Mind Teasers : Where Is The Missing Dollar

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Your mother gave you Dollar 300 to buy some household goodies from the market. The goodies cost just Dollar 295. So, the shopkeeper gave you Dollar 5 back. Seeking the opportunity to buy something, you bought two candies for yourself worth Dollar 2 and gave back Dollar 3 to your mother.

Now, your mother gave you Dollar 300 and got back Dollar 3 back. In this manner, she paid just Dollar 297 on the goodies and you spent Dollar 2 on candies.
So where is the remaining one Dollar ?
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Mind Teasers : Two Men One Question Puzzle

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Imagine that you are travelling to a village. You happen to reach a point in the road where there is a fork. There are two ways that you can go into but only one amongst them is correct and leads to the village. You happen to see two men standing on the fork and you can ask them for the direction. To your bad luck, one amongst the two men always lies and the other one always says the truth. But you do not know who is a liar and who is not. At that point of the situation you are allowed to ask only one question to any one of the men standing there.

What question will you ask?
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Mind Teasers : Cake Grandma bridge Logic Problem

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Rohit is on his way to visit your Grandma, who lives at the end of the state.It's her birthday, and he want to give her the cakes that he has made.Between his place and her grandma house, he need to cross 7 toll bridges.
Before you can cross the toll bridge, you need to give them half of the cakes you are carrying, but as they are kind trolls, they each give you back a single cake.

How many cakes do rohit have to carry with him so he can reach his grandma home with exactly 2 cakes?

Mind Teasers : Extremely Hard Civil Services Problem

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( ) + ( ) + ( ) + ( ) + ( ) = 30
This is what you have for equation. The following are the numbers that you can use to fill in the brackets:
1, 3, 5, 7, 9, 11, 13 and 15

You can repeat the numbers if required. The resulting sum should be 30.

This question appeared in the UPSC final examination in December 2013. Out of all the people who appeared, only one guy was able to solve this namely Gaurav Agarwal.

Can you solve it?

Mind Teasers : Spot The Difference Christmas Tree Riddle

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Can you spot 5 differences in two Christmas tree below?

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Mind Teasers : Tricky Maths Riddle

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Hockey Stick and ball cost $50. If the Stick cost $49 more than the ball.

what is the cost of each ?

Mind Teasers : MatchStick Squares Count Puzzle

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Can you count the number of squares in this matchstick puzzle below?

Mind Teasers : Supernatural - Who Are We Riddle

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We are the most popular hunters of the world.
We fight against hell.
We kill criminal vampires.
We kill demons.
We always do it together as we are the brother.

Who are we?

Mind Teasers : 2 Golfer Sports Puzzle

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Tiger Woods and Phil Mickelson are well-known golf rivals. One Day during a match, they were level at a score of 30. Phil hit a bad shot and Tiger added 10 to his score. Tiger then hit an awesome shot and he won the game.

How ?

category : LOGIC

Mind Teasers : Toothpick Donkey Puzzle

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The toothpicks in the picture have been arranged to form a donkey shaped figure. You have to move two matchsticks in a way that the entire shape is rotated / reflected while being intact. Also, you can't change the tail's direction it should be pointing up.

category : LOGIC | PICTURE

Mind Teasers : Brothers Ias Smart question

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Two brothers have developed differences among themselves and thus want to part ways. The problem is that they have one big land that is irregular in shape. Both of them want an equal share which is fairly impossible as there is no way that land could be divided in equal halves due to irregularity in the shape.

The wisest man of the village is called who tells a way in which both of them will be happy even though the land might not be divided into exactly equal halves.

What way did he suggest?
category : LOGIC | RIDDLE

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