Puzzles- Set 4

1. This is a most unusual paragraph. How quickly can you find out what is so unusual about it? It
looks so ordinary you'd think nothing was wrong with it---and in fact, nothing is wrong with it. It is
unusual though. Why? Study it, think about it, and you may find out. Try to do it without coaching.
If you work at it for a bit it will dawn on you. So, jump to it and try your skill at figuring it out. Good
luck --don't blow your cool.

2. There are ten rockets. The commander has asked you to arrange the rockets in five rows of four.
How do you do it?

3. Four men sat down to play,

They played all night 'till the break of day,
they played for gold and not for fun with separate scores for everyone.
When they came to square accounts,
They all had made quite fair amounts.
Can you the paradox explain,
If no one lost, how could all gain?

4. Pinto says, "The horse is not Black."

Sandy says, "The horse is either Brown or Grey."
Andy says, "The horse is Brown."

At least one is telling truth and at least one is lying.

Can you tell the color of the horse?

5. Three convicts are brought into the warden's office. He says he can parole one of them and to
decide which one he will parole he takes out 5 hats (3 red and 2 white). He stands behind them
and places a hat on each one of their heads and puts the other two remaining hats in a drawer.

He tells the prisoners they can look at the others hats and if they can tell which hat they have on
they will be the one who is paroled.

The first man looks at the other two and says, "I don't know."
The second man looks at the others hats and says, "I don't know."
The third man who is blind says, "Even though I have not the gift of sight I can tell by what the
others have said that the color of my hat is..."

What color is the blind man’s hat and how does he know?

6. Five horses ran in the race. There were no ties.

Sikandar did not come first.

Star was neither first nor last.
Mughal Glory came in one place after Sikandar.
Zozo was not second.
Rangila was two places below Zozo.

In what order did the horses finish?

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7. At the entrance to a member’s club stands a stranger seeking admission. A friend told him that
it's easy to get in. You just have to answer a question correctly! Answering wrong, however, will
result in being shot!

To live a little longer, the man waits in a back alley near the entrance for people to go in. After a
while a man comes to the entrance. The door warden asks him: "Twelve?" to which he replies
"Six!" and goes in.

"That's easy." our friend thinks, but he waits a little longer.

Another man comes to the door. "Six?" the door warden asks, to which he replies "Three!" and
goes in.

"That's too good to be true" our friend thinks, and he was right. Because, when asked "Four?", he
answered "Two!" and was found dead in the alley.

What was the correct answer?

8. How long would it take you to count 1 billion orally if you could count 200 every minute and were
given a day off every four years?
Assume that you start counting on 1 January 2001.

9. The secret agent X emailed a code word to his head office. They are "AIM DUE OAT TIE MOD".
But four of these five words are fake and only one contains the information.

The agent X also mailed a sentence as a clue - if I tell you any one character of the code word,
you would be able to tell the number of vowels in the code word.

Can you tell which is the code word?

10. Four men - Abraham, Bobby, Clinton and Denial - are standing in a straight line.

1) One man is fair, handsome and unscarred.

2) Two men who are not fair, are each standing next to Abraham.
3) Bobby is the only man standing next to exactly one handsome man.
4) Clinton is the only man not standing next to exactly one scarred man.

Who is fair, handsome and unscarred?

11. An orange colored glass has Orange juice and white colored glass has Apple juice both of equal
volumes. 50ml of the orange juice is taken and poured into the white glass. After that similarly,
50ml from the white glass is poured into the orange glass.

Of the two quantities, the amount of apple juice in the orange glass and the amount of orange
juice in the white glass, which one is greater and by how much?

12. A positive integer that, when added to 1000 gives a sum which is greater than when multiplied by
1000.
Find the positive integer.

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13. Mr. D'souza has bought four cars - Merc, Honda, Ford, Zen - as presents for his sons' birthdays,
all of which are next week. Given the following information, what will each son get?

1) Alan will not get the Honda unless Barry gets the Merc and Denzil gets the Ford.
2) Barry will not get the Ford unless Carl gets the Zen and Alan gets the Merc.
3) Denzil will not get the Zen unless Alan gets the Honda and Barry gets the Merc.
4) Alan will not get the Merc unless Carl gets the Zen and Denzil gets the Ford.
5) Barry will not get the Merc unless Alan gets the Zen and Denzil gets the Ford.
6) Alan will not get the Zen unless Barry gets the Honda and Carl gets the Merc.
7) Carl will not get the Zen unless Barry gets the Honda and Alan gets the Ford.
8) Alan will not get the Ford unless Barry gets the Zen and Denzil gets the Honda.
9) Carl will not get the Merc unless Denzil gets the Honda.

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