Wonder what are Lateral Thinking Riddles? Well they are those riddles that require a creative or indirect approach or even applying reasoning that is indirect to be solved. Following are the tons of Lateral Thinking Riddles by GPuzzles.Com just for the interested fellows. Go all creative and run your mind in myriad directions to solve them.

#531 - Logical Inference Riddle

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A guy visits a house where three identical triplet sisters lived – Sarah, Sue and Sally. Sarah is the oldest one followed by Sue and Sally. The sisters decides to mock him for a while and let him figure out who is who. Due to their identical looks, he is not able to identify who is who and thus decides to ask them each of them a question.

He goes to the sister sitting on the left sofa and asks her, 'Who is the one sitting in the middle sofa?' He is replied by the girl, 'She is Sarah.'

Then he goes to the one sitting on the middle sofa and asks her, 'Who are you?' To this he is replied by her, 'I’m Sally.'

Finally he goes to the one sitting on the right sofa. He asks, 'Who is sitting on the middle sofa?' She replies, 'She is Sue.'

He is left puzzled after the three answers. He asks again and repeats for three times in total. All of the time, he receives different answers.

He only knows three things:
Sarah, the oldest one is a truthful person who never lies.
Sue the middle sister is a big liar who never tells a truth.
Sally, the youngest speaks both truth and lies.

Can you help him find out who is who?
category : LOGIC

#532 - IAS Murder Brain Teaser Riddle

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Two friends are standing in a large hall that is vacant except them both. They are facing each other. First friend predicts the future of the second one and says that in five minutes, the second will be stabbed by someone in the back. The clock is hanging on the wall in front of the second one.

He is shocked to hear this and impatiently sees the clock ticking away. After five minutes, he is stabbed on his back. Who stabbed him and how did it happen?
category : LOGIC | MYSTERY

#533 - Critical Thinking Interview Question

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If three friends want to know the average of their salaries, how can they know it without disclosing their actually salary to the other ones?
category : LOGIC

#534 - Coins Riddle

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You are given a thousand Re. 1 coins and 10 pouches. Now, you have to divide these coins in the given pouches in a manner that if someone asks you for any amount between Re.1 to Rs.1000, you should be able to give the amount by just giving the pouches. You are not allowed to open pouches for that.

How will you do it?
category : LOGIC

#535 - Hard Ipl Cricket Brain Teaser

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In a cricket tournament, there are 9 teams that are participating. According to the rules, each of the team will get to play two matches with every other teams. The top qualified four teams will then move forward for the playoffs.

Can you calculate the minimum number of matches to be won by a team to ensure a place in the playoffs?
category : LOGIC | MATHS

#536 - Ias Tricky Question

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I just bought a new car for myself. The car's number is pretty unique as anyone can know my name through it. My car's number is WV733N. Can you find out my name?

#537 - Quick Thinking Question

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You have to answer the following question very quickly as if it was a rapid fire round.

You are participating in a car race. Picking up the right opportunity, you just overtook the second positioned racer. What is your position now?

#538 - Lateral Thinking Logic Brain Teaser

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Michael buys a new car. He is habitual of eating either donut or brownie while going to office. Whenever he stops to buy brownie, he don't face any problem with respect to his car but whenever he stops to buy donut, the car starts giving trouble. This is seen as a coincidence by him at first but when the same problem persists, he drives in the company showroom and tells his bizarre problem to them. The mechanic checks the car but find no problem at all.

On the next day, when he stops to buy donut again, he faces the same problem with the car. He drives into the showroom again but the mechanic finds no problem at all. The next day goes by fine as he stops by to buy a brownie. But on the following day, when he stops by to buy a donut, the car gives trouble again.

Can you find the possible reason behind this problem?

#539 - Number Brain Teaser For Adults

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A random number is picked following which, five guesses are to be made in order to find the correct number. All the guessed numbers are noted down in a paper. On another paper, all the differences between the guessed numbers and the picked numbers are written down by subtracting the smaller one from the bigger one.

Now, one number each is erased from both of the papers. As a result, four numbers remain on each paper:
Guesses: 27, 32, 44, 45
Differences: 5, 7, 10, 13

If this is all the information you need, can you find out what number was picked?
category : LOGIC | MATHS

#540 - Hard Logic Brain Teaser Question

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There is an island where people are not allowed to communicate with each other. There are total 200 people out of which, 100 have green eyes while 100 have black eyes. But no one knows their own eyes color as there is no mirror available on the island. Also, they are not aware of how many people with n colored eyes are there. They don't even know that there are only two color set of eyes. But they can observe and analyze other people's eyes.

There is a catch to the things. It is a rule that if anybody is able to deduce the color of his own eyes and he is right, he will be free and can leave the island.

On a certain day, an outsider visits the island and tells the people that he has seen someone with green eyes. What will happen now?
category : LOGIC

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