Mind Teasers : House Distance Math Problem

Difficulty Popularity

Four friends built a colony for themselves. They built their own houses at different distances from each other.
Chris lived 60 km away from Alex.
Darren lived 40 km away from Bill.
Chris lived 10 km nearer to Darren than he lived to Bill.

Can you find out how far was Darren's house from Alex?

Suggestions

Mind Teasers : Which Tank Will Fill First Brain Teaser

Difficulty Popularity

Famous tank fill brainteaser is shown in the picture below. Can you tell us which tank will fill first?

category : LOGIC | PICTURE

Mind Teasers : Be Detective And Find The Thief Puzzle

Difficulty Popularity

You need to be a detective and need to find the thief in the puzzle below?

category : MYSTERY | PICTURE

Mind Teasers : Oscar Winning Movie Rebus Riddle

Difficulty Popularity

Which famous Oscar movie name is hidden in the rebus below?

category : REBUS | PICTURE

Mind Teasers : The Better Proposal Puzzle

Difficulty Popularity

A 12-year footballer Lavy was offered a contract with a club name "Flyball" that if he will practice 1 hour extra after school he will be offered 11$ after every week.
Lavy, however, suggested an alternative paid method in which
He will be paid just a penny on his first day.
Two pence will be paid on the second day,
Four pence will be paid on the third day.
And so on till 11th day.

Should the club accept the offer of Lavy?

category : LOGIC | MATHS

Mind Teasers : Classic Five Tablet Puzzle

Difficulty Popularity

Roy was suffering from severe headaches. He went to see his doctor and the doctor gave him five tablets asking him to take one tablet every 15 minutes.

How much time will it take Roy to consume all the five tablets?

Mind Teasers : Simple Matchstick Riddle

Difficulty Popularity

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 : Logic Fruits Riddle

Difficulty Popularity

There is a box full of fruits,
all but two are grapes,
all but two are apples,
and all but two are oranges.

How many fruits are in the box ?
category : LOGIC | MATHS

Mind Teasers : Extremely Hard Civil Services Problem

Difficulty Popularity

( ) + ( ) + ( ) + ( ) + ( ) = 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 : Classic Card Brain Teaser

Difficulty Popularity

A pack of cards has 52 cards. You are blindfolded. Out of 52, 42 cards are facing down while 10 are facing up. You have been asked to divide this pack of cards into two decks - so that each deck contains an equal number of face up cards. Remember, you are blindfolded.

How will you do it?
category : LOGIC

Mind Teasers : Logical Arrangement Bonfire Puzzle

Difficulty Popularity

30 classmates went for a bonfire. While sitting around the fire, they decided to play a game. To play it, they divided themselves into 5 teams in a way that there were 5 rows having 7 people each.

How can this arrangement be possible while sitting around the bonfire?
category : LOGIC | TRICK

Submit your Email Address to get latest post directly to your inbox.

Latest Puzzles

26 January
Minimum Move Chess Game Video Riddle

Can you figure out the minimum number of...

25 January
A numeric lock has 3 digit key Riddle

A numeric lock has 3 digit code with the...

24 January
What's wrong in the kitchen picture

What appears to be wrong in the kitchen ...

23 January
Who Is the Mother Picture Riddle

Can you find the mother of the baby in t...

22 January
Lighter Than Air Riddle

I'm lighter than air but a thousand men ...

21 January
3 Tigers 3 Sheep Riddle

If 3 tigers catch 3 sheep in 3 minutes. ...

20 January
Cow Rebus

Decode the below cow rebus....

Puzzles Tags :

Illusions Tags :