ALL TYPES OF PUZZLES

Directions (1-5): Study the following information carefully and answer the questions given below:

Eight persons P, Q, R, S, T, U, V and W were born in different years viz. 1994, 1996, 1998, 1999, 2001, 2002,
2004 and 2005 but not necessarily in the same order. Base year is counted as 2021. At most one person is
older to P. Two persons were born between P and V. Q was born just before V in the odd numbered year.
R is 4 years older to T. W is older to U and just younger to S.

Q1. Who was born in the year 1998?

(a) P (b) Q (c) R (d) T (e) U

Q2. In which year S was born?

(a) 2002 (b) 1999 (c) 2001 (d) 1998 (e) 2005.

Q3. Which of the following statements is true?

(a) P was born in 1994 (b) V was born in 1996 (c) T is the oldest among all

(d) U was born in 2002 (e) R is older than P

Q4. How many persons were born between W and T?

(a) 1 (b) 2 (c) 3 (d) 4 (e) Cannot be determined

Q5. Who is the oldest person among them?

(a) P (b) Q (c) R (d) S (e) V

Directions (6-10): Study the following information carefully and answer the questions given below:

Nine boxes are arranged one above the other. More than four boxes are placed below the box G. Three
boxes are placed between box G and box H. The numbers of boxes are placed above box H is same as the
numbers of boxes placed below box C. Box A is placed two places above the box E which is placed just
above the box I. Box F and box H are not placed adjacent to each other. Box B is placed above the box D
but placed below box E.

Q6. Which box is placed exactly in the middle of the arrangement?

(a)A (b) E (c) C (d) D (e) B

Q7. How many boxes are placed between boxes A and I?

(a) Two (b) Three (c) One (d) More than four (e) None of these

Q8. how many boxes are there between boxes F and G?

(a) Two (b) Three (c) One (d) More than four (e) None of these

Q9. The numbers of boxes are placed between box G and box H is same as the numbers of boxes are
placed between box ____ and box _____.

(a) C, H (b) F, G (c) G, A (d) H, B (e) I, C

Q10. Which of the following statement is true?

I.Box F is placed above the box E

II. More than two boxes are placed between box A and box I

III. No box is placed below the box H

(a) Both II and III (b) Only I (c) Both I and II (d) Only II (e) All I, II and III
Directions (11-15): Study the following information carefully and answer the questions given below:

Certain numbers of persons sit in a row and face north. A sits 3rd to the left of F. Three persons sit between
F and R. R sits 2nd to the left of C who sits just left of V. One person sits between U and V. U sits right of C. B
sits 2nd to the left of N and 3rd to the right of U. Q sits 3rd to the left of D who sits just right to A. The
numbers of persons sit between Q and R is one more than the numbers of persons sit to the right of N. No
one sits left of Q.

Q11. How many persons are there between D and Q?

(a) 1 (b) 2 (c) 3 (d) 4 (e) 5

Q12. Which of the following statements is true?

(a) B sits to the immediate right of N (c) A sits to the immediate left of F

(b) U sits at one of the ends of the row (d) V sits at one of the ends of the row

(e) C sits second to the right of R

Q13. How many persons sit in the row?

(a) 19 (b) 21 (c) 27 (d) 17 (e) 18

Q14. How many persons sit between V and B?

(a) 9 (b) 2 (c) 4 (d) 7 (e) 8

Q15. How many persons sit between A and F?

(a) 9 (b) 2 (c) 4 (d) 7 (e) 8

Directions (16-20): Study the following information carefully and answer the questions given below:

Seven persons from M-S live in seven storey building and belongs to different countries viz. Italy, Canada,
Germany, China. Spain, India and Brazil but not necessarily in the same order. The bottom most floor is
numbered as 1 and so on till the topmost floor is numbered as 7. S lives two floors above the one who
belongs to Brazil and live on prime numbered floor. More than two floors gap between S and the one who
belongs to Canada. N belong to Spain and lives three floors below the one who belongs to Canada. O lives
just above the one who belongs to Italy. The numbers of persons live below M as same as live above R who
lives just below P. The one who belongs to China lives just above the one who belongs to India.

