Mind Teasers : Logical Maths Gold Bar Brain Teaser

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A worker is to perform work for you for seven straight days. In return for his work, you will pay him 1/7th of a bar of gold per day. The worker requires a daily payment of 1/7th of the bar of gold. What and where are the fewest number of cuts to the bar of gold that will allow you to pay him 1/7th each day?
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Mind Teasers : Math Trick Riddle

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Removing one from eleven makes it ten and removing one from nine makes it ten.

Is it even possible?

Mind Teasers : Dirt Hole Tricky Riddle

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How many cubic meters of dirt are in a hole of 20 meter long and 30 meter wide.

Mind Teasers : Akbar Birbal Puzzle

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Akbar summoned Birbal out of anger. He told him that he will have to face death. He asked him to make a statement and if the statement is true he will be buried alive and if the statement is false, he will be thrown at lions. After hearing Birbal’s statement, Akbar could do nothing but smile. He gave him 5 gold bars and let him go.

What did Birbal say?

Mind Teasers : Cross The River Mind Teaser

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A river should be crossed by a father, a mother and their two sons and two daughters.
There are some rules that should be followed while crossing the river. There can be only two people in the raft while crossing. The daughters cannot be with their father unless there is the presence of the mother. The sons cannot be with their mothers unless the father is present. Unless the guard is on the board, the criminals cannot be with any of the family members. Only the adults like the father, the guard, and the mother knows to use the raft.

How will they cross the river?
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Mind Teasers : Candle Trick Teaser Problem

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Husband has prepared for a candle light dinner on the honeymoon for his wife. While they were having the dinner, a strong breeze flew through the open window and four candles out of ten were extinguished. After that, the husband closed the window.

How many candles were left in the end?

Mind Teasers : Tough Number Problem Riddle

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Find smallest number that you can write using all the vowels(A,E,O,I,U) exactly once?
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Mind Teasers : Guess Game Logic Problem

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In a guess game , five friends had to guess the exact numbers of balls in a box.
Friends guessed as 31 , 35, 39 , 49 , 37, but none of guess was right.The guesses were off by 1, 9, 5, 3, and 9 (in a random order).
Can you determine the number of balls in a box ?
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Mind Teasers : Maths Cube Riddle

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You have two cubes with plane faces. You have to mark both the cubes with numbers in a manner that all the days of a month can be portrayed using those cubes. Also, note that you have to use both the cubes for displaying any date. Suppose if you have to display the 5th day of the month, you will have to display it as 05.

Can you do it?
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Mind Teasers : Lateral Thinking Puzzle

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Sachin new ferrari car has five wheels(two front wheels, two Rear wheels and one spare wheel).
Real car Wheel will wear out in exact 21000 miles and front wheel will wear out after exact 29000 miles.

What is the maximum distance sachin can cover.

Note: unlimited numbers of changing the tyres can take place.
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Mind Teasers : Popular Probability Brain Teaser

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Kangwa, Rafael and Ferdinand plans for gun fighting.
They each get a gun and take turns shooting at each other until only one person is left.

History suggest
Kangwa hits his shot 1/3 of the time, gets to shoot first.
Rafael, hits his shot 2/3 of the time, gets to shoot next if still living.
Ferdinand having perfect record at shooting(100% accuracy) shoots last , if alive.

The cycle repeats. If you are Kangwa, where should you shoot first for the highest chance of survival?

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