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The Fighter's Puzzle Test for Bank PO - July

28, 2016

Puzzle 1:

Seven executives A. B. C, D. E. F and G from a company have to visit seven different places

Ahmedabad, Kolkata. Delhi. Chennai, Hyderabad. Bangalore and Jaipur to market their newly

launched product. The order of persons and cities may not be necessarily the same, Each one

flies by a different airline Spicejet. Kingfisher. Sahara. Jet. Air Deccan. Indian Airlines. Air

India, not necessarily in the same order. C goes to Kolkata but not by Sahara or Jet Airlines. D

flies by Air India to Bangalore, The one who goes to Jaipur does not travel by Air Deccan or

Sahara. E travels by Air Deccan. A does not go to Ahmedabad, F travels to Hyderabad by Spice

jet, B goes to Chennai by Kingfisher. E does not go to Ahmedabad. G does not go to Jaipur.

Puzzle 2:

Eight persons A B, C, D, E, F, G and H are sitting in a circle facing the centre. All of them have

different weight such as 40 Kg, 45 Kg, 50 Kg, 55 Kg, 60 Kg, 65 Kg, 70 Kg and 75 Kg but not

necessarily in the same order. A and B sit opposite each other and B is heavier than only C, who

is not neighbor of A, B is an immediate neighbor of F and D. The one who is the heaviest sits

opposite to H. The weight of A is 60 Kg, F who is just Lighter than A, is fourth to the right of E,

who is third to the right of C, H is Lighter than only D, E is Lighter than only 2 persons.

FINAL ANSWERS########## 1... A, Jaipur ,Jet B, Chennai, King C, Kolkata, Indian Air D, Bangalore, Air India E ,Delhi , Deccan F ,Hyderabad ,Spice Jet G, Ahmedabad ,Sahara 2.. A,h,c,f,b,d,g,e,(clockwise) D 75 H 70 E 65 A 60

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F 55 G 50 B 45 C 40


27, 2016

Puzzle 1: Moon TV had decided to celebrate sports programmes week by telecasting programmes on

Badminton. Cricket. Football. Hockey. Tennis and Volleyball (not necessarily in the same order)

in a week starting from Wednesday.

(i) Sixth day of the programme was holiday.

(ii) Tennis was telecast immediately after Hockey and Football was telecast on fifth day of the

programme.

(hi) Badminton was telecast on third day after Saturday and Hockey programme was telecast on

fourth day before the holiday.

(iv) Volleyball was not telecast on first day.

Puzzle 2:

(i) There is a group of five persons M. N, O. P and Q of a family. They are businessman, farmer,

lawyer, doctor and teacher.

(ii) N is an unmarried teacher, who is M's daughter.

(hi) Q is a lawyer, who is O’s brother.

(iv) O hi this family is the only husband of a married couple,

(v) M is a fanner, who is father of two sons and an unmarried daughter.

(vi) M's daughter-in-law is a doctor

Puzzle 3: M, V, K. D. T, J and R are seven friends studying in different classes— IIIrd. IVth, Vth. Vlth,

Vllth. Vlllth and IXth standards. Each of them has different favourite colours- yellow, blue, red,

white, black, green and violet. J likes red and studies in class Vth. R likes violet and studies in

Class Illrd. M studies in Class Vlllth and does not like green and yellow. K likes white and does

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not study in Vllth and in IVth. D studies in Vlth and likes black. T does not study in IVth. V does

not like green.

FINAL ANSWERS#####

1))

Wed======Cricket

Thurs=====Hockey

Fri=======Tennis

Sat======Volley

Sun=====Football

Mon=====Holiday

Tues=====Badminton

2)))

M===Farmer(male)

N===Teacher(female)

O===Businessman(male)

P===Doctor(female)

Q===Lawyer(male)

M(father) has three children===== N(unmarried daughter),,Q (unmarried son),, O (married son)

P (wife of O)

3)))

M===Blue===VIII

V===Yellow==IV

K===White==IX

D===Black==VI

T===Green==VII

J===Red====V

R===Violet===III


26, 2016

Puzzle 1: Eight members T, U, V W, X, Y, Z and A of a family are sitting around a circular dining table

facing towards centre of table. there are two couples. One who is the grand mother of U, is

sitting fifth to the left of the father of X. T who is the mother of U.. is second to the right of her

mother-in-law. Z who is son of W, is in front of his only sister-in-law. Y who is only daughter of

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X is third to the right of her only uncle. V who is not neighbour of Z is third to the riight of W

who is a male. Son of W is not the neighbour of W and Z. A is not neighbour of his uncle.

Puzzle 2: Ashutosh, Dhanya, Gagan, Manya, Harshit, Pratiksha and Sakshann are seven persons who

travel to office everyday by Virar fast local train which stops at five stations - Borivalli, Malad,

Andheri, Dadar and Church Gate respectively after it leaves the base station i.e. Virar. Three

among them get in at the base station. Harshit gets down at the next station at which Pratiksha

gets down. Dhanya does not get down with either Ashutosh or Manya. Saksham alone gets in at

Andheri station and gets down with Gagan after one station. Ashutosh travels between only two

stations and gets down at Church Gate station. None of them gets in at Malad station. Gagan gets

in with Pratiksha but does not get in with either Dhanya or Harshit. Manya gets in with two

others and gets down alone after Harshit. Dhanya and Harshit work in the same office and get

down together at Andheri station. None of them gets down at Borivali station.

FINAL ANSWERS########

#puzzle 1

Clockwise- W A X T Y V U Z

Male- W, X, Z, U, A

Female- V, T, Y

Blood Relation-

W=V (X & Z son)

T=X-Z [{(U & A son, Y daughter)of X & T}, and Z brother of X]

U-Y-A

#puzzle 2

------------------------in-----------------out

Virar -------- MGP/MDH - ----- -*

Borivali ------- GP/DH - ---------* -

Malad - ------------*------------ - P

Andheri ---------- S ----------- DH

Dadar ------------ A ----------- - M

Church- - ----------*---------- - ASG


25, 2016

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Puzzle 1: Seven persons Ashish; Mahima, Nitish. Kartik, Sanya, Sunaina and Tamnima are sitting around

a circular table facing either the c entre or outside. Each one of them is from a different c ity viz.

Delhi, Mumbai: Bangalore, Pune, Kolkata, Hyderabad and Lucknow but not necessarily in the

same order. Nitish sits third to the right of Tamnima. Tamnima faces the centre. Only one person

sits between Nitish and the person from Pune. Immediate neighbours of Nitish face outside. Only

one person sits between Sunaina and Kartik. Both Sunaina and Kartik face the centre.. Kartik is

not from Pune. Ashish is from Hyderabad. Ashish faces the centre. Two people sit between the

persons from Hyderabad and Mumbai. The person who is from Kolkata sits to the immediate left

of Sanya. Nitish faces in the same direction as Sanya. The person who is from Bangalore sits to

the immediate left of the person from Lucknow.

Puzzle 2:

Eight persons Asma: Balwant: Chirag. Diya: Ellie: Farhan. Gourav and Harry are sitting around

a circular table not necessarily in the same order. Three of them are facing outward while five of

them are facing towards the centre. There are equal number of people in the group who like tea

and coffee. Chirag is facing the centre. Ellie is sitting third to the right of Chirag. Farhan is

sitting third to the left of Ellie. Three persons are sitting between Farhan and Balwant. The

immediate neighbors of Balwant like coffee. Gourav is sitting third to the right of Farhan. Diva is

sitting third to the right of Asma. Asma is not an immediate neighbor of Ellie. The immediate

neighbors of Ellie like tea and are facing the centre. The immediate neighbors of Diva like coffee

and are facing outside. The one sitting third to the left of Balwant likes tea. Nobody liking coffee

is an immediate neighbor of Gourav.


total time shuld be---7-8 mins

#puzzle 1

Clockwise- Nitish, sanya, sunaina, tamnima, kartik, ashish, mahima

Nitin - Kolkata - outside

Sanya - Mumbai - outside

Sunaina - pune - centre

Tamnima - Lucknow - centre

Kartik - Bangalore - centre

Ashish - Hyderabad - centre

Mahima - Delhi - outside

#puzzle 2

Clockwise- chirag, ashma, farhan, harry, diva, Ellie, balwant, gaurav

Chirag - tea - inward

Ashma - tea - outward

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Farhan - coffee - inward

Harry - coffee - outward

Diva - tea - inward

Ellie - coffee - outward

Balwant - tea - inward

Gaurav - coffee - inward


22, 2016

Puzzle 1: Eight friends - P. Q, R, S, T U; V and W are sitting around a circular table not necessarily in the

same order. Three of them are facing outside (opposite to the centre) while five are facing the

centre. There are equal number of males and females in the group. R is facing the centre. T is

sitting third to the right of R. U is sitting third to the left of T. Three persons are sitting between

U and Q. The immediate neighbours of Q are females. V is sitting third to the right of U. S is

sitting third to the right of P. P is not an immediate neighbour of T. The immediate neighbours of

T are males and are facing the centre. The immediate neighbours of S are females and face

outside. The one sitting third to the left of Q is a male. No female is an immediate neighbour of

V.

Puzzle 2: B, C, D, E. F. G, H and I are sitting in a straight line equidistant Tom each other (but not

necessarily in the same order). Some of them are facing south while some are facing north.

Facing the same direction means, if one is facing north then the other is also facing north and

vice versa. Facing the opposite directions means if one is facing north then the other is facing

south and vice versa. B sits third to the left of D. I faces north. D sits at one of the extreme ends

of the line. E is not an immediate neighbour of D. H sits third to the right of B. C sits on the

immediate right of H. C does not sit at any of the extreme ends of the line. Only one person sits

between G and E. H sits second to the left of G. F sits second to the right of C. Both the

immediate neighbours of H face the same direction. Both the immediate neighbours of B face the

opposite directions. F faces the same direction as C. D faces the same direction as I.

Puzzle 3: Eight persons - A.. B, C, D, E. F. G and H belonging to the same family are sitting around a

circular table facing the centre but not necessarily in the same order. The following information

is given about their seating arrangement.

(i) B's only daughter and G's son are sitting adjacent to each other.

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(ii) A's son-in-law is B who is the father-in-law of C.

(iii) B's daughter is the sister of G's son who sits opposite D's wife.

(iv) Only one person sits between B's son and A's only daughter.

(v) F is a female whose grand-daughter is C's wife. F sits adjacent to her husband who sits

opposite A's daughter.

(vi) E's sister-in-law' sits third to the left of C's wife and C is not adjacent to any male.


puzzle 1

clckwise

r p u w s t q v

male-- q r p s

females-- t v u w

inside--- q v r u s

outside-- p t w

Puzle 2

f h c g b e i d

north-- h g i d

south-- f c b e

Puzzle 3

Clockwise- D E A F H C G B

Female- H G E F

Male- A B C D

A=F ( G daughter)

B=G (E daughter, D son)

D=H

C=E


21, 2016

Puzzle 1:

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Eight buses which have different colours i.e. Red, Blue, Green, Pink, White, Black. Yellow and

Orange are parked in a circle in such a way that all buses are facing towards the centre but not

necessarily in the same order. White bus is opposite of Black bus. White bus is second to the left

of Blue bus and is not to the next of Red and Pink buses. Red bus is parked between Green and

Yellow buses. Orange and Yellow buses are not parked near to Black bus.

Puzzle 2: Six friends - U, V. W. X. y. Z meet each other after a long time in a cafe and are sitting around a

circular table facing towards the centre of the table. They are of different religions - Hindu,

Muslim. Sikh. Christian. Jain and Parsi - and are eating different dishes in the cafe – Dosa,

BiryanL Paneer Bhurji. Pizza, Pav Bhaji and Dhan Saak, but not necessarily in the same order.

The persons who are Hindu, Sikh and Jain are not eating Dosa or Birvani. The persons who are

eating Paneer Bhurji and Pav Bhaji are not Hindu or Sikh. U is not eating Dosa and he is not on

the immediate left of the person who is a Christian, The only person who is between Y and Z is a

Muslim. The person, who is on the left side of the one who is eating Dosa is not a Parsi. X is a

Christian and he is eating Paneer Bhurji. also he is facing the person who is a Muslim, The

person who is a Hindu is seated opposite to the person who is eating Dhan Saak. The person who

is eating Paneer Bhurji is on the immediate left of the one who is a Jain, The person who is a

Parsi is on the immediate right of the person, who eats Dosa but on the immediate left of the

person, who is a Sikh. W is not a Sikh and Z is not a Hindu.

Puzzle 3: Each of the eight persons Priya: Kriya: Riya: Siya: Tia: Urvashi: Vira and Yogita uses a different

brand of lipstick. Each one of them goes to a college among Elite College, Imperial College and

Evergreen College. The following information is known about them.

(i) Exactly two persons go to Elite College and two study in Imperial College.

(ii) Riya uses Lakme and does not study in Imperial College.

(iii) The person who uses Loreal goes to Imperial College.

(iv) Kriya and Tia study in Evergreen College and they use Maybelline and Chanel.

(v) The person who uses Dior studies in Imperial College and the person who uses Faces studies

in Evergreen College.

(vi) Urvashi uses Inglot and studies in the same college as Riya.

(vii) Neither Vira nor Yogita uses Loreal but they study in the same college. Siya does not use

Dior, Tia does not use Maybelline and Vira does not use Krylon.

FINAL ANSWERS##########

puzz#1

(clockwise) black---pink---blue---orange---white---yellow---red---green.

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puzz#2

(clockwise)

man-----------religion-----------food

w________muslim_______dosa

y________hindu________pizza

u________jain__________pavbhaji

x________christian______paneerbhurji

v________sikh_________dhansaak

z________parsi_________biryani

puzz#3

college-------------lady--------------lipstick

elite__________riya________lakme

elite__________urvashi_____ingolt

imperial_______siya________loreal

imperial_______priya_______dior

evergreen_____kriya_______maybelline

evergreen_____tia_________chanel

evergreen_____vira________faces

evergreen_____yogita______krylon.


