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KAVITA RAIKWAR
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The Fighter's Puzzle Test for Bank PO - July

28, 2016
Puzzle 1:
Seven executives A. B. C, D. E. F and G from a company have to visit seven different places
Ahmedabad, Kolkata. Delhi. Chennai, Hyderabad. Bangalore and Jaipur to market their newly
launched product. The order of persons and cities may not be necessarily the same, Each one
flies by a different airline Spicejet. Kingfisher. Sahara. Jet. Air Deccan. Indian Airlines. Air
India, not necessarily in the same order. C goes to Kolkata but not by Sahara or Jet Airlines. D
flies by Air India to Bangalore, The one who goes to Jaipur does not travel by Air Deccan or
Sahara. E travels by Air Deccan. A does not go to Ahmedabad, F travels to Hyderabad by Spice
jet, B goes to Chennai by Kingfisher. E does not go to Ahmedabad. G does not go to Jaipur.
Puzzle 2:
Eight persons A B, C, D, E, F, G and H are sitting in a circle facing the centre. All of them have
different weight such as 40 Kg, 45 Kg, 50 Kg, 55 Kg, 60 Kg, 65 Kg, 70 Kg and 75 Kg but not
necessarily in the same order. A and B sit opposite each other and B is heavier than only C, who
is not neighbor of A, B is an immediate neighbor of F and D. The one who is the heaviest sits
opposite to H. The weight of A is 60 Kg, F who is just Lighter than A, is fourth to the right of E,
who is third to the right of C, H is Lighter than only D, E is Lighter than only 2 persons.
FINAL ANSWERS##########
1...
A, Jaipur ,Jet
B, Chennai, King
C, Kolkata, Indian Air
D, Bangalore, Air India
E ,Delhi , Deccan
F ,Hyderabad ,Spice Jet
G, Ahmedabad ,Sahara
2..
A,h,c,f,b,d,g,e,(clockwise)
D 75
H 70
E 65
A 60
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F 55
G 50
B 45
C 40

27, 2016
Puzzle 1:
Moon TV had decided to celebrate sports programmes week by telecasting programmes on
Badminton. Cricket. Football. Hockey. Tennis and Volleyball (not necessarily in the same order)
in a week starting from Wednesday.
(i) Sixth day of the programme was holiday.
(ii) Tennis was telecast immediately after Hockey and Football was telecast on fifth day of the
programme.
(hi) Badminton was telecast on third day after Saturday and Hockey programme was telecast on
fourth day before the holiday.
(iv) Volleyball was not telecast on first day.
Puzzle 2:
(i) There is a group of five persons M. N, O. P and Q of a family. They are businessman, farmer,
lawyer, doctor and teacher.
(ii) N is an unmarried teacher, who is M's daughter.
(hi) Q is a lawyer, who is Os brother.
(iv) O hi this family is the only husband of a married couple,
(v) M is a fanner, who is father of two sons and an unmarried daughter.
(vi) M's daughter-in-law is a doctor
Puzzle 3:
M, V, K. D. T, J and R are seven friends studying in different classes IIIrd. IVth, Vth. Vlth,
Vllth. Vlllth and IXth standards. Each of them has different favourite colours- yellow, blue, red,
white, black, green and violet. J likes red and studies in class Vth. R likes violet and studies in
Class Illrd. M studies in Class Vlllth and does not like green and yellow. K likes white and does
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not study in Vllth and in IVth. D studies in Vlth and likes black. T does not study in IVth. V does
not like green.
FINAL ANSWERS#####
1))
Wed======Cricket
Thurs=====Hockey
Fri=======Tennis
Sat======Volley
Sun=====Football
Mon=====Holiday
Tues=====Badminton
2)))
M===Farmer(male)
N===Teacher(female)
O===Businessman(male)
P===Doctor(female)
Q===Lawyer(male)
M(father) has three children===== N(unmarried daughter),,Q (unmarried son),, O (married son)
P (wife of O)
3)))
M===Blue===VIII
V===Yellow==IV
K===White==IX
D===Black==VI
T===Green==VII
J===Red====V
R===Violet===III

26, 2016
Puzzle 1:
Eight members T, U, V W, X, Y, Z and A of a family are sitting around a circular dining table
facing towards centre of table. there are two couples. One who is the grand mother of U, is
sitting fifth to the left of the father of X. T who is the mother of U.. is second to the right of her
mother-in-law. Z who is son of W, is in front of his only sister-in-law. Y who is only daughter of
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X is third to the right of her only uncle. V who is not neighbour of Z is third to the riight of W
who is a male. Son of W is not the neighbour of W and Z. A is not neighbour of his uncle.
Puzzle 2:
Ashutosh, Dhanya, Gagan, Manya, Harshit, Pratiksha and Sakshann are seven persons who
travel to office everyday by Virar fast local train which stops at five stations - Borivalli, Malad,
Andheri, Dadar and Church Gate respectively after it leaves the base station i.e. Virar. Three
among them get in at the base station. Harshit gets down at the next station at which Pratiksha
gets down. Dhanya does not get down with either Ashutosh or Manya. Saksham alone gets in at
Andheri station and gets down with Gagan after one station. Ashutosh travels between only two
stations and gets down at Church Gate station. None of them gets in at Malad station. Gagan gets
in with Pratiksha but does not get in with either Dhanya or Harshit. Manya gets in with two
others and gets down alone after Harshit. Dhanya and Harshit work in the same office and get
down together at Andheri station. None of them gets down at Borivali station.
FINAL ANSWERS########
#puzzle 1
Clockwise- W A X T Y V U Z
Male- W, X, Z, U, A
Female- V, T, Y
Blood Relation-
W=V (X & Z son)
T=X-Z [{(U & A son, Y daughter)of X & T}, and Z brother of X]
U-Y-A
#puzzle 2
------------------------in-----------------out
Virar -------- MGP/MDH - ----- -*
Borivali ------- GP/DH - ---------* -
Malad - ------------*------------ - P
Andheri ---------- S ----------- DH
Dadar ------------ A ----------- - M
Church- - ----------*---------- - ASG

