#41 - Numbers River Crossing Brain Teaser (Hard)

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There is an Island of puzzles called GPuzzles where numbers 1 - 9 want to cross the river. There is a single boat that can take numbers from one side to the other.
However, maximum 3 numbers can go at a time and of course, the boat cannot sail on its own so one number must come back after reaching to another side.
Also, the sum of numbers crossing at a time must be a square number.

You need to plan trips such that minimum trips are needed


category : LOGIC | MATHS

#42 - 3 Cup 10 Sugar - Edward de Bono lateral thinking Puzzle

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In 1967 Edward de Bono brings a creative approach where we need to use more reasoning and should think out of the box to solve problems as e traditional step by step approach is not good enough for some problems.

A classic such puzzle is :
As shown in the picture, there are three empty cups. Can you pour 10 sugar lumps on them so that every cup contains an odd number of sugar lumps?

#43 - Federer Nadal Tennis Brain Teaser

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In a game of tennis, On 1st set, Federer beat Nadal at a scoreline of 6:3.
There are total of five service break in the game
Who served first Nadal or Federer.
Note: Service Break means the player who serves the game lost the game.

category : LOGIC

#44 - The Italian Job Break The Code Riddle

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Charlie Croker and his team need to break the safe to finish a secret job named "Italian Job" in exactly a five minutes.
They got just one chance and five minutes to finish the job else the local police will be informed.

He got following clues

1st Clue: Exactly one number is perfectly placed.
9 2 5

2nd clue: Everything is incorrect.
9 3 8

3rd clue: Two numbers are part of the code of the safe, but are wrongly placed.
4 9 6

4th clue: One number is part of the code of the safe, but is wrongly placed.
5 8 1

5th clue: One number is part of the code of the safe, but is wrongly placed.
1 2 6

category : LOGIC | CIPHER

#45 - How many Chocolates Riddle

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A guy brings 1000 chocolates for his sister and ten boxes as well. He asks his sister to place the chocolates in the boxes in a manner that if he asks for any number of chocolates, she can give a box or a combination of boxes to him without taking out any. If she can do it, all 1000 chocolates will be hers.

How would you accomplish the same if it were you in her place?
category : LOGIC

#46 - 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

#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 - 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

#50 - Number FAQ Puzzle

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There is an integer, which holds a very special property. If you subtract any number from that integer, the resultant is exactly divisible by the successor of that number.

Can you find out that integer?
category : TRIVIA | MATHS

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