Game
| Forum | Description | Posts | Last Activity |
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| 22 Nov | Iqbal dealt 26 cards to mushtaq froma a pack of 52 cards .He then said to mushtaq,"One less than the number of red cards I have is equal to 1.5 times the number of black cards that I have." How many black cards does Mushtaq have? | 6 | Monday, 23 November 2009 |
| 23 Nov | How can you make 1000 by using digit 8 only 8 times.You can use mathematical operations +,- etc but you cannot use any other digit. There are many ways to do this.Post as many as you know. | 3 | Tuesday, 24 November 2009 |
| Week 9 | You are given 5 bags.There are 10 large balls in each of the bags.In 4 of the bags,the balls each weigh 10 kilograms.In the remaining bag,each ball weighs only 9 kilograms.You must find out which bag has the lighter balls.The problem is that all bags look identical and all the balls look identical.You can use a weighing scale,but it has to be a single tray scale,not a two tray balance scale.Also you may use the scale only once.How can you find out which bag has the lighter balls? | 9 | Tuesday, 19 January 2010 |
| 24 Nov | You are an archaeologist who just unearthed a long sought-after pair of ancient treasure chests.One chest is plated with silver and the other is plated with gold.According to legend,one of the two chests is filled with great treasure,whereas the other chest houses a man eating dragon that can rip your head off.Faced with a dilemna,you then notice that there are inscriptions on the chests.Based on these inscriptions which chest would you open? SILVER CHEST : This chest contains the dragon. GOLD CHEST :One of these two inscriptions is true. | 2 | Wednesday, 25 November 2009 |
| 25 Nov | There are 3 black hats and 2 white hats in a box.Three men (we will call them A,B,and C)each reaches into the box and places one of the hats on his own head.They cannot see what colour they have chosen.The men are situated in such a way that A can see the hats on B and C's heads,B can only see the hat on C's head and C cannot see any hats.When A is asked if he knows the colour of the hat he is wearing,he says no.When B is asked if he knows the colour of the hat he is wearing he says no.When C is asked if he knows the colour of the hat he is wearing he says yes and he is correct.What colour is his hat and how does he know? | 3 | Tuesday, 08 December 2009 |
| 26 Nov | Rohan's grandfather gave him exactly RS 298.He then said,'This amount will be yours if you do as I ask.' 'What do you want me to do?' Rohan asked.'Simply this.Divide the amount,in whole rupee increments,into a number of bags so that I can ask for any amount between Re 1 and Rs 298,and you can give me the proper amount by giving me a certain number of these bags without opening and taking partially from them.' What is the minimum number of bags Rohan will require? | 2 | Saturday, 28 November 2009 |
| 7 DEC | A storekeeper had a stone weighing 40 kg which is used to weigh goods in 40 kg lots.But one day it fell and broke into 4 pieces.The store-keeper found to his surprise that with 4 stone pieces he could weigh any whole number of pounds from 1 to 40.What are the weights of the 4 pieces? | 3 | Tuesday, 08 December 2009 |
| Challenge 1 | 4 dog dealers purchase a barge full of dogs.The first buys 1 airdale,3 spaniels and 7 puppies,and pays for this lot $14.The 2nd buys 1 Airdale,4 spaniels and 10 puppies,for which he pays $17.The 3rd buys 10 Airdales,15 Spaniels and 25 puppies;and the 4th buys 1 Airdale,1 spaniel and 1 puppy.How much does the 3rd dealer pay, and how much does the 4th pay? | 3 | Friday, 18 December 2009 |
| Challenge 2 | In an innovative contest four kinds of fruit,apple,banana,chikoo and dates,are placed in four different boxes.The boxes are closed and not transparent.Participants are asked to guess correctly the contents of each box.In all 123 students participate.43 of them could not identify any of the boxes correctly.39 of them could guess one box correctly.However,as many as 31 could guess two correctly but were wrong in identifying the other two.Can you tell how many people identified three boxes correctly and how many identified all four? | 5 | Monday, 01 March 2010 |
| Challenge 3 | I am sitting on a merry-go round.1/3 of people sitting in front of me together with 3/4 of people sitting behind me is equal to total number of people sitting on merry-go-round.Find the total no. of people sitting on merry-go-round. | 1 | Saturday, 08 May 2010 |
| Game b/w boys and girls | Wanna Play game(B/W Boys & Gals)..........? Its simple. girls add 5, boys subtract 5. Game starts wid an initial score of 500. If it reaches 0 boys win....If it reaches 1000 girls win TERMS & CONDITIONS ---------------------------- Every time same person should not reply (i.e) the next reply should not be the same person who replied before.... and u can reply again after the other person replied...... | 8 | Friday, 21 May 2010 |
| Puzzle of week 1 | Four sisters A,B,C and D are playing a game and each one of them have some amount of Rs with them. when one of them loses,the loser doubles the money of all others.In 4 such games A,B,C,D lose respectively and after the 4th game they all had 32 Rs each.What was the initial amount of money with them before playing? | 10 | Tuesday, 22 December 2009 |
| Puzzle of week 2 | A motor cyclist is travelling on a straight road at 70 kmph towards his house.His pet bird travels at 80 kmph from the motorcylist to the house and back in 1.6 hours.Find the distance between the house and the place from where the bird starts its journey towards the house? | 19 | Monday, 07 December 2009 |