25, 2016
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Puzzle 1:
Seven persons Ashish; Mahima, Nitish. Kartik, Sanya, Sunaina and Tamnima are sitting around
a circular table facing either the c entre or outside. Each one of them is from a different c ity viz.
Delhi, Mumbai: Bangalore, Pune, Kolkata, Hyderabad and Lucknow but not necessarily in the
same order. Nitish sits third to the right of Tamnima. Tamnima faces the centre. Only one person
sits between Nitish and the person from Pune. Immediate neighbours of Nitish face outside. Only
one person sits between Sunaina and Kartik. Both Sunaina and Kartik face the centre.. Kartik is
not from Pune. Ashish is from Hyderabad. Ashish faces the centre. Two people sit between the
persons from Hyderabad and Mumbai. The person who is from Kolkata sits to the immediate left
of Sanya. Nitish faces in the same direction as Sanya. The person who is from Bangalore sits to
the immediate left of the person from Lucknow.
Puzzle 2:
Eight persons Asma: Balwant: Chirag. Diya: Ellie: Farhan. Gourav and Harry are sitting around
a circular table not necessarily in the same order. Three of them are facing outward while five of
them are facing towards the centre. There are equal number of people in the group who like tea
and coffee. Chirag is facing the centre. Ellie is sitting third to the right of Chirag. Farhan is
sitting third to the left of Ellie. Three persons are sitting between Farhan and Balwant. The
immediate neighbors of Balwant like coffee. Gourav is sitting third to the right of Farhan. Diva is
sitting third to the right of Asma. Asma is not an immediate neighbor of Ellie. The immediate
neighbors of Ellie like tea and are facing the centre. The immediate neighbors of Diva like coffee
and are facing outside. The one sitting third to the left of Balwant likes tea. Nobody liking coffee
is an immediate neighbor of Gourav.
total time shuld be---7-8 mins
#puzzle 1
Clockwise- Nitish, sanya, sunaina, tamnima, kartik, ashish, mahima
Nitin - Kolkata - outside

Sanya - Mumbai - outside
Sunaina - pune - centre
Tamnima - Lucknow - centre
Kartik - Bangalore - centre
Ashish - Hyderabad - centre
Mahima - Delhi - outside
#puzzle 2
Clockwise- chirag, ashma, farhan, harry, diva, Ellie, balwant, gaurav
Chirag - tea - inward

Ashma - tea - outward
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Farhan - coffee - inward
Harry - coffee - outward
Diva - tea - inward
Ellie - coffee - outward
Balwant - tea - inward
Gaurav - coffee - inward

22, 2016
Puzzle 1:
Eight friends - P. Q, R, S, T U; V and W are sitting around a circular table not necessarily in the
same order. Three of them are facing outside (opposite to the centre) while five are facing the
centre. There are equal number of males and females in the group. R is facing the centre. T is
sitting third to the right of R. U is sitting third to the left of T. Three persons are sitting between
U and Q. The immediate neighbours of Q are females. V is sitting third to the right of U. S is
sitting third to the right of P. P is not an immediate neighbour of T. The immediate neighbours of
T are males and are facing the centre. The immediate neighbours of S are females and face
outside. The one sitting third to the left of Q is a male. No female is an immediate neighbour of
V.
Puzzle 2:
B, C, D, E. F. G, H and I are sitting in a straight line equidistant Tom each other (but not
necessarily in the same order). Some of them are facing south while some are facing north.
Facing the same direction means, if one is facing north then the other is also facing north and
vice versa. Facing the opposite directions means if one is facing north then the other is facing
south and vice versa. B sits third to the left of D. I faces north. D sits at one of the extreme ends
of the line. E is not an immediate neighbour of D. H sits third to the right of B. C sits on the
immediate right of H. C does not sit at any of the extreme ends of the line. Only one person sits
between G and E. H sits second to the left of G. F sits second to the right of C. Both the
immediate neighbours of H face the same direction. Both the immediate neighbours of B face the
opposite directions. F faces the same direction as C. D faces the same direction as I.
Puzzle 3:
Eight persons - A.. B, C, D, E. F. G and H belonging to the same family are sitting around a
circular table facing the centre but not necessarily in the same order. The following information
is given about their seating arrangement.
(i) B's only daughter and G's son are sitting adjacent to each other.
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(ii) A's son-in-law is B who is the father-in-law of C.
(iii) B's daughter is the sister of G's son who sits opposite D's wife.
(iv) Only one person sits between B's son and A's only daughter.
(v) F is a female whose grand-daughter is C's wife. F sits adjacent to her husband who sits
opposite A's daughter.
(vi) E's sister-in-law' sits third to the left of C's wife and C is not adjacent to any male.
puzzle 1
clckwise
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male-- q r p s
females-- t v u w
inside--- q v r u s
outside-- p t w
Puzle 2
fhcgbeid
north-- h g i d
south-- f c b e
Puzzle 3
Clockwise- D E A F H C G B
Female- H G E F
Male- A B C D
A=F ( G daughter)
B=G (E daughter, D son)
D=H
C=E

