Interview brain teasers question sallow you to enhance your analytical and problem solving abilities. These brain teasers help you to determine how well you can think through a query and calculate or determine a response or solve a problem without getting confused.It allows you to exercise your brains quickly and apply logic to it. It requires deep thinking and concentration along with a quick and spontaneous reaction. As it is a competitive world so we need to enhance our answering abilities in an interview.

Here are some of the challenging interview brain teasers we have for you

#41 - Prisoners And The CupCakes Puzzle

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Four well-known prisoners Michael Scofield, Fernando Sucre, T-Bag and Lincoln Burrows were imprisoned in Fox River State.

The jailor was a good man and occasionally given them cupcakes for the hardship they are showing in the jail. On one particular day, the jailer gives them 11 cup-cakes. They all love cupcakes and while chatting to each other the prisoners eat all the cupcakes.

They all like cupcakes but they don't know how many each of them had.
So they started the conversation.

Sucre : "Hey T-Bag, did you had more cupcakes than me ?".
T-bag : "I don't know man, Hey Burrows, did you had more cupcakes than me ?".
Burrows: "I don't know"
By hearing the conversation Scofield replied to all
Scofield: "I know how exactly how many cupcakes each of you had?".

So can you tell how many cupcakes each of them had ?

category : LOGIC

#42 - Cut The Cake - 8 Equal Pieces Riddle

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Can you cut the cake into 8 equal pieces by using just three cut?
category : LOGIC

#43 - Castle And The Architect Puzzle

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Hundreds of years ago, in the great land of Zahar, a king decided to build 10 castles. He called upon his chief architect and kept his request forwards. According to the requirements of the kin:
1) All 10 castles should be connected with 5 straight walls.
2) Each wall must have at least 4 castles connected.
3) At least 1 castle must be protected by the walls.

What you see in the attached picture was the best the architect could propose.

Can you find a better way to build the castles and wall?


category : LOGIC

#44 - Probability To Choose Own Toy Brain Teaser

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I bought three toys for my triplet boys (one for each). I placed the toys in the dark store. One by one each boy went to the store and pick the toy. What is the probability that no boy will choose his own toy?

#45 - Car And Bug Interview Puzzle

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As shown in the image below, there is a circular track of diameter of 5km. Two cars Car-A and CarB are at the exact diameter of the circular track.At time start say 'Ts', Both the cars moves clockwise at a constant speed of 90meter/seconds. Since both the cars move at a constant speed so at any time given say 'Ti', they will always be at opposite end of the diameter.
Note, at the center of the track there a bug which at the time 'Ti' starts moving towards Car-B and after reaching car-B moves back toward Car-A and after reaching car-A move towards Car-B and keeps repeating the entire cycle again and again. The speed of bug is constant at 2 meter/seconds. After 2 hours, both cars and bug stop.

What is the distance covered by the bug ?


category : LOGIC

#46 - Color Of Shirt Riddle

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Three friends named Mr. Orange, Mr. Pink, and Mr. Green meet after a decade in a reunion party. The three of them are wearing either an Orange, Pink or Green shirt.

Upon meeting, Mr. Pink says, Hey, look at us, we are wearing a different color shirt than our names!"

The man with a Green shirt said, "Hell yeah you are absolutely right Mr. Pink."

Can you find out who is wearing which color shirt?
category : LOGIC

#47 - Cross The Toll Puzzle

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Sam Winchester, who lived in Cherryville decided to surprise his grandmother who lives in Cherryville with her favorite fruit pears. Sam had gotten 3000 pears and Cherryville is 1000 kilometers from Pearland. He got a mini truck, which can carry a maximum of 1000 pears at a time. However, every three kilometers there is a toll booth where you need to pay 1 pear, but you pay nothing when going in the other direction (towards Pearland).

What is the highest number of pears you can get to Cherryville?
category : LOGIC

#48 - The Elf Logical Puzzle

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A wicked sorcerer felt enmity towards elf and thus he chooses four among the rest of the elf's and concealed them. The elves are concealed in the ground in a manner that apart from their head the rest of their body was underneath the ground. The elf's are unable to move their body and can only see in that direction that they are facing. All the elf's are concealed underground in such a way that they form a straight line and among those four elf's that are concealed underground one of the elf is detached form the other three elf's via wall. The entire elf's are in the same direction. The elf that is the furthest can only see the heads of its friends in front and a wall. The elf that is second last can only see one head of his friend and a wall. The second elf can only view the wall. The elf can see nothing.
The sorcerer understands the situation and tells the elf's that he has placed hats over their heads. Among the hats places two hat are blue and the other two are red. Among all the four elfs one of the elf has to guess that which colour hat is he wearing. If the elf answers correctly then he shall be set free or else he will have to dig beneath the ground till the very last.
category : LOGIC

#49 - Measure Water Supply Brain Teaser

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You had an infinite supply of water and a 5 ml and 3 ml gallons.

How would you measure exactly 4 ml in least number of steps ?
category : LOGIC | MEASURE

#50 - Interesting Bet Puzzle

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In a bowl, there are several chits with distinct numbers on them. You have to choose any two of them at random.

Will you accept the 2 to 1 bet that the numbers will be relatively prime will you accept it?

For instance:
If the numbers you pick are 6 and 13, you lose $1.
If the numbers you pick are 5 and 25, you win $2.
category : LOGIC

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