#181 - Logical Brain Teaser

A landlord calls both of his sons and tells them that their horses will now decide who will be transferred the inheritance. He tells them to race along the land till the end and the one whose horse will be slower will win and be the heir to all the property.

Both of them keep wandering for days but to no result. Then they ask a wise man regarding it. The man advises them over the matter after which they jump on the horses and race as fast as they could till the end. Why did they do it?

What did the wise man say?

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The wise man asked them to switch their horses and the race till the end. In this manner they can easily identify whose horse is slowest.

#182 - Logic Picture Riddle For Kids

Look at the picture carefully.There is a fly in the wine glass.

What you have to do is move two sticks such that the fly is out of the glass ?

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To do it, you have to move the colored sticks in the given manner.

#183 - Philosophical Riddle

Alpha, Beta and Gamma are in a desert. Alpha doesn't like Gamma and hence decides to murder him. He poisons the water supply of Gamma. Since it is the desert area, Gamma must drink or he will die of thirst.

Beta does not know of the actions of Alpha and also decides to murder Gamma. To succeed in his ill motives, he removes the water supply of Gamma so he dies of thirst.

Gamma dies due to thirst. Who murdered Gamma?

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The answer to this question might sound more of a philosophical one.

It is Beta whose action led to Gamma's death directly. It was the scarcity of water that led to his death ultimately. It may be the circumstances prevailing his demise and not a specific person who killed him.

#184 - Murder Crime Riddle

A dead body is found at the bottom of a multistory building. Seeing the position of the body it is evident that the person jumped off from one of the floor for attempting suicide.

A homicide detective is called to look after the case. He goes to the first floor and walks in the room facing the direction in which the body was found. He opens the window in that direction and flips a coin towards the floor.

The he goes to the second floor and repeats the process. He keeps on doing it till the last floor. Then, when he climbs down, he tells the team that it is a murder not suicide.

How did he come to know that it was a murder?

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At each floor, he did the same task of opening the window and flipping the coin. If it was a suicide, then at least the window at any of the floor must have been left open by the person who jumped off. The present situation only suggests that someone pushed him off and then closed the window again.

#185 - Nine Numbers Picture Puzzle

In the figure given with this question, place the numbers from 1 to 19 in the circles in a manner that each side of the triangle sums up to 17.

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#186 - Hard Adobe Interview Puzzle Question

There are a hundred statements.
First person says: At least one of the statements is false.
Second person says: At least two of the statements is false.
Third person says: At least three of the statements are false.
Fourth person says: At least four of the statements are false.
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Hundredth person says: At least a hundred of the statements are false.

Analyzing it, how many statements do you think are false and how many are right?

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The hundredth statement is surely false as it says that at least a hundred of the statements are false.

But in a situation if that is correct, then hundred statements cannot be right.
This implies that the hundredth statement is wrong and that the first statement is true.

Similarly ninety nine statements can’t be true as if they were correct, then two statements would become correct i.e. the first and the ninety ninth.

But the ninety ninth statement says that at least ninety nine are wrong.
This implies that the ninety ninth statement is false and that second is correct.

If we go on calculating in the similar fashion, we will come to the conclusion that:
The first fifty statements are right and the remaining fifty statements are false.

#187 - 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?

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When asked to draw a chit, the person will pick any and then without looking at it, he will swallow the chit. In this manner, to decide his fate, they will have to look at the other chit which reads Guilty. Thus people will understand that the chit which he ate had innocent written over it.

#188 - Hard Logic Image Pattern Puzzle

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

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Every single symbol is associated with each another's position. If you look closely, you will find out that the upside-down spade symbol is always used on the left of a right-side-up heart.

#189 - 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?

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Fill the 5 liters bowl from the 8 liters bowl.
Take the 5 liters bowl and fill the 3 liters bowl.
Take this 3 liters bowl and empty it inside 8 liters bowl.
Pour the remaining 2 liters from the 5 liters bowl to the 3 liters bowl.
Take the 8 liters bowl and pour it in the 5 liters bowl.
Pour the missing 1 liter from the 5 liter bowl to the 3 liters bowl.
Now there is 4 liters left in the 5 liters bowl.
Now pour 3 liters back from the 3 liters bowl to the 8 liters bowl.

That's it, we now have 4 liters in the 8 liters bowl and 5 liters bowl.

#190 - 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 ?

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The best thing you can do is shooting your first shot in the air.

Suppose if you shoot KB and hit him by luck, you are certainly dead as GR never misses.

If you shoot on GR first and hits him luckily, there is a fifty percent probability that you will die before your next chance.

But if you shoot in the air, KB will definitely shoot on GR as he knows that he is a better shooter. If he misses somehow, then, he is dead and if he hits then, GR is dead.

Now it’s your turn to shoot and you stand a 1/3 chance that you will hit.

This is the best situation you can have. Doing anything else will bring you under worse situation for sure.