You have to put a letter on the following to make it a meaningful word. The only challenge is that you can't use 'E'.
S E Q U E N C _
It's simple. Just put the letter 'F' over the line and it will become E to form the word SEQUENCE.
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.
The doctor prescribed you to take one pill from the bottle every half an hour. The bottle is now left with only three pills.
How long do you think you have before you run out of pills?
You have an hour.
The most common answer will be one and a half hour. But remember, when you took the first pill, it was the zero minute.
Given the numbers between 1 and 1 million, what is so special about the number 40 that it makes the number stand out of the crowd ?
The number 40 (Forty) is the only number which when written in English has all the letters in the same order as in the alphabets.
If you remove one from eleven, it becomes ten. If you remove one from nine, it becomes ten.
How is this possible ?
It is possible if you are using Roman Numerals.
9 = IX
10 = X
11 = XI
Now it is all possible.
You are playing a game with your friend Jack. There are digits from 1 to 9. You both will take turn erasing one digit and adding it to your score. The first one to score 15 points will win the game.
Would you want to play first or second?
PS: The sum should be exactly 15.
Suppose you are player 1 and your friend is player 2.
You pick up 9, then your friend will choose 8.
Now you won’t be able to pick up 7 as then your sum will be more than 15 which will make you lose. But then your friend will pick 8 and will win.
Thus you will start by picking 1. If your friend picks up 2, then you will pick 3 and your friend will pick 4. Now this will force you to pick 9. The score now becomes 6 to 13 and you have no chance of winning. Thus you pick up 9 after your friend picks up 2. Then the player 2 will pick 8. The score will now be 10 to 10. Thus you pick the number 3 as picking 7 will throw him over 15. Your friend will pick 4. Now you will have no move, thus your friend will win. So it will be wise to play second.
Ten coins have been arranged as you can see in the given picture. In this arrangement, a triangle is formed pointing upwards. You have to invert the position of the triangle and make it point downwards while just changing the position of 3 coins only.Can you do it?
See the picture given. It is self-explanatory. Just move the coins as shown and you will get the desired result.
Can you place six matchsticks in a manner that each of the matchstick is in touch will the other five matchsticks ?
The given solution in the figure is not the only one. Can you find another way?
A charming young lady was approached by a kind looking old woman in a restaurant. The old woman said to her, 'You look exactly like my younger daughter. Sadly she passed away a couple of months back. Could you do me a favor and say 'Goodbye, mother' with a kind smile on your face when I leave?
The young lady agreed for the same and said, 'Goodbye, mother' when the old woman left. Soon after, she got the most disengaging shock of her life.
Can you guess what the shock was?
The young lady was then approached by the waiter and presented by the bill. The old woman has assured the waiter that her daughter will pay for her meal.
Can you arrange the six given marbles in a manner that each one of them is touching all four marbles of different colors?
To make it happen, you must arrange the marbles as the vertices of an octahedron. See the image for reference.