19, 2016

Puzzle 1: 1, 2, 3 4 5. 6, 7 and 8 are eight friends. Two of them like watch and three of them like ring and

bracelet each. They all are of different weights, The lightest does not like ring and the heaviest

does not like watch. 7 is lighter than 4, but only heavier than 1 .8 likes bracelet with 4, and is

fourth from the top. 7 does not like either ring or watch. 2 does not like watch. 6 is heavier

than1and 4, but lighter than 2 and 8. 3 who does not like ring., is heavier than 2 and is the second

heaviest.

Puzzle 2: Each of the five persons Akshay. Dhanush. Kartik. Nitin and Rohan is working with a different

lT company among Infosys. HCL. T CS. IBM and Accenture, not necessarily in that order. They

are of different weights and each of them have been assigned overseas projects in different

countries among Singapore. Australia. France. Germany and Italy. — he following information

is known about them

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(i) Dhanush is the third heaviest and is working with TCS and neither Dhanush nor the fourth

heaviest person has been assigned for a project in Australia.

(ii) The lightest person has been assigned a project in Italy and he is not working with HCL or

Accenture.

(iii) The heaviest person has been assigned a project in Singapore but he is not Nitin.

(iv) Kartik has been assigned a project in Germany but he is not lighter than the one who is

working with IBM.

(v) Akshav is working with Accenture but he has not been assigned a project in Australia.

Puzzle 3:

Six friends Ajay, Bablu, Chandu, Dada, Varun and Uman have three types of cycles - Hercules,

Trek and Hero and they like three school bag of different colours - Brown, Green and Red. Each

of them has a cycle and bag. Only two of them have the same type of cycles and only two of

them like same colour s bag. Ajay and Uman do not like Hercules cycle and red colour s bag.

Chandu and Dada do not like Trek cycle and green colour s bag. Ajay and Bablu do not like Trek

cycle. Bablu does not like Hero cycle and red colour's bag and Chandu does not like Hercules

cycle and red colour's bag. The one who has Trek cycle, does not like brown colour s bag. Varun

and Bablu do not like green colour s bag.

puzzle 1

1<7<4<6<8<2<3<5

watch- 1,3

bracelet- 7,4,8

ring- 6,2,5

puzzle 2

from lightest to heaviest

nitin/rohan-italy-IBM

kartik-germany-HCL/infosys

dhanush-france-TCS

nitin/rohan-australia-HCL/infosys

akshay-singapore-accenture

puzzle 3

ajay-hero-green

uman-trek-green

chandu-hero-brown

dada-herculous-red

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bablu-herculous-brown

varun-treck-red


18, 2016

Puzzle 1: Eight people T. S, A, D, F, G H and K are living in a building of seven floors. Ground floor of

that building is numbered 1, first floor is numbered 2, second floor is numbered 3, third floor is

numbered 4 and so on. Except one floor, all other floors have only one person but not necessarily

in the same order. T lives on 6th floor but he is not the neighbour of A and F. G lives

immediately above the K's floor. There are two persons on 5th floor. Neither G nor D lives on

5th floor. K does not live on 2nd and 3rd floors. H’s floor is not near to K’s floor.

Puzzle 2: Preeti, Qamar, Ram Sarita Tahir, Vartika and Sachin are seven friends working in TCS. They

work in three shifts- 12:00 a.m. to 8:00 a.m., 8:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m. and 4:00 p.m. to 12:00 a.m.

There is. at least one and not more than three among them in any of these shifts. Each of them

get one day off i n every week from Monday to Sunday. Qamar works with only Tahir in 8:00

a.m. to 4:00 p.m. shift and his weekly off is immediate to the next of the off day of Preeti. Sarita

has weekly off on Sunday and she is not in the same shift with either Ram or Qamar. Preeti is in

12:00 a.m. to 8:00 a.m. with Ram whose off day is immediately after Qamar and immediately

before Tahir. Vartikas off day is immediately after Tahir but not on Saturday. The employee

having off day on friday works in 4:00 p.m. to 12:00 a.m. shift and that on a Saturday does not

work with Tahir. Sachin does not work either in 8:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m. shift or 4:00 p.m. to 12:00

a.m. shift.

Puzzle 3: Eight friends Andaz; Billu, Chirag, Dhriti, Elsy, Fatima, Garvit and Harkirat are sitting in a circle

but not necessarily in the same order. Four of them are facing outside and four of them are fac

ing the centre.

I. Elsy faces outside. Both the immediate neighbors of Elsy face the centre. Harkirat sits second

to the right of Elsy. Billu sits third to the left of Elsy.

II. Dhriti faces the centre. Both the immediate neighbors of Dhriti face outside.

III. Garvit sits second to the left of Andaz. Billu sits third to the right of Harkirat and is fac ing

the same direction as Chirag.

IV. Fatima is an immediate neighbor of Dhriti. Chirag is an immediate neighbor of Garvit.

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V. Dhriti is not an immediate neighbor of Billu.

FINAL ANSWERS#######

puzzle 1

1---k

2---g

3--a/f

4--a/f

5--s and h

6--t

7--d

puzzle--2

preeti--12-8-monday

qamar--8-4--tuesday

ram--12-8--wednesday

sarita--4-12--sunday

tahira--8-4--thursday

vartika--4-12--friday

sachin--12-8--saturday

puzzle--3

clckwise--

e a h g c b f d

inside-- b d a c

outside-- h g e f


16, 2016

Puzzle 1: Five persons A. B. V; R and S bought ice creams of different brands viz Amul. Mother Dairy.

Kwality, Naturals and London Dairy. From every brand they bought different number of scoops

of ice cream ranging from 1 to 5. No two persons got same number of scoops of ice cream of any

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brand and no person bought the same number of scoops of ice cream of any brand. It is known

that A bought 3 scoops of Kwality ice-cream and 5 scoops of Amul ice-cream. The person who

bought 1 scoop of London Dairy ice cream bought 3 scoops of Mother Dairy ice cream. S bought

4 scoops of Kwality ice-cream and he bought greater number of scoops of Naturals ice-cream

than Kwality ice-cream. V bought 3 scoops of Mother Dairy ice cream and B bought 3 scoops of

Naturals ice-cream. R did not buy one scoop of Mother Dairy ice cream. He bought 3 scoops of

Amul ice cream and 2 scoops of Kwality ice cream. V did not buy 2 scoops of Amul ice cream

and B did not buy 4 scoops of Mother Dairy ice cream.

Puzzle 2: Eight friend Dewey. Deniyal, Denmark. Denim. Decosta, Dutch, David and Delnaaz are sitting

around a circular table and all are facing towards, the center but not necessarily in same order.

Each of them represents eight different companies viz. Phillips, Lenovo, Sansui, Apollo, Nikon,

Aiwa, Uptron and Tata. Dutch sits second to the right of representative of Aiwa. Representative

of Nikon is an immediate neighbour of representative of Tata. Denmark and Decosta are

immediate neighbours of each-other. Neither Denmark nor Decosta is an immediate neighbour of

Deniyal or representative of Tata. Two people sit between representatives of Nikon and Deniyal.

David and representative of Uptron are immediate neighbours. Only one person sits between

Denmark and representative of Sansui. Delnaaz sits third to the left side of representative of

Apollo and is the representative of Tata. Representative of Aiwa sits second to the left of

representative of Lenovo. Representative of Phillips sits second to the right of Denim who is not

the representative of Nikon. Deniyal is not the representative of Uptron. Denmark sits second to

the left of Denim.

Puzzle 3: Eight girls Jiya, Mona, Priya, Mini, Radha, Kirtir Ravina and Rini are sitting in a straight line in

such a way that only four girls are facing towards south, but not necessarily in the same order,

Mona sits fourth to the left of Radha who is not the neighbour of Kirti. Priya is second to the

right of Ravina who does not face towards north, The one who is third to the right of Mona, faces

south, Mini and Rini are neighbours of each other. Rini is third to the right of Radha, Directions

of Priya and Ravina are not same, The one who sits between Jiya and Rini, faces north, Radha is

not at any end of a line.

Final Answers##########

pzl 1##

AMUL MOTHER KWALITY NATURAL LONDON

A 5 1 3 4 2

B 2 5 1 3 4

V 4 3 5 2 1

R 3 4 2 1 5

S 1 2 4 5 3

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PZL2##

CLOCKWISE

DENIM /DECOSTA/DENMARK/DAVID /DELNAAZ/DUTCH /DENIYAL/DEWREY

SANSUI/APOLLO/UPTRON/NIKON /TATA/LENOVO /PHILIPS /AIWA

PZL 3##

Mona, priya, kirti, raveena, radha, jiya, .mini, rini

North-mona, priya, radha, mini


14, 2016

Puzzle 1

Seven persons Param, Qureshi, Rahim, Salim, Taman, Utkarsh and Vrat like seven different

fruits Apple. Banana, Cherry, Pineapple, Strawberry, Pear and Guava and they went to three

hotels among Hyatt, Taj Palace and ITC Maurya. At least two persons went to each hotel and

only one person likes each fruit. Param likes Apple but did not go to Hyatt. Qureshi went to ITC

Maurya and likes Guava. Rahim and Salim went to the same hotel, but is not ITC Maurya. Only

one of Utkarsh and Virat went to Taj Palace. The person who likes Pear went to Taj Palace.

Neither Vrat nor Taman went to ITC Maurya. Utkarsh does not like either Banana or Strawberry.

The person who likes Pineapple did not go to Taj Palace. Either Rahim or Taman likes Pear.

Taman and Utkarsh went to the same hotel, but neither of them likes Cherry. Neither Taman nor

Salim likes Strawberry.

Puzzle 2

There are eight friends Mehak. Supriya. Siva. Komal. Simran. Diva. Mira and Sheetal are sitting

in a circle. Three of them are facing the centre and rest of them facing outside the centre.

Everyone uses different kinds of applications in their mobile phones namely Snapchat.

Whatsapp. Twitter. Instagram. LINE. Skype. Viber and Facebook. Mehak is facing the centre

and sitting third to the right of Supriya. Siva is facing the centre and sitting fourth to the left of

Komal. Simran is facing away from the centre and uses Snapchat. Diva and Mira are neighbors

of Siva and use Twitter and Whatsapp respectively. Supriya is facing the centre and uses

Instagram. Komal uses LINE and is sitting to the left of Mehak. The person sitting to the

immediate right of Supriya does not use LINE or Twitter. The person who is sitting third to the

right of Mehak uses Facebook. Simran uses Snapchat. Only Simran sits between the persons who

use Whatsapp and Skype.

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Puzzle 3

Athletes G. H. I: J. K: L and M are travelling on three different vehicles. “here are at least two

athletes in each vehicle — BMW, Mercedes, Lexus — and only one of them is a male, “here are

two gymnasts, two swimmers and three runners among them. Further.

(i) I is a lady swimmer and she does not travel with the pair of sisters G and L.

(ii) H. a male gymnast, travels with only M. a runner in BMW.

(iii) J is a male swimmer.

iv) Two athletes from the same sport do not travel in the same vehicle.

(v) G is not a gymnast and travels in Mercedes.

Final Answers### Total Time for all 3 puzzles---12mins

Puzzle 1

Param ITC apple

Querashi ITC guava

Rahim Taj pear

Salim Taj cherry

Taman Hyatt banana

Utkarsh Hyatt Pinnaple

Virat Taj Strwaberry

Puzzle:- 2

clockwise form

Supriya (cen.) Insta

diva (out) Twitter

siva (cen) facebook

miva (out) whatsapp

simran(out) snapchat

mahak(cen) skype

komal (out) line

seetal (out) viber

Puzzle :-3

G :-runner :-mercedes

J :-swimmer:-mercedes

L :-symnast:-mercedes

H :-gymnast:-BMW

M :-runner:-BMW

I:-swimmer:-lexus

K :-runner:-lexus

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G, L, I are female

J H K M are mal


13, 2016

Puzzle 1: A. B, C. D. E. F, G and H are eight boys studying in VIII. IX and X standards of a school with

not more than three hi any standard. Each of them has a favourite sport from Football. Cricket.

Volleyball. Basketball, Lawn Tennis, Table Tennis. Badminton and Hockey not necessarily in

the same order, D likes Badminton and does not study either in VIII or X. H's favourite sport is

Hockey and he studies in standard X with only B among them, A likes Volleyball and does not

study in the same standard in which E studies, F studies in VHI std, and his favourite sports is

Football, G does not study in the same standard in which C studies. None of the students

studying in IX std, likes Cricket or Basketball, B likes Table Tennis. G does not like Lawn

Tennis.

Puzzle 2: There are seven students - Vinay, Vishal Vipul, Vikas Vinamr Vaibhav and Vibhuti in a class.

Each of them has liking for a different subject - Economics, Marketing, Physics, Chemistry,

Botany, Science and Finance. Each student has different marks (not necessarily in the same

order). Vipul has secured second highest marks and neither Economics nor Marketing is his

favourite subject. Vinamr has secured the least marks and neither Science nor Marketing is his

favourite subject. The favouite subject of Vikas is Physics and he has more marks than Vishal

and Vibhuti but less than Vinay, The favourite subject of Vishal is Botany and his marks are

more than the marks of Vinamr but less than the marks of Vibhuti. The favourite subject of

Vinay is Finance. The student, whose favourite subject is chemistry got the highest marks.

Puzzle 3:

In a talent show, eight contestants— Shivika, Veera; Mahima; Shayan; Prateek. Rahul, Charlie

and Pulkit are sitting in three rows R1, R2 and R3. And they are in three different categories;

dancing, singing or both S and D. In each row at least two and at most three contestants are

sitting there. And at least two contestants are in each category but not more than three. Veera and

Mahima are in different rows but not in row R2 and both S and D are in the same categories.

