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ROUND 2
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• A Scientist was murdered in his own lab. The only evidence was a piece
of paper that had the names of chemical substances written on it. The
substances were nickel, carbon, oxygen, lanthanum, and sulfur. The
chemist only had three people come by his lab on the day of the murder:
fellow scientist Claire, his nephew Nicolas, his wife, and his friend Marc.
Who murdered the scientist?
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Answer: his nephew Nicolas

Explanation: If you combine the abbreviations of the chemical substances on

the paper, you’ll get a name: Ni-C-O-La-S.
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2. There’s a one-storey house in which everything is yellow. Yellow

walls, yellow doors, yellow furniture. What color are the stairs?

N E Y UAY H
MOHEEEZ
CH NI QLP
I KUEXLJ
A LLWE OB
R DCI FWV
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Answer: NONE-diagonally right

Explanation: Aren't any, it's a one storey house.

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3. A mathematician is found dead on Saturday evening.
There is no evidence except the slip in the mathematician hand.

• 3 X 3 + (2/2 + 2 - 1 + 1X2)
• 1X5X8X6X0X1 + (4+5-8)
• 2/2 + 11%3 + 5X2 + 9%2
• 9X2 + 20%1 + 3/8

The % stands for remainder.

The security informed only his students, wife and manager visited him.
Can u guess the murderer by the above 4 clues?

Hint - the first three of all make to the finals

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Answer: Manager

Explanation: 13,1,14 and last letter 18 MAN and R.

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4. There was a robbery at the room in the hostel. But the thief like to challenge people by
leaving certain clues. Nobody was able to catch him yet, but this time Soumik decides to
catch him.

coyblueoiyetop
Minayellowyert
Greenopzypea
Theijolygviolet
Oucdzorangep

Can you help Soumik to catch the thief?

Hint - the rainbow is known for? And then what you do when you are in agreement with
someone in WhatsApp chat. (+1)
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Answer: Blue, yellow, green, violet, orange

BEELG
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5. An innocent person named Hiresh is framed for the homicide of the Professor's brother and is kept inside
a vault.
Professor's brother Mohit Verma must break the vault by a three-word code.
On the vault, he read the text which is a clue for the code.

Can you guess the code?

Hint - You can use the Alphabet table =>

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Answer: "CAN BE
CRACKED"

Explanation: This code can be cracked with the help of table given as
hint
i.e
31 => 3rd column and 1st row => C
11 => 1st row and 1st column => A
33 => 3rd row and 3rd column => N
and so on....
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6. A ship was leaving the harbour and sailing towards the big blue of the ocean. It was a Japanese ship on its way back
home. The captain decided to check the ship for any damages. He took his ring off and went to repair some parts of the
ship. He left it on the table in his room. WHEN he returned, it was missing. He was suspicious of three crew members
and asked them what they had been doing for the time that he had been gone.
The cook said, “I was in the kitchen cutting up vegetables for today's meal.”

The engineer said, “I was working in the engine room to make sure everything was running smoothly.”
The sailor said, “I was on the mast correcting the flag because it was upside down.”

Can you help the captain find the thief?

• The cook
• The engineer
• The sailor
• None of them
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Answer: The sailor

Explanation: It was clearly the sailor. It was a Japanese ship and a

Japanese flag is white with a single red dot in the middle.
It can’t be hung upside down.
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7. The apocalypse is here and it is caused by a deadly bacterial infection. The government is issuing two
bottles to every survivor. You have received them as well. To become immune to the infection, one pill from
each bottle needs to be taken every day. But there is a catch. If you take only one pill, or two pills from the
same bottle, you will die a painful death.

You get excited at the idea of immunity and hurriedly open the bottles and pour the tablets in your hand.
Three tablets come down in your hand and you realise they look exactly the same and have the same
characteristics. You cannot throw away the pills as they are limited and you cannot put them back in case
you make a mistake.

