CAT Class 1 (LR-DI)

Games & Tournaments -I

SNAPSHOT
Sets on games and Tournaments can be classi ied as:
 Type 1: Seeded players in a Knock out Tournament
 Type 2: Tournament Speci ic
 Type 3: Maximum / Minimum Wins or points
 Type 4: Strategy Games (Picking of coins)
SET-1
There are 400 teams participating in a knockout tournament where they form groups and
play against each other. Hence in round 1 there will be 200 teams in each group, resulting in
200 winners. Round 2 will have 100 each in a group and so on. If there are an odd number of
teams in any rounds, one team is selected at random and granted a 'bye'. The tournament
continues till a winner is decided. No matches end in a draw.
Q-1. How many matches must be played to decide the winner?
Q-2 How many rounds took place?
Q-3. How many 'byes' were granted?
SET-2
X players took part in a tennis tournament played on a knockout basis. The matches are
scheduled in rounds and in each round, in a match between two players, the winner
advances to the next round while the loser is eliminated. This goes on till only one player is
left undefeated. All byes, if any, happen in the irst round and there are no walkovers in any
round.
Q-4. If 37 players got a bye in the irst round, which of the following can be the number of rounds
in the tournament?
(1) 5 (2) 6 (3) 7 (4) more than one of the above
Q-5. If there were 173 matches in the tournament, how many players got a bye in the irst round?
SET-3
128 players take part in a grand slam tournament. The tournament is scheduled to be seven
rounds and in each rounds, in a match between two players, the winner advances to the next
round and the loser is eliminated. There are no dawns or byes in the tournament. The player
who takes part in tournament are seeded from 1 to 128, with seed 1 being the top seed, seed
2 next and so on. The matches are scheduled in such a way that in any round, assuming
there are no upsets, the highest seeded player plays against the lower seeded player at the
point, the next highest seeded player always plays against the lowest seeded player and so
on. An upset is said to happen when a lower seeded player beats a higher seeded player. The
schedule of matches in next round with the only difference that the player who caused the
upset advance to the next round and takes the designated place of the player he upset.
Q-6 Find the total number of matches in the tournament?
(1) 31 (2) 63 (3) 127 (4) 255
Q-7 In case of no upsets in the tournament, in which round would the player seeded 22 face a
player seeded higher than him?
(1)2nd round (2) 3rd round (3) 4th round (4) 5th round
Q-8 If seed 75 player enters into 2nd round, with which seeded player he could play in that
round?
(1) Seed 11 (2) 118 (3) either a or b (4) none of these
Q-9 How many players in the tournament won exactly two matches?
Q-10 If seeded player 2 reached the third round, with which seeded player he could play in that
round?
(1) seed 95 (2) seed 17 (3) seed 36 (4) seed10
Q-11 If seeded player 42 reached the third round, with which seeded player he could not play in
that round?
(1) seed 11 (2) seed 23 (3) seed 54 (4) seed 75
Q-12 If seeded player 3 enters into the 4th round, which of the following seeded player he could
not play in that round?
(1) seed 46 (2) seed 51 (3) seed 41 (4) seed 115
Q-13 Find the maximum number of upsets in a tournament?
(1) 120 (2) 123 (3) 127 (4) 131
Q-14 Find the minimum number of upsets in the tournament?
(1) 2 (2) 3 (3) 1 (4) 0
Q-15 If seed 10 player is the winner for the tournament, ind the minimum number of upsets in a
tournament?
(1) 3 (2) 4 (3) 5 (4) 6
Q-16 If seed 12 player enters into 6th round, ind the total number of possibilities of different
seeded players he could play in that round?
(1) 29 (2) 30 (3) 31 (4) 32
Q-17 If the player seeded 4 won the tournament, then what is the minimum number of upsets in
the tournament?
(1) 1 (2) 2 (3) 3 (4) None of these
Note: minimum upsets in the tournament
Q-18 If seed 32 won the tournament, then what is the least number of upsets that he could have
caused?
(1) 1 (2) 2 (3) 3 (4) None of these
Note: minimum upsets of the player
Q-19 If seed 97 won the tournament, then what is the least number of upsets that he could have
caused?
(1) 1 (2) 2 (3) 3 (4) None of these
Q-20 If seed 84 won the tournament, then what is the least number of upsets that he could have
caused?