Pulkit and Charlie are in the same row and in same categories, but not in S and D. Shayan and

Prateek are in different rows but not in row R1 and in different categories but not in both S and

D. Shivika is in row R2 and Shayan is not in the same row as in Shivika. Both the contestants of

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row R2 are singers. Rahul is in both S and D category and not in row R1. From three contestants

who are in both S and D category, two are in row R3. Rahul and Mahima are in the same row

and three of the contestants are in dancing.

FIANL ANSWERS###########

Puzzle 1:-

Person Class Sport

A IX Volley

B X Table Tennis

C IX lawn

D IX Bad

E VIII basket/crct

F VIII foot

G VIII basket/crct

H X hockey

Puzzle 2 :-

1 ) vaibhav chemistry

2 ) vipul science

3 ) vinay finance

4 ) vikas physics

5 ) vibhuti marketing

6 ) vishal botany

7 ) vinamra economics

Puzzle 3:-

R1 : charlie:-danci ng,veera:- s&d, pulkit:- dancing

R2: prateek:-singing , shivi :-singin

R3: shayan:-dancing, rahul :-s&d, mahima :-s&d


12, 2016

Puzzle 1: Ten persons P, Q, R, S, T C, D. E. F and G are sitting in two rows. Each row has five persons

and they all are facing to each other. D who is not in front of the neighbour of T, is third from

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left end. The person who is facing to Q, is third to the left of T. E, who is in opposite row of D, is

fourth from left end but not opposite to Q. R and C are opposite to each other. P is the neighbour

of the person who is opposite to R. G and S are not the neighbour of E.

Puzzle 2: 1. 8 persons E. F, G, H, I j K and L are seated around a square table - two on each side. All are

facing inside.

2. There are 3 ladies who are not seated next to each other.

3. J is between Land F.

4. G is between I and F.

5. H, a lady member is second to the left of J.

6. F, a male member is seated opposite to E who is a lady member.

7. There is a lady member between F and I

Puzzle 3:

Ashutosh. Dhanya, Gagan, Manya. Harshit, Pratiksha and Saksham are seven persons who travel

to oÿice everyday by Virar last local train which stops at live stations - Borivali, Malad. Andheri.

Dadar and Church Gate respectively alter it leaves the base station i.e. Virar. Three among them

get in at the base station. Harshit gets down at the next station at which Pratiksha gets down.

Dhanya does not get down with either Ashutosh or Manya. Saksham alone gets in at Andheri

station and gets down with Gagan alter one station. Ashutosh travels between only two stations

and gets down at Church Gate station. None of them gets in at Malad station. Gagan gets in with

Pratiksha but does not get in with either Dhanya or Harshit. Manya gets in with two others and

gets down alone after Harshit. Dhanya and Harshit work in the same office and get down

together at Andheri station. None of them gets down at Borivali station.

#ANSWER

1st

R Q D G/S S/G (facing south)

C P F E T ( NORTH )

2ND PUZZLE

CLOCK WISE DIRECTION

J L H K E I G F

J facing K

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F facing E

H facing I

L Facing G

H E G ( female members)

3)

Getting in. Station.

Gagan,patiksha,Manya- / Virar-

Harshit,Dhanya / -Borivali

Saksham /-Andheri-

Ashutosh. -Dadar-

getting out

patiksha / malad

dhanya , harshit / andheri

manya / dadar

saksham, gagan, ashutosh/ church gate


11, 2016

Puzzle 1: Seven Professors A, B. C, D. E, F and G are engaged in evaluation of answer papers in three

different subjects English. Mathematics and History. At least two persons evaluate the papers in

each subject. Each of the evaluators stay in different buildings P. Q. R, S, T,V and W not

necessarily in the same order. A evaluates English papers only with E and stays in building R. D

stays in building W and does not evaluate Maths papers. The one who stays in building V

evaluates History papers. B and C do not evaluate the papers in the same subject. Those who

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evaluate English papers do not stay in building Q. F stays in building P but does not evaluate

History papers. G evaluates same papers as F. C stays in building T.

Puzzle 2: P. Q, R. S, T, V and W are seven members of a club. Each of them has a favourite sport from—

Chess. Table Tennis. Lawn Tennis. Volleyball, Badminton. Basketball and Carrom, not

necessarily in the same order. Each of them also has a specific choice of colour from— Blue.

Red. Green. Yellow, Grey. Black and White, not necessarily in the same order. R likes Green

and his favourite sport is Badminton. V’s choice of colour is neither Red nor Black. T’s favourite

sport is neither Table Tennis nor Basketball. The one who likes Blue does not like Carrom. The

one who likes Volleyball does not like Yellow and Grey. Q's favourite sport is Lawn Tennis and

he likes Black. S likes White. W likes Basketball. P likes Volleyball. T likes Blue. The one who

likes Basketball does not like Grey.

Puzzle 3: Seven neighbours Meena, Teena, Cheena, Leena, Seena, Alinaa and Reena all are living in a

building on ground floor, first second, third, fourth, fifth and sixth floor, All are going outside

from the building in a week i.e., Sunday, Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday and

Saturday (Not necessarily in the

same order). Only one person goes outside from the building in a day, Seena lives on second

floor and goes outside on Tuesday. Teena and Cheena are not the neighbours of Seena and go

outside on Friday and Thursday respectively. Meena lives on sixth floor and goes outside on

Saturday, Two persons live between the floor of Cheena and Alinaa. Reena is the neighbour of

Alinaa and lives on ground floor and goes outside on Sunday. Cheena lives just below Teena s

floor. Leena does not go outside on Monday.

Final answers###

Puzzle1-

A eng r

B his v

C maths t

D his w

E eng s

F maths p

G maths q

Puzzle 2--

P red volly

Q blck lawn tenn

R green badm

S white tt/ carrom

T blue chess

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V grey tt/ carrom

W yell bsktball


8, 2016

Puzzle 1: Four males and females namely R, Q, R, S, T, U, V and W are sitting around a square table in

such a way that four of them sit at the four corners of the square table while four sit in the middle

of each of four sides. The ones who sit at the four corners face the center while those who sit in

the middle of the sides face outside. Two females sit in the middle of the sides and two at the

corners. P sits second to the left of V. V sits on the middle of one of the sides. R sits fourth to the

right of his wife and his wife is not an immediate neighbour of P or V. Q sits third to the right of

her husband. Q does not sit at any of the corners. Only S sits between G and W. W is the

husband of P. Both V and T are males.

Puzzle 2: Seven boys Farhan, Javed, Monish, Sareen, Aman, Bimal and Kamal stay in three different

localities in Delhi viz. Saket. Green Park and Hauz Khas. Each locality has at least one of the

given boys. Each one of them studies seven different subjects viz. History, Accountancy,

Geology, Mathematics, Physics, Chemistry and Botany but not necessarily in the same order.

(i) Bimal is staying in Green Park and studies Mathematics.

(ii) The boys who study Chemistry and Accountancy stay in the same locality.

(iii) Monish studies Physics but does not stay in Saket.

(iv) Farhan is staying in Hauz Khas with Monish and studies Geology.

(v) Aman studies Botany and stays in Green Park.

(vi) Sareen studies neither Accountancy nor Chemistry and stays in Hauz Khas.

(vii) Javed does not study Chemistry.

Puzzle 3: Eight persons Of Q, P, G, S, M, W and Z are living in a building. There are eight floors in a

building. Each of them is living at each floor. There is a part/ in floors 2 and 7. Four people are

going to the party of floor 2 and remaining persons are going to the party of floor 7. In the party

of floor 2, people are playing a game. They all are sitting in circular table and facing towards the

center. People of other party are also playing a game and they all are sitting in a square table and

facing opposite to the center. O lives at floor 4 and he is not going in the party of floor 7. Q is the

best friend of O and is going with him. P and Z are not going in a party where S is going. S and

M live at floors 3 and 1respectively. In a game G is second to the right of O and W is opposite of

P. Regarding floor Q is not a neighbour of O and lives between Z and P. W lives at 5th floor.

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FINAL ANSWERS####

1---clckwise

w t p r v u q s

males- w r t v

females- p s q u

2--

f--hk--geo

j--saket--acc

m--hk--phy

s--hk---his

a--gp--bot

b--gp--maths

k--saket--chem

3--

1--m

2--g

3--s

4--o

5--w

6--z/p

7--q

8--z/p

2nd floor party---o q g s

7th floor- w p z m


6, 2016

Puzzle 1: Eight persons Q. F. Y. A. U, N, G and — are sitting around a square table in such a way that four

of them who sit at the corner, are facing towards the centre and other four who sit in the middle

of each row, are facing outside the c entre. Each person has different lucky numbers — 11, 12,

13, 14. 15: 16: 17 and 13 but the sequence of persons and lucky numbers are not necessarily in

the same order. A's daughter's lucky number is 11. Only one person is sitting between O and N.

T 's brother A. sits on the immediate left of his mother whose lucky number is 16. O is the father

of G. Only one person sits between T's mother and U. U sits on the immediate right of the person

whose lucky number is 1.2. No female is an immediate neighbour of F who sits at the comer of

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the table. A's daughter sits second to the right of N and on the immediate left of that person

whose lucky number is 13. F sits second to the left of T 's husband whose lucky number is

neither 14 nor 17. N, who is sister of G. her lucky number is 17 and is not an immediate

neighbour of T's husband. Only one person sits between T and G. G sits second to the right of the

person whose lucky number is 13. G is father of Y and not an immediate neighbour of U. Y is

not married to T.

Puzzle 2: Five persons W, K, R, T and M are working overtime only on one of the days from Monday to

Saturday with one of the days being a holiday. The over time work done on the previous day of

the holiday was by R. K worked over time the next day after the holiday. There was a two day's

gap between the days on which W and K worked over time. W worked over time the next day of

the over time of T. R and M did not work over time on the first day.

Puzzle 3:

1. P, Q, R, S,T, U, V and W are eight friends each having a different weight.

2. S is lighter than P but heavier than V.

3. T is heavier than W but lighter than R.

4. Q is lighter than S but heavier than U.

5. R is lighter than V.

6. V is not as heavy as U

Final Answers Clockwise A u y n t o g f 12 11 13 17 18 15 14 16 2nd T--monday W--tues R--wed Off- thurs K- fri M--sat 3rd puzzle Heaviest to lightest P s q u v r t w

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5, 2016

Puzzle 1: Anjali. Bhanu, Deepak, Kritika and Manisha are studying in five different Business Schools.

Each of them is going to a different city by Duronto Express to participate in five different

competitions. In the train. food is served. The person who takes vegetarian food is the person

participating in quiz. All the other four persons have non vegetarian food. — he four persons

who had non vegetarian food were - Anjali. the person studying in 1 1 M. the person who was

going to Pune and the person who was going to participate in B plan competition. Kritika did not

have vegetarian food and she had to go to Mumbai. Kritika was not studying in IIM. Bhanu was

going to Ahmedabad. He did not have vegetarian food. Manisha was not participating in Debate,

Paper presentation or Ad-Mad competition. But the person who was travelling to Bangalore was

participating in Debate competition and the person studying in FMS was going to participate in

Ad-Mad competition. Kritika was not studying in XLRI. “he person studying in XLRI had non

vegetarian food. The person studying in 1 1 FT was not travelling to Delhi. One of the students

was from MDI.

Puzzle 2: There are six Engineers. Namit. Manish. Roshan. Riya. Pankit and Punit from six different

companies: Wipro, Infosys. Google, IBM. Forex and Grant Thornton were going to attend a

seminar in Delhi. On their way. they met with an accident and were admitted in three different

hospitals. At least, two Engineers' were admitted in the same hospitals. Each of them is a

specialist in different fields Civil, Chemical. Geotechnical. Aeronautic s, Computer Science and

Mechanical. Namit was admitted in Fortis hospital and he is from Infosys but he is neither

Chemical nor Geotechnical Engineer. Pankhis from Wipro and he is a Mechanical engineer. He

was not admitted with Roshan. Riya was admitted with the engineer from IBM. One of the

engineers who were admitted in Max Healthcare hospital is a Chemical engineer. Manish is not

from Google and Grant Thornton and he is an Aeronautics Engineer. One of the engineers who

were admitted in Saket City hospital is a Computer Science engineer. Pumhis neither from Forex

nor from Grant Thornton. Geotechnical engineer and Mechanical engineer were not admitted in

Fortis hospital. Engineers from Wipro and Google were admitted together. The Aeronautic s

engineer was admitted in Fortis hospital. The engineer whose field is Mechanical was admitted

at Max Healthcare hospital.

Puzzle 3: Six friends Aryan, Rahul. Mayank. Harman, Paritosh and Mandeep married in different hotels

viz.. Trident Hotels. Oberoi Hotel, Ashoka Hotel. Taj Hotel. Le Meridian and ITC Maurya and

all the grooms gifted different cars to their respective brides viz. Duster. Fortuner. Swift. i20.

Wagon R and i10, but not necessarily in the same order. The brides' names were Simran.

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Harpreef. Vrinda, Friyanka, Gunjan and Aishwarya, once again not following any order. The

following are some facts about their weddings.

I. Mayank gifted His wife Swift on their wedding, however he was not married to Simran or

Aishwarya.

II. Aryan gifted his wife Duster and Paritosh gifted i20 to his wife. However neither of them was

married to Harpreet or Priyanka.

III. The bride who was gifted i10 got married in Trident Hotels.

IV. Vrinda's wedding took place in Oberoi Hotel, but she was not gifted Duster.

V. Simran and Gunjan got married in Trident Hotels and Le Meridian and own Swift and i10 but

not necessarily following the above mentioned order.

VI. Harman did not gift Fortuner or i10 to his wife and was married in ITC Maurya.

vii. Mandeep was married to Harpreet in Taj Hotel.

FINAL ANSWERS#####

Puzzle 1:

Person - School - Competition - Food - Place

anjali - xlri - debate - nv - bangalore

bhanu - iim - pp - nv - ahmedabad

deepak - fms - ad - nv - pune

kritika - iift - bp - nv - mumbai

manisha - mdi - quiz - v - delhi

2.

