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MATH PUZZLES AND RIDDLES

PUZZLE 1 -
Find the next number in the series ? 2, 3, 3, 5, 5, 4, 7, 5, 11, 6

PUZZLE 2 -
Find the next number in the sequence ? 2 11 25 44 68 ?

PUZZLE 3 -
Tough River Crossing Riddle

This one is a bit of tricky river crossing puzzle than you might have solved till now. We have a whole family out on a picnic on one side of the river. The family includes Mother and Father, two sons, two daughters, a maid and a dog. The bridge broke down and all they have is a boat that can take them towards the other side of the river. But there is a condition with the boat. It can hold just two persons at one time (count the dog as one person). No it does not limit to that and there are other complications. The dog cant be left without the maid or it will bite the family members. The father cant be left with daughters without the mother and in the same manner, the mother cant be left alone with the sons without the father. Also an adult is needed to drive the boat and it cant drive by itself. How will all of them reach the other side of the river?

PUZZLE 4 -
Popular Logic Brain Teaser

A girl liked to collect money in a piggy bank. She bought pink colored piggy bank when she was 10 years old. She put $250 in the box on each of her birthday. Her younger sister took $50 out of her piggy bank on her birthday. The girl died when she was 50 years old due to an incurable disease. When the piggy bank was opened, it had just $500. How can that be possible?

PUZZLE 5 -
Birbal Brain Teaser

Birbal is a witty trader who trade of a mystical fruit grown far in north. He travels from one place to another with three sacks which can hold 30 fruits each. None of the sack can hold more than 30 fruits. On his way, he has to pass through thirty check points and at each check point, he has to give one fruit for each sack to the authorities. How many mystical fruits remain after he goes through all the thirty check points?

PUZZLE 6 -
Hard Probability Puzzle

A primitive village follows a strange custom. They have babies only to have a boy. Whenever a boy is born in a family, they stop having babies and whenever a girl is born, they have a baby again and again till a boy is born. The probability of having a boy is same as the probability of having a girl. What will be the proportion of boys to girls in the village after some time?

PUZZLE 7 -
Long Logic Puzzle

You and Me are playing bets. I take $10 from you and that begins our game. I shuffle the deck of cards (52 cards normal deck) and take out four random cards out of it. Now I place the cards in front of you with face down. Then I turn over the first card. You can either keep it or you can ask me to open the second card. When I turn the second card, you have the same options again till I open the third card. If you deny to keep it, you must take the fourth card no matter what the card is. Now if the card you choose has n value, I will give you $n and we will keep on playing like this till the end of the day. You may feel that this is completely over the chance. But there is a nice strategy which will allow you to win. Can you find out the strategy so that by the end of the day you have won a decent amount?

PUZZLE 8 -
Extremely Difficult Triangle Count Riddle

Count the number of triangles on the picture below.

PUZZLE 9 -
Logic Question In Maths

Two trains under a controlled experiment begin at a speed of 100 mph in the opposite direction in a tunnel. A supersonic bee is left in the tunnel which can fly at a speed of 1000 mph. The tunnel is 200 miles long. When the trains start running on a constant speed of 100 mph, the supersonic bee starts flying from one train towards the other. As soon as the bee reaches the second train, it starts flying back towards the first train. If the bee keeps flying to and fro in the tunnel till the trains collide, how much distance will it have covered in total?

PUZZLE 10 -
Math Logic Problem

In the town of Nothingsville, no two citizens have equal number of hairs. None of the citizen has 987,654 hairs. The number of citizens are more than the number of hairs on the head of any one citizen. Can you find out the largest possible citizens of the town?

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