21, 2016
Puzzle 1:
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Eight buses which have different colours i.e. Red, Blue, Green, Pink, White, Black. Yellow and
Orange are parked in a circle in such a way that all buses are facing towards the centre but not
necessarily in the same order. White bus is opposite of Black bus. White bus is second to the left
of Blue bus and is not to the next of Red and Pink buses. Red bus is parked between Green and
Yellow buses. Orange and Yellow buses are not parked near to Black bus.
Puzzle 2:
Six friends - U, V. W. X. y. Z meet each other after a long time in a cafe and are sitting around a
circular table facing towards the centre of the table. They are of different religions - Hindu,
Muslim. Sikh. Christian. Jain and Parsi - and are eating different dishes in the cafe Dosa,
BiryanL Paneer Bhurji. Pizza, Pav Bhaji and Dhan Saak, but not necessarily in the same order.
The persons who are Hindu, Sikh and Jain are not eating Dosa or Birvani. The persons who are
eating Paneer Bhurji and Pav Bhaji are not Hindu or Sikh. U is not eating Dosa and he is not on
the immediate left of the person who is a Christian, The only person who is between Y and Z is a
Muslim. The person, who is on the left side of the one who is eating Dosa is not a Parsi. X is a
Christian and he is eating Paneer Bhurji. also he is facing the person who is a Muslim, The
person who is a Hindu is seated opposite to the person who is eating Dhan Saak. The person who
is eating Paneer Bhurji is on the immediate left of the one who is a Jain, The person who is a
Parsi is on the immediate right of the person, who eats Dosa but on the immediate left of the
person, who is a Sikh. W is not a Sikh and Z is not a Hindu.
Puzzle 3:
Each of the eight persons Priya: Kriya: Riya: Siya: Tia: Urvashi: Vira and Yogita uses a different
brand of lipstick. Each one of them goes to a college among Elite College, Imperial College and
Evergreen College. The following information is known about them.
(i) Exactly two persons go to Elite College and two study in Imperial College.
(ii) Riya uses Lakme and does not study in Imperial College.
(iii) The person who uses Loreal goes to Imperial College.
(iv) Kriya and Tia study in Evergreen College and they use Maybelline and Chanel.
(v) The person who uses Dior studies in Imperial College and the person who uses Faces studies
in Evergreen College.
(vi) Urvashi uses Inglot and studies in the same college as Riya.
(vii) Neither Vira nor Yogita uses Loreal but they study in the same college. Siya does not use
Dior, Tia does not use Maybelline and Vira does not use Krylon.
FINAL ANSWERS##########
puzz#1
(clockwise) black---pink---blue---orange---white---yellow---red---green.
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puzz#2
(clockwise)
man-----------religion-----------food
w________muslim_______dosa
y________hindu________pizza
u________jain__________pavbhaji
x________christian______paneerbhurji
v________sikh_________dhansaak
z________parsi_________biryani
puzz#3
college-------------lady--------------lipstick
elite__________riya________lakme
elite__________urvashi_____ingolt
imperial_______siya________loreal
imperial_______priya_______dior
evergreen_____kriya_______maybelline
evergreen_____tia_________chanel
evergreen_____vira________faces
evergreen_____yogita______krylon.