Q16. Who lives on the 5th floor

(a) Q (b) S (c) The one who belongs to Italy (d) R (e) Both (a) and (c)

Q17. Which country does O belong to?

(a) India (b) None of these (c) Brazil (d) China (e) Germany

Q18. How many floors are there between P and the person from Canada?

(a) 1 (b) 2 (c) 3 (d) 4 (e) Cannot be determined

Q19. Which country does the person on the 3rd floor belong to?

(a) Germany (b) Brazil (c) Italy (d) China (e) Canada.

Q20. If all the persons live in alphabetical order from top to bottom then how many persons remain at the
same position (Excluding M)?

(a) One (b) None (c) Two (d) Three (e) More than three
Directions (21-25): Study the following information and answer the questions given below:

Eight persons sit around a circular table in which some of them face inside and some of them face outside.
H sits 3rd to the right of K and both face the same direction. I sits opposite K but both face opposite
direction. L sits 2nd to the right of I. F sits opposite D who sits 2nd to the left of E. Immediate neighbor of E
face opposite direction as E faces. G sits 3rd to the right of D and not an immediate neighbor of I and K. L
and E face inside. G and F face the same direction.

Q21. Who sits 3rd to the left of F?

(a) H (b) L (c) I (d) G (e) None of these

Q22. Who sits opposite the one who sits just right of G?

(a) L (b) I (c) H (d) None of these (e) F

Q23. How many persons sit between E and I when counted from the right of I?

(a) Four (b) Three (c) One (d) None (e) Two

Q24. Which of the following is true?

(a) G sits 2nd to the left of I (b) H and F face the same direction

(c) L and D are immediate neighbors (d) E and G face opposite direction to each other

(e) All are true.

Q25. Who are the immediate neighbors of E?

(a) K and F (b) L and D (c) G and K (d) I and H (e) D and G

Direction (26-30): Study the following information carefully and answer the given questions

Six boxes viz., A, B, C, D, E and G are kept one above another in a stack. No other boxes are kept in the
stack other than the given boxes. Only three boxes are kept between A and B. C is kept immediately
below B. Only one box is kept between G and C, which is kept below G. As many boxes kept above G as
below D.

Q26. Which of the following box is kept three boxes below E?

a) G b) C c) A d) B e) D

Q27 How many boxes are kept between D and C?

a) One b) Two c) Three d)Four e) None

Q28. As many boxes kept between D and __ as between A and __ respectively.

a) B, E b) B, G c) A, B d) G, E e) C, D

Q29. Which of the following statements is/are NOT TRUE as per the given arrangement?

a) Only one box is kept above A b) Odd number of boxes are kept between G and C

c) Box G is kept two boxes below box E d) Both a and b e) Both b and c

Q30. What is the position of box G?

a) First from the top b) Third from the top c) First from the bottom

d) Fifth from the bottom e) Fourth from the top

Directions (31-34): Study the following information carefully and answer the given questions.

A certain number of persons are sitting in a linear row and facing north with equal distance between
adjacent persons. Only three persons sit between A and B. B sits second to the right of C. Only one person
sits between D and A. Only four persons sit to the right of D. G sits third to the left of B. F sits fifth to the
right of G. As many persons sit to the right of D as to the left of E, who sits immediate right of C.

31. How many persons sit between E and D?

a) Two b) Three c) Six d) One e) No one

32. How many persons are sitting in the row?

a) 16 b) 20 c) 23 d) 18 e) 12

33. Who among the following person sits third from one of the extreme ends of the row?

a) C b) G c) E d) D e) A

34. What is the position of E with respect to G?

a) Second to the left b) Third to the right c) Second to the right

d) Fourth to the right e) Third to the left

Direction (35-39): Study the following information carefully and answer the given questions

Seven persons - A, B, C, D, E, F and G are working in the company at different designations such as Chief
technical officer (CTO), Project head (PH), Software project manager (SM), System admin (SA), LSP, SE and
ST. Note: The designations are given in decreasing order such that CTO is the seniormost and ST is the
juniormost designation. A is senior to SA. C is immediately senior to A. As many persons senior to C as
junior to G. F is immediately senior to D, who is not SE. E is senior to B but junior to D.