Namit infosys fortis civil

Manish forex fortis aero

Roshan ibm saket geo/cs

Riya Grant saket cs/geo

Pankit wipro max mech

punit google max chemical

3.

Aryan duster ashoka aiswarya

rahul i10 trindent simran

mayank swift le meredian gunjan

harman wagon r itc maurya priyanka

paritosh i20 oberoi vrinda

mandeep fortuner taj harpreet

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4, 2016

Puzzle 1: Poorvika, Purnima, Poonam, Payal. Pallavi, Preeti and Priya are a group of friends travelling in

three vehicles Safari, Scorpio and Fortuner. At least two people sit in the same vehicle. There are

two Photographer Two Psychiatry and three Artist. Only one male travels in each vehicle. No

two persons belonging to the same field travel together. Poonam does not travel with pair of

sisters Poorvika and Priya. Purnima, a male photographer travels only with Preeti, an Artist in

Safari car. Poorvika is not a photographer and travels in Scorpio car. Poonam is a female

psychiatry. Payal is a male psychiatry.

Puzzle 2: Parry, Qabil, Ronald, Steven, Teresa, Velar and William are sitting in a straight line facing north.

Each one of them lives in different floors numbered one to seven Qabil sits fourth to the left of

the person living on the 6th floor. Either Qabil or person living on the sixth floor sits at the

extreme ends of the line. Only one person sits between Qabil and William. William lives on the

third floor. The person living on the first floor sits third to the right of Steven. Steven is not an

immediate neighbor of William. Only one person lives between the floor where Teresa lives and

the person who lives on the second floor. Parry and Ronald are immediate neighbors of each

other. Parry does not live on the sixth floor. One who lives on the fifth floor sits third to the right

of one who lives on the topmost floor.

Puzzle 3: Ankit, Deepa, Harshit Kartik, Mehak, Nikita, Pankaj and Shefali are working in three different

departments viz. Finance, Marketing and Human Resource in three different companies viz.

Airtel, ITC and Tata Motors. There are three females among them one in each company. There

are at least two persons working in each company. People working in same company are

working in the same department as well. Harshit is not working in the same company as Deepa

and Pankaj. Mehak. a male is working in a company along with Shefali only and both of them

are not in the Marketing department. Ankit works in the Human Resource department of Airtel

Kartik is sister of Ankit and he is working in Tata Motors. Nikita and Harshit are working in the

same company. Pankaj is not in the Marketing department.

FINAL ANSWERS######

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Person - Vehicle - Profession - Gender

poorvika - scorpio - artist - f

purnima - safari - photographer - m

poonam - fort - phys - f

payal - scorpio - phys - m

pallavi - fort - artist - m

preeti - safari - artist - f

priya - scorpio - photographer - f

Puzzle 2 :

S(4) V(2) Q(7) T(1) W(3) P(5) R(6)

Puzzle 3:

ITC:

Mehak +. Finance

Shefali. - Finance

Airtel:

Ankit +/- HR

Deepa. +/- HR

Pankaj +/- HR

Tata:

Kartik. - Marketing

Harshit + Marketing

Nikita + Marketing

The Fighter's Puzzle Test for Bank PO - June

29, 2016

Puzzle 1: Eight persons P. O, N, M: L: K: J and I are seated in a straight line facing towards north. Each

one has different numbers of toffees i.e. 1,2,3,4,5,6,7 and 8 but sequence of persons and toffees

are not necessarily in the same order O sits third from the left end of the line and he/she have 7

toffees. Only three persons sit between O and I. L sits to the immediate left of J and he/she have

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3 toffees. Only one person sits between N who does not have 6 toffees and J. K sits third to the

left of M who have 5 toffees. P has 1 toffee. The one who has 3 toffees is third to the left of that

person who has 4 toffees. K does not have 2 or 6 toffees. O is not an immediate neighbour of P.

Puzzle 2: There are six players Z,Y, X, W, V and U in a school. Each of the player playing two games; one

compulsory game and the other optional game. W’s optional game is hockey while three others

have it as compulsory games. V and U have polo as one of their game. Us compulsory game is

match which is an optional game of both X and V. Hockey and basketball are Z's game but, in

terms of compulsory and optional game, they are just reverse of those of W. Football is an

optional game of only one of them. The only female player in the school has basketball as her

compulsory game.

Puzzle 3: Chanchal, Chamelir Chetana, Champa, Chaman, Charu, Chanakya and Chhoti are sitting around

a circular table with equal distance amongst each other but not necessarily in the same order.

Only two people face the centre and the rest people face the outside. Chameli sits second to the

left of Chanakya. Chanakya faces outside. Chetana sits third to the right of Chameli. Two people

sit between Chetana and Chhoti. Immediate neighbours of Chhoti face outside. Chaman sits

second to the right of Chhoti. One of the immediate neighbour of Chaman faces outside. Champa

is not an immediate neighbour of Chameli.Charu is an immediate neighbour of Chhoti.

# ANSWER

<puzzle 1="">

from left to right

L3.,J2/6.,O7,N4. K8. P1. I2/6. M5

PUZZLE 2

comp-opt

Z- hoc.bask

Y- hoc.foot

X- hoc.match

W- bask.hoc

V- polo.match

U- match.polo

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puzzle 3

clockwise

chetna,chaman,champa,chhoti,charu,chameli,chanchal,chanakya

inside: chetna,chhoti


28, 2016

Puzzle 1: Twelve people are sitting in two parallel rows containing six people each; in such a way that

there is an equal distance between adjacent persons. In row 1- G; H. I; J; K and L are sitting

facing North. In row 2-1S; R, Q, P and O are sitting facing South. All members sitting in one

row face opposite to members of other row. G sits third to the left of K. Neither G nor K sits an

extreme end of the line. T sits second to the right of P. Neither T nor P faces opposite to G or K.

T does not sit at an extreme end of the line. I does not face opposite to T and I does not sit at

extreme end of the line. Only one person sits between O and R. Neither O nor R faces opposite

to K. R does not sit at the extreme end. Only one person sits between L and H. O is not an

immediate neighbour of S and T does not face opposite to L.

Puzzle 2: Eight persons R Q, R: S; T U, V and W are sitting around a circular table, but not necessarily in

the same order. Three of them are facing inwards, while five are facing outwards. U is sitting

third to the left of T. Three persons are sitting between U and Q. V is sitting third to the right of

U. T is third to the right of R who is neighbour of V. S is sitting third to the right of R who is

facing towards the centre.

Puzzle 3: Eight persons - S, R, Q, P, O, N, M and L are standing in a straight line at equidistant. Some of

them are facing north while others are facing south. Each of them likes to read the novels of

different writers i.e- Chetan Bhagat, Gulzar, Swati Kaushal, Birbal Jha, Anu Garg, Arundhati

Roy, David Davidar and Mukul Deva but not necessarily in the same order. N, who likes to read

the novel of Mukul Deva: is standing third to the right to S who likes to read the novel of David

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Davidar. N is standing at one of the extreme ends and he is the immediate neighbours of R; who

likes to read the novel of Anu Garg. M does not like to read the novel of Birbal Jha. O is

standing third to the left of S and likes to read the novel of Chetan Bhagat. The immediate

neighbours of Q; who likes to read the novel of Arundhati Roy; face north. M is not an

immediate neighbour of S. The persons standing at the extreme ends face the same direction

(both are facing either North or South). The immediate neighbours of S face just opposite

direction as that of N. The immediate neighbours of L face opposite direction with respect to

each other. One of the immediate neighbour of O is P who is facing north. R is standing between

Q and N. Not more than four persons are facing north. Immediate neighbour of O likes to read

the novel of Swati Kaushal.


Puzzle 1:-

SOUTH -O,Q,R,T,S,P

NORTH -J,G,I,H,K,L

PUZZLE 2:-

inside-R,U,P

Outside--V,Q,T,W,S

Puzzle 3:-

South-M(Gulzar/sk),O(chetan bhagat),L(birbal /Gulzar/sk),Q(arundhati Roy)

North-P(Gulzar/sk/BJ),S(David Davidar),R(anu Garg),N(mukul deva)


27, 2016

Puzzle 1

Eight person— H, E, N, D, K, I S, and W are sitting in three rows R1, R2 and R3. And they are

in three different categories, either dancer or singer or photographer, In each row at least two and

at most three persons are sitting there. And at least two person are in each category but not more

than three. E and N are in different rows but not in rows R2, and both are in same categories. W

and S are in same row and in same categories, but not photographer, D and K are in different row

but not in row R1 and in different categories but not photographer. H is in row R2 and D is not in

same as in H, Both person of row R2 are singer, I is photographer and not in row R1, From three

photographer two are row in R3, I and M are in same row, and there are three dancer.

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Puzzle 2

A building has seven floors numbered one to seven. In such a way that the ground floor is

numbered one: the floor above it is numbered two and soon such that the topmost floor

numbered seven. One out of seven people viz. P. Q R S. T. U and V lives on each floor, the

person who has even plate value according to alphabet series, lives on fourth floor. T does not

live on the floor immediately below U's floor. U lives on the second or seventh floor. R does not

live on an even numbered floor. Q lives on floor immediately above or below R's floor who does

not live on seventh floor. S does not live on the second topmost floor. V does not live on fifth

floor, There are two persons live between P and S.

Puzzle 3

Eight persons Z, Y X. W; V; U: T and S are sitting around a circular table but not facing towards

the centre. Each of them likes different news channels i.e. Bloomberg UTV, CNN IBN, India

Today, NDTV 24x7, NDTV Profit, News 9, News X and Times Now but not necessarily in the

same order. X. who likes CNN IBN channel, is second to the right of Y who is fourth to the left

of V. U and Z are not immediate neighbour of Y who likes News X channel. U is third to the left

of Z and likes NDTV Profit channel. S is not an immediate neighbour of Z who likes Times Now

channel. T is not immediate to the left of Z. The person who likes News 9 is not the neighbour of

X and Z. Persons who like NDTV 24x7 and India Today channels are in front of each other. The

person who likes India Today channel is not the neighbour of that person who likes News X

channel.

FINAL ANSWERS##

Puzzle 1:-

Row 1-E(photographer),W(Dancer),S(dancer)

Row 2-H(Singer),K(Singer)

Row 3-N(photographer),D(dancer),I(photographer)

Puzzle 2:-

7--S/U/V

6--Q

5--R

4--P

3--T

2--U/V

1--V/S

PUZZLE 3:-

CLOCKWISE

Y(newsx), S(NDTV24×7), X(CNN INN), U(NDTV PROFIT), V(NEWS 9), W(INDIA

TODAY), Z(TIMES NOW), T(UTV)

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24, 2016

Puzzle 2: Seven students of a school Gaurav Mohit; Saurabh, Priya; Ritika; Gautam and Kajal appeared for

their annual exams. Following additional information is known:

i) No two students get same marks.

ii) Kajal always scores more than Gaurav.

iii) Gaurav alwaysscores more than Mohit.

iv) In each exam either Saurabh scores the highest marks and Ritika gets the least marks or

alternatively Priya scores the highest and Gautam or Mohit scores the least.

Sponsored

Puzzle 3: Eight friends are sitting in a circle facing towards the centre. Each of them likes different

subjects i.e. Hindi. Physics, English, Maths. History, Biology, Chemistry and Zoology but not

necessarily in the same order. Z, Y, X and W are females and V, U, T and S are males. Neither

two female nor two male are adjacent with each other. U: who likes English, is sitting third to the

right of X. X is sitting third to the right of V who likes Hindi. No male likes history and Maths. T

is not the neighbour of V and U. S is sitting third to the right of Y who likes Chemistry. W, who

likes Biology, is sitting between V and U. The one who likes History is not the neighbour of

those who like Chemistry and English.

FINAL ANSWERS#####

Puzzle 2

highest 1st case

saurav priya kajal gautam mohit ritika

highest 2nd case

priya kajal gautam mohit

Puzzle 3

clockwise

X T Y V W U Z S

hist phy/zoo chem hindi bio eng maths phy/zoo

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23, 2016

Puzzle 1: Four students Amit, Bhanu, Sachin and Jagan participated in a quiz competition. It is known that

the person who was wearing the black t-shirt won the quiz. All of them were sitting in a row. All

of them wore t-shirts of different colours, viz. red, black, white and green. There was only one

runner-up and he was sitting beside Jagan. The runner-up was wearing the red t-shirt. Sachin was

not sitting at the ends and was not the runner-up. The winner and the runner-up were not sitting

adjacent to each other. Jagan was wearing white t-shirt. Amit was not wearing the red t-shirt.

Students wearing black t-shirt and white t-shirt were at the ends.

Puzzle 2: Six persons Chetan, Gaurav Jatin. Karan, Sahil and Tarun who are wearing Black, White, Red,

Green, Blue and YeIlow coloured t-shirts are driving different cars -Verna, City, SX4, Vento,

Optra and Civic not necessarily in that order, these persons had participated in a car racing

competition at the end of which each of them secured different ranks. It is also known that:

(i) Tarun secured 4th position and was driving City

(ii) The person wearing blue coloured t-shirt was driving Vento and didn't secure 2nd position

(iii) Karan wearing white coloured t-shirt was not driving Verna or Optra and he was not ranked

1st (iv) The person wearing green coloured t-shirt was ranked 6th and he was driving Optra

(v)The person who secured 3rd position was driving Civic

(vi) The person who secured 1st rank was driving 3X4 and he was not wearing black or red

coloured t-shirt

(vii) Chetan was wearing yellow coloured t-shirt while Tarun was not wearing red coloured t-

shirt

Sponsored

Puzzle 3:

Seven students Rahul, Abhinav, Akash, Arnav, Kartik, Paridhi and Saumya are studying in seven

different schools- BPS, BSNr CMS, RLB, DPS, SDA and LPS. They like different subjects-

Maths, Science, Art, Hindi, English, Moral science and History. They read in different classes

IV, V, VI, VII, VIH, IX and X, but not necessarily in the same order, Kartik studies in DPS and

he is in class VI. Akash's favourite subject is English and he studies either in BSN or CMS. One

who reads in CMS is in class V and likes Science. Paridhi does not like either Art or Moral

Science and she is in class X and studies in LPS. One who reads in DPS likes Art. Arnav does

not like Science and he is in class IV. Saumya is in class VIH and does not study in 3PS.One

who studies in SDA, is in class VII. Rahul is not in class VII. One who is in class IV likes

History. Abhinav does not like Hindi and Moral science.


