Friday, August 3, 2007

Puzzle 5

There are ten bags containing marbles. Each bag has at least 10 marbles in it. Nine of the bags contains only marbles weighting 10 grams each. One of the bags contains only marbles weighing nine grams each. Each bag has a different number of marbles in it. All of the marbles look exactly the same. The riddle is how can you know which bag has the nine gram marbles if the only device allowed to be used is a weighing scales which you can use only once?

Puzzle 4

Q1 : You go to a tap that delivers an unlimited amount of water. You have two empty containers, one of 7 liters, the other of 11 liters. At each operation one container must be completely filled or completely emptied. How many operations are required to fill one of the containers with exactly 6 liters of water? Kindly indicate the steps
Note: The containers are shaped so irregularly that you can't measure the required amount other than by making use of the other container.
Q2 : An eight gallon container is full and both a three gallon container and a five gallon container are empty. Without using any other containers, divide the water into two equal amounts.
Note: The containers are shaped so irregularly that you can't measure the required amount other than by making use of the other containers. There are two ways to solve this puzzle.

Thursday, August 2, 2007

Puzzle 3

There was a diamond broker who had 7 sons. Few months before his death he told his eldest son that he has hidden few diamonds somewhere and that when he dies he (the eldest son) should divide all the diamonds equally between 7 brothers. Few weeks later the father dies and the son gets the diamond and tells his younger brother that how they can have the diamonds equally between two of them with out telling others. When they divide the diamonds equally between themselves they are left with one diamond so they decide to include 3rd brother and divide the diamonds equally between them but again one diamonds is left. They bring the fourth brother but still one diamond is left so the fifth one comes in and then the sixth one but still one diamond is remaining. When they bring the seventh brother in the diamonds are equally divided.
The question is, how many diamonds are there, and how one diamond was left in every division (each time diamonds were shared between 6 brothers until they brought the seventh brother in). Diamonds are not allowed to be broken in two pieces.

Puzzle 2

You have a 3X3 table making a total of 9 small squares and you have to put numbers, from 10 to 18, one number in each square. No number can be repeated and no number left out. You have to put those numbers in each square so that if you add up all the numbers in one row or one column or diagonally it should be 42. Below is an example how to put it:A C BD F GE H IYou have to put numbers 1-9 (totally 9 numbers) in place of the letters A to I, in such a manner that A+C+B=42 A+D+E=42, A+F+I=42, B+G+I=42

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puzzle

Facts:1: There are 5 houses in 5 different colors2: In each house lives a person with a different nationality.3: These 5 owners drink a certain beverage, smoke a certain brand of cigar and keep a certain pet.4: No owner has the same pet, smoke the same brand of cigar or drink the same drink.
HINTS:1: The British lives in a red house.2: The Swede keeps dogs as pets3: The Dane drinks tea4: The green house is on the left of the white house (it also means they are next door to each other)5: The green house owner drinks coffee 6: The person who smokes Pall Mall rears birds 7: The owner of the yellow house smokes Dunhill 8: The man living in the house right in the center drinks milk 9: The Norwegian lives in the first house 10: The man who smokes Blend lives next to the one who keeps cats 11: The man who keeps horses lives next to the man who smokes Dunhill 12: The owner who smokes Blue Master drinks beer 13: The German smokes Prince 14: The Norwegian lives next to the blue house 15: The man who smokes Blend has a neighbor who drinks water.
The question is: WHO KEEPS FISH?