Mind Teasers : Hard Ten Boxes Interview Puzzle

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You have ten boxes and an electronic weighing machine. In those ten boxes, you have chocolates. Each chocolate weigh 20 grams. But in one box the chocolates are defective and each weigh 19 grams exactly.

Now you can weigh in the electronic weighing machine but you can use that machine just once. How will you find out which box has the defected chocolates.
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Mind Teasers : Sunday Probability Riddle

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Whats the probability of getting 5 Sunday(my favorite day) in a 31 day month ?

Mind Teasers : Intel Logical Interview Problem

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Chanu bought an ice cream cone having 5 different flavor scoop.
The five flavors in random order are Jamaica, nutty-chocolate, peppermint, walnut and orange

These are some hints to help identify the puzzled reader to determine the order of flavor from top to bottom.
1. The bottom flavor of the cone has 7 letters.
2. The walnut scoop is at between Jamaica and the nutty-chocolate scoop.
3. walnut is above the orange scoop but below the nutty-chocolate scoop.

So can you figure out the flavor of ice cream in order from top to bottom?

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Mind Teasers : Logical Murder Mystery Brain Teaser

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The store room of your house is locked with a certain lock that can be closed without a key but requires a key to open which you own (there is no duplicate key). You decide to move your old stuff in the storeroom. After keeping the things carefully, you lock it back again perfectly. The next day, a dead body is found in your closed store room. Since only you have the key to the store room and you live alone, the police suspects you as a murderer. You can’t understand anything when suddenly a thought strikes your mind. There is a possible way using which the dead body could have been placed by someone else.

Can you find that way so you can tell the police and prove yourself to be innocent?
category : LOGIC | MYSTERY

Mind Teasers : Numbers For Buildings Problem

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My town contains 100 buildings.
They are numbered from 1 to 100. How many 6's are used in these numbers ?
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Mind Teasers : Funny Brain Twister

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We all know that New Year occurs after a week from Christmas and thus it falls on the same day as of Christmas. But this will not happen in 2050. In 2050, Christmas will appear on Sunday while New Year will appear on Saturday.

How can this be possible ?
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Mind Teasers : CheckMate All Kings Chess Puzzle

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Can you checkmate all the kings in less than 10 moves?

Following are the rules:
1. White can make up to 10 legitimate moves until all kings are checkmate.
2. You can take any black piece(s) except the King.
3. Your king cannot be in check position at any time of the game.




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Mind Teasers : IAS Logical Question

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An old man in the village feels that his end is near. He calls his two sons to discuss about the land he owns and other properties. He tells them to have a race on their horses till the city border. The one with the slower horse will be rewarded with the entire property.

Both of them keep wandering here or there without any result as no one is filling to reach the border. Then they visit the wise man of the village and seek his advice. The wise men tells them something listening to which they jump on the horses and race as fast as they can till the city border.

What did the wise man tell them?
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Mind Teasers : Sherlock Holmes Murderer Mystery Puzzle

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There are five people. One of them shot and killed one of the other five.

1. Dan ran in the NY City marathon yesterday with one of the innocent men.
2. Mike considered being a farmer before he moved to the city.
3. Jeff is a topnotch computer consultant and wants to install Ben's new computer next week.
4. The murderer had his leg amputated last month.
5. Ben met Jack for the first time six months ago.
6. Jack has been in seclusion since the crime.
7. Dan used to drink heavily.
8. Ben and Jeff built their last computers together.
9. The murderer is Jack's brother. They grew up together in Seattle.

Sherlock holmes arrived at the scene and immediately find the murderer.

who was the murderer ?

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Mind Teasers : Simple Matchstick Riddle

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You can see that four match sticks have been joined in the given figure to form one square.

Can you form five squares using six matchsticks ?

Mind Teasers : The sheep and the grass logical puzzle

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If we tie a sheep to one peg, a circled grass is been eaten by the sheep. If we tie the sheep to two pegs with a circle on its neck, then an eclipse is eaten out of the grass by the sheep. If we want an eclipse then we put two pegs then put a rope in between then and the other end of the rope is tied up on the sheep's neck.

Question: how should we tie the peg and the sheep so that a square is eaten out from the garden's grass? We only have one sheep's rope and the peg and the rings.
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