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Minimum no Of Aircraft Puzzle

Puzzle: On Bagshot Island, there is an airport. The airport is the home base of an unlimited number of identical airplanes. Each airplane has a fuel capacity to allow it to fly exactly 1/2 way around the world, along a great circle. The planes have the ability to refuel in flight without loss of speed Read More →

Red and Blue Balls in a Bag

Problem: You have 20 Blue balls and 10 Red balls in a bag. You put your hand in the bag and take off two at a time. If they’re of the same color, you add a Blue ball to the bag. If they’re of different colors, you add a Red ball to the bag. What Read More →

Heaven or Hell Puzzle

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Puzzle: You are standing before two doors. One of the path leads to heaven and the other one leads to hell. There are two guardians, one by each door. You know one of them always tells the truth and the other always lies, but you don’t know who is the honest one and who is the Read More →

King and Wine Bottles

king-wine-bottle

Problem: A bad king has a cellar of 1000 bottles of delightful and very expensive wine. A neighboring queen plots to kill the bad king and sends a servant to poison the wine. Fortunately (or say unfortunately) the bad king’s guards catch the servant after he has only poisoned one bottle. Alas, the guards don’t Read More →

Squares on a chess board?

Chess board squares puzzle

Problem: How many squares are on a chess board? If you thought the answer is 64, think again! How about all the squares that are formed by combining smaller squares on the chess board (2×2, 3×3, 4×4 squares and so on)? A 1×1 square can be placed on the chess board in 8 horizontal and 8 Read More →

Gold Bar Puzzle

gold bar puzzle for interview

Puzzle: You’ve got someone working for you for seven days and a gold bar to pay him. The gold bar is segmented into seven connected pieces. You must give them a piece of gold at the end of every day. What and where are the fewest number of cuts to the bar of gold that will Read More →

Boys and Girls

boys girls google interview puzzle

Question: In a country where everyone wants a boy, each family continues having babies till they have a boy. After some time, what is the proportion of boys to girls in the country? (Assuming probability of having a boy or a girl is the same) Answer: “very simple”. Half the couples have boys first, and Read More →

Measure 4 gallon of water from 3 gallon and 5 gallon water jar

measure 4 gallon water using 3 and 4 gallon jar

Problem : How to measure exactly 4 gallon of water from 3 gallon and 5 gallon jars, Given, you have unlimited water supply from a running tap. Solution: Step 1. Fill 3 gallon jar with water. ( 5p – 0, 3p – 3) Step 2. Pour all its water into 5 gallon jar. (5p – Read More →