19, 2016
Puzzle 1:
1, 2, 3 4 5. 6, 7 and 8 are eight friends. Two of them like watch and three of them like ring and
bracelet each. They all are of different weights, The lightest does not like ring and the heaviest
does not like watch. 7 is lighter than 4, but only heavier than 1 .8 likes bracelet with 4, and is
fourth from the top. 7 does not like either ring or watch. 2 does not like watch. 6 is heavier
than1and 4, but lighter than 2 and 8. 3 who does not like ring., is heavier than 2 and is the second
heaviest.
Puzzle 2:
Each of the five persons Akshay. Dhanush. Kartik. Nitin and Rohan is working with a different
lT company among Infosys. HCL. T CS. IBM and Accenture, not necessarily in that order. They
are of different weights and each of them have been assigned overseas projects in different
countries among Singapore. Australia. France. Germany and Italy. he following information
is known about them
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(i) Dhanush is the third heaviest and is working with TCS and neither Dhanush nor the fourth
heaviest person has been assigned for a project in Australia.
(ii) The lightest person has been assigned a project in Italy and he is not working with HCL or
Accenture.
(iii) The heaviest person has been assigned a project in Singapore but he is not Nitin.
(iv) Kartik has been assigned a project in Germany but he is not lighter than the one who is
working with IBM.
(v) Akshav is working with Accenture but he has not been assigned a project in Australia.
Puzzle 3:
Six friends Ajay, Bablu, Chandu, Dada, Varun and Uman have three types of cycles - Hercules,
Trek and Hero and they like three school bag of different colours - Brown, Green and Red. Each
of them has a cycle and bag. Only two of them have the same type of cycles and only two of
them like same colour s bag. Ajay and Uman do not like Hercules cycle and red colour s bag.
Chandu and Dada do not like Trek cycle and green colour s bag. Ajay and Bablu do not like Trek
cycle. Bablu does not like Hero cycle and red colour's bag and Chandu does not like Hercules
cycle and red colour's bag. The one who has Trek cycle, does not like brown colour s bag. Varun
and Bablu do not like green colour s bag.
puzzle 1
1<7<4<6<8<2<3<5
watch- 1,3
bracelet- 7,4,8
ring- 6,2,5
puzzle 2
from lightest to heaviest
nitin/rohan-italy-IBM
kartik-germany-HCL/infosys
dhanush-france-TCS
nitin/rohan-australia-HCL/infosys
akshay-singapore-accenture
puzzle 3
ajay-hero-green
uman-trek-green
chandu-hero-brown
dada-herculous-red
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bablu-herculous-brown
varun-treck-red

18, 2016
Puzzle 1:
Eight people T. S, A, D, F, G H and K are living in a building of seven floors. Ground floor of
that building is numbered 1, first floor is numbered 2, second floor is numbered 3, third floor is
numbered 4 and so on. Except one floor, all other floors have only one person but not necessarily
in the same order. T lives on 6th floor but he is not the neighbour of A and F. G lives
immediately above the K's floor. There are two persons on 5th floor. Neither G nor D lives on
5th floor. K does not live on 2nd and 3rd floors. Hs floor is not near to Ks floor.
Puzzle 2:
Preeti, Qamar, Ram Sarita Tahir, Vartika and Sachin are seven friends working in TCS. They
work in three shifts- 12:00 a.m. to 8:00 a.m., 8:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m. and 4:00 p.m. to 12:00 a.m.
There is. at least one and not more than three among them in any of these shifts. Each of them
get one day off i n every week from Monday to Sunday. Qamar works with only Tahir in 8:00
a.m. to 4:00 p.m. shift and his weekly off is immediate to the next of the off day of Preeti. Sarita
has weekly off on Sunday and she is not in the same shift with either Ram or Qamar. Preeti is in
12:00 a.m. to 8:00 a.m. with Ram whose off day is immediately after Qamar and immediately
before Tahir. Vartikas off day is immediately after Tahir but not on Saturday. The employee
having off day on friday works in 4:00 p.m. to 12:00 a.m. shift and that on a Saturday does not
work with Tahir. Sachin does not work either in 8:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m. shift or 4:00 p.m. to 12:00
a.m. shift.
Puzzle 3:
Eight friends Andaz; Billu, Chirag, Dhriti, Elsy, Fatima, Garvit and Harkirat are sitting in a circle
but not necessarily in the same order. Four of them are facing outside and four of them are fac
ing the centre.
I. Elsy faces outside. Both the immediate neighbors of Elsy face the centre. Harkirat sits second
to the right of Elsy. Billu sits third to the left of Elsy.
II. Dhriti faces the centre. Both the immediate neighbors of Dhriti face outside.
III. Garvit sits second to the left of Andaz. Billu sits third to the right of Harkirat and is fac ing
the same direction as Chirag.
IV. Fatima is an immediate neighbor of Dhriti. Chirag is an immediate neighbor of Garvit.
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V. Dhriti is not an immediate neighbor of Billu.
FINAL ANSWERS#######
puzzle 1
1---k
2---g
3--a/f
4--a/f
5--s and h
6--t
7--d
puzzle--2
preeti--12-8-monday
qamar--8-4--tuesday
ram--12-8--wednesday
sarita--4-12--sunday
tahira--8-4--thursday
vartika--4-12--friday
sachin--12-8--saturday
puzzle--3
clckwise--
eahgcbfd
inside-- b d a c
outside-- h g e f

