Analytical Reasoning Puzzles With Answers

#1 - Maths Brain Twister Puzzle

A research team went to a village somewhere between the jungles of Africa. Luckily for them, they reached on the day when quite an interesting custom was to be performed. The custom was performed once in a year as they confirmed and was performed in order to collect the taxes from every male of the region.

The taxes were to be paid in the form of grains. Everyone must pay pounds of grain equaling his respective age. Which means a 20 year old will have to pay 20 pounds of grains and a 30 years old will pay 30 pounds of grain and so on.

The chief who collects the tax have 7 weights and a large 2 pan scale to weigh. But there is another custom that the chief can weigh only with three of the seven weights.

Can you find out the weights of the seven weights? Also what is the maximum age of the man that can be weighed for the payment of taxes ?

#2 - Hard River Crossing Logic Puzzle

You must have heard of so many river crossing riddles however this one is a bit tricky one. We have a dysfunctional family on one side of the river which includes mom and 2 daughters, dad and 2 sons, a maid and a dog. Like usual, there is a boat that can hold only two persons at a time (dog counts as one person as well). Obviously, the kids can’t operate the boat and we need an adult for that task.

Here comes the difficulties. The maid must remain with the dog so she can control it or it will head up for a violent biting. The dad cannot be left with the daughters without mom and nor can the mother be left alone with the sons without dad.

Can you help them cross the river?

#3 - Hard Logic Problem

There is a town named Springville. In that town you can find extremely hilarious facts. None of the resident has 456,789 hairs. The number of residents are more than the number of hair in any one of the.

Can you find out the largest number of residents in such a scenario?

#4 - Smart Thief Statment Puzzle

A thief was presented in the court of a king. For a judgment, the king asked him to make any statement. If the statement was to be true, he would be burnt alive and if the statement was to be false, he would be thrown in the sea. But after hearing the statement, the king had to let him go.

What did the thief say ?

#5 - Statement Problem

If all the below statement are true

1. Gianni was either in Italy or France in 1997.
2. If Gianni did not kill Versace, then Hilton must have killed him.
3. If Versace died of suffocation, then either Gianni killed him or Versace committed suicide.
4. If Gianni was in Italy in 1997, then Gianni did not kill Versace.
5. Versace died of suffocation, but he did not kill himself.

Who killed Versace and where was Gianni in 1997 ?

#6 - Tricky Logic Question

Edward James went for tiger hunting.
It was not his lucky day.

He got six tigers without heads, nine tigers without the tail and eight cut in two halves.
How many tiger did he hunted ?

#7 - Logical Number Series Riddle

Solve this logical number series puzzle by replace question mark with the correct number
9090 = 4
1234 = 0
6055 = 2
9081 = 4
8888 = ?

#8 - Logic Weighing Puzzle

You have 100 killograms of puzzling mangoes, which are 99 percent water by weight.
You let them dehydrate until they are 98 percent water.

How much do they weigh now ?

#9 - Probability Riddle

what's the probability of getting a king or a queen from a pack of 52 cards ?

#10 - Trick Math Question

What is the largest number you can write with just 3 digits ?