Frequent Puzzles Questions

There are2 black hats and 3 white hats on a table. 3 men stand in a line such that the 3rd man can see the heads of the 2 bfore him, the 2nd can see the one bfore him only, and the 1st can see none. Another man came and rando ...

A poor farmer went to a market to sell some pea and lentil, however as he had only one sack and didn't want to mix peas and lentils, he poured in the sack the peas at first, bound the sack up and than poured in the lentils. A ...

This is one of my most favorite logic puzzles. Imagine you are in a room with 3 switches. In adjacent room there are 3 bulbs (all are off at the moment), each switch belongs to some bulb. It is impossible to see from one room ...

There is a square of side 1. remove a square from the vertex keep repeating till you get a pattern like in the image.... *Image* now if you move from one vertex of the square to the opposite one, then the length traversed is ...

Similar to qeustion posted here http://www.targetiit.com/iit-jee-forum/posts/simple-puzzle-11129.html by Nishant sir Q *Image* I dont want u to calculate no. of triangles..instead derive a general formula for it[1] ...

*Image* It is an old question to a) find the number of triangles.. b) Also find the no of parallelograms c) Alos the number of Rhombus.. ...

*Image* This one is from the scientific american book of puzzles and diversions.. ...

how can you make 6 by using three 1s? ...

What is the smallest number of knights that you would need to place on a chessboard so that every vacant square could be reached by a knight in one move? ...

three missionaries and three cannibals need to cross a river in a boat that can hold only two people.the missionaries must be careful to never allow the cannibals to outnumber them on either shore. how can everyone cross the ...

how can u write 31 only usin 3 five time?? ...

5 pirates of different ages have a treasure of 100 gold coins. On their ship, they decide to split the coins using this scheme: The oldest pirate proposes how to share the coins, and all pirates remaining will vote for or aga ...

white to mate in 4 , no more ,no less *Image* ...

If in certain encoding :- 0EC878 = B7F8 0F7658 = 9478 0F325B = 507B 2F4F3C = 27D4 272809 = 393d 2FAD11 = CDD9 6B1959 = 114d then 6DD24D = ???? Here a,b,c,d,e,f are hex numbers and represents 10,11,12,13,14,15 respectively Goo ...

A man had been sentenced to death. The man has 60 seconds to say something if he says nothing he will be killed in the most horrible way possible. If he tells the truth he will be shot & if he lies he will be hung. The man su ...

if today is sunday?what day waz 21st decenber2001???what is the trick to do such ones? ...

This is a famous 'situation puzzle'. Those who already know the answer pls let others try! An Arab sheikh tells his two sons to race their camels to a distant city to see who will inherit his fortune. The one whose camel is s ...

S=1-1+1-1+1-1....................... infinity now thus, S=1- (1-1+1-1+1-1....................... infinity) thus S=1-S thus 2S=1 S=1/2 ...

A woman, while at the funeral of her own mother, met this guy whom she did not know. She thought this guy was amazing, so much her dream guy she believed him to be just that! She fell in love with him right there, but never a ...

*Image* Black stands for black's pieces, the other colour is for white. P stands for pawn. All other notations are standard. Its black's turn to play. Tell me how black can win in 3 moves. This puzzle is pretty nice, in that ...

READ THIS CAREFULLY. THE IS A SIMPLE BUT A VERY TRICKY ONE. THOSE OF YOU WHO GET IT WILL HAVE NO PROBS, WHILE OTHERS WILL REALLY TURN M@D Three men decided to split the cost of a hotel room. The hotel manager gave them a pric ...

Bay of Bengal is in which state????? ...

agar ek bande ko anni tankah(salary) 1st ko milti hai aur agar first ko second saturday ki vajah se CHUTTI hai to usko tankaah (SALARY) kab milegi ...

KUTTE KE DO AAGE KUTTE...... KUTTE KE DO PEECHAY KUTTE.... AAGE KUTTE -- PEECHAY KUTTE BOLO KITNE KUTTE...... IN UR REPLIES DONT WRITE MANI KUTTA NOW [4] ...

arrey koi answer batao??..iska If 1=5 2=25 3=325 4=4325 then 5=????? ...

lets see who's mathematician here using three one's (1,1,1) make six using any mathematical operation ...

using three zeroes and any mathematical operator (of three types only) produce 11 ...

Several successive number was written in a row.Determine the least value of the number of this sequence such that: there exist a way to order it again such that all 3 adjacent numbers(ie written one -next- the other) have sum ...

On an island there are 5 pirates {A,B,C,D,E} who are equally greedy and equally logical. They have 1000 coins and they have to distribute it among themselves. First A gives his plan for distribution. If his plan is accepted b ...

Lets say you are in a gameshow. There are 3 doors in front of you, lets call them A, B and C. One of the doors has the prize money you are after. The remaining 2 doors have nothing behind them. You pick DOOR A.Now the game ho ...