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Top 10 Popular Microsoft Interview Puzzles That Will
Test Your Intelligence
December 11, 2015 by Sampoorna
Being placed and working at tech giant Microsoft is obviously one of the most treasured
aspirations of the most of the young graduates. While what makes this dream and aim of most
intricate for the techies is that the tricky puzzles posed to the aspiring candidates during the
interview leaving their dreams smashed. Microsoft is no exception to the typical process of
interviews which are conducted by itself for various ambitious people to work with it.
One would be at the wrong point of the stick if they consider the Microsoft interview questions to
be simple and as answerable. Interview questions are usually posed to the candidates and
techies related to both technical questions depending on their past work experience and some
mindboggling puzzles connected to tricky math problems. Here are some of the most perplexed
puzzles asked in the interview rounds of leading tech company, Microsoft.
Question #1. Clock Hands
How many times a day do the minute and hour hands of a clock overlap?
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Answer (http://www.mytechinterviews.com/clockhands)
Question #2. Is Your Husband a Cheat?
A certain town comprises of 100 married couples. Everyone in the town lives by the following
rule: If a husband cheats on his wife, the husband is executed as soon as his wife finds out
about him. All the women in the town only gossip about the husbands of other women. No
woman ever tells another woman if her husband is cheating on her. So every woman in the town
knows about all the cheating husbands in the town except her own. It can also be assumed that
a husband remains silent about his infidelity. One day, the mayor of the town announces to the
whole town that there is at least 1 cheating husband in the town. What do you think happens?
Answer (http://www.mytechinterviews.com/isyourhusbandacheat)
Question #3. 100 Prisoners in Solitary Cells
100 prisoners are stuck in the prison in solitary cells. The warden of the prison got bored one
day and offered them a challenge. He will put one prisoner per day, selected at random (a
prisoner can be selected more than once), into a special room with a light bulb and a switch
which controls the bulb. No other prisoners can see or control the light bulb. The prisoner in the
special room can either turn on the bulb, turn off the bulb or do nothing. On any day, the
prisoners can stop this process and say “Every prisoner has been in the special room at least
once”. If that happens to be true, all the prisoners will be set free. If it is false, then all the
prisoners will be executed. The prisoners are given some time to discuss and figure out a
solution. How do they ensure they all go free?
Answer (http://www.mytechinterviews.com/100prisonersinsolitarycells)
Question #4. The Ant Problem
Three ants are sitting at the three corners of an equilateral triangle. Each ant starts randomly
picks a direction and starts to move along the edge of the triangle. What is the probability that
none of the ants collide?
Answer (http://www.mytechinterviews.com/theantproblem)
Question #5. Gold for 7 days of Work
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You’ve got someone working for you for seven days and a gold bar to pay them. You must pay
the worker for their work at the end of every day. If you are only allowed to make two breaks in
the gold bar, how do you pay your worker? (Assuming equal amount of work is done during
each day thus requiring equal amount of pay for each day)
Answer (http://www.mytechinterviews.com/goldfor7daysofwork)
Question #6. Trains and Birds
A train leaves City X for City Y at 15 mph. At the very same time, a train leaves City Y for City X
at 20 mph on the same track. At the same moment, a bird leaves the City X train station and flies
towards the City Y train station at 25 mph. When the bird reaches the train from City Y, it
immediately reverses direction. It then continues to fly at the same speed towards the train from
City X, when it reverses its direction again, and so forth. The bird continues to do this until the
trains collide. How far would the bird have traveled in the meantime?
Answer (http://www.mytechinterviews.com/trainsandbirds)
Question #7. A Box of Defective Balls
You have 10 boxes of balls (each ball weighing exactly10 gm) with one box with defective balls
(each one of the defective balls weigh 9 gm). You are given an electronic weighing machine and
only one chance at it. How will find out which box has the defective balls?
Answer (http://www.mytechinterviews.com/oneboxofdefectiveballs)
Question #8. Globe Walker
How many points are there on the globe where, by walking one mile south, then one mile east
and then one mile north, you would reach the place where you started?
Answer (http://www.mytechinterviews.com/globewalker)
Question #9. 4 Quarts of Water
If you had an infinite supply of water and a 5 quart and 3quart pails, how would you measure
exactly 4 quarts? and What is the least number of steps you need?
Answer (http://www.mytechinterviews.com/4quartsofwater)
Question #10. Four People on a Rickety Bridge
Four people need to cross a rickety bridge at night. Unfortunately, they have only one torch and
the bridge is too dangerous to cross without one. The bridge is only strong enough to support
two people at a time. Not all people take the same time to cross the bridge. Times for each
person: 1 min, 2 mins, 7 mins and 10 mins. What is the shortest time needed for all four of them
to cross the bridge?
Answer (http://www.mytechinterviews.com/fourpeopleonaricketybridge)
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Have you tried all these puzzles? How many puzzles you were able to solve? One should have a
good amount of intelligence or time of reaction to answer these puzzles which were asked in the
Microsoft interview. You can check out the answers, whether you have solved the puzzles in a
right way.
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