(1) 1 (2) 2 (3) 3 (4) None of these
Q-21. If each player causes at most one upset, then the lowest seeded who could have won the
tournament is
(1) 64 (2) 65 (3) 128 (4) 96
Q-22. If it is known that the winner of tournament himself caused only a single upset, then the
lowest seeded player who could have won the tournament is
(1) Seed 17 (2) Seed 29 (3) Seed 33 (4) None of these
SET-4
Directions of questions 1 to 4: The following table is a row wise and column arrangement of
numbers.
Column 1 Column 2 Column 3
Row 1 5 4 -2
Row 2 -3 0 3
Row 3 2 1 3
The game has following rules:
 Your initial value or score is the value of the cell that you start with.
 A higher Row or Column is the one whose numeric value is higher than the
comparator Row or Column. For Example, Row 2 is considered higher than Row 1.
 If you move to a higher row, you add the current score with the value of the new cell,
and if you move to a lower row, you subtract the value of the new cell from the
current score.
 If you move to a higher column, you multiply the current value of the cell to the new
cell, and when you move to a lower column, you divide the current value with the
value of the new cell and take the quotient as the new new value.
  The player can move only one column or one row at a time, and cannot move
diagonally.
Q-1. Player X starts from Column 1 Row 3 and ends up with a negative value in the minimum
possible number of moves. How many moves has X made?
(1) 3 (2) 1 (3) 2 (4) 4
Q-2. Player Y starts with a negative score and within 1 move, becomes positive. He must now be
on the cell?
(1) R1C3 (2) R2C3 (3) R1C2 (4) R1C1
Q-3. Player Z starts from Row 1 Column 1 and within 'x' moves inds the value of his player
becoming in inity? What is the minimum possible value of 'x'?
(1) 4 (2) 3 (3) 5 (4) None of these
Q-4. If a player can start from any cell and has to take maximum number of moves to reach a
negative score without repeating a cell the number of moves he will take to complete the
task will be?
(1) 4 (2) 5 (3) 6 (4) 7
DIRECTIONS for questions 5 to 8: Read the following information and answer the questions
that follow:
In badminton, which team serves irst is decided by a toss of coin. In a game of badminton,
there are two teams I and II with 2 players named A, B and C, D respectively in each team. In
the game, one of the players serves, and a rally begins. If the serving team wins the rally,
they get a point. (A rally is always won by one team and lost by another.) The same player
keeps serving again and again as long as his team keeps winning rallies and earning points.
If the team loses a rally, then the other player of the same team gets the chance to serve. He
again continues to serve as long as his team wins rallies, otherwise the serving option
moves to the other team and starts with one player of the other team getting a chance to
serve. The game continues in this way until one team gets 15 points and wins the match.
Now answer these questions.
Q-5. If A is serving while leading 7/0, (i.e. I has 7 points and II has 0), which of the following is
de initely true?
(1) A has served more number of times than B.
(2) B has served more number of times than A.
(3) A has served more number of times than C.
(4) C has served equal number of times as D.
Q-6. If C is serving while leading 4/3, what is the minimum possible number of times that C has
served before?
(1) 0 (2) 1 (3) 2 (4) 3
Q-7. C is serving leading 4/3 and C has served twice before, what is the minimum number of
serves done by team I?
(1) 4 (2) 5 (3) 6 (4) 7
Q-8. In the question above, what is the maximum number of serves done by team I?
(1) 9 (2) 10 (3) 11 (4) In inity
DIRECTIONS for questions 9 to 12: Answer the questions on the basis of the information
given below.
In the All American soccer inals 6 teams quali ied, viz. USA, Argentina, Brazil, Canada, Chile
and Mexico. In the irst round each team plays the other team once. Each win earns a team
three points, a draw earns one point and a loss earns zero points. Next the top 4 teams move
to semi- inals where in the irst team in the irst round plays the fourth and the second team
plays the third. In case of a tie, the team with the highest goal difference (Goal For Goals
Against) quali ies. The winners of the semi inals compete in inals.
Teams Games Won Drawn Lost Goals For Goals
played Against
Brazil 3 3 0 0 7 1
Argentia 3 2 0 1 2 1
Chile 3 1 1 1 4 2
 Mexico 4 1 1 2 4 3
USA 3 0 3 0 3 3
Canada 4 0 1 3 2 12
In the opening match of the tournament Chile loses to Argentina 1-0. Please Note that none
of the matches in irst round were goal less draw.
