Challenging brain teasers challenge your ability to solve the puzzles. They are not that easy to be solved.They require logical as well as conceptual thinking.

Here are some of them.

#51 - 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

#52 - Magical Number Riddle

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Can you find a number such that if we multiply that number by 1 or 2 or 3 or 4 or 5 or 6, then the resultant number contains same all digits (of course in a different place)
category : TRIVIA | MATHS

#53 - 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

#54 - Hardest Chess Problem

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This is a classic chess puzzle and considered to be one of the hardest puzzles in history.
As shown in the picture below, White army is arranged in a classic chess board. You need to add black army i.e
1 king
1 queen
2 rooks
2 bishops
2 knights
8 pawns
in such a way that not a single piece of either color is under attack.

category : PICTURE

#55 - Hardest Matchsticks Puzzle

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By adding just four matchsticks in below picture, you need to create

1. Four Triangles
2. Two Squares

#56 - Worlds Hardest Brain Teaser

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A mastermind organized a quiz competition in which six selected candidates were invite namely James Hunt, Ruxandra Bar, Sophia Connors, David Finch, Fred Odea and Brian Miller. A 'special puzzle' was asked to all of them. The first one to answer it was promised for a big award.

After that, the candidates were offered the meal before the mastermind stood up to announce the much awaited result. He started announcing:

'Ok now everybody!'
'The winner of…..'
'The Hardest Riddle Ever Event.'

And then he smiled. All the candidates understood who won.

Do you know who won ?
category : LOGIC | TRICK

#57 - Extremely Difficult Triangle Count Riddle

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Count the number of triangles on the picture below.

#58 - Hard Logic Brain Teaser

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There are 100 doors. 100 strangers have been gathered in the adjacent room. The first one goes and opens every door. The second one goes and shuts down all the even numbered doors – second, fourth, sixth... and so on. The third one goes and reverses the current position of every third door (third, sixth, ninth… and so on.) i.e. if the door is open, he shuts it and if the door is shut, he switches opens it. All the 100 strangers progresses in the similar fashion.

After the last person has done what he wanted, which doors will be left open and which ones will be shut at the end?
category : LOGIC

#59 - 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?
category : LOGIC | MATHS

#60 - Indian Scientist Magical Number Puzzle

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Ramanujan found out that 1729 is a magical number.

What so magical about it ?

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