#191 - 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.

#192 - Famous Barber Haircut Riddle

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?

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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.

#193 - Tricky Fun Riddle

Do you know who was buried in Drake's tomb?

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Drake obviously

#194 - Tricky Sequence Problem

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 _

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It's simple. Just put the letter 'F' over the line and it will become E to form the word SEQUENCE.

#195 - 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.

#196 - Trick Detective Murder Riddle

A couple went on for a climbing trip. But only the husband returned from the vacation and said that his wife slipped off while climbing and died. On investigating, the local sheriff arrested him saying, 'Your travel agent called. You murdered your wife.'

The man did not inform anyone about the trip. Then how did the agent was so sure that it is a murder?

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The man bought only one way ticket for his wife whereas he bought two way ticket for himself. It means that he was sure that he will be returning alone.

#197 - Simple Trick Question

There is a very small room in which four cats are sitting on the four corners. Opposite to each cat are three cats and at each cat's tail, is one more cat.

How many cats are sitting in that room all together?

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Four cats.
We told you that the room is very small. Each cat is sitting near the tail of the cat in the adjacent corner

#198 - Logical Trick Teaser

There are three boxes of different sizes with three cupcakes inside each of the boxes in Mandy’s kitchen. At night her daughter wakes up and goes to the kitchen. She opens a box and eat all the three cakes.

But in the morning Mandy finds out that each box still had three cupcakes. How?

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Mandy's daughter ate cupcakes from the largest box and then she kept a one of the smaller box in the empty box. In this way, each box still had three cupcakes when Mandy opened the boxes.

#199 - Good Tricky Riddle

Phrasing the words of a brave captain,'We voyaged through the never ending seas. The funny incident was when two of my sailors were standing on the opposite sides of the ship. One of the sailor was looking on the west and the other at east. But at that very time, they could see each other clearly as well.'

How can that be possible?

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This can be possible if they were looking across the deck at each other and were not looking at the sea.

#200 - IAS level question

Suppose you are a girl candidate and sitting in an interview. Suddenly the interviewer asks you, 'What if one morning you wake up and find out that you are pregnant?

How will you reply to such a question ?

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Normally, a single or unmarried girl might feel shocked with such a question. But if you are smart, you can answer, 'I will be quite excited and will ask you for an off to celebrate with my husband.'

Since the question is hypothetical, you don't have to take it in wrong manner and you can answer in the same hypothetical manner as well.