35. Who among the following person is designated three persons senior to B?

a) C b)F c) A d) D e) G

36. How many persons are designated between E and C?

a) One b) Two c) Three d)More than three e) No one

37. What is the position of G with respect to A?

a) Five persons senior b) Three persons junior c) Three persons senior

d) Five persons junior e) Two persons senior

38. As many persons designated between F and __ as junior to __ respectively

a) E, G b) C, B c) A, E d) B, A e) G, C

39. Four of the following five are alike in a certain way based on the given arrangement and thus form a
group. Which one of the following does not belong to the group?

a) CD b) BF c) AE d) DG e) GB
Directions (40-44): Study the following information carefully and answer the given questions.

Eight persons - A, B, C, D, E, F, G and H are sitting around a square table in such a way that four of them
are sitting at the corners and facing away from the centre while four of them are sitting in the middle of the
sides of the table and facing towards the centre. Two persons sit between B and A, who sits in the middle
of the sides of the table. D sits immediate left of B. H is an immediate neighbour of D. Only three persons
sit between H and E. F sits immediate right of E. G and E are not immediate neighbours.

40. How many persons sit between C and G, when counted from the left of G?

a) Two b) One c) Three d) Four e) No one

41. What is the position of E with respect to B?

a) Third to the right b) Second to the left c) Fourth to the right

d) Second to the right e) Immediate left

42. Which of the following statement(s) is/are TRUE as per the given arrangement?

a) Two persons sit between E and A when counted from the left of A

b) Both H and G are immediate neighbours c) E doesn’t sit at the corner of the table

d) E sits immediate left of C e) All the statements are true

43. Who among the following person sits third to the right of H?

a) G b) A c) C d) E e) D

44. Which of the following pair of persons sit immediate right of each other?

a) CD b) HA c) FD d) BF e) AG

Directions (45-49): Study the following information carefully and answer the questions given below:

Eight persons A to H were born (but not necessarily in the same order) on two different dates i.e., 5 or 20
in four different months viz. April, May, July and September.

F was born just before H on odd date in the month having odd days. The numbers of persons were born
after F is same as the numbers of persons were born before D. E was born just after G who was born two
persons after A. C was born before B.

45. The numbers of persons were born between G and H is same as the numbers of persons were before
_____.

(a) A (b) B (c) F (d) D (e) None of these

46. In which month was E born?

(a) April (b) May (c) July (d) September (e) Cannot be determined

47. How many persons were born after A?

(a) One (b) Three (c) Two (d) Four (e) Cannot be determined

48. Who was born in the month of May?

(a) A (b) C (c) D (d) G (e) H

49. Which of the following statement is true?

(a) A was born on the 20th. (b) D was born after B. (c) G was born in July.

(d) H was born after D. (e) E was born on an odd date.

Directions (50-54): Study the following information carefully and answer the questions given below:

Eight persons – A, B, C, D, E, F, G and H sit around a circular table and all of them face towards the centre
of the table but not necessarily in the same order. E sits second to the right of F. Only two persons sit
between A and E. B faces G and sits second to the right of C. H doesn’t sit adjacent to A.

50. How many persons sit between H and G when counts from the left of H?

(a) Four (b) Two (c) One (d) Three (e) Five

51. Which among the following statement is true?

(a) H faces the one who sits immediate left of A (b) C sits adjacent to D

(c) Three persons sit between B and G (d) H sits two persons away from A

(e) None is true

52. If all the persons sit in alphabetical order starts from A in clockwise direction, then the position of how
many persons remains unchanged (excluding A)?

