Tricky Puzzle
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A merchant owed money to a moneylender, but he couldn’t repay it. The moneylender proposed a deal in front of the merchant’s daughter. He would forgive the debt if he could marry her. He put two pebbles in a bag, one black and one white. If she picked the white one, she would be free from the debt; if black, she would marry him. But the moneylender put two black pebbles in the bag.
How did the merchant’s daughter outsmart the moneylender?
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What is the longest word you can form using the letters in the word \”recycling\”?
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There are many trees in my garden. One such tree is a mango tree and obviously, there are some mangoes on it. Using the Slingshot I try to get some mangoes. After half an hour there are no mangoes on trees and no mangoes with me.
How come?
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The man who invented it doesn’t want it. The man who bought it doesn’t need it. The man who needs it doesn’t know it. What is it?
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Sonal asked the class to see if they could find the sum of the first 50 odd numbers. As everyone settled down to their addition, Lavesh ran to her and said, ‘The sum is 2,500.’ Ms Sonal thought, ‘Lucky guess,’ and gave him the task of finding the sum of the first 75 odd numbers. Within 20 seconds, Lavesh was back with the correct answer
How does Lavesh find the sum so quickly and what is the answer?
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A simple logical interview question was asked to Rahul by the interviewee:
There is exactly one week between Christmas and New Year. Thus a New Year that occurs right after Christmas, happens to occur on the same day as Christmas. But in 2030, Christmas will occur on Wednesday and New Year will occur on Tuesday.How is that possible?
Rahul was able to answer the question. Can you?
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Christina tied her goat to a 2-meter rope and went to the market.
There is some hay approximately 3 meters away from the goat.
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A farmer challenges an engineer, a physicist, and a mathematician to fence off the largest amount of area using the least amount of fence.
The engineer made his fence in a circle and said it was the most efficient.
The physicist made a long line and said that the length was infinite. Then he said that fencing half of the Earth was the best.
The mathematician laughed at the others and with his design, beat the others. What did he do?
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There are three cows, two dogs, and one cat: How many legs do you have?
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John enters the bank aims to rob and finds Jacob standing inside armless. He aims a gun at him and asks him the code for the safe. Jacob says, ‘The code is different every day but if you hurt me, you will never get to know the code’.
John pins him down and ties him with a rope. He then inserts the safe code and easily takes all the money with him.
How did he know the code?
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