How will you ensure that you are taking the right pill?
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Answer: You must put labels on the tablets as A and B before using. In that
case, if you pour tablets together, you will get 3A, 2A 1B, 1A 2B
or 3B. If they are from the same bottles you can take one from
another bottle and save the remaining two for another day. If you
get two from same and one from other, you can draw one from
another bottle and you will have two pairs of which you can eat
one and save the other.
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8. A crime has been committed on the street. The main suspect is a man named
Richard Byrn. The crime was that a man had been walking along the footpath when he
was lethally shot in the stomach. According to witnesses, the suspect had 'brown hair,
blue eyes, and wore a baggy sweatshirt just like Richard Byrn'. Richard was asked to
tell the story right from the beginning. “Well,” said Richard, “I was taking a walk
around the park when I saw this man walking along the footpath. Suddenly, a guy
sprang up behind him and shot him! I panicked at the horrific scene and ran home as
fast as I could.” The police asked him to give a description of the murderer. “He had a
red mustache, red hair, and a baggy sweatshirt on.” “I think this man is telling a lie,”
said one of the policemen. How did he know?
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Answer: Richard Byrn is the murderer.

How can the murderer shoot him in the stomach if he came up
behind the man?
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9. A man is found dead in a sealed room. The only things in the room are a
candle, a book, and a puddle of liquid on the floor. The cause of death is
determined to be poisoning. What killed the man?
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Answer: CO ; Poisonous carbon monoxide from candle in sealed room.

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10. Namita's daughter, Arushi, must be picked up from school every day. To
ensure her safety, Namita has implemented a password system for her colleague to
confirm they are the designated pick-up person before taking Arushi home.
The password on Monday was MAN61
The password on Thursday was TSI84

What will the password for Friday?

Hint: Not every picture tells a story

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Answer: FHT6
5

Explanation: The password is formed as:

F(1st letter of Friday)
H (5th letter of Arushi)
T (5th letter of Namita)

6(Length of Friday)
5(5th day of week)
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11. Read the following information carefully and answer the question below. All
the codes given below are only in two letters format.

F1 race is extraordinary. Za Ta Ma Ba
Karan will win race. Ma Da Ya Ca
Sameer will loose F1. Ba Pa Ya La
Karan is very extraordinary Da Za Sa Ta

What is the code for "Karan is extraordinary will win race"?

Hint: only “Will” is common to quotes 2 and 3

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Answer: Za Ta Da Ya Ca Ma
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12. Amy had lost most of her memory after the blast in Manhattan but had mysterious tattoos
on her body. The suspect was back in the city. Just then she just remembers that she had
embraced the tattoo so that she can remember who the spy is.
There are six suspects:
1. Robert
2. Jeremy
3. Tasha
4. Oscar
5. Tom

The Tattoo found on her body was

"ymarspseneptunehtssaturniravenuscso"

Who is the spy ?

Hint: Hidden are the names of planets but they are not the solution. Look out for the rest.
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Answer: Tatoo: ymarspseneptunehtssaturniravenuscso

Explanation: She deciphers the tattoo in below steps

1. Separate planets name
y mars pse neptune hts saturn ira venus cso

2. Remove planets name and join remaining text

ypsehtsiracso

3. Reverse it
oscaristhespy

4. Add space to make sense

oscar is the spy
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13. A detective named Rahul has suddenly gone missing just as he was about to
solve a case. While inspecting his last-known location, you find a note:
5508 51 71405
There are 3 suspects: Farah,Sohil and Anurag. Can you break the detective's code
and find the criminal?

Hint: Change your direction of thinking.

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Answer: SOHIL
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14. It's been too long since we last spoke, however the time of our
escape is not something which one can divulge so easily (for
fear of prying eyes) but we will soon be free.

The code to the safe is hidden in this message. What is it?

Hint: Be BOLD or ITALIC never regular.

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Answer: Look at the Italics: too one for free--- ANS: 2143
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15. The steganographic code commonly known as Bacon's cipher uses groups of 5
binary valued elements to represent letters of the alphabet. After decoding the
sentence we obtain ONE FINAL
CODE.

Hence DECODE
scieNce is knowLegDE Is pOWeR

Hint: The glowing bulb represents 1 and the other one represents 0.

Remember: A letter is only represented by 5 digits.

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Answer: BACON

Explanation: scieNce is knowLegDE Is pOWeR

1. First make the uppercase letters 1 and lower-case
letters 0
scieNce: 0000100
full: 0000100 00 000010011 10 01101

2. Make groups of 5 (as each letter from binary code-

see pic- is represented by 5 digits)
(00001)(00 00 0)(00010)(011 10) (01101)

3. Check with the binary code table:

00001- B; 00000- A and we get Bacon
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