Hard Riddles

#281 - Bottles Count Logic Maths Puzzle

A shopkeeper allows people to buy a bottle of cold drink in exchange of five empty bottled. A guy had a party at home and he managed to spend 77 cold drink bottles in the party. Now he has 77 empty bottles with him.

How many bottles do you think he can buy in exchange of those 77 empty bottles ?

#282 - How Many Times Chocolate Bar

There is a 2 x 8 chocolate bar I have with me. I can break this bar along the length or the breadth. Now, I want to obtain 1 x 1 pieces.

How many times do you think I need to break it to get what I want ?

#283 - Who Is Taller Puzzle

500 women soldiers are arranged in an array of ten rows and fifty columns in accordance with their respective heights. Now, the tallest woman from each row is asked to move out in the front. From them, the shortest one is labelled as Alpha. They are then asked to resume their original position.

Now, the shortest woman in each column is asked to come out in front. The tallest among them is labelled as Beta.

Can you find out if Alpha will be taller or Beta?

#284 - Chances Of Survival Probability Puzzle

You are trapped into a death trap by the famous jigsaw killer. As usual, a screen flashes in front of you and explains you the trap game.

There are 100 pearls kept in a bowl in front of you and an empty bowl. Among the 100 pearls, 50 are white and 50 are black. You can divide them as you like into the two bowls. Once you are done, you will pull a lever, which will turn the room pitch black. The bowls will move and shuffle around. In the dark, you have to pick up one pearl from any bowl. Once you do that, the room will flood with lights again. If the peral you have in your hand is white, you will be allowed to live, but if the pearl you picked is black, the room will be filled with poisonous gas and you will die.

How will divide the pearls to increase your chances of survival?

#285 - Hard Square Count

Can you calculate the total number of square in the given figure?

#286 - Photo Plexer Puzzle

Can you solve the photo plexer logic ?

#287 - One Question To Find Village

Mr. Buttons was all set to go to the village of Buttonland to meet his friend. So, he packed his bags and left for the village at 5 in the morning. Upon travelling on a road for miles, he came across a point where the road diverged into two. He was confused on which road to take. He gazed around and he saw two owls sitting on a branch. He thought he could ask for directions for the village from the two owls. So he went to the tree. There he saw a sign which read, "One owl always lies, and one is always truthful. They both fly away if you ask them more than 1 question."
Mr. Buttons was caught in the dilemma of what to ask? And from which owl to ask, since he only had one question. What should Mr. Buttons ask?

#288 - The Great Chocoberry Problem

Rohan, a 7 year old boy, was really fond of the chocolates called "Chocoberries". He asked his Mrs. Mother to give him some money to buy his favorite chocolates. His Mrs. Mother gave him Rs 45. He went to the shopkeeper and asked, "how much is one chocoberry for?". The shopkeeper said, Rs 3 for one chocolate. Also, if you give me the wrappers of three chocoberries, I will give you one for for the exchange.
In total, how many chocoberries could Rohan eat?

#289 - Create Function Puzzle

There are two variables x and y. Jimmy is required to construct a function f(a,b) which returns the maximum one in {a,b}.
You can only use +,-,·, / & abs() (to take the absolute value). NO if () is allowed in to jimmy.

Solve this one, math freaks.

#290 - Einsteins IQ Series

Find the next number if the sequence if you can

102 104 108 110 114 128 ?