Critical Thinking Interview Puzzles With Answers

#401 - Critical Thinking Puzzle

An innocent person is accused of a murder in a village. The head of the village knows that the man is innocent but he also knows that the truth may be uncovered one day that his own son is the murderer. Just to hinder the attention of people, he offers a chance to the man. In a jar, he places two chits of paper – one reads innocent and the other reads guilty. Among all the other villagers, he asks the accused person to pick up a chit. He says that their almighty god is watching them and the person will meet his fate truthfully with the chit.

Of course, the village head is cheating. He has put both chits with Guilty written on them. The accused person somehow suspects the same. But no one will believe him if he tries to expose the head. Also, he knows no one will look at the other chit once his fate is decided by his selected chit.

What should he do to prove that he is innocent?

#402 - Hard Logic Image Pattern Puzzle

Find the logic in the figure given and find out the missing one.

#403 - Tricky Sequence Problem

You have to put a letter on the following to make it a meaningful word. The only challenge is that you can't use 'E'.

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#404 - Water Gallon Riddle

You have three bowls with you of capacity 8, 5 and 3 liters. The 8 liters bowl is filled completely. Using these three bowls you have to divide the 8 liters in (4 + 4) liters. How can you do it in minimum number of transfers?

#405 - Find The Killer Riddle

A person is found murdered in his office. When the crime scene is investigated, the police finds out that there is a calendar on which the victim has written a few numbers with his blood. The numbers are 4, 11, 11 and 4.

There are four suspects of the murder, Paul, Nina, Anna and Lee. Can you find out who is the murderer?

#406 - Death Match Riddle

In the Wild West, you are challenged into a death match by two bounty hunters nicknamed Golden Revolver (GR) and Killer Boots (KB). You accept the challenge. None of you want to waste any of the bullet and so a certain rules are laid down:
1) All of you will shoot in a given order till the last man standing.
2) Each of you shoots only once upon his turn.
3) If any one of you is injured, the other two will finish him off with iron rod.
4) The worst shooter of all (which is you) shoots first and the best one shoots at the last.

Now, how will you plan things if you know that you hit every third shot of yours, KB hits every second shot and GR hits every shot ?

#407 - Who Am I Riddle With Clues

Can you tell who am I ?

I am an eight letter word and I am a computer terminology.
The second, third and fourth letters make an animal.
The fourth, fifth, sixth, seventh and eighth letters make a weapon.
The first, second, third and fourth letters can be taken as an outcome of any exam.
The fifth, sixth, seventh and eighth letter combine to form a high end typing software.

#408 - Classical Probability Puzzle

If we roll two dices (six sided normal dice) together.

what is the probability that the first one comes up with a 2 and the second one comes up with a 5?

#409 - Fun But Hard Maths Riddle

How high will you have to count before you use the letter A?

#410 - Mathematical Logical Puzzle

Consider the situation that there is a pond where some flowers have grown up and some bees are hovering over the flowers. Now read the following statements carefully:
1. If each of the bees lands on a flower, then one bee does not get a flower.
2. If two bees share each flower, then there is one flower left.

Now, can you calculate the number of flowers in the pong and the number of bees hovering over them?