| Today's Challenge | The number of times in a day the hour hand and the minute hand of a clock are at right angles is? | 8 | Sunday, 25 April 2010 |
| Week 10 | Three engineers work for the same companyTheir names are Mihir,Nakul and Omkar.Their surnames are:Gambhir,Hebale and Ingle but not respectively. Their ages are 40,45 and 50,but not repectively.From the three clues given below can you discoverthe full name and age of each engineer?Mr Gambhir is 10 years older than Omkar.Mr Ingle is 45 yrs old.Nakul is younger than Mr Gambhir.Who is who and how old is each of them? | 8 | Wednesday, 14 April 2010 |
| Week 11 | There are 5 houses in a row,each of a different colour,and inhabited by 5 people of different nationalities,with different pets,favourite drinks,and favourite sports.Use the clues below to determine who owns the monkey and who drinks water? 1.The Englishman lives in the red house. 2.The Spaniard owns the dog. 3.Coffee is drunk in the green house. 4.The Russian drinks tea. 5.The green house is immediately to the right of the white house. 6.The hockey player owns hamsters. 7.The football player lives in the yellow house. 8.Milk is drunk in the middle house. 9.The American lives in the first house on the left. 10.The table tennis player lives in the house next to the man with the fox. 11.The football player lives next to the house where the horse is kept. 12.The basketball player drinks orange juice. 13.The Japanese likes baseball. 14.The American lives next to the blue house. | 5 | Sunday, 31 January 2010 |
| Week 12 | A fish is thirty cm long.Its head is as long as its tail.If the head were twice as long as it really is,the head and tail would together be as long as what's in between.How long is each part of the fish? | 12 | Thursday, 01 April 2010 |
| WEEK 13 | 7 | Wednesday, 07 April 2010 | |
| Week 14 | You have a box of choclates with 100 choclates inside in 10 rows of 10.you know that one of the rows contains poisoned choclates which weigh 1.1 gm each while all the other choclates only weigh 1 gm each.You have an electronic scale which gives the reading of weight of anything placed on its plate.If you can only use the sacle once i.e you can only do 1 weighing ,how can you determine which row contains the poisoned choclate? | 1 | Sunday, 18 April 2010 |
| Week 15 | A man has some land where grass grows continuously & evenly.If 20 cows eat all the grass in 96 days & 30 cows eat all the grass in 60 days.Then how long does it take 70 cows to eat all of the grass? | 6 | Thursday, 13 May 2010 |
| Week 16 | What 5 digit number has the follwing property? If we put numeral 1 in front of the number,we get a number three times smaller;than if we put the numeral 1 behind this number. | 3 | Wednesday, 14 July 2010 |
| Week 3 | A rich merchant had collected many gold coins.He did not want anybody to know about them.One day his wife asked,'How many gold coins do we have?'After pausing a moment, he replied,'Well! IF i divide the coins into two unequal numbers,then 67 times the difference between the two numbers equals the difference between the squares of the two numbers.'His wife looked puzzled.CAN you help the merchant's wife by finding out how many gold coins they have? | 18 | Wednesday, 02 December 2009 |
| Week 4 | A five digit number abcde when multiplied by 4 reverses its digits to become edcba.Find the number if no digit is same | 13 | Wednesday, 09 December 2009 |
| Week 5 | There are 1000 lockers and 1000 students in a school.The principal asks the first student to go to each of the locker and open it.Then he asks the second student to go to every second locker and close it.The third student goes to every third locker,and if it is closed he opens it and if it is open he closes it.The fourth student does it to evry fourth locker and so on.The process is completed with all the thousand students. How many lockers are closed at the end of the process? | 36 | Wednesday, 23 December 2009 |
| Week 6 | Can you find a number which added to itself one or several times will give a total having the same digits as that number but differently arranged and after the sixth edition will give a total of all nines? | 8 | Thursday, 31 December 2009 |
| Week 7 | Three friends Piyush,Qasim and Robert,went camping.They got lost and had to spend a night in the middle of a forest.So they put up their camp and went to bed.They had carried with them a box of apples.During the night Piyush woke up and decided to hide his share of the apples and hid a third,then promptly fell asleep again.Qasim woke up shortly thereafter and also decided to hide a third of the remaining apples and he also went back to sleep.Finally Robert woke up and seeing the others were asleep ,took a third of what was left.Of course none of them knew of the others' antics.So,in the morning,they shared the remaining apples,each receiving sixteen.How many apples were in the crate originally? | 11 | Wednesday, 14 April 2010 |
| Week 8 | Nandini went to the bank with a bearer cheque that was given to her by her uncle.The cashier was watching a one-day match on the mobile television in front of him,so he made a mistake while cashing the cheque.He gave Nandini as many rupees as there were paise on the cheque and as many paise as there were rupees.Nandini did not count the money there but quickly left the bank.On the way home she spent 50 paise buying some coriander her mother had asked her to bring.On reaching home she found that she had got three times as much money as was on the cheque.How much money had her uncle given her? | 6 | Thursday, 14 January 2010 |
