Puzzles And Answers

PUZZLE: Ten cars were brought to the showroom. All but nine of them were bought. How many cars were left? ANSWER: 9 Cars

PUZZLE: Which weighs less between 1 kg of nails and 1 kg of feathers? ANSWER: None weighs more than each other. A kilogram will always weigh a kilogram! Both are equal in weight.

PUZZLE: There are 10 fingers on two hands. How many fingers are there on ten hands? ANSWER: If there are 10 fingers on 2 hands, it means that there are 5 fingers on each hand. So for 10 hands there are 5 fingers x 10 hands = 50 fingers.

PUZZLE: Two people are walking into town. Another two people are going the other way. How many people are going into town altogether? ANSWER: 2 People

PUZZLE: Which number will you rotate by 180 degrees clockwise and it will become smaller by 3? ANSWER: 9

PUZZLE: When Linda was 6 years old, her sister Lily was half her age. If Linda is 40.years old today, how old is Lily? ANSWER AND EXPLANATION: Lily is 37 years old! When Linda is 6, Lily is 3 years old because Lucy is 3 years younger. So when Linda is 40, Lily must be 37!

PUZZLE: If "basketball" is "football”,"football" is "korfball”, "korfball" is "tennis”, "tennis" is "kabaddi" and "kabaddi" is "basketball", then to which game is Wimbeldon associated? Solution & Explanation Kabaddi as Wimbeldon is related to tennis and tennis is refered as kabaddi.

PUZZLE: If orange is called blue, blue is called red, red is called yellow, yellow is called green, green is called black, black is called violet and violet is called orange, what would be the colour of blood? 1. Red 2. Green 3. Black 4. Yellow Solution & Explanation Since the colour of blood is red and given that ‘red is called yellow’, so the colour of blood is yellow.

PUZZLE: Find the relationship in the series D, N, O, S, A, J, J and also find the next alphabet? Solution & Explanation These alphabets are the initials of the months in the reverse order i.e. December, November, October, September, August, July & June. Thus, the next alphabet in the series will be M (May).

PUZZLE: Find the missing alphabet in the following series? O, T , T, F, F ,S , S, E, ? Solution & Explanation These are basically the first alphabets of the digits 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8 when written in words. Thus, the next will be 9-Nine-N. So the answer is N.

PUZZLE: Pointing towards a lady, Benjamin said. “She is the daughter of the only child of my grandmother.” How is the lady related to Benjamin? 1. Sister 2. Niece 3. Cousin 4. None of these Solution & Explanation The only child of Benjamin's grandmother is Benjamin's father. Now daughter of Benjamin's father is Benjamin's sister. So answer is option (1).

PUZZLE: John and Rose are a married couple. James and Frank are brothers. James is the brother of John. How is Frank related to Rose? 1. Brother 2. Brother-in-law 3. Sister-in-law 4. None of these Solution & Explanation Since James and Frank are brothers, and James is the brother of John, Frank is also the brother of John. Thus, Frank is the brother-in-law of Rose. Thus, Answer is option (2).

PUZZLE: Hritik is taller than Salman who is shorter than Sanjay. Akshay is taller than Shahrukh but shorter than Salman. Sanjay is shorter than Hritik. Who is the tallest? Solution & Explanation Final ranking of height in descending order is : Hritik, Sanjay, Salman, Akshay, Shahrukh. Hence, Hritik is the tallest.

PUZZLE: Which alphabet will be 14th to the left of 8th alphabet from the right in the following series of letters? A O B P C Q D R E S F T G U H V I W J X K Y L Z M N. 1. B 2. C 3. Y 4. P Solution & Explanation From the right we will count the (8 + 14) = 22nd letter, we get C.

PUZZLE: Before the days of motor cars, a man rode into town on his horse. He arrived on Sunday, spent three days in town and left on Sunday. How is that possible? Solution & Explanation The name of the horse was Sunday.

PUZZLE: How many times can you subtract the number 5 from 35? Solution & Explanation Just once! Yes. After the first calculation (35 - 5), you will be subtracting 5 from 30, then 5 from 25, and so on. So you can only subtract 5 from the number 35 only once.

PUZZLE: Pointing towards Mary, Peter said, ”The father of your brother is the only son of my paternal grandfather.” How is Mary related to Peter? Solution & Explanation The father of her brother means her own father and the only son of my grandfather means my father. Therefore, Mary's father is also the father of Peter. Hence, Mary is related as sister to Peter.

PUZZLE: In a shop, there are 4 dolls of different heights P,Q,R and S. S is neither as tall as P nor as short as R. Q is shorter than S but taller than R. If Kittu wants to purchase the tallest doll, which one should she purchase? Only P Only S Either P or S Either Q or S Solution & Explanation S is not as tall as P, means S is shorter than P, So S<P. S is not as short as R, S is taller than R, So S>R. Q is shorter than S but taller than R. So we get, R<Q<S. So P is tallest from the above conditions. Hence answer is P.

PUZZLE: Mike works on the 9th floor of an under-constructed building. He always takes the elevator down to ground level at the end of the day. Yet every morning he only takes the elevator to the 7th floor and walks up the stairs to the 9th floor, even when is in a hurry. Can you think of some valid reason? Solution & Explanation: He is too short to reach the "9" button.

PUZZLE: A hunter has a lion, goat and carrot and he wants to cross the river taking three of these along. However, there is a boat that can fit him plus either the lion, the goat, or the carrot. He is confused because if the lion and the goat are alone on one shore, the lion will eat the goat. If the goat and the carrot are alone on the shore, the goat will eat the carrot. Remove hunters confusion by suggesting him a way to bring all the three things to the other shore. Solution & Explanation Hunter takes Goat across (leaving lion and Carrot behind) and returns alone. Then, hunter takes lion across and returns with Goat. (Now the hunter, the Carrot and the Goat are on one side and the lion on the other side of the river) After this, farmer takes Carrot across and returns alone. And finally, farmer takes Goat across.

PUZZLE: There are 15 chocolates in a basket. Supposedly you have 15 friends, who each desire a chocolate. You give each of your friend one chocolate. After a few minutes each of your friends has one chocolate each, yet there is an chocolate remaining in the basket. How? Solution & Explanation You give a chocolate each to your first 14 friends, and a basket with a chocolate to your 15th friend. Each friend has a chocolate, and one of them has it in a basket.

PUZZLE: A man drove his Toyota car all the way from Abuja to Kano only to discover at the end of the trip that he had a punctured tyre from the very start. Yet his Toyota car was not at all affected by it? How is this possible? Solution & Explanation The punctured tyre must be his spare tyre.

PUZZLE:  Henry had twenty-one hens, all but eleven died, how many hens is Henry left with? Solution & Explanation Eleven Hens are alive.

PUZZLE : Meena's mother has five daughters: Reena, Teena, Sheena and Sheela. Who is the fifth daughter? Solution & Explanation Meena is the fifth daughter.

PUZZLE: A male and a female person are sitting on the bench. "I'm a male," says the person with brown hair. "I'm a female," says the person with black hair. If at least one of them is lying, who is male and who is female? Solution & Explanation A simple analysis shows that the persons either have to be both lying or both telling the truth. Since we are told that at least one of them is lying, the person with brown hair is the female person and the person with black hair is the male person. (At least one means one or more than one)