Critical Thinking Interview Puzzles With Answers | Best Riddles and Brain Teasers

#721 - Incorrect Boxes Label Puzzle

There are three boxes which are labeled as Rs100, Rs150, and Rs200. One box contains two notes of Rs. 50. The second box contains one note of Rs50 and one note of Rs100 The third box contains two Rs. 100 notesAll boxes are labeled incorrectly.

What is the minimum number of boxes you must check in order to label all boxes correctly?

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You just need to check Rs.150 box.

Explanation: The trick to solving this puzzle is to remember that all boxes are labeled incorrectly.

Case 1: If it contains Rs. 100 notes, then
A) Current box contains Rs. 200 notes.
B) Rs 100 box contains Rs. 150 notes.
C) Rs. 200 box contains Rs. 100 notes.

Case 2: If it contains Rs. 50 notes, then
A) Current box contains Rs. 100 notes.
B) Rs. 100 box contains Rs. 200 notes.
C) Rs. 200 box contains Rs. 150 notes.

#722 - Hardest Maths Equation Puzzle

Can you replace alphabets by the numbers to make all the below equations true?

ZY = XZ - WV
UT = YV - ST
WY = ZU - RZ
QX = PX - QV
QL = LQ - WP
SV = XT - YR

Note: You can using only 8 digits. (i.e. more than one alphabets will be mapped to same numerical value)

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Z = Y = P =6
X =7
W = S = 1,
V=0 ,
U = R = T = 4,
Q=3,
L=5

Now we can rewrite the equations as :
66 = 76 - 10
44 = 60 - 14
16 = 64 - 46
37 = 67 - 30
35 = 53 - 16
10 = 74 - 64

#723 - Answer Fast Matchstick Puzzle

Can you quickly find which two matchstick figures is identical?

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5 and 9

#724 - Jigsaw People Circle Puzzle

Jigsaw captured 100 people and make them stand in the circle and all these people are labeled as Person1, Person2, Person3... Person100. He made them play a crazy game in which the Person1 shot the Person2 and pass the gun to next Person and so on until one stands alive.

Which person will survive at the end?

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#725 - Famous DiCaprio Movie Rebus

Below rebus represent famous DiCaprio movie. Can you name it?>br>

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Catch Me If You can

"Cat" + "ch" (China - Ina) + "Me" (Me icon) + If (Gif icon - G, we removed G as 1 is cut off) + "You" (it is pointing towards You) + Can (picture of can)

#726 - Word Pattern Riddle

What is the common pattern for below words?

CHARM
DYNAMO
YAM
REAY
EAR
ONE
TOADY

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They are all anagrams of time-related words.

CHARM--> MARCH
DYNAMO--> MONDAY
YAM--> MAY
REAY--> YEAR
EAR--> ERA
ONE--> EON
TOADY--> TODAY

#727 - Danny Ocean Break Safe Puzzle

Danny Ocean and his team plan to rob Las Vegas safe. They got just one chance to break the code else the local police will be informed.Following are the following clues:A) Exactly one number is perfectly placed: 9 8 1 B) Everything is incorrect: 9 2 4C) Two numbers are part of the code of the safe but are wrongly placed: 0 9 3 D) One number is part of the code of the safe but is wrongly placed: 1 4 7E) One number is part of the code of the safe but is wrongly placed: 7 8 3

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The code is 301

- From Clue A) and B) we know that 9 is not in the code i.e 8 or 1 is in the code.
- From Clue B we know that 9 2 and 4 are part of code
- From Clue C) we know that 0 and 3 are part of code
- From Clue E) we know that 7 and 8 is not part of code as we know 3 is part of code and just 7 of 2 numbers is part of code.
- From Clue D) we know that 1 is also in the code as 4 and 7 is not part of code.

So the code is: 301

#728 - Simple MatchSticks Puzzle

Using exactly three matchsticks, can you divide the area into two equal parts?

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It can be done as shown below.

#729 - Trick Chess Riddle

As we know that the white starts the game in chess.Can you find the scenario showed in the picture below is possible when all the white pieces are at the original place white black pawn is not?

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A) White moves the knight to any position.
B) Black moves the pawn to position shown in the picture.
C) White moves the knight back to original position.

#730 - Masked Girls Riddle

Steffi leaves home and then she makes exactly 3 left turns and returns home where she found 2 girls wearing the mask.

Who are these two masked girls?

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Baseball umpire and the Catcher (Steffi was playing baseball)