Deductive Reasoning Puzzles With Answers

#1061 - Short Easy Riddle

A boy was at a carnival and went to a booth where a man said to the boy, 'If I write your exact weight on this piece of paper then you have to give me $50, but if I cannot, I will pay you $50.' The boy looked around and saw no scale so he agrees, thinking no matter what the carny writes he'll just say he weighs more or less. In the end the boy ended up paying the man $50. How did the man win the bet?

#1062 - Missing Number in this Sequence

Can you discover the missing number in this series?

37, 10, 82
29, 11, 47
96, 15, 87
42, ?, 15

#1063 - Math Teaser

Find three whole, positive numbers that have the same answer when multiplied together as when added together.

#1064 - Monday Cipher Puzzle

Can you decipher the following common phrase?

T M C
A U O
H S M
W T E

#1065 - IQ PUZZLE

You have two strings whose only known property is that when you light one end of either string it takes exactly one hour to burn. The rate at which the strings will burn is completely random and each string is different.

How do you measure 45 minutes?

#1066 - September Riddle

man gave one son 10 cents and another son was given 15 cents. What time is it?

#1067 - Read Between Lines Puzzle

There's a land where there's mummies and daddies but no babies. Books but no libraries. Mirrors but no reflections. Kittens but no cats. Cattle but no cows. Lollipops but no candy and trees but no forests. It's the land of what?

#1068 - Simple Simple Google Interview Puzzle

The puzzle is if the shopkeeper can only place the weights in one side of the common balance. For example if shopkeeper has weights 1 and 3 then he can measure 1, 3 and 4 only. Now the question is how many minimum weights and names the weights you will need to measure all weights from 1 to 1000. This is a fairly simple problem and very easy to prove also.  Answer for this puzzle is given below.

#1069 - Quick Thinking Riddle

Without looking at a calendar, within a minute name a boys name using 5 consecutive 1st letters of 5 consecutive months

#1070 - Toughest Series Puzzle

What is the next number in this series?

4,12,84,3612....