(a) One (b) Two (c) None (d) Three (e) More than three

53. What is the position of D with respect to F?

(a) Fifth to the right (b) Sixth to the left (c) Third to the right (d) Second to the left

(e) Immediate left

54. Four of the following five are alike in certain way and thus forms a group, then who among the
following doesn’t belong to that group?

(a) A-C (b) B-G (c) D-E (d) H-F (e) B-A

Directions (55-59): Study the following information carefully and answer the questions given below:

Seven persons go to watch movie on different days from Monday to Sunday of the same week.

At most one person goes before C. As many persons go before C as after E. Only two persons go between
E and D. G goes two persons after A. More than two persons go between F and B. A doesn’t go after B.

55. Who among the following person goes to watch movie on Thursday?

(a) E (b) A (c) C (d) F (e) D

56. How many persons go to watch movie between C and B?

(a) Two (b) Five (c) Three (d) Four (e) Six

57. On which among the following days does B go to watch movie?

(a) Sunday (b) Tuesday (c) Saturday (d) Wednesday (e) Monday

58. Which among the following statement is not true?

(a) C goes to watch movie at least before three persons

(b) Even number of persons go to watch movie between A and B

(c) B goes to watch movie after F (d) F goes to watch movie on Monday (e) All are true

59. If all the persons go to watch movie in alphabetical order from Monday to Sunday, then the position of
how many persons changed?

(a) One (b) Six (c) Three (d) Four (e) Five
Directions (60-64): Study the following information carefully and answer the given questions. (Level-
Easy)

Eight persons - L, M, N, O, P, Q, R and S are sitting around a square table in such a way that four of them
are sitting at the corners and facing away from the centre, while four of them are sitting in the middle of the
sides and facing the centre.

N is an immediate neighbour of O, who sits at the corner of the table. R sits third to the left of N. M sits to
the immediate left of R. L sits three places away from M. The number of persons sitting between L and N is
one more than the number of persons sitting between O and S, when counted from the right of both L and
S. Q sits second to the right of P.

60. How many persons sit between R and P, when counted to the left of R?

a) One b) Two c) Three d) Four e) None

61. Who among the following person sits second to the right of the one who sits to the immediate left of L?

a) Q b) O c) The one who sits to the immediate left of R

d) N e) The one who sits opposite to O

62. Four of the following five are alike in a certain way based on the given arrangement and thus form a
group. Which one of the following does not belong to the group?

a) L b) N c) S d) O e) R

63. If the positions of P and O are interchanged in the same way the positions of Q and M are interchanged,
then who among the following person sits second to the left of M?

a) P b) R c) S d) Q e) O

64. If all the persons are sitting in alphabetical order from L in a clockwise direction, then how many
persons are unchanged in their position (excluding L)?

a) Two b) Four c) Three d) One e) None

Direction (65-68): Study the following information carefully and answer the given questions

A certain number of persons are sitting in a linear row facing north.

Only three persons sit between E and K. K sits fifth to the right of C. C sits adjacent to I, who sits at one of
the extreme ends. As many person sits between I and K as between C and H. D and H are immediate
neighbors. T sits immediate left of A, who sits third to the right of D.

The number of persons sitting to the right of A is twice the number of persons sitting between A and H.

65. How many persons are sitting in a linear row?

a) 20 b) 18 c) 19 d) 17 e) 21

66. Who among the following person sits fifth to the left of A?

a) H b) D c) K d) E e) C

67. Which of the following statement is/are true with respect to the final arrangement?

a) Only seven persons sit to the left of K b) T sits second to the right of D

c) Only three persons sit between A and H d) Both a and b e) Both b and c

68. How many persons are sitting between A and E?

a) Five b) As many persons sit between T and I c) Ten

d) As many persons sit to the left of D e) Six

Direction (69-73): Study the following information carefully and answer the given questions

Five boxes-A, B, C, D and E are kept one above another in a single stack, but not necessarily in the same
order. Each box has different fruits- Apple, Mango, Grapes, Guava and Kiwi.