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Puzzle 1:-

Amit(black)winner,Sachin (green),Bhanu(Red)runner up,Jagan(white)

Puzzle 2:-

1)Chetan--sx4--yellow

2)Gaurav/jatin/sahil--verna--red

3)Karan---civic--white

4)Tarun--city--black

5)Gaurav/jatin/sahil--vento--blue

6)Gaurav/jatin/sahil--optra--green

PUZZLE 3:-

Rahul--CMS--Science--5

Abhinav--SDA--Maths--7

Akash--BSN--English--9

Arnav--BPS--History--4

Kartik--DPS--art--6

Paridhi--LPS--hindi--10

Saumya--BSNr--m.sci.--8


22, 2016

Puzzle 1: Twelve people are sitting in two parallel rows containing six people each, in such a way that

there is an equal distance between adjacent persons. In row -1 - P, Q, R, S, T and V are seated

and all of them are facing south. In row-2 - A, B, C, D, E and F are seated and all of them are

facing North. Therefore, in the given seating arrangement each member seated in a row faces

another member of the other row. P sits third to the left of T. Neither P nor T sits at an extreme

end of the line. A sits second to the right of E. Neither A nor E faces T or P. A does not sit at an

extreme end. R does not face A and R does not sit at an extreme end of the line. Only one person

sits between F and C. Neither F nor C faces T. C does not sit at the extreme end. Only one person

sits between V and Q. F is not an immediate neighbour of B and A does not face V.

Puzzle 2: Six friends – Deepa, Vandana, Anita, Nikita, Rashmi and Sonika have ordered six different food

items which are Chola- Bhatura, Chowmein, Pizza, Burger, Dosa and Idli not necessarily in same

order. Each one likes a different type of Ice cream Mango, Strawberry, Black Current, Vanilla,

Choco chip and Butter Scotch again not in the same order. Nikita did not like Idli. Rashmi order

Pizza and likes Mango ice cream. Anita likes Black Currant ice cream and did not order Idli. The

one who likes Vanila ice cream has ordered Dosa, Sonika ordered Burger and does not like

Butter Scotch. The one who likes Choco chip has ordered Chowmein. Deepa and Vandana not

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like Choco chip. Deepa does not like Butter Scotch.

Puzzle 3:

R Q, R. S, T, V, W are sitting in a straight line facing north. Each one of them works in different

companies viz. Olay, Tressme, Tide, Ford. Ferrari, Sunsilk and Santoor. Q sits fourth to the left

of the person working in Sunsilk. Either Q or the person working in Sunsilk sits at the extreme

end of the line. Only one person sits between Q and W. W works in Tide. The person working in

Olay sits third to the right of S. S is not an immediate neighbor of W. Only one person sits

between T and the person who works in Tressme. P and R are immediate neighbors of each

other. P does network in Sunsilk. One who works in Ferrari sits third to the right of the one who

works in Santoor.

FINAL ANSWERS####

Puzzle 1.

Row 1 - VTQRPS

Row 2- EBACDF

Puzzle 2

Friend - Food - Ice cream

Deepa - Dosa - Vanila

Vandana - Idli -Butter Scotch

Anita - Chola Batura - Black Current

Nikita - Chowmin - Chochip

Rashmi - Piza - Mango

Sonika - Burger - Strawberry

Puzzle 3

SVQTWPR

S-Ford

V-Tressme

Q-Santoor

T- Olay

W-Tide

P-Ferari

R-Sunsilk

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20, 2016

Puzzle 1: There are seven teachers P, Q, R, S, T, U and V in Bank Power. Each one of them teaches a

different subject. There are three female and four male teachers, and out of these, there are two

pairs of couples. R who teaches Computers is married to the teacher who teaches English. T and

V are female teachers who teach History and Economics respectively. P teaches Reasoning and

his wife does not teach Economics. Q does not teach English or Mathematics. U and S are male

teachers. U is unmarried. One of them teaches Geography.

Puzzle 2: Eight players—Sachin, Virender, Mahender, Suresh, Praveen, Rahul, Ravinder, and Dinesh are

sitting in three lines L1, L2 and L3. And they are in three different categories, either batsman or

bowler or all rounder. In each line at least two and at most three players are sitting there. And at

least two players are in each category but not more than three. Virender and Mahender are in

different lines but not in line L2, and both are in same categories. Dinesh and Ravinder are in

same line and in same categories, but not all rounder. Suresh and Praveen are in different lines

but not in line L1 and in different categories but not all rounder. Sachin is in line L2 and Suresh

is not in same as in Sachin. Both players of line L2 are bowlers. Rahul is all rounder and not in

line L1. From three all rounder two are line in L3. Rahul and Mahinder are in same line, and

there are three batsmen.

Puzzle 3:

Five friends Rosy, Mandy, Denial, Lucky and Ella like five different watches Titan, Samay,

Sonata, Citizen and Fastrack 5 different cars Wagon R, Alto, Santro, Swift and Xylo & 5

different pens Reynolds, Parker, Cello, Montex and Elkos. Ella like wagon R car but not like

Parker pen and Citizen Watch; lucky likes sonata watch and Reynolds pens but not like Xylo car.

Mandy likes Xylo car and Samay watch. Rosy like Santro car and Cello pen, person who likes

wagon R car likes Fastrack watch. Elkos pen is liked by a person who has swift car and citizen

watch.

.

#FINAL ANSWERS

Puzzle 1:-

P--Reasoning

Q--Geography

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R--computer

S--english

T--history

U--maths

V--economics

Male--PQSU Female--RTV

Couple--(P-T),(S-R)

puzzle 2-

L1- dinesh(bat) ravi(bat) virendr(all)

L2- sachin(bowler) pravin(bowler)

L3- suresh(bat) rahul(all) mani(all)

Puzzle 3-

titan- rosy- cello- santro

samay- mandy- parker-xylo

sonata- lucky- reynolds- alto

citizen- daniel - elkos swift

fastrck- ela-montex- wagonr


18, 2016

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Puzzle 1: Shukla, Mishra, Singh, Kulkarni, Rao, Joshi and Nair are to conduct interviews simultaneously

either alone or in pairs at four different locations—Surat, Chandigarh, Delhi and Lucknow. Only

one wants to travel by rail, two prefer travelling by car and the rest travel by air. Shukla is going

to Lucknow but neither by car nor by air. Mishra prefers to travel by car. Neither Joshi nor Nair

is going to Delhi. Only those going to Surat travel by road. Kulkarni will assist his friend Mishra.

The two managers who go to Delhi travel by air.

Puzzle 2: B, M, T, R, K, H and D are travelling in a train compartment with three tier sleeper berth. Each

of them has a different profession of Engineer, Doctor, Architect, Pharmacist, Lawyer, Journalist

and Pathologist. They occupied two lower berths, three middle berths and two upper berths. B,

the engineer, is not on the upper berth. The Architect is the only other person who occupies the

same type of berth as that of B. M and H are not on the middle berth and their professions are

Pathologist and Lawyer respectively. T is a Pharmacist. D is neither a Journalist nor an Architect.

K occupies the same type of berth as that of the Doctor.

Puzzle 3:

Eight people A, B, C, D, E, F, G and H work in three different companies: X, Y and Z. Out of

these, two are female who work in different companies and have different specializations. Two

of them are specialists in Finance, two in HR, two in Marketing and one each is an Engineer and

a Computer Specialist. D, working in a company X has specialized in HR and her friend G, a

Finance Specialist is working in company Z. H, an HR specialist, is working with B, a Marketing

Specialist and does not work in company Y. C is not a Computer Specialist. No two people with

the same specialization work together. F is a specialist in Marketing working in company Y and

his friend A has specialized in Finance and is working company X with only one another

Specialist. Not more than three of them work in company Z. No female is an Engineer or a

Computer Specialist.


SHUKLA- RAIL- LUCKNOW

MISHRA- CAR- SURAT

KULKARNI- CAR- SURAT

SINGH- AIR- DELHI

RAO- AIR- DELHI

JOSHI- AIR- CHANDIGARH/ LUCKNOW

NAIR- AIR- CHANDIGARH/ LUCKNOW

LOW-B R - ENG & ARCH RESPECTIVELY

MID- D T K- DOC , PHAR & JOUR

UPPER- H M- LAW & PATHO

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X- A(FINANCE)MALE D(HR)FEMALE

Y- F(MARKETING)MALE C(ENGINEER)MALE E(COMPUTER)MALE

Z- G(FINANCE)M/F H(HR)M B(MARKETING)M/F

d and either b/g is a female.


17, 2016

Puzzle 1: Seven boys A, D, Y, U, P, Q and J live in three different buildings – Ashiana, Top-view and

Ridge. Each of them is flying kites of different colours i.e. red, green, blue white, black, yellow

and pink, not necessarily in that order. Not more than three or less than two stay in any of the

buildings. Q is flying a pink and does not live in Ridge building. U does not live in the same

building as A or P and is flying a yellow coloured kite. D lives in Ridge building with only one

more person and is flying a green kite. None in the Top-view building flies a white kite. P does

not fly a blue kite.

Puzzle 2: Six banks clerks Anu, Esha, Indu, Om, Uma and Yogi are working in three SBI associates banks

– SBI Patiala, SBI Hyderabad, SBI Mysore. They are belonging to four different cities i.e. Delhi,

Dehradoon, Agra and Ajmer. At least one clerk qorks in each bank and at least one clerk belong

to each city. Uma works either in SBI Patiala or SBI Mysore. One clerk of SBI Hyderabd

belongs to Delhi. Esha eithr belongs to Delhi or Dehradoon and does not work in SBI

Hydrerabad. Yogi does not work with Om and Esha. Indu works in SBI Patiala and she is not

from Delhi. Both the clerks of SBI Mysore are not from Ajmer. Anu is not from Ajmer and Om

work with SBI Patiala. Two persons belong to Delhi and they don’t work with SBI Mysore.

Person from Agra does not work in SBI Patiala. Uma is from Delhi and Om is not from

Dehradoon. Clerks of same bank’s does not belong to same city.

Puzzle 3:

Twelve friends are seated along the two rows –(such that facing each other) A, B, C, D, E and F

are seated in first row and facing South. P, O, R, S, T and V are seated in Second row and facing

North. Q is on the immediate right of S who is facing A. D is on the immediate right of A. P, F

and C are at extreme ends and nobody is seated on the right of F. Only V is seated between P and

T and he is not facing B. Q is on the immediate left of R.

Final Answers###

Puzzle 1-

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A--blue--tv

D--green--RB

Y--black--TV

U--yellow--RB

P--red--TV

Q--pink--Ash

J--white--Ash

Puzzle2-

Persons Bank Place

Anu SBI Mysore Agra

Esha SBI Mysore Dehradun

Indu SBI Patiala Deahradun

Om SBI Patiala Ajmer

Uma SBI Patiala Delhi

Yogi SBI Hyderabad Delhi

Puzzle 3-

FEDABC

PVTSQR


16, 2016

Puzzle 1: There are six persons A, B, C, D, E and F in school. Each of the teachers teaches two subjects,

one compulsory subject and the other optional subject. D’s optional subject was History while

three others have it as compulsory subject. E and F have Physics as one of their subjects. F’s

compulsory subject is Mathematics which is an optional subject of both C and E. History and

English are A’s subjects but in terms of compulsory and optional subjects, they are just reverse

of those of D’s. Chemistry is an optional subject of only one of them. The only female teacher in

the school has English as her compulsory subject.

Puzzle 2: Five friends P, Q, R, S and T travelled to five different cities of Chennai, Kolkata, Delhi,

Bangalore and Hyderabad by different modes of transport of Bus, Train, Aeroplane, Car and

Boat from Mumbai. The person who travelled to Delhi did not travel by boat. R went to

Bangalore by car and Q went to Kolkata by aeroplane. S travelled by boat whereas T travelled by

train. Mumbai is not connected by bus to Delhi and Chennai.

Puzzle 3:

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Madan and Rohit are in the same team of hockey. Parth defeated Rohit in badminton but lost to

Sachin in tennis. Nitin teams with Sagar in football and with Sachin in hockey. Rohit defeated

Sachin in chess. Those who play cricket do not play badminton, volleyball or tennis. Madan and

Parth are in opposite teams of basketball. Nitin represents his state in cricket while Sagar does so

at the district level. Boys who play chess do not play football, basketball or volleyball. Madan

and Parth are together in the volleyball team. Boys who play football also play hockey.

FINAL ANSWERS####

puzzle1

(Compulsory,optional)

A- history,eng

B- his,chem

C- his ,maths

D- eng,his

E- phy, maths

F- maths,phy

Puzzle 2

Friends_cities_mode

P- H- bus

Q- K - air

R- B- car

S- C - Bo

T- D - T

Puzzle 3

Nitin- cricket, football, hockey

Sagar - cric,foot ,hock

Sachin - hockey ,chess ,tennis

Rohit - hockey ,bd,chess

Parth- VB,basket,tennis,bd

Madan- hockey,basket,vb


15, 2016

Puzzle 1: P, Q, R, S, W, X, Y, Z are sitting around a circle facing centre but not necessarily in the same

order. The husband of Z is sitting second to the right of Q who is sitting between two males. X

sits second to the left of the daughter of S. X is the sister of Y. X is not an immediate neighbour

of Z's husband. Only one person sits between P and X. P is the father of Y. S who is brother of Z

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sits to the immediate left of his mother. Only one person sits between Z's mother and W. Only

one person sits between Z and Y. Y is mother of R. Y is not an immediate neighbour of W.