16, 2016
Puzzle 1:
Five persons A. B. V; R and S bought ice creams of different brands viz Amul. Mother Dairy.
Kwality, Naturals and London Dairy. From every brand they bought different number of scoops
of ice cream ranging from 1 to 5. No two persons got same number of scoops of ice cream of any
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brand and no person bought the same number of scoops of ice cream of any brand. It is known
that A bought 3 scoops of Kwality ice-cream and 5 scoops of Amul ice-cream. The person who
bought 1 scoop of London Dairy ice cream bought 3 scoops of Mother Dairy ice cream. S bought
4 scoops of Kwality ice-cream and he bought greater number of scoops of Naturals ice-cream
than Kwality ice-cream. V bought 3 scoops of Mother Dairy ice cream and B bought 3 scoops of
Naturals ice-cream. R did not buy one scoop of Mother Dairy ice cream. He bought 3 scoops of
Amul ice cream and 2 scoops of Kwality ice cream. V did not buy 2 scoops of Amul ice cream
and B did not buy 4 scoops of Mother Dairy ice cream.
Puzzle 2:
Eight friend Dewey. Deniyal, Denmark. Denim. Decosta, Dutch, David and Delnaaz are sitting
around a circular table and all are facing towards, the center but not necessarily in same order.
Each of them represents eight different companies viz. Phillips, Lenovo, Sansui, Apollo, Nikon,
Aiwa, Uptron and Tata. Dutch sits second to the right of representative of Aiwa. Representative
of Nikon is an immediate neighbour of representative of Tata. Denmark and Decosta are
immediate neighbours of each-other. Neither Denmark nor Decosta is an immediate neighbour of
Deniyal or representative of Tata. Two people sit between representatives of Nikon and Deniyal.
David and representative of Uptron are immediate neighbours. Only one person sits between
Denmark and representative of Sansui. Delnaaz sits third to the left side of representative of
Apollo and is the representative of Tata. Representative of Aiwa sits second to the left of
representative of Lenovo. Representative of Phillips sits second to the right of Denim who is not
the representative of Nikon. Deniyal is not the representative of Uptron. Denmark sits second to
the left of Denim.
Puzzle 3:
Eight girls Jiya, Mona, Priya, Mini, Radha, Kirtir Ravina and Rini are sitting in a straight line in
such a way that only four girls are facing towards south, but not necessarily in the same order,
Mona sits fourth to the left of Radha who is not the neighbour of Kirti. Priya is second to the
right of Ravina who does not face towards north, The one who is third to the right of Mona, faces
south, Mini and Rini are neighbours of each other. Rini is third to the right of Radha, Directions
of Priya and Ravina are not same, The one who sits between Jiya and Rini, faces north, Radha is
not at any end of a line.
Final Answers##########
pzl 1##
AMUL MOTHER KWALITY NATURAL LONDON

A51342
B25134
V43521
R34215
S12453
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PZL2##
CLOCKWISE
DENIM /DECOSTA/DENMARK/DAVID /DELNAAZ/DUTCH /DENIYAL/DEWREY
SANSUI/APOLLO/UPTRON/NIKON /TATA/LENOVO /PHILIPS /AIWA
PZL 3##
Mona, priya, kirti, raveena, radha, jiya, .mini, rini
North-mona, priya, radha, mini

14, 2016
Puzzle 1
Seven persons Param, Qureshi, Rahim, Salim, Taman, Utkarsh and Vrat like seven different
fruits Apple. Banana, Cherry, Pineapple, Strawberry, Pear and Guava and they went to three
hotels among Hyatt, Taj Palace and ITC Maurya. At least two persons went to each hotel and
only one person likes each fruit. Param likes Apple but did not go to Hyatt. Qureshi went to ITC
Maurya and likes Guava. Rahim and Salim went to the same hotel, but is not ITC Maurya. Only
one of Utkarsh and Virat went to Taj Palace. The person who likes Pear went to Taj Palace.
Neither Vrat nor Taman went to ITC Maurya. Utkarsh does not like either Banana or Strawberry.
The person who likes Pineapple did not go to Taj Palace. Either Rahim or Taman likes Pear.
Taman and Utkarsh went to the same hotel, but neither of them likes Cherry. Neither Taman nor
Salim likes Strawberry.
Puzzle 2
There are eight friends Mehak. Supriya. Siva. Komal. Simran. Diva. Mira and Sheetal are sitting
in a circle. Three of them are facing the centre and rest of them facing outside the centre.
Everyone uses different kinds of applications in their mobile phones namely Snapchat.
Whatsapp. Twitter. Instagram. LINE. Skype. Viber and Facebook. Mehak is facing the centre
and sitting third to the right of Supriya. Siva is facing the centre and sitting fourth to the left of
Komal. Simran is facing away from the centre and uses Snapchat. Diva and Mira are neighbors
of Siva and use Twitter and Whatsapp respectively. Supriya is facing the centre and uses
Instagram. Komal uses LINE and is sitting to the left of Mehak. The person sitting to the
immediate right of Supriya does not use LINE or Twitter. The person who is sitting third to the
right of Mehak uses Facebook. Simran uses Snapchat. Only Simran sits between the persons who
use Whatsapp and Skype.
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Puzzle 3
Athletes G. H. I: J. K: L and M are travelling on three different vehicles. here are at least two
athletes in each vehicle BMW, Mercedes, Lexus and only one of them is a male, here are
two gymnasts, two swimmers and three runners among them. Further.
(i) I is a lady swimmer and she does not travel with the pair of sisters G and L.
(ii) H. a male gymnast, travels with only M. a runner in BMW.
(iii) J is a male swimmer.
iv) Two athletes from the same sport do not travel in the same vehicle.
(v) G is not a gymnast and travels in Mercedes.
Final Answers### Total Time for all 3 puzzles---12mins

Puzzle 1
Param ITC apple

Querashi ITC guava
Rahim Taj pear
Salim Taj cherry
Taman Hyatt banana
Utkarsh Hyatt Pinnaple
Virat Taj Strwaberry
Puzzle:- 2
clockwise form
Supriya (cen.) Insta
diva (out) Twitter
siva (cen) facebook
miva (out) whatsapp
simran(out) snapchat
mahak(cen) skype
komal (out) line
seetal (out) viber
Puzzle :-3
G :-runner :-mercedes
J :-swimmer:-mercedes
L :-symnast:-mercedes
H :-gymnast:-BMW
M :-runner:-BMW
I:-swimmer:-lexus
K :-runner:-lexus
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G, L, I are female
J H K M are mal