Only two boxes are kept between box B and the box which has Kiwi. Box D is kept immediately above the
box which has kiwi. Only one box is kept between boxes C and D, which does not have Guava. As many
boxes kept below C as above the box which has Apple. Only two boxes are kept between box E and the
box which has mango. Box A is kept below the box which has Guava.

69. Box A has which of the following fruits?

a) Mango b) Guava c) Kiwi d) Apple e) Grapes

70. How many boxes are kept above box E?

a) One b) Two c) Three d) Four e) No box

71. Which of the following box is kept two boxes above the box which has grapes?

a) Box E b) The box which has Kiwi c) Box C d) The box which has apple

e) None of these

72. What is the position of box D with respect to the box which has guava?

a) Immediately below b) Two boxes above c) Three boxes below

d) Immediately above e) Two boxes below

73. As many boxes kept between box B and __ as between box A and __ respectively.

a) E, the box which has apple b) D, C c) The box which has grapes, E

d) C, D e) The box which has kiwi, C

Directions (74-76): Study the following information carefully and answer the given questions.

Nine persons – N, P, Q, S, U, V, W, Y and Z are living in three different cities viz. Barcelona, Dehradun and
Texas. At least two persons but not more than four persons live in the same city.

Q lives in Barcelona. Only P and Z live in the same city. S and V live in the different cities. W lives in the
same city as S. Q doesn’t live with W. W and U live in the same city. N neither lives with V nor in Texas.

74. Who among the following person lives with S?

a) U b) N c) Q d) Z e) Both a and b

75. Who among the following person lives in Texas?

a) S b) W c) V d) P e) Y

76. Four of the following five are alike in a certain way based on the given arrangement and thus form a
group. Which among the following does not belong to the group?

a) VY b) NV c) QV d) US e) YQ
Directions (77-80): Study the following information carefully and answer the given questions.

Six persons – A, B, C, D, E and F graduated on two different dates either 9th or 28th of three different
month viz. May, June and July of the same year. Each person is from different cities viz. Chennai, Kerala,
Kolkata, Goa, Kanpur and Mumbai.

A graduated on an even numbered date in the month having an odd number of days. Only two persons
graduated between A and the one who is from Kolkata. E graduated after the one who is from Kolkata and
on an even numbered date. As many persons graduated after E as before C. The one who is from Kerala
graduated on an odd numbered date of immediate following month of C. D and the one who is from Goa
graduated in the same month. F graduated immediately after the one who is from Goa. B and the one who
is from Kanpur graduated on different dates. E doesn’t from Mumbai.

77. Who among the following person is graduated on June 28th?

a) The one who is from Kanpur b) A c) F d) B e) None of these

78. The one who is from Mumbai graduated in which of the following month and date?

a) May 9th b) June 28th c) July 9th d) July 28th e) May 28th

79. Who among the following person is graduated in the same month as the one who is from Chennai?

a) C b) B c) F d) D e) A

80. Which of the following statement is/are true based on the given information?

a) The one who is from Goa and A graduated in same date b) F is from Kolkata

c) C graduated immediately before the one who is from Mumbai

d) Only two persons graduated between D and E

e) All the given statements are true

Directions (81-85): Read the given information carefully and answer the questions based on it:

Six persons visit a place on two dates 11 and 22 in three different months i.e., September, October and
November. They all like different colors viz. white, blue, pink, green, red and yellow but not necessarily in
the same order as given.

The one who likes yellow visits three persons after L. L and S visit on same date and in the month of even
numbered days. Two persons visit between S and R who likes green. Number of persons visit before R is
same as the number of persons visit after V. The one who likes white visit just before H. No one visit
between K and the one who likes blue. The one who likes red visits before the one who likes pink.