Q-9. Argentina has not played against which of the following? 9.
(1) Brazil (2) Canada (3) Chile (4) Mexico
Q-10. What was the highest goal difference in one game?
(1) 4 goals (2) 5 goals (3) 3 goals (4) Either 1 or 2
Q-11. How many teams can hope to get a place in Semi inal?
(1) 4 (2) 5 (3) 6 (4) Cannot be determined
Q-12. If both Argentina and Brazil win their remaining matches, which of the following can be a
semi inal ixture?
(1) Chile Vs Mexico (2) Brazil Vs Chile
(3) Argentina Vs USA (4) Brazil Vs Argentina
DIRECTIONS for questions 13 to 16: Read the following information and answer the
questions that follow
Teams Played Won Drawn Lost Points
East Bengal 22 13
Chuchill Brothers 22 6 4
FC Kochi 22 12 4 40
Salgaocar 22 9 3
Mohd Sporting 22 11 3 36
Mahindra 22 6 7
Mohan Bagan 22 8
Goa SC 22 4 10
ITI 22 6 23
JCT 22 5 11
Vasco 22 4 12
Punjab Police 22 3 3 12
It is further known that:
1. All teams have scored distinct number of points and are ranked 1st to 12th based on the
descending order of the points scored.
2. NFL is a double round robin tournament in which each team plays two matches against
every other team.
3. The total number of matches played in the tournament is 132, without any match being
abandoned or called off.
4. Teams get 3 points for a win, 1 for a draw and none for a loss.
Q-13. What is the number of matches drawn by East Bengal?
(1) 4 (2) 5 (3) 4 or 5 (4) 3 or 4
Q-14. What is the number of points scored by Mohan Bagan?
(1) 29 (2) 30 (3) 31 (4) 29 or 30
Q-15. What % of the matches were drawn?
(1) 23.4% (2) 30% (3) 42% (4) Cannot be determined
Q-16. Which of the following is de initely true?
(1) ITI lost 5 matches
(2) More teams end up with even scores than with odd scores
(3) Punjab Police defeated Vasco (4) None
SET-5
DIRECTIONS for questions 1 to 4: Read the information given below and answer the
questions that follow:
Indian Premier Hockey League has ten teams participating divided in two groups of ive
each. The irst round referred as irst league is of round robin format wherein each team
 plays all other tearns twice. Each win gets the team three points. In addition, if a team beats
any other team in both the matches, it gets one bonus point and the losing team gets no
point. The team standings after the irst round is given as below:
Tier 1 Standings Tier 2 Standings
Team P W L Pts Team P W L Pts
Hyderabad Sultans 8 7 1 24 Chandigarh Dynamos 8 6 2 20
Sher E Jalandhar 8 6 2 10 Delhi Dazzlers 8 6 2 20
Maratha Warriors 8 5 3 17 Lucknow Nawabs 8 5 3 17
Bangalore Hi Fliers 8 2 6 7 Imphal Rangers 8 3 5 10
Chennal Veerans 8 0 8 0 Bengal Tigers 8 0 8 0
In the opening match of the tournament, a Tier I ixture, Sher-e-Jalandhar defeated
Hyderabad Sultans 1-0 and Imphal Rangers defeated Delhi Dazzlers 2-0 in opening ixture of
Tier II.
Top 3 from each league qualify for the second round referred as the super league. In case of
a tie in any tier, the team with great goal difference quali ies to super league. In super
league, top three team's of Tier I play with each of the top three teams of Tier 2. In super
league 3 points are given for a victory, no points for loss. Top two teams qualify for the inals.
In case of tie on points tie is broken by goal difference. Team with maximum positive
difference in the goals scored and goals conceded moves to the next round. In case there is
still a tie, the teams will have to play a rematch. In Super league results of irst six games are
given below:
Game 1: Lucknow Nawabs beat Hyderabad Sultans 3-0
Game 2: Maratha Warriors beat Delhi Dazzlers 2-1
Game 3: Sher-e-Jalandhar beat Chandigarh Dynamo 1-0
Game 4: Hyderabad Sultans lose to Delhi Dazzlers 1-4
Game 5: Chandigarh Dynamos beat Maratha Warriors 5-3
Game 6: Sher-e-Jalandhar beats Lucknow Nawabs 2-0
In super league no two teams scored equal number of goals and maximum number of goals
scored by any team was 10. There were no draws in the super league.