Puzzle 2: Six persons A, B, C, D, E and F are sitting around a round table facing towards the centre of the

table in a restaurant. They have ordered for different items (Pizza, Strawberry, Vanilla, Burger,

Pastries and Patties) as their lunch. They are wearing Tshirts of different colours, i.e. white,

black, green, red, yellow and blue. Order of items for the lunch and colours of T-shirts are not

necessarily according to the order of their names. The persons who have ordered for Pizza,

Vanilla and Pastries are neither in white Tshirt nor in black. The persons who are in green and

yellow T-shirts have neither ordered for Pizza nor for Vanilla. A is neither in white T-shirt nor

on the immediate left of the person who has ordered for Burger. The only person who is between

E and F eats Strawberry. The person who is on the left side of the person in white T-shirt does

not eat Patties. D has ordered Burger and the colour of his T-shirt is green. He is facing the

person who has ordered for Strawberry. One who has ordered for Pizza is seated opposite to the

person wearing blue T-shirt, while the person whose T-shirt is of green colour is on the left of

the person who has ordered for Pastries. One who has ordered for Patties is on the immediate

right of the person in white T-shirt but on the immediate left of the person who has ordered for

Vanilla. C has not ordered for Vanilla while F has not ordered for Pizza.

Puzzle 3: There are five types of cards viz. A, B, C, D and E. There are three cards of each type. These are

to be inserted in envelopes of three colours – Red, Yellow and Brown. There are five envelopes

of each colour. B, D and E type cards are inserted in red envelopes. A, B and C type cards are to

be inserted in yellow envelopes and C, D and E type cards are to be inserted in brown envelopes.

Two cards each of B and D type are inserted in red envelopes.

FINAL ANSWERS######

puzzle 1 :

clockwise from Q

Q(-)

S(+)

W(-)

Z(-)

X(-)

Y(-)

P(+)

R(+)

puzzle 2:

starting from C clockwise

CEADBF

C white (strawberry)

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E red (pizza)

A yellow ( pastry)

D green (burger)

B blue (vanilla)

F black (patties)

puzzle 3:

Red - BDEBD

Yellow- ABCAA

Brown - CDECE


14, 2016

Puzzle 1: A committee has nine members A, B, C, D, E. F. G, H and I and it is divided into three groups,

viz Play group, Entertainment group and Food group — with three members in each group.

There are certain conditions for the formation of the groups. Only three members will be selected

in each group. One person cannot be selected for more than one group. A is in the Play group. H

is in the Entertainment group. C and D are in the same group but not in the group of I. A and B

are not in the same group. E is not in the same group as I but is in the Food group. F is in the

group in which either H or B or both of them are present. I and H are not in the same group. F is

neither with E nor with I.

Puzzle 2: Six persons A, B, C, D, E and F are sitting in row - I facing South but not necessarily in the same

order and each of them is working in a different company among Microsoft, Amazon, TCS,

SAPIENT , HDFC and Axis. Six persons P, Q, R, S, T and U are sitting in row - II facing north

but not necessarily in the same order and each of them is working in a different company among

Google, Infosys, Accenture, IBM, Capital One and ICICI. Each person in one row faces exactly

one person from the other row. A is third from the left end and is opposite the person who is to

the immediate right of the IBM employee. The IBM employee is opposite the person who is to

the immediate left of the TCS employee. The Google employee and the SAPIENT employee sit

at right ends in their respective rows. C is a SAPIENT employee, and is adjacent to E. D sits

opposite Q and to the left of A but does not sit at any extreme. B is not adjacent to D but

opposite P. The ICICI employee sits neither at an end nor opposite A, but sits to the right of P.

The Accenture employee is adjacent to neither the Infosys employee nor the Capital One

employee. S sits at an end. R is opposite the Amazon employee but sits at neither end. T is

opposite the HDFC employee and the Microsoft employee is second to the right of the Axis

employee. The Capital One employee is not adjacent to P.

Puzzle 3:

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Six exams Maths, science, History, Economics, English and Hindi are to be scheduled starting

from 2nd March and ending on 8th march wit Sunday being an off day, not necessarily in the

same order. Each of the exam has different time duration: 40 mins, 50 mins, 60 mins, 75 mins,

90 mins and 100 mins, again not necessarily in the same order. 8th march is not sunday and an

exam of 40 mins is scheduled on that day. Maths exam is for less than 60 mins and is scheduled

immediately before English exam. There are two exams scheduled between Hindi exam which is

for 100 mins and History exam which is for 60 mins. English exam is before Sunday and there

are two days between sunday and maths exam. Economics exam which is for 75 mins is not

scheduled on 2nd march. The exam schedules on saturday is of 100 mins.

.


Puzzle1

play-A G I

ENT-B F H

FOOD-CDE

Puzzle-2

CEBADF( SAP TCS MICROSOFT AMAZON AXIS HDFC)

SUPRQT( CAPITALONE INFOSYS IBM ACCENTURE ICICI GOOGLE)

Puzzle 3

f5

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13, 2016

Puzzle 1: A committee has nine members A, B, C, D, E. F. G, H and I and it is divided into three groups,

viz Play group, Entertainment group and Food group — with three members in each group.

There are certain conditions for the formation of the groups. Only three members will be selected

in each group. One person cannot be selected for more than one group. A is in the Play group. H

is in the Entertainment group. C and D are in the same group but not in the group of I. A and B

are not in the same group. E is not in the same group as I but is in the Food group. F is in the

group in which either H or B or both of them are present. I and H are not in the same group. F is

neither with E nor with I.

Puzzle 2: Six persons A, B, C, D, E and F are sitting in row - I facing South but not necessarily in the same

order and each of them is working in a different company among Microsoft, Amazon, TCS,

SAPIENT , HDFC and Axis. Six persons P, Q, R, S, T and U are sitting in row - II facing north

but not necessarily in the same order and each of them is working in a different company among

Google, Infosys, Accenture, IBM, Capital One and ICICI. Each person in one row faces exactly

one person from the other row. A is third from the left end and is opposite the person who is to

the immediate right of the IBM employee. The IBM employee is opposite the person who is to

the immediate left of the TCS employee. The Google employee and the SAPIENT employee sit

at right ends in their respective rows. C is a SAPIENT employee, and is adjacent to E. D sits

opposite Q and to the left of A but does not sit at any extreme. B is not adjacent to D but

opposite P. The ICICI employee sits neither at an end nor opposite A, but sits to the right of P.

The Accenture employee is adjacent to neither the Infosys employee nor the Capital One

employee. S sits at an end. R is opposite the Amazon employee but sits at neither end. T is

opposite the HDFC employee and the Microsoft employee is second to the right of the Axis

employee. The Capital One employee is not adjacent to P.

Puzzle 3:

Twelve people are sitting in two parallel rows containing six people each, in such a way that

there is an equal distance between adjacent persons. In row l, P, Q, R, S, T and V are seated and

all of them are facing south. In row 2, A, B, C, D, E and F are seated and all of them are facing

north. Therefore, in the given seating arrangement each member seated in a row faces another

member of the other row. A sits third to right of D. Neither A nor D sits at extreme ends. T faces

D. V does not face A and V does not sit at any of the extreme ends. V is not an immediate

neighbour of T. B sits at one of the extreme ends. Only two people sit between B and E. E does

not face V. Two persons sit between R and Q. R is not an immediate neighbour of T. C does not

face V. P is not an immediate neighbour of R.

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FINAL ANSWERS#####

puzzle1

play-A G I

ENT-B F H

FOOD-CDE

puzzle-2

CEBADF( SAP TCS MICROSOFT AMAZON AXIS HDFC)

SUPRQT( CAPITALONE INFOSYS IBM ACCENTURE ICICI GOOGLE)

puzzle 3

PTQVSR

CDEFAB


7, 2016

Puzzle 1: Brock Lesnar, Shane McMahon, Undertaker, Roman Reigns, Dean Ambrose, Kevin Owens, Seth

Rollins and Rusev are eight fighters sitting around a circular table. Four of them are facing

towards the centre and four of them are facing away from the centre. All of them like a different

movie, viz. Tamasha, Bajirao, Dilwale, Massan, Airlift, Sultan, Dangal and Ready, but not

necessarily in the same order. Dean Ambrose faces towards the centre and likes Tamasha. Both

the immediate neighbours of Dean Ambrose face away from the centre and like Dilwale or

Massan. Roman Reigns faces away from the centre. Both the immediate neighbours of Roman

Reigns do not face away from the centre. Dean Ambrose sits third to the right of Kevin Owens,

who likes Airlift and faces away from the centre. Undertaker sits third to the left of Kevin

Owens. The one who likes Dilwale sits opposits of Kevin Owens. The one who likes Bajirao is

not the immediate neighbour of Kevin Owens and faces away from the centre. Brock Lesnar sits

second to the left of Undertaker and does not like Dangal or Ready. The one who likes Dangal

sits between Rusev and Kevin Owens. Shane McMahon faces away from the centre and does not

like Bajirao.

Puzzle 2: Ten persons are sitting in two parallel rows containing five persons each. In row 1, Amitabh,

Rakesh, Akshay, Arti and Ritesh are sitting and all of them are facing south. In row 2, Jaya,

Poonam, Twinkle, Gaurav and Genelia are sitting and all of them are facing north. In the given

seating arrangement, each member seated in a row faces another member of the other row.

Moreover, each of them belongs to different cities — Meerut, Gurgaon, Begusarai, Hajipur,

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Noida, Cuttack, Banaras, Haridwar, Allahabad and Mednipur but not necessarily in the same

order. There are only two persons sitting between the person from Merrut, who sits at an extreme

end, and Ritesh. Jaya, who sits in the middle of the row, is not an immediate neighbour of

Poonam, who is not from Mednipur. Genelia is sitting at an extreme end. Ritesh, from Noida ,

sits on the immediate right of the person from Gurgaon and faces the immediate neighhour of

Poonam. Rakesh is not sitting at the extreme left end. Jaya is not from Allahabad. There is only

one person between Akshay and Arti, who is from Meerut. Gaurav, from Cuttack, is an

immediate neighbour of the person from Mednipur and does not face the person from

Begusarai.Twinkle, who is from Hajipur, is an immediate neighbour of the person from

Allahabad, who in turn faces the immediate neighbour of the person from Noida. There are two

persons between the person from Banarasand the person from Begusarai. Rakesh is not from

Banaras. Genelia is not from Haridwar.

Puzzle 3: World Cup is being organised by India. Different teams are participating in the World Cup.

Seven teams which are participating are – Pakistan, Australia, Srilanka, India, Kenya, South

Africa and West Indies. They will be playing there matches at different places, namely Delhi,

Ranchi, Chennai, Nagpur, Chandigarh and Mumbai, but not necessarily in the same order, on

different days of the week, starting from Monday. Pakistan will be playing at Ranchi, but neither

on Friday nor on Monday. The host country will be playing on Thursday at Nagpur. There is a

gap of one day between Pakistan and India match. South Africa will be playing the match before

West Indies but after Kenya at Cuttack on Wednesday. West Indies will be playing on the last

day of the week. Australia will be playing at Mumbai. No match will be played at Delhi on

Monday. The match at Chandigarh will be played on the last day of the week. The match at

Chennai will be played on Tuesday. No match will be played at Mumbai on Tuesday and Friday.

FINAL ANSWERS ########

puzzle 1.

clock wise.... Brock L -sultan- IN ,,,,Kevin -airlift- out,,,,,Seth R - Dangal - in ..

Rusev - masaan- out.... Dean A - Tamasha - In... Shane M - Dilwale - out.... Undertaker - Ready

- in .. Roman - bajirao - out..

puzzle 2.

row 1

RAKESH (bagusari) - RITESH (noida )- AKHSHAY (gurgaon)- AMITABH(benaras)-

ARTI(meerut)

row 2

POONAM (allahabad)-TWINKLE (hajipur)- JAYA (haridwar)- GAURAV (cuttck)- GENELIA

( medinipur)

puzzle 3.

from mon to sun

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AUS (mumbai ) --KENIA (chennai )--SA ( cuttak )--INDIA ( nagpur)-- SRILANKA ( delhi)--

PAK (ranchi)-- WI (chandigarh)


6, 2016

Puzzle 1: There are six boys – Amit, Bhushan, Dhruv, Manoj, Harsh and Arvind. They want to go out with

six girls – Neha, Shruti, Kruti, Chanchal, Sujata and Radhika, not necessarily in the same order.

The pairs went to a movie, beach, park, play and two of them went to circus. They like different

cars, viz Esteem, Matiz, Santro and Tata. But Esteem and Matiz are preferred by two pairs.

Further information is as follows: I. Amit and Manoj visit circus but do not like either Esteem or Tata.

II. Arvind can’t go out with Sujata. Both of them do not like Santro.

III. Chanchal and Kruti want to go to movie and park respectively.

IV. Dhruv goes out with Radhika to beach but does not like either Matiz or Tata.

V. Bhushan goes for a movie and likes Esteem.

VI. Harsh can’t go out either with Neha or with Shruti and he does not go to a park either in

Santro or in Matiz.

Puzzle 2: Eight teachers P, Q, R, S, T, U, V and W are teaching different subjects viz Electronics,

Robotics, Arts, Commerce, Computer, Java, Mechanics and Painting but not necessarily in the

same order. All of them are sitting around a circular table but not facing the centre. W sits third

to the right of S. P and R and also their immediate neighbors do not teach Electronics. Only one

teacher sits between T and the Electronics teacher. Java and Arts teachers are immediate

neighbor of each other. P is neither Computer nor Java teacher. Two teachers sit between U and

Commerce teacher. U does not teach either Electronics or Arts. P sits third to the left of V. V

teaches Robotics. S is not the immediate neighbor of either P or V. The one who teaches Painting

is an immediate neighbor of S. Three teachers sit between V and the Mechanics teacher. W is not

teaching either Electronics or Painting.