81. How many persons visit between K and H?

(a) None (b) One (c) Two (d) Three (e) Four

82. Which of the following color does S like?

(a) Red (b) Blue (c) Pink (d) White (e) Yellow

83. Who among the following visit on 22 October?

(a) V (b) H (c) K (d) S (e) L

84. The one who likes blue, visit on which of the following date?

(a) 22 October (b) 11 November (c) 11 October (d) 22 November (e) 22 September

85. Which of the following statement(s) is/are true?

I. The one who likes green is the last one to visit II. H likes pink

III. More than two persons visit before V

(a) Only II (b) Only I and III (c) Only I and II (d) Only III

(e) All I, II, III are true

Directions (86-90): Read the given information carefully and answer the questions based on it:

Eight persons sit in a row. Four persons face north and rest face south. Three persons sit between A and B
and one of them sits at the end of the row. C sits second to the right of B who faces north. D and B face same
direction but they do not sit adjacent to each other. E sits third to the left of D and faces opposite direction
to D. G sits third to the right of C. Both the immediate neighbors of G face same direction. H sits to the right
of F.

86. What is the position of F with respect to E?

(a) Second to the right (b) Second to the left (c) Fourth to the left

(d) Third to the right (e) Immediate left

87. Who among the following sits just right of B?

(a) H (b) E (c) D (d) F (e) G

88. How many persons sit to the left of G?

(a) One (b) None (c) Three (d) Five (e) Two

89. Which of the following pair is dissimilar to other four pairs?

(a) C-E (b) A-G (c) D-F (d) B-H (e) G-C

90. If all the persons rearrange their seating positions and now, they sit in alphabetical order from left end
of the row (Direction of all persons remain the same), then how many persons will remain on their
positions?

(a) None (b) One (c) Two (d) Three (e) More than three

Directions (91-95): Study the following information carefully and answer the questions given below-

Six persons A, B, C, D, E and F sit around a circular table facing the centre but not necessarily in the same
order. They like different flowers viz. Rose, Daisy, Lily, Jasmine, Marigold and Dahila but not necessarily in
the same order.

F sits 2nd to the left of the one who likes Rose. B and the one who likes Rose are immediate neighbours. A
faces the one who likes Jasmine and sits near F. C sits 2nd to the left of the one who likes Lily. The one who
likes Dahila sits just right of the one who likes Daisy. C and D are not an immediate neighbour.

91. Who sits immediate right of the person who likes Marigold?

(a) F (b) B (c) C (d) D (e) E

92. Which flower does F like?

(a) Jasmine (b) Dahila (c) Lily (d) Marigold (e) None of these

93. Which of the following is true?

I. D and F are not an immediate neighbour II. A likes Lily III. D does not like Rose

(a) Both I and III (b) Only II (c) Both I and II (d) Only III (e) Only I

94. Four of the following five are alike in a certain way and hence form a group. Which of the following
does not belong to that group?

(a) D- Rose (b) F- Daisy (c) A- Lily (d) E- Jasmine (e) B- Marigold

95. Who is sitting just right of the person who likes Dahila?

(a) A (b) B (c) C (d) D (e) F

Directions (96-100): Study the following information carefully and answer the questions given
below-

Ten persons P to Y live in 10 storey building but not necessarily in the same order. The bottommost floor is
numbered as 1 and so on till the topmost floor is numbered as 10.

V lives on prime numbered floor but below 4th floor. S lives below V but not on the ground floor. There
are as many persons live above S as below P. More than three persons live between P and Y who lives
above X. One person lives between T and Y. W lives just below R. U does not live below Q.

96. On which floor does T live?

(a) 2nd floor (b) 3rd floor (c) 4th floor (d) 5th floor (e) 6th floor

97. Who lives on the topmost floor?

(a) V (b) T (c) U (d) W (e) Y

98. How many persons live between W and S?

(a) Four (b) Two (c) Three (d) Six (e) Five

99. The numbers of persons live between R and Y is half than the numbers of persons live below _____.

(a) Q (b) U (c) W (d) X (e) None of these

100. Four of the following five are alike in a certain way and hence form a group. Which of the following
does not belong to that group?

(a) V (b) T (c) S (d) W (e) Q