13, 2016
Puzzle 1:
A. B, C. D. E. F, G and H are eight boys studying in VIII. IX and X standards of a school with
not more than three hi any standard. Each of them has a favourite sport from Football. Cricket.
Volleyball. Basketball, Lawn Tennis, Table Tennis. Badminton and Hockey not necessarily in
the same order, D likes Badminton and does not study either in VIII or X. H's favourite sport is
Hockey and he studies in standard X with only B among them, A likes Volleyball and does not
study in the same standard in which E studies, F studies in VHI std, and his favourite sports is
Football, G does not study in the same standard in which C studies. None of the students
studying in IX std, likes Cricket or Basketball, B likes Table Tennis. G does not like Lawn
Tennis.
Puzzle 2:
There are seven students - Vinay, Vishal Vipul, Vikas Vinamr Vaibhav and Vibhuti in a class.
Each of them has liking for a different subject - Economics, Marketing, Physics, Chemistry,
Botany, Science and Finance. Each student has different marks (not necessarily in the same
order). Vipul has secured second highest marks and neither Economics nor Marketing is his
favourite subject. Vinamr has secured the least marks and neither Science nor Marketing is his
favourite subject. The favouite subject of Vikas is Physics and he has more marks than Vishal
and Vibhuti but less than Vinay, The favourite subject of Vishal is Botany and his marks are
more than the marks of Vinamr but less than the marks of Vibhuti. The favourite subject of
Vinay is Finance. The student, whose favourite subject is chemistry got the highest marks.
Puzzle 3:
In a talent show, eight contestants Shivika, Veera; Mahima; Shayan; Prateek. Rahul, Charlie
and Pulkit are sitting in three rows R1, R2 and R3. And they are in three different categories;
dancing, singing or both S and D. In each row at least two and at most three contestants are
sitting there. And at least two contestants are in each category but not more than three. Veera and
Mahima are in different rows but not in row R2 and both S and D are in the same categories.
Pulkit and Charlie are in the same row and in same categories, but not in S and D. Shayan and
Prateek are in different rows but not in row R1 and in different categories but not in both S and
D. Shivika is in row R2 and Shayan is not in the same row as in Shivika. Both the contestants of
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row R2 are singers. Rahul is in both S and D category and not in row R1. From three contestants
who are in both S and D category, two are in row R3. Rahul and Mahima are in the same row
and three of the contestants are in dancing.
FIANL ANSWERS###########
Puzzle 1:-
Person Class Sport

A IX Volley
B X Table Tennis
C IX lawn
D IX Bad
E VIII basket/crct
F VIII foot
G VIII basket/crct
H X hockey
Puzzle 2 :-
1 ) vaibhav chemistry
2 ) vipul science
3 ) vinay finance
4 ) vikas physics
5 ) vibhuti marketing
6 ) vishal botany
7 ) vinamra economics
Puzzle 3:-
R1 : charlie:-danci ng,veera:- s&d, pulkit:- dancing

R2: prateek:-singing , shivi :-singin
R3: shayan:-dancing, rahul :-s&d, mahima :-s&d

12, 2016
Puzzle 1:
Ten persons P, Q, R, S, T C, D. E. F and G are sitting in two rows. Each row has five persons
and they all are facing to each other. D who is not in front of the neighbour of T, is third from
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left end. The person who is facing to Q, is third to the left of T. E, who is in opposite row of D, is
fourth from left end but not opposite to Q. R and C are opposite to each other. P is the neighbour
of the person who is opposite to R. G and S are not the neighbour of E.
Puzzle 2:
1. 8 persons E. F, G, H, I j K and L are seated around a square table - two on each side. All are
facing inside.
2. There are 3 ladies who are not seated next to each other.
3. J is between Land F.
4. G is between I and F.
5. H, a lady member is second to the left of J.
6. F, a male member is seated opposite to E who is a lady member.
7. There is a lady member between F and I
Puzzle 3:
Ashutosh. Dhanya, Gagan, Manya. Harshit, Pratiksha and Saksham are seven persons who travel
to oice everyday by Virar last local train which stops at live stations - Borivali, Malad. Andheri.
Dadar and Church Gate respectively alter it leaves the base station i.e. Virar. Three among them
get in at the base station. Harshit gets down at the next station at which Pratiksha gets down.
Dhanya does not get down with either Ashutosh or Manya. Saksham alone gets in at Andheri
station and gets down with Gagan alter one station. Ashutosh travels between only two stations
and gets down at Church Gate station. None of them gets in at Malad station. Gagan gets in with
Pratiksha but does not get in with either Dhanya or Harshit. Manya gets in with two others and
gets down alone after Harshit. Dhanya and Harshit work in the same office and get down
together at Andheri station. None of them gets down at Borivali station.
#ANSWER
1st
R Q D G/S S/G (facing south)
C P F E T ( NORTH )
2ND PUZZLE
CLOCK WISE DIRECTION
JLHKEIGF
J facing K
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F facing E
H facing I
L Facing G
H E G ( female members)
3)
Getting in. Station.
Gagan,patiksha,Manya- / Virar-
Harshit,Dhanya / -Borivali
Saksham /-Andheri-
Ashutosh. -Dadar-
getting out
patiksha / malad
dhanya , harshit / andheri
manya / dadar
saksham, gagan, ashutosh/ church gate

