Category Archives: Puzzles

Burning Rope Timer Puzzle

Daily Puzzle

Puzzle: A man has two ropes of varying thickness (Those two ropes are not identical, they aren’t the same density nor the same length nor the same width). Each rope burns in 60 minutes. He actually wants to measure 45 mins. How can he measure 45 mins using only these two ropes. He can’t cut Read More →

Grandma and Cake – Logical Puzzle

Puzzle: You are on your way to visit your Grandma, who lives at the end of the valley. It’s her anniversary, and you want to give her the cakes you’ve made. Between your house and her house, you have to cross 5 bridges, and as it goes in the land of make believe, there is a troll under every Read More →

Inverted Cards Puzzle

Problem: One day, Santa and banta were playing cards, but suddenly power went off. Santa randomly inverted position of 15 cards out of 52 cards(and shuffled it) and asked banta to divide the card in two piles with equal number of cards facing up. It was very dark in the room and banta could not 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 →

Handshake Problem

Problem: At a party, everyone shook hands with everybody else. There were 66 handshakes. How many people were at the party? This question is asked in Infosys written. Solution: Lets say there are n persons 1st person shakes hand with everyone else: n-1 times(n-1 persons) 2nd person shakes hand with everyone else(not with 1st as Read More →

Prisoner and two Doors Puzzle

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Problem: Court takes decision to relax the sentence given to criminal if he can solve a puzzle. Criminal has to take decision to open one of the doors. Behind each door is either a lady or a tiger. They may be both tigers, both ladies or one of each. If the criminal opens a door Read More →

100 Wrong Statements puzzle

Puzzle: There are 100 statements. 1st one says : at least one is wrong. 2nd one says : at least two are wrong. 3rd one says : at least three are wrong. 4th one says : at least four are wrong. and so on. 100th one says : at least 100 are wrong. How many statements Read More →

Riding Against the Wind Puzzle

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Problem: A horse rider went a mile in 5 minutes with the wind and returned in 7 minutes against the wind. How fast could he ride a mile if there was no wind? Solution: Most of us will proceed like that if a rider goes a mile in 2 minutes with the wind, and returns Read More →

Cashier’s Puzzle

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Problem: An engineer goes to a bank with a check of $200 and asks the cashier “Give me some one-dollar bills, ten times as many twos and the balance in fives!”. What will the cashier do? Solution: The smallest amount of one-dollar and two-dollar bills the cashier may give to the old man is 1×1 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 →

10 Coins Puzzle

Problem: You are blindfolded and 10 coins are place in front of you on table. You are allowed to touch the coins, but can’t tell which way up they are by feel. You are told that there are 5 coins head up, and 5 coins tails up but not which ones are which. How do Read More →

13 Caves And A Thief Puzzle

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Problem: There are 13 caves arranged in a circle. There is a thief  in one of the caves. Each day the the thief can move to any one of adjacent cave or can stay in smae cave in which he was staying the previous day. And each day, cops are allowed to enter any two Read More →