Q-1. Which of the following is true for the irst league?
I) Imphal Rangers defeated Delhi Dazzler in at least one game
II) Lucknow Nawab defeated Delhi Dazzlers in exactly one game
III) Lucknow Nawab defeated Imphal Rangers in atleast one game
(1) I and II (2) I and III (3) Only III (4) Either I and II or I and III
Q-2. If Bangalore Hi- liers had defeated Maratha Wariors in both its games but lost one of its
games to Chennai Veerans, then which of the following would have been the third team from
Tier I to reach the super league.
(1) Bangalore Hi- liers. (2) Chennai Veerans
(3) Maratha Warriors (4) Either 1 or 3
Q-3. Which of the following cannot be the inal match of the tournament?
(1) Chandigarh Dynamos Vs. Lucknow Nawabs (2) Delhi Dazzlers Vs. Sher-e-Jalandhar
(3) Chandigarh Dynamos Vs. Maratha Wariors. (4) Lucknow Nawabs Vs Maratha Wariors
Q-4. If Maratha Warriors reaches the inal which other team reaches the inal?
(1) Chandigarh Dynamos (2) Sher-e-Jalandhar
(3) Delhi Dazzlers (4) Any of the three
DIRECTIONS for questions 5 to 8: Read the information given below and answer the
questions that follow:
There are 2 leagues in a football tournament consisting of 6 teams. League one has 5
matches and League two has 7 matches per team. In irst league all the team play against
each other. In League two, each team, plays against each other once again and play 2
matches on basis of lucky draw. In League one, if a team wins it gets 4 points and if it loses it
 gets 0 point. In League two, winning team gets 10 points and draw fetches 5 points where as
there is no point for a loss.
Q-5. Which of the following cannot be total score in both the leagues combined?
(1) 33 (2) 47 (3) 79 (4) 69
Q-6. If a team ends up scoring 33 points in total for both the leagues, which of the following has
to be necessarily correct?
i) The team must have won two matches in each league
ii) The team must have lost 5 matches in both the leagues together
iii) The team has exactly 1 draw in both the leagues together
(1) Only i) and iii) (2) Only ii) and iii)
(3) Only ii) (4) None of the above
Q-7. What can be the maximum difference of total of top 2 and bottom 2 teams?
(1) 130 (2) 166 (3) 152 (4) 142
Q-8. What can be the minimum difference between points of two teams?
(1) 1 (2) 3 (3) 2 (4) None of the above
DIRECTIONS for the questions 9 to 12: Answer the questions on the basis of the information
given below.
In the table below is the listing of players, seeded from highest (#1) to lowest (#32), who
are due to play in an Association of Tennis Players (ATP) tournament for women. This
tournament has four knockout rounds before the inal, i.e., irst round, second round,
quarter inals, and semi- inals. In the irst round, the highest seeded player plays the lowest
seeded player (seed #32) which is designated match No. 1 of irst round; the 2nd seeded
player plays the 31 seeded player which is designated match No. 2 of the irst round, and so
on. Thus, for instance, match No. 16 of irst round is to be played between 16th seeded
player and the 17th seeded player. In the second round, the winner of match No. 1 of irst
round plays the winner of match No. 16 of irst round and is designated match No. 1 of
second round. Similarly, the winner of match No. 2 of irst round plays the winner of match
No. 15 of irst round, and is designated match No. 2 of second round. Thus, for instance,
match No. 8 of the second round is to be played between the winner of match No. 8 of irst
round and the winner of match No. 9 of irst round. The same pattern is followed for later
rounds as well.
Seed# Name of player Seed# Name of player Seed# Name of player
1 Maria Sharapova 12 Mary Pierce 23 Silvia Farina Elia
2 Lindsay Davenport 13 Anastasia Myskina 24 Tatiana Golovin
3 Amelie Mauresmo 14 Alicia Molik 25 Shinobu Asagoe
4 Kim Clijsters 15 Nathalie Dechy 26 Francesca Schiavone
5 Svetlana 16 Elena Bovina. 27 Nicole Vaidisova
Kuznetsova
6 Elena Dementieva 17 Jelena Jankovic 28 Gisela Dulko
7 Justine Henin 18 Ana Ivanovic 29 Flavia Pennetta
8 Serena Williams 19 Vera Zvonareva 30 Anna Chakvetadze
9 Nadia Petrova 20 Elena Likhovtseva 31 Ai Sugiyama
10 Venus Williams 21 Daniela 32 Anna-lena
Hantuchova Groenefeld
11 Patty Schnyder 22 Dinara Sa ina
Q-9. If there are no upsets (a lower seeded player beating a higher seeded player) in the irst
round, and only match Nos. 6, 7, and 8 of the second round result in upsets, then who would
meet Lindsay Davenport in quarter inals, in case Davenport reaches quarter inals?