11, 2016
Puzzle 1:
Seven Professors A, B. C, D. E, F and G are engaged in evaluation of answer papers in three
different subjects English. Mathematics and History. At least two persons evaluate the papers in
each subject. Each of the evaluators stay in different buildings P. Q. R, S, T,V and W not
necessarily in the same order. A evaluates English papers only with E and stays in building R. D
stays in building W and does not evaluate Maths papers. The one who stays in building V
evaluates History papers. B and C do not evaluate the papers in the same subject. Those who
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evaluate English papers do not stay in building Q. F stays in building P but does not evaluate
History papers. G evaluates same papers as F. C stays in building T.
Puzzle 2:
P. Q, R. S, T, V and W are seven members of a club. Each of them has a favourite sport from
Chess. Table Tennis. Lawn Tennis. Volleyball, Badminton. Basketball and Carrom, not
necessarily in the same order. Each of them also has a specific choice of colour from Blue.
Red. Green. Yellow, Grey. Black and White, not necessarily in the same order. R likes Green
and his favourite sport is Badminton. Vs choice of colour is neither Red nor Black. Ts favourite
sport is neither Table Tennis nor Basketball. The one who likes Blue does not like Carrom. The
one who likes Volleyball does not like Yellow and Grey. Q's favourite sport is Lawn Tennis and
he likes Black. S likes White. W likes Basketball. P likes Volleyball. T likes Blue. The one who
likes Basketball does not like Grey.
Puzzle 3:
Seven neighbours Meena, Teena, Cheena, Leena, Seena, Alinaa and Reena all are living in a
building on ground floor, first second, third, fourth, fifth and sixth floor, All are going outside
from the building in a week i.e., Sunday, Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday and
Saturday (Not necessarily in the
same order). Only one person goes outside from the building in a day, Seena lives on second
floor and goes outside on Tuesday. Teena and Cheena are not the neighbours of Seena and go
outside on Friday and Thursday respectively. Meena lives on sixth floor and goes outside on
Saturday, Two persons live between the floor of Cheena and Alinaa. Reena is the neighbour of
Alinaa and lives on ground floor and goes outside on Sunday. Cheena lives just below Teena s
floor. Leena does not go outside on Monday.
Final answers###
Puzzle1-
A eng r
B his v
C maths t
D his w
E eng s
F maths p
G maths q
Puzzle 2--
P red volly
Q blck lawn tenn
R green badm
S white tt/ carrom
T blue chess
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V grey tt/ carrom
W yell bsktball

8, 2016
Puzzle 1:
Four males and females namely R, Q, R, S, T, U, V and W are sitting around a square table in
such a way that four of them sit at the four corners of the square table while four sit in the middle
of each of four sides. The ones who sit at the four corners face the center while those who sit in
the middle of the sides face outside. Two females sit in the middle of the sides and two at the
corners. P sits second to the left of V. V sits on the middle of one of the sides. R sits fourth to the
right of his wife and his wife is not an immediate neighbour of P or V. Q sits third to the right of
her husband. Q does not sit at any of the corners. Only S sits between G and W. W is the
husband of P. Both V and T are males.
Puzzle 2:
Seven boys Farhan, Javed, Monish, Sareen, Aman, Bimal and Kamal stay in three different
localities in Delhi viz. Saket. Green Park and Hauz Khas. Each locality has at least one of the
given boys. Each one of them studies seven different subjects viz. History, Accountancy,
Geology, Mathematics, Physics, Chemistry and Botany but not necessarily in the same order.
(i) Bimal is staying in Green Park and studies Mathematics.
(ii) The boys who study Chemistry and Accountancy stay in the same locality.
(iii) Monish studies Physics but does not stay in Saket.
(iv) Farhan is staying in Hauz Khas with Monish and studies Geology.
(v) Aman studies Botany and stays in Green Park.
(vi) Sareen studies neither Accountancy nor Chemistry and stays in Hauz Khas.
(vii) Javed does not study Chemistry.
Puzzle 3:
Eight persons Of Q, P, G, S, M, W and Z are living in a building. There are eight floors in a
building. Each of them is living at each floor. There is a part/ in floors 2 and 7. Four people are
going to the party of floor 2 and remaining persons are going to the party of floor 7. In the party
of floor 2, people are playing a game. They all are sitting in circular table and facing towards the
center. People of other party are also playing a game and they all are sitting in a square table and
facing opposite to the center. O lives at floor 4 and he is not going in the party of floor 7. Q is the
best friend of O and is going with him. P and Z are not going in a party where S is going. S and
M live at floors 3 and 1respectively. In a game G is second to the right of O and W is opposite of
P. Regarding floor Q is not a neighbour of O and lives between Z and P. W lives at 5th floor.
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FINAL ANSWERS####
1---clckwise
wtprvuqs
males- w r t v
females- p s q u
2--
f--hk--geo
j--saket--acc
m--hk--phy
s--hk---his
a--gp--bot
b--gp--maths
k--saket--chem
3--
1--m
2--g
3--s
4--o
5--w
6--z/p
7--q
8--z/p
2nd floor party---o q g s
7th floor- w p z m

