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.

#41 - 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?

#42 - 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?

#43 - Maths Logic Puzzle

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I had a certain amount of candies with me. I gave half of them with one more to my first son. Then, I gave the remaining half with one more to the younger son. Now I was left with just one candy.

How much candies did I have in the beginning?

#44 - Lateral Thinking Brain Teaser

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A man walks into a movie theater. Hi sits in the movie hall impatiently as the movie progresses. Suddenly in a shot, he smiles and watch the shot with his eyes glued to the screen curiously. But moments later he seems terrified. He rushes out of the movie hall and run towards a bridge. Upon reaching the bridge, he climbs over and jumps in the river committing suicide.

Why did he do it?

#45 - Clock Brain Teaser

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An analogue wall clock is displaying the time as exactly 3:15. Can you calculate the angle between the hour hand and the minute hand ?

#46 - Classic Barber Brain Teaser

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There are two barber shop in a small town – one located in the eastern market and the other on the northern market. The shop in the eastern market is quite untidy and the barber has a shabby haircut. While the shop in the northern market is quite neat and clean and the barber is sporting an excellent haircut himself.

Which of the two shops will any foreign visitor opt for?

#47 - Crossing Brain Teaser Riddle

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A cave is going to explode. A family is trapped inside that cave. The only way to get outside is a narrow tunnel. But the tunnel is weak and thus only two people can go at one time. Also, everybody is afraid of going alone.

The father takes one minute to go through till the end, the mother takes two, the son takes four and the daughter takes five. The cave and tunnel will explode in twelve minutes. Can they make it to the other end in that time frame?

PS: Keep in mind that when two people are moving, the total time taken will be as per the slower one.

#48 - Tricky Logic Maths Problem

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You are a landscape artist. While redesigning the exterior, the owner of the mansion comes up with an unusual request. He tells you that he wants four trees planted outside his house in a manner that there should be exactly equal distance between all of them.

How will you do it?

#49 - Simple Logic Question

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A family is having a reunion on the Christmas Eve. For the toast which shall follow with the dinner, they gather around the dining table. There is a grandfather, a grandmother, two fathers, two mothers, four children, three grandchildren, one brother, two sisters, two sons, two daughters, one daughter in law and one mother in law who shall sit for the toast.

Each one of them requires a separate chair. How many chairs are required?

#50 - Math Symbols Teaser

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Given with the numbers - 2, 3, 4 and 5, you have to make an equation that is mathematically correct. The challenge is that you can only use two signs i.e. + and =. Also, you can't repeat a number or sign.

How will you do it?

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