#611 - How Many Wrong Answer Puzzle

In a competitive exam, each correct answer could win you 10 points and each wrong answer could lose you 5 points. You sat in the exam and answered all the 20 questions, which were given in the exam.
When you checked the result, you had scored 125 marks in the test.

Can you calculate how many answers given by you were wrong ?

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If all the 20 questions had been answered correctly, you would have scored a total of 200 marks. Since you scored 125 marks, you have lost 75 marks.
Now, what you have to do is subtract 15 marks from 200 for every wrong answer. This is because you have to deduct 10 marks for not scoring in that question and 5 marks for answering it wrong.
15 * 5 = 75
Therefore, you answered 5 questions wrong.

#612 - Move Matchstick Time Puzzle

Can you move two match sticks to make time as 4:30 ?

Move Matchstick Time Puzzle
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Solution is shown below.

#613 - Next Number In List

Can you find the next number in the list?
2, 12, 36, 80, 150, 252, 392, _ ?

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The next number is 576.

The series follows the following pattern
Square of n + cube of n
Where n is an integer ascending one at a time, starting from 1.

n = 1 => 1^2 + 1^3 = 1 + 1 = 1
n = 2 => 2^2 + 2^3 = 4 + 8 = 12
and so on...

Therefore the next number will be
8^2 + 8^3 = 576

#614 - Relationship Logic Puzzle

In a boat, the father of a sailor son is sitting with the son of the sailor. However, the sailor is not present on the boat.

Can this even be possible?

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Yes it is possible because the sailor is the wife and mother..

#615 - Blonde 911 Riddle

At dull night when the blonde was dozing, she heard an odd clamor and she saw that there were bizarre man with a gun simply outside her home. So she raced to telephone to call a police, however, she cant dial 911.

Why?

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Blonde cannot find 11 on phone

#616 - Who Is The Killer

A murder took place on the Baker Street. The murderer seemed a fan of Sherlock Holmes evident with the notes he/she left behind at the house at different locations.

When Sherlock Holmes arrived, he found out that the victim was a lady named Martha. She was shot and there were five suspects:
Ben
Lisa
Catherine
Marcus
Phil

The notes that were left by the murderer were placed at different places and had a little description on them:
The first note was found in the compound.
The second note was found in the art room.
The third note was found in the restroom.
The fourth note was found in the underwater room.
The fifth note was found in the smoking lounge.
The sixth note was found in the makeup room.

All the notes had only one thing written on them:
"The clues are where you find the notes."

On examination, nothing was found anywhere. Can you help Sherlock to decipher this puzzle?

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While it may have sounded a bit too difficult, it is not that difficult to crack.

The murderer is Marcus.

The notes were found in the Compound, Art Room, Restroom, Underwater Room, Smoking Lounge and Makeup Room.

Now, if we just look at the first letter of each, we will have - C, A, R, U, S and M.
If you arrange the letters, you will get the name Marcus.

#617 - Cool Words Riddle

_ _ _ IE _ _
_ _ _ IE _
_ _ IE _ _
_ _ IE _
_ _ _ _ IE

Like you see, some letters have gone missing from these words that contain the IE pair at some or the other place. The letters that will be used to fill the blanks are given below. Use them and form meaningful words. Can you do that?

A, C, D, F, H, K, L, M, N, N, O, R, R, S, S, S, T, T, Y and Y.

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The words are
Society
Shriek
Friend
Alien
Stymie

#618 - Wacky Word Rebus

For this puzzle, you might have to find logic in something illogical. But hey, its fun and a healthy little break from your strenuous puzzle solving sessions.

Can you decipher the meaning in the following cluster of letters?


ITIT,NCENTCENT

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To frame a meaning, we will have to divide this big chunk into three smaller groups of letters. Lets see.

ITIT can be rewritten as 2 ITs or simply ITs or ITs
,N can be rewritten as Comma + N or Common
CENTCENT can be rewritten as 2 Cents or simply Cents or Sense


Now we have three words and when we combine them together, we get:
Its Common Sense.

#619 - Analyze The Logical Pattern

What you read below is true and follows a pattern:

7 + 7 = 2
8 + 8 = 4
8 + 5 = 1
6 + 9 = 3
10 + 11 = 9

Can you analyze the pattern and find out the answer for:
4 + 9 = ?

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Here, the first number represents the time in AM. The second number is the number of hours you have to add in that time to get the time in PM.

7 + 7 = 2
Can be written as
7 AM + 7 hours = 2 PM (7 + 7 = 14:00)

Following the same pattern,
4 AM + 9 hours = 1 PM (4 + 9 = 13:00)
Or, 4 + 9 = 1

#620 - which number should replace the question

Can you replace the question mark with the correct number?

6 30 870 756030 ?

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571580604870

Explanation:
6 * 6 - 6 =>30
30 * 30 - 30 => 870
870 * 870 -870 =>756030
756030 * 756030 - 756030 => 571580604870