(1) Justine Henin (2) Nadia Petrova
(3) Patty Schnyder (4) Venus Williams
Q-10. If Elena Dementieva and Serena Williams lose in the second round, while Justine Henin and
Nadia Petrova make it to the semi- inals, then who would play Maria Sharapova in the
quarter inals, in the event Sharapova reaches quarter inals?
 (1) Dinara Sa ina (2) Justine Henin
(3) Nadia Petrova (4) Patty Schnyder
Q-11. If the top eight seeds make it to the quarter inals, then who, amongst the players listed
below, would de initely not play against Maria Sharapova in the inal, in case Sharapova
reaches the inal?
(1) Anastasia Myskina. (2) Flavia Pennetta
(3) Nadia Petrova (4) Svetlana Kuznetsova
Q-12. If, in the irst round, all even numbered matches (and none of the odd numbered ones)
result in upsets, and there are no upsets in the second round, then who could be the lowest
seeded player facing Maria Sharapova in semi- inals?
(1) Amelie Mauresmo (2) Elena Dementieva
(3) Kim Clijsters (4) Lindsay Davenport
RECTIONS for the questions 13 to 16: Answer the questions on the basis of the information
given below.
The year is 2089. Beijing, London, New York, and Paris are in contention to host the 2096
Olympics. The eventual winner is determined through several rounds of voting by members
of the IOC with each member representing a different city. All the four cities in contention
are also represented in IOC.
 In any round of voting, the city receiving the lowest number of votes in that round
gets eliminated. The survivor after the last round of voting gets to host the event.
 A member is allowed to cast votes for at most two different cities in all rounds of
voting combined. (Hence, a member becomes ineligible to cast a vote in a given
round if both the cities (s)he voted for in earlier rounds are out of contention in that
round of voting.)
 A member is also ineligible to cast a vote in a round if the city (s)he represents is in
contention in that round of voting.
 As long as the member is eligible, she must vote and vote for only one candidate city
in any round of voting.
The following incomplete table shows the information on cities that received the
maximum and minimum votes in different rounds, the number of votes cast in their
favour, and the total votes that were cast in those rounds.
Round Total votes Maximum votes cost Eliminated
cast
City No. of votes City No. of votes
1 London 30 New York 12
2 83 Paris 32 Beijing 21
3 75
It is also known that:
 All those who voted for London and Paris in round 1, continued to vote for the same
cities in subsequent rounds as long as these cities were in contention. 75% of those
who voted for Beijing in round 1, voted for Beijing in round 2 as well.
 Those who voted for New York in round 1, voted either for Beijing or Paris in round
2.
 The difference in votes cast for the two contending cities in the last round was 1.
 50% of those who voted for Beijing in round 1, voted for Paris in round 3.
Q-13. What percentage of members from among those who voted for New York in round 1, voted
for Beijing in round 2?
(1) 33.33 (2) 50 (3) 66.67 (4) 75
Q-14. What is the number of votes cast for Paris in round 1?
(1) 16 (2) 18 (3) 22 (4) 24
Q-15. What percentage of members from among those who voted for Beijing in round 2 and were
eligible to vote in round 3, voted for London?
(1) 33.33 (2) 38.10
 (3) 50 (4) 66.67
Q-16. Which of the following statements must be true?
a. IOC member from New York must have voted for Paris in round 2.
b. IOC member from Beijing voted for London in round 3.
(1) Only a (2) Only b
(3) Both a and b (4) Neither a nor b
 Answer Key
Set 4
1. 1 2. 2 3. 1 4. 4 5. 4 6. 1 7. 2 8. 1 9. 2
10. 1 11. 3 12. 2 13. 3 14. 4 15. 1 16. 2
Set 5
1. 2 2. 4 3. 4 4. 4 5. 3 6. 4 7. 3 8. 4 9. 4
10. 3 11. 1 12. 3 13. 4 14. 4 15. 4 16. 1