Shruti Rawat (shruti)

Shruti Rawat is an IT engineer by profession. She is passionate about puzzles and loves to write some of her own utilizing her creative writing skills.

#21 - Matchsticks Picture Brain Teaser

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In the figure given below, you can see that there are five squares. Supposedly if this figure is formed using different matchsticks (refer the slight gap between matchsticks), can you remove just two matchsticks so that only two squares remain ?

#22 - Sports Brain Teaser

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In a particular game, there can be eight players at one time on the pitch and they last for seventy minutes. In the total duration, six players substitute with each player. All the players are then for the same time on the pitch including the substitutes.

Can you calculate the time each player was on the pitch?

#23 - Logical Picture Maths Brain Teaser

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You can see four tennis balls in the figure. Can you arrange these balls in a manner that the distance between each of them is same ?

#24 - Smart Ias Brain Teaser

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An old man is dying and don't have enough time. The problem bugging his is the division of his land. For all these years, he has always treated his sons equally and wants to divide his land in equal parts and give them to his sons before he die.

There is a big problem however. The land is irregular in shape and thus it cannot be divided into two equal halves without going through detailed measurements. The man does not have enough time now.

How can the land be divided such that each son is happy with his share without going into all sorts of calculations?

#25 - Hard Matchstick Puzzle

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In the attached picture, you can see five squares being formed with the help of matchsticks (one big and 4 small). Now you are allowed to move just four matchsticks (you can't rotate them but just drag them) such that the resulting figure comprises of ten squares.

Can you think and do it ?

#26 - Interview Brain Teaser

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You are suffering from fever and cold. Your mother gives you four identical tablet which comprise of two tablets for fever and two tablets for cold. Now by no means you can identify which tablet serves which purpose.

You have to take 1 tablet for fever and 1 tablet for cold to cure your condition. What will you do?

#27 - Test Cricket Brain Teaser

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Ajit have played 50 Test inning and his average is 50.

How many runs should Ajit score in his 51st test inning, so that his average moves up to 51.

Note : He got dismissed every time.

#28 - Popular Deductive Logic Problem

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Eight Brothers lives in an old house where there is no electricity and no computers or any any other gadget.

Brother-1: Reading Comics
Brother-2: Playing Chess
Brother-3: Writing
Brother-4: making food for the family
Brother-5: sleeping and snoring
Brother-6: cleaning house
Brother-7: watering the plants


what is Brother-8 doing ?

#29 - Smart Logical Brain Teaser

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All of my tee shirts are green in color except two. All of my tee shirts are blue except two. All of my tee shirts are orange except two. How many tee shirts do I have?

#30 - Hard River Crossing Puzzle

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There are two villages separated with a river. Each day, four people cross the river through a bridge to work on the other side and earn for their families. On one night when they were returning from work, they noticed that the bridge was about to collapse. Now all of them wanted to cross the bridge before it collapsed as no one wanted to be stuck on that end without their families.

They had just one torch with them and since it was the night time, they could not see without it. The bridge had become weak and it could only accommodate two people at a time. It was going to collapse in just 17 minutes.

The four people took different times to cross the bridge. First one took only a minute, second one took 2 minutes, third one took 5 minutes and the last one took 10 minutes.

How would all of them have managed to cross the bridge in time?

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