for himself and gave the extra one to the monkey. He went back to sleep.

David woke up (without knowing what had happened) after Charlie. He divided the rest of the coconuts evenly into 5 piles, but one coconut was left. He hid one pile for himself and gave the extra one to the monkey. He went back to sleep.

Earl woke up (without knowing what had happened) after David. He divided the rest of the coconuts evenly into 5 piles, but one coconut was left. He hid one pile for himself and gave the extra one to the monkey. He went back to sleep.

When they all awoke in the morning, they determined to divide the rest of the coconuts evenly into 5 piles. Each sailor got a pile. Again one coconut was left, and they gave it to the monkey. Everybody got one pile. How many coconuts did each person get?

Get the life door

There is a prisoner who is about to be executed. The king decides to give him one last chance to live.

There are 2 doors, the life door and the death door. There is one guard standing by each door. Those two guards know which door is the life door and which is the death door. However, one of them always tells the truth and the other always tells a lie. There is no way you can identify which door is the life door or the death door. There is no way you can distinguish who is the one telling the truth.

The prisoner can only ask one guard one question. Then he needs to choose a door to walk in. If he walks in the death door, then he will be executed. If he walks in the life door, he can have a new life.

He did choose the life door and lived. What was the question he asked? How did he choose the door after he got the answer from one of the guards?