While going to your grandmother's house, you counted seventeen houses on the right side. While returning back to your home, you counted seventeen houses on the left side.
How many houses are there between your home and your grandmother's home?
They are the same houses. So there are seventeen houses in total.
Daniel walks into a movie theater. While in the movie, he suddenly smiles delightfully. About a couple of minutes later, he seems shocked. He walks out of the theater, goes to a bridge and jumps over the edge killing himself.
Why did he do it?
This puzzle can only be solved with lateral thinking, there is no logical reasoning behind it.
Daniel had been the father of two identical twins named Justice and Damien. Ironically, both of them had starkly opposite temperament. While Justice was kind and generous, Damien was quite violent and rude.
On a certain day, Justice approached his father and told him that Damien had killed a man. Daniel rushed to the crime scene with Justice and saw Damien huddled over a dead man. Rage took Daniel over and he started fighting with his son eventually killing him accidentally. When the police reached the crime scene, he arrested Daniel and he was put in prison for ten years. He received a note from Justice while he was in prison in the very first month. The note said that Justice could never forgive his father for what he did with Damien and that he will never see him again.
After moving out of the prison, Daniel came to know that Justice had become a junior film star. He also came to know that a film starring him in a minor role was running in the theater. He quickly bought the ticket to the nearest theater and went inside the hall filled with excitement. When he saw Justice on the silver screen, he could not help but smile feeling proud of his son. But soon after the camera zoomed over the back of his neck and he saw a birthmark that belonged to Damien.
He understood that in reality, Damien had killed the man and the one whom he father took as Damien was actually Justice trying to save the man. He is shocked at the revelation and struck with grief. Thus he decides to kill himself by jumping from the bridge.
Calculate the number of degree between the hour hand and the minute hand of an analogue clock that is displaying a time of 3:15 at present.
This question can be a bit tricky. But if you pay attention, you can solve it. When fifteen minutes have passed after three, the hour hand must have moved exactly one fourth of an hour. Thus both the hands will make an angle of 7.5 degree between them.
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 ?
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.
Check the figure given with this question. You have a square. What you have to do is cut and reassemble the square such that you create a Red Cross sign that has the same volume as that of the square.
The figure given is self-explanatory. But if you are unable to understand, here is what we did. We cut along the lines and remove the blue parts. Now rotate the paper a bit and place the cut parts like it is shown.
A tourist visits a small town for his research. While in the town, he decides to get a haircut. Since the town is quite small, there are only two barbers in the town – one on the North Street and one on the South Street. The barbershop on the North Street is a mess and the barber has a weird and pathetic haircut. While the barbershop at the South Street is pretty tidy and the barber as well has an impressive haircut.
Which barbershop will the tourist visit for his haircut and why?
The tourist will get his haircut from the barbershop at the North Street.
Since there are only two barbers in the town, it is obvious that the haircut of the barber at the north street would have been done by the one in the south street and vice versa. Thus, a weird haircut means that the one in the south street don't know the art of hair cutting well. Also, since the one in South Street is tidy, it can be possible that he is getting no customer.
A family is trapped in a jungle. There is a bridge which can lead them to safety. But at one time, the bridge can only allow two people to pass through. Also, all of them are afraid of the dark and thus, they can’t go alone.
Father takes 1 minute to cross, mother takes 2 minutes, son takes 4 and the daughter takes 5 minutes. While crossing the time taken will be according to the slower one. How can they all reach at the other side in the minimum possible time ?
12 minutes
Father and Mother goes first: 2 minutes.
Father comes back: 2+1 = 3 minutes.
Both children go to mother: 3 + 5 = 8 minutes.
Mother comes back to Father: 8 + 2 = 10 minutes.
Mother and Father go: 10 + 2 = 12 minutes.
Thus, all of them reach the other sides in 12 minutes.
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?
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.
While handling a project, the landscaper is asked by the owner of the mansion that he wants four trees in front of his mansion that are exactly equidistant from each other.
How will he do it?
He will have to form the shape of a tetrahedron. This means that, he will plan three trees on the vertices of an equilateral triangle and then plant one at the exact center. In this way, all the trees will be equidistant from each other.
In a family supper, a grandfather, a grandmother, two fathers, two mothers, four children, three grandchildren, one brother, two sisters, two sons, two daughters, one daughter in law, and one mother in law need to sit at a table.
There are only seven chairs available at the place. How many more chairs do they have to borrow so that everyone can sit down together for the suppers if everybody requires a separate chair?
No other chair is required as there are only seven people:
A Grandfather married to Grandmother.
They have a son who is married to a woman.
Together, they have three children - One son and two daughters.
These are the only seven people