Sponsored

Puzzle 3:

Five friends A, B, C, D and E are working in 5 different Companies P, Q, R, S and T and they

earn different salaries i.e. Rs 9000, Rs 12000, Rs 15000, Rs 18000 and Rs 21000 and they all are

of different ages i.e. 26, 27, 28, 29 and 30 years not necessarily in same order. Person who is 29

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year old earns highest salary but does not work at P and Q. E does not work at S and T and his

age is not 30. The salary of D is less than Rs 15000. The person who is 27 years old earns Rs

18000 per month. A earns Rs 12000 per month but does not work at Q and S. B works at P and

earns more than Rs 15000. Person who is 28 years old works at T. 30 years old person earns at

least Rs 15000.

ANSWERS

Puzzle 1-

Amit - circus- santro/matiz- Neha/shruti

Bhushan-movie-esteem-chanchal

Dhruv-beach-esteem-radhika

Manoj-circus-santro/matiz-Neha/shruti

Harsh-play-Tata-Sujata

Arvind-park-matiz-kruti

Puzzle 2-

clockwise QVTRSUPW -

''ELEC,ROB,COMM,PAINT,COMP,MECH,ART,JAVA'' (FROM Q CLOCKWISE)

Puzzle 3-

A-T-28-12k

B-P-27-18k

C-Q/S-30-15k

D-Q/S-26-9k

E-R-29-21k

Abhinav's Reasoning Challenges for Bank

PO Exams 2016 - 17 August, 2016

Directions (Questions 1 - 5): Study the following information carefully to answer the given

questions:

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Madan and Rohit are in the same team of hockey. Parth defeated Rohit in badminton but lost to

Sachin in tennis. Nitin teams with Sagar in football and with Sachin in hockey. Rohit defeated

Sachin in chess. Those who play cricket do not play badminton, volleyball or tennis. Madan and

Parth are in opposite teams of basketball. Nitin represents his state in cricket while Sagar does so

at the district level. Boys who play chess do not play football, basketball or volleyball. Madan

and Parth are together in the volleyball team. Boys who play football also play hockey.

1. Name the boys who do not play football.

(a) Sachin, Nitin(b) Rohit, Sagar(c) Rohit, Sachin

(d) Rohit, Nitin(e) None of these

2. Who plays both hockey and tennis?

(a) Sachin(b) Rohit(c) Nitin(d) Parth(e) None of these

3. Which is the most popular game with this group?

(a) Cricket(b) Hockey(c) Football(d) Badminton(e) None of these

4. Who plays the largest number of games?

(a) Sagar(b) Rohit (c) Parth(d) Nitin(e) None of these

5. Which boy plays both badminton and hockey?

(a) Sachin(b) Rohit(c) Nitin(d) Parth(e) None of these

Directions (Questions 6 - 10): Study the following information carefully and answer the

questions given below:

Seven boys A, D, Y, U, P, Q and J live in three different buildings – Ashiana, Top-view and

Ridge. Each of them is flying kites of different colours i.e. red, green, blue white, black, yellow

and pink, not necessarily in that order. Not more than three or less than two stay in any of the

buildings. Q is flying a pink and does not live in Ridge building. U does not live in the same

building as A or P and is flying a yellow coloured kite. D lives in Ridge building with only one

more person and is flying a green kite. None in the Top-view building flies a white kite. P does

not fly a blue kite.

6. Who live in Ridge building?

(a) D, U(b) D, A, P(c) Y, A, P(d) A, P(e) None of these

7. Who is flying the blue kite?

(a) A(b) J(c) P(d) Data inadequate(e) None of these

8. Who flies the red kite?

(a) A(b) J(c) P(d) Data inadequate(e) None of these

9. Who stay in Top-view building?

(a) Y, J, P(b) A, P(c) A, P, D(d) Y, U, J(e) None of these

10. What coloured kite is J flying?

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(a) Blue(b) White(c) Black(d) Data inadequate

(e) None of these

#Final Answers 1. c 2. a 3. b 4. c 5. b 6. a 7. a 8. c 9. e 10. B


1, 2016

Puzzle 1: L, N, P, R, M, Q, T and Y are the members of a committee sitting around a circular table but not

facing the centre. Each member has a different zodiac sign, viz Leo, Virgo, Libra, Cancer, Aries,

Gemini, Pisces and Scorpio, but not necessarily in the same order. T is third to the right of P. The

one whose sun-sign Leo is second to the left of the one whose sunsign is Libra. Y's sun-sign is

Libra and is sitting exactly between P and L. The one whose sun-sign is Pisces sits second to the

right of N. The one whose sun-sign is Aries is second to the right of the person whose sun-sign is

Gemini. P sits third to the left of the person whose sun-sign is Virgo. Neither Q nor L is the

immediate neighbour of N. Q is fourth to the left of L. N's sun-sign is neither Cancer nor Ariel.

The person whose sun-sign is Leo is sitting second to the right of the person whose sign is

Cancer. R’s sun-sign is Leo and is not an immediate neighbor of N.

Puzzle 2: (i) Seven persons A, B, C, D, E, F and G are teaching seven subjects History, Geography,

Physics, Chemistry, Maths, Biology and English from Monday to Friday. Each person teaches a

different subject and not more than two subjects are taught on any one of the days.

(ii) Chemistry is taught by B on Tuesday.

(iii) D teaches on Friday but neither Geography nor Physics.

(iv) F teaches History but neither on Thursday nor on Friday.

(v) A teaches English on the day on which History is taught.

(vi) C teaches Maths on Monday.

(vii) Geography and Chemistry are taught on the same day.

(viii) G teaches on Thursday

Puzzle 3:

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In row 1, J, K, L and M are sitting and all of them are facing north. In row 2, A, B, C and D are

sitting and all of them are facing south. Therefore, in the given seating arrangement each

member sitting in a row faces another member of the other row. (All the information given above

does not necessarily represent the order of seating as in the final arrangement.)

• The person from Infosys faces the one who is on the immediate left of L. L is neither from

Google nor from Facebook.

• An immediate neighbour of A faces the person from Accenture. The person from Microsoft

faces the person who is on the left of the person from Google.

• There is only are person sitting between the persons from Google and TCS but that person is

not J. The persons from Google and Facebook are not sitting at the extreme ends.

• B sits on the immediate left of the person from Infosys. Persons from IBM and Microsoft are

immediate neighbours. C and K are not sitting at any of the ends.

• M faces the one who is sitting on the immediate right of the person from Microsoft. A is not

from Microsoft or IBM.

Puzzle 4: Eight friends—Aman, Bharat, Rohit, Dinesh, Ishant, Farhan, Aditya and Hirender—are sitting

around a circular table, facing the centre but not necessarily in the same order. Each of them has

a different designation, viz Banker, Teacher, Company MD, Politician, Corporate Leader,

General Manager, Specialist Officer and CEO. Aman sits third to the right of the CEO. Only two

people sit between the CEO and Hirender. The Specialist Officer and the Company MD are

immediate neighbours. Neither Aman nor Hirender is either a Specialist Officer or a Company

MD. The Specialist Officer is not an immediate neighbour of the CEO. The Banker sits second to

the left of Ishant. Ishant is not an immediate neighbour of Hirender. The Banker is an immediate

neighbour of both the Politician and the Corporate Leader. The Corporate Leader sits third to the

right of Bharat. Bharat is not a Specialist Officer. Rohit sits on the immediate right of the

Teacher. Aman is not a Teacher. Farhan is not an immediate neighbour of Aman. Aditya is not

an immediate neighbour of the Banker.

FINAL ANSWERS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

1. clockwise

N(scor)-M(cancer)-Q(pisces)-R(leo)-P(gem)-Y(libra)-L(aries)-T(virgo)

2.

A-english-wed

B-chem-tues

C-maths-mond

D-bio-friday

E-geog-tues

F-history-wed

G-physics-thursday

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3.

D(ibm)-C(micr)-A(infy)-B

M(tcs)-K(face)-J(goo)-L(Accen)

4.

clockwiseDinesh(Corp)-Aman(Gm)-Aditya(so)-Bharat(CMD)-Rohit(ceo)-Ishant(Teach)-Farh


2, 2016

Puzzle 1: Four boys, Pawan, Mahesh, Chandu and Ravi, and four girls, Eti, Seema, Hina and Anita, are

sitting around a circular table. Two girls and two boys are not facing the centre. No three girls

are sitting together. Chandu is second to the left of Seema, who is not sitting next to Mahesh. Eti

is third to the left of Anita and one of them is not facing the centre. Pawan is third to the right of

Mahesh, who is facing the centre. Hina and Ravi are facing each other and both are not sitting

next to Mahesh or Anita.

Puzzle 2: A, B, C, D and E are five players, each playing for a different team, viz Red, Blue, Green,

Yellow and Black. Each of them likes a different dish, viz Chicken Tikka, Pizza, Burger, Dosa

and Gulabjamun, not necessarily in the same order. D plays neither for team Blue nor for team

Black but likes Dosa. The player who likes Chicken Tikka plays neither for team Green nor for

team Yellow. A plays for team Red but likes neither Pizza nor Burger. C plays for team Green

but doesn’t likes Pizza. E likes neither Burger nor Gulabjamun. B likes neither Pizza nor Burger.

The one who plays for team Black likes neither Pizza nor Gulabjamun.

Puzzle 3: A, B, C, D, E, F and G are seven members of a club. Each of them likes one day of the week, viz

Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday and Sunday, not necessarily in the

same order. Each of them owns a different car, viz Swift, Alto, Figo, Beat, SX4, Estillo and

Optra, not necessarily in the same order. C likes Wednesday and his favourite car is neither SX4

nor Optra. E does not like Monday and his favourite car is Beat. The favourite car of the one who

likes Friday is Figo. The one whose favourite car is Estillo likes Tuesday. D likes Saturday and

D’s favourite car is not SX4. G’s favourite car is Alto. F likes Thursday. B does not like Estillo.

Puzzle 4:

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P, Q, R, S, T, V, W and X are eight persons. Each is a professor of a different subject, viz Maths,

Physics, Hindi, English, Geology, Zoology, Botany and History. Each of them pursues a

different hobby, viz Singing, Music, Poetry, Shayari, Painting, Tracking, Cooking and

Swimming, but not necessarily in the same order. P, who likes Cooking, is a professor of neither

History nor Geology. Q is a professor of English and does not like either Singing or Poetry. The

one who is a professor of Maths likes Shayari. The one who likes Swimming is a professor of

Physics and the one who is a professor of Botany likes Music. X doesn’t like Painting. T and V

like Music and Tracking, though not necessarily in the same order. S likes Swimming. W is a

professor of Zoology and doesn’t like Singing. The one who is a professor of Geology likes

Tracking. R is not a professor of History. The one who is a professor of Hindi doesn’t like either

Poetry or Painting.

FINAL ANSWERS!!

1.anticlockwise

hina(centre) pawan(outside) anita(centre) seema(outside) ravi(centre) chandha(outside)

mahesh(centre) eti(outside)

2.

A - Red - Gulab

B - Black - Chicken

C - Green - Burger

D - Yellow - Dosa

E- Blue - Pizza

3.

A - Estillo - TUesday

B - Figo - Fri

C - Swift - Wed

D - Optra - Sat


8, 2016

Puzzle 1: Four males and females namely R, Q, R, S, T, U, V and W are sitting around a square table in

such a way that four of them sit at the four corners of the square table while four sit in the middle

of each of four sides. The ones who sit at the four corners face the center while those who sit in

the middle of the sides face outside. Two females sit in the middle of the sides and two at the

corners. P sits second to the left of V. V sits on the middle of one of the sides. R sits fourth to the

right of his wife and his wife is not an immediate neighbour of P or V. Q sits third to the right of

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her husband. Q does not sit at any of the corners. Only S sits between G and W. W is the

husband of P. Both V and T are males.

Puzzle 2: Seven boys Farhan, Javed, Monish, Sareen, Aman, Bimal and Kamal stay in three different

localities in Delhi viz. Saket. Green Park and Hauz Khas. Each locality has at least one of the

given boys. Each one of them studies seven different subjects viz. History, Accountancy,

Geology, Mathematics, Physics, Chemistry and Botany but not necessarily in the same order.

(i) Bimal is staying in Green Park and studies Mathematics.

(ii) The boys who study Chemistry and Accountancy stay in the same locality.

(iii) Monish studies Physics but does not stay in Saket.

(iv) Farhan is staying in Hauz Khas with Monish and studies Geology.

(v) Aman studies Botany and stays in Green Park.

(vi) Sareen studies neither Accountancy nor Chemistry and stays in Hauz Khas.

(vii) Javed does not study Chemistry.

Puzzle 3: Eight persons Of Q, P, G, S, M, W and Z are living in a building. There are eight floors in a

building. Each of them is living at each floor. There is a part/ in floors 2 and 7. Four people are

going to the party of floor 2 and remaining persons are going to the party of floor 7. In the party

of floor 2, people are playing a game. They all are sitting in circular table and facing towards the

center. People of other party are also playing a game and they all are sitting in a square table and

facing opposite to the center. O lives at floor 4 and he is not going in the party of floor 7. Q is the

best friend of O and is going with him. P and Z are not going in a party where S is going. S and

M live at floors 3 and 1respectively. In a game G is second to the right of O and W is opposite of

P. Regarding floor Q is not a neighbour of O and lives between Z and P. W lives at 5th floor.

FINAL ANSWERS####

1---clckwise

w t p r v u q s

males- w r t v

females- p s q u

2--

f--hk--geo

j--saket--acc

m--hk--phy

s--hk---his

a--gp--bot

b--gp--maths

k--saket--chem

3--

1--m

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2--g

3--s

4--o

5--w

6--z/p

7--q

8--z/p

2nd floor party---o q g s

7th floor- w p z m


30, 2016

Puzzle 1: Eight friends are sitting in two parallel rows containing four people each, in such a way that there

is an equal distance between adjacent persons. In row-1 R, T, Z and O are seated (but not

necessarily in the same order) and all of them are facing East. In row-2 N, M, P and Q are seated

(but not necessarily in the same order) and all of them are facing West. Therefore, in the given

seating arrangement each friends seated in a row faces another friends of the other row. N sits

second to the left of P who has two neighbours. Z is not sitting at a corner and he does not faces

P. O is a neighbour of T but not of Z. M does not face Z.

Puzzle 2: Seven persons R, J, M, Q, L. T and K conduct workshop on Developing Managerial skills in

seven different companies A. B. C. D. E. F and G on a different day of the week from Monday to

Sunday, The order of persons, companies and days of the week are not necessarily the same, J

organizes workshop in Company D on Wednesday. Q does not conduct workshop for companies

A or C and conducts on the next day of L who conducts the workshop for Company F. T

conducts workshop for Company E on Friday. K conducts workshop on Monday but not for

Company C or G. M conducts workshop for Company A but not on Tuesday.

Puzzle 3: There are three houses on each side of the road. These six houses are labeled as P, Q, R, S, T and

U. The houses are of different colours, namely, Red, Blue, Green, Orange, Yellow and White.

The houses are of different heights. T, the tallest house, is exactly opposite to the Red coloured

house. The shortest house is exactly opposite to the Green coloured house. U, the Orange

coloured house, is located between P and S. R, the Yellow coloured house, is exactly opposite to

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P. Q, the Green coloured house, is exactly opposite to U. P, the White coloured house, is taller

than R, but shorter than S and Q.

FINALANSWERS##### (1) O-M T-P Z-Q R-N (2) MON-K-B TUE-R-C WED-J-D THU-M-A FRI-T-E SAT-L-F SUN-Q-G (3) P( WHITE)--4TH R(YELLOW)--5TH U (ORANGE)--6TH T(BLUE)--1ST S(RED)--2/3 Q(GREEN)--2/3


23, 2016

Puzzle 1: Four students Amit, Bhanu, Sachin and Jagan participated in a quiz competition. It is known that

the person who was wearing the black t-shirt won the quiz. All of them were sitting in a row. All

of them wore t-shirts of different colours, viz. red, black, white and green. There was only one

runner-up and he was sitting beside Jagan. The runner-up was wearing the red t-shirt. Sachin was

not sitting at the ends and was not the runner-up. The winner and the runner-up were not sitting

adjacent to each other. Jagan was wearing white t-shirt. Amit was not wearing the red t-shirt.

Students wearing black t-shirt and white t-shirt were at the ends.

Puzzle 2: Six persons Chetan, Gaurav Jatin. Karan, Sahil and Tarun who are wearing Black, White, Red,

Green, Blue and YeIlow coloured t-shirts are driving different cars -Verna, City, SX4, Vento,

Optra and Civic not necessarily in that order, these persons had participated in a car racing

competition at the end of which each of them secured different ranks. It is also known that:

(i) Tarun secured 4th position and was driving City

(ii) The person wearing blue coloured t-shirt was driving Vento and didn't secure 2nd position

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(iii) Karan wearing white coloured t-shirt was not driving Verna or Optra and he was not ranked

1st (iv) The person wearing green coloured t-shirt was ranked 6th and he was driving Optra

(v)The person who secured 3rd position was driving Civic

(vi) The person who secured 1st rank was driving 3X4 and he was not wearing black or red

coloured t-shirt

(vii) Chetan was wearing yellow coloured t-shirt while Tarun was not wearing red coloured t-

shirt

Puzzle 3:

Seven students Rahul, Abhinav, Akash, Arnav, Kartik, Paridhi and Saumya are studying in seven

different schools- BPS, BSNr CMS, RLB, DPS, SDA and LPS. They like different subjects-

Maths, Science, Art, Hindi, English, Moral science and History. They read in different classes

IV, V, VI, VII, VIH, IX and X, but not necessarily in the same order, Kartik studies in DPS and

he is in class VI. Akash's favourite subject is English and he studies either in BSN or CMS. One

who reads in CMS is in class V and likes Science. Paridhi does not like either Art or Moral

Science and she is in class X and studies in LPS. One who reads in DPS likes Art. Arnav does

not like Science and he is in class IV. Saumya is in class VIH and does not study in 3PS.One

who studies in SDA, is in class VII. Rahul is not in class VII. One who is in class IV likes

History. Abhinav does not like Hindi and Moral science.


Puzzle 1:-

Amit(black)winner,Sachin (green),Bhanu(Red)runner up,Jagan(white)

Puzzle 2:-

1)Chetan--sx4--yellow

2)Gaurav/jatin/sahil--verna--red

3)Karan---civic--white

4)Tarun--city--black

5)Gaurav/jatin/sahil--vento--blue

6)Gaurav/jatin/sahil--optra--green

PUZZLE 3:-

Rahul--CMS--Science--5

Abhinav--SDA--Maths--7

Akash--BSN--English--9

Arnav--BPS--History--4

Kartik--DPS--art--6

Paridhi--LPS--hindi--10

Saumya--BSNr--m.sci.—8

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3, 2016

Puzzle 1: Twelve members of a family are sitting on two apposite sides of rectangular dining table for a

dinner. Two parallel rows of chairs containing six people each are set in such a way that there is

an equal distance between adjacent persons. In row 1, A, B, C, D, E and F are seated and all of

them are facing south. In row 2, P, Q, R, S, T and O are seated and all of them are facing north,

but not necessarily in the same order. Each of them likes different types of food, viz Indian,

African, English, French, German, Chinese, Italian, Mexican, Thai, Spanish, Korean and

Russian, but not necessarily in the same order. C, who likes German food, sits third to the left of

B. C is not an immediate neighbour of either E or A. P, who likes Korean food, sits third to the

right of S. Neither P nor S sits at the extreme ends. E, who likes Indian food, faces the one who

likes Mexican food. F, who likes English food, faces O, who sits second to the left of T and does

not like French food. T is not an immediate neighbour of S. Only two people sit between Q and

T, who like Russian and Thai food respectively. D, likes neither African nor French food who

sits on the immediate right of the person who likes German food. A, who likes Chinese food,

does not face R. The one who likes Spanish food sits second to the left of the person who faces

the one who likes English food.

Puzzle 2: Eight friends, A, B, C, D, E, F, G and H, are sitting around a square table in such a way that four

of them sit on four corners of the square while four sit in the middle of each of the four sides.

Each of them likes different motor bikes, viz Avenger, Pulsar, Suzuki, Yamaha, Karizma,

Splendour, Apache and Activa. The ones who sit on the four corners face the centre while those

who sit in the middle of the sides face outside, but not necessarily in the same order. A, who

likes Pulsar, faces the centre and sits third to the right of F. E, who faces the centre, likes Activa

and, is not an immediate neighbour of F. Only one person sits between F and G and they like

Karizma and Suzuki respectively. D, who does not like Splendour, sits second to the right of B,

who likes neither Avenger nor Splendour. D faces the centre. C is not an immediate neighbour of

A. H likes Apache.

Puzzle 3: Six persons, viz Sinha, Saini, Bhagat, Yadav, Gupta and Mishra plan to go to six different hill

stations, viz Manali, Kullu, Mussourie, Rishikesh, Shimla and Nainital. They wish to go in six

different months, viz January, March, May, June, August and December. Two of them want to

travel by bus and two by rail and others are planning to go either by car or by flight. Following

information is also given. I. Gupta goes to Manali but neither by air nor by bus. II.Sinha prefers

bus journey but travels neither in August nor in May. III. Neither Mishra nor Saini goes either to

Shimla or to Mussourie. IV.Rishikesh is visited in December. V. Persons going to Kullu and

Shimla go by bus and car respectively. VI.Mr Bhagat goes to Nainital in March by air but Mishra

does not travel in December.

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ANSWERS.............................:)

1) E(Indian) A(Chinese) B(French) F(English) D(Italian) C( German); {Facing south}

R(Mexicon) S(Spain) Q(Russian) O(African) P(Korean) T(Thai) ; {facing north}

2) F-karizma(out)

B-yahama(in)

G-suzuki(out)

A-pulsar(in)

H-apache(out)

E-activa(in)

C-splender(out)

D-avenger(in)

3) sinha -->bus-->mussorie-->jan/june

saini-->railway-->rishikesh-->december

bhagat-->air-->nanital-->march

yadav-->car-->shimla-->jan/may/june/aug

gupta-->railway-->manali-->jan/may/june/aug

mishra-->bus-->kullu-->jan/may/june/aug


15, 2016

Puzzle 1: P, Q, R, S, W, X, Y, Z are sitting around a circle facing centre but not necessarily in the same

order. The husband of Z is sitting second to the right of Q who is sitting between two males. X

sits second to the left of the daughter of S. X is the sister of Y. X is not an immediate neighbour

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of Z's husband. Only one person sits between P and X. P is the father of Y. S who is brother of Z

sits to the immediate left of his mother. Only one person sits between Z's mother and W. Only

one person sits between Z and Y. Y is mother of R. Y is not an immediate neighbour of W.

Puzzle 2: Six persons A, B, C, D, E and F are sitting around a round table facing towards the centre of the

table in a restaurant. They have ordered for different items (Pizza, Strawberry, Vanilla, Burger,

Pastries and Patties) as their lunch. They are wearing Tshirts of different colours, i.e. white,

black, green, red, yellow and blue. Order of items for the lunch and colours of T-shirts are not

necessarily according to the order of their names. The persons who have ordered for Pizza,

Vanilla and Pastries are neither in white Tshirt nor in black. The persons who are in green and

yellow T-shirts have neither ordered for Pizza nor for Vanilla. A is neither in white T-shirt nor

on the immediate left of the person who has ordered for Burger. The only person who is between

E and F eats Strawberry. The person who is on the left side of the person in white T-shirt does

not eat Patties. D has ordered Burger and the colour of his T-shirt is green. He is facing the

person who has ordered for Strawberry. One who has ordered for Pizza is seated opposite to the

person wearing blue T-shirt, while the person whose T-shirt is of green colour is on the left of

the person who has ordered for Pastries. One who has ordered for Patties is on the immediate

right of the person in white T-shirt but on the immediate left of the person who has ordered for

Vanilla. C has not ordered for Vanilla while F has not ordered for Pizza.

Puzzle 3: There are five types of cards viz. A, B, C, D and E. There are three cards of each type. These are

to be inserted in envelopes of three colours – Red, Yellow and Brown. There are five envelopes

of each colour. B, D and E type cards are inserted in red envelopes. A, B and C type cards are to

be inserted in yellow envelopes and C, D and E type cards are to be inserted in brown envelopes.

Two cards each of B and D type are inserted in red envelopes.

FINAL ANSWERS######

puzzle 1 :

clockwise from Q

Q(-)

S(+)

W(-)

Z(-)

X(-)

Y(-)

P(+)

R(+)

puzzle 2:

starting from C clockwise

CEADBF

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C white (strawberry)

E red (pizza)

A yellow ( pastry)

D green (burger)

B blue (vanilla)

F black (patties)

puzzle 3:

Red - BDEBD

Yellow- ABCAA

Brown - CDECE


20, 2016

Puzzle 1: Seven persons— Z, Y, X, W V I and P are from different cities such as— Pune Kolkata,

Mumbai, Lucknow, Delhi, Aligarh and Chennai (but not in the same order). Each of them

belongs to three different hotels Nanda, Deep, Gagan, At least two persons are belong to the

same hotel, W is from Mumbai city and belongs to hotel Nanda. V is from Lucknow city but

does not belong to hotel Nanda. I is from Delhi city and belongs to hotel Deep with only Y. Z is

neither from Kolkata city and nor belongs to hotel Nanda. P is from Aligarh city but does not

belong to hotel Nanda. The persons who are from Pune and Kolkata cities, do not belong to hotel

Nanda,

Puzzle 2: Komal, Latika, Meetu, Praveen, Anup; Ritu, Shikha and Tripti are sitting around a square table

in such a way that four of them sit at four comers of the square while four sit in the middle of

each of the four sides. Those who sit at the four comers faces outside while those who sit in the

middle of the sides face the centre of the table. Praveen sits third to the right of Shikha. Shikha

faces the centre. Anup sits third to the left of Meetu. Meetu does not sit in the middle of the

sides. Only one person sits between Anup and Ritu. Ritu is not an immediate neighbour of

Meetu. Tripti faces the centre. Komal is not an immediate neighbour of Ritu.

Puzzle 3: Seven girls Z, Y, X, W, V,U and T are sitting around a circular table and facing towards the

centre. Each of them likes different languages i.e. French, Arabian, Spanish, Italian, Chinese,

German and Japanese but not necessarily in the same order. The one who likes Italian language

sits second to the left of Y who is immediate to the left of V. Neither T nor W likes Italian

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language. Only one girt sits between U and the one who likes Spanish language. The one who

likes Spanish language, is not an immediate neighbour of X. Y is immediate to the right of that

girl who likes French language. Z does not like French language. Only one girl sits between U

and V. X likes German language. Only two girls sit between X and the one who likes Chinese

language. U likes Japanese language and is not the neighbour of T.


Puzzle 1

Person - Hotel- City

P - gagan- aligarh

Z - gagan- pune

V- gagan - lucknow

Y- deep - kolkata

I - deep- delhi

X - nanda - chennai

W- nanda - mumbai

Puzzle 2

Clockwise : praveen, anup, komal, shikha, meetu, tripti, latika, Ritu

Facing outside : komal, meetu, latika, praveen

Facing inside :shikha, tripti, ritu, anup,

,

Puzzle 3

Clockwise: x(ger.), u(jap.), w(ara.), v(span.), y(chin.), t(fren.), z(italian)

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