6, 2016
Puzzle 1:
Eight persons Q. F. Y. A. U, N, G and are sitting around a square table in such a way that four
of them who sit at the corner, are facing towards the centre and other four who sit in the middle
of each row, are facing outside the c entre. Each person has different lucky numbers 11, 12,
13, 14. 15: 16: 17 and 13 but the sequence of persons and lucky numbers are not necessarily in
the same order. A's daughter's lucky number is 11. Only one person is sitting between O and N.
T 's brother A. sits on the immediate left of his mother whose lucky number is 16. O is the father
of G. Only one person sits between T's mother and U. U sits on the immediate right of the person
whose lucky number is 1.2. No female is an immediate neighbour of F who sits at the comer of
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the table. A's daughter sits second to the right of N and on the immediate left of that person
whose lucky number is 13. F sits second to the left of T 's husband whose lucky number is
neither 14 nor 17. N, who is sister of G. her lucky number is 17 and is not an immediate
neighbour of T's husband. Only one person sits between T and G. G sits second to the right of the
person whose lucky number is 13. G is father of Y and not an immediate neighbour of U. Y is
not married to T.
Puzzle 2:
Five persons W, K, R, T and M are working overtime only on one of the days from Monday to
Saturday with one of the days being a holiday. The over time work done on the previous day of
the holiday was by R. K worked over time the next day after the holiday. There was a two day's
gap between the days on which W and K worked over time. W worked over time the next day of
the over time of T. R and M did not work over time on the first day.
Puzzle 3:
1. P, Q, R, S,T, U, V and W are eight friends each having a different weight.
2. S is lighter than P but heavier than V.
3. T is heavier than W but lighter than R.
4. Q is lighter than S but heavier than U.
5. R is lighter than V.
6. V is not as heavy as U
Final
Answers
Clockwise
A u y n t o g f
12 11 13 17 18 15 14 16
2nd
T--monday
W--tues
R--wed
Off- thurs
K- fri
M--sat
3rd puzzle
Heaviest to lightest
Psquvrtw
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5, 2016
Puzzle 1:
Anjali. Bhanu, Deepak, Kritika and Manisha are studying in five different Business Schools.
Each of them is going to a different city by Duronto Express to participate in five different
competitions. In the train. food is served. The person who takes vegetarian food is the person
participating in quiz. All the other four persons have non vegetarian food. he four persons
who had non vegetarian food were - Anjali. the person studying in 1 1 M. the person who was
going to Pune and the person who was going to participate in B plan competition. Kritika did not
have vegetarian food and she had to go to Mumbai. Kritika was not studying in IIM. Bhanu was
going to Ahmedabad. He did not have vegetarian food. Manisha was not participating in Debate,
Paper presentation or Ad-Mad competition. But the person who was travelling to Bangalore was
participating in Debate competition and the person studying in FMS was going to participate in
Ad-Mad competition. Kritika was not studying in XLRI. he person studying in XLRI had non
vegetarian food. The person studying in 1 1 FT was not travelling to Delhi. One of the students
was from MDI.
Puzzle 2:
There are six Engineers. Namit. Manish. Roshan. Riya. Pankit and Punit from six different
companies: Wipro, Infosys. Google, IBM. Forex and Grant Thornton were going to attend a
seminar in Delhi. On their way. they met with an accident and were admitted in three different
hospitals. At least, two Engineers' were admitted in the same hospitals. Each of them is a
specialist in different fields Civil, Chemical. Geotechnical. Aeronautic s, Computer Science and
Mechanical. Namit was admitted in Fortis hospital and he is from Infosys but he is neither
Chemical nor Geotechnical Engineer. Pankhis from Wipro and he is a Mechanical engineer. He
was not admitted with Roshan. Riya was admitted with the engineer from IBM. One of the
engineers who were admitted in Max Healthcare hospital is a Chemical engineer. Manish is not
from Google and Grant Thornton and he is an Aeronautics Engineer. One of the engineers who
were admitted in Saket City hospital is a Computer Science engineer. Pumhis neither from Forex
nor from Grant Thornton. Geotechnical engineer and Mechanical engineer were not admitted in
Fortis hospital. Engineers from Wipro and Google were admitted together. The Aeronautic s
engineer was admitted in Fortis hospital. The engineer whose field is Mechanical was admitted
at Max Healthcare hospital.
Puzzle 3:
Six friends Aryan, Rahul. Mayank. Harman, Paritosh and Mandeep married in different hotels
viz.. Trident Hotels. Oberoi Hotel, Ashoka Hotel. Taj Hotel. Le Meridian and ITC Maurya and
all the grooms gifted different cars to their respective brides viz. Duster. Fortuner. Swift. i20.
Wagon R and i10, but not necessarily in the same order. The brides' names were Simran.
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Harpreef. Vrinda, Friyanka, Gunjan and Aishwarya, once again not following any order. The
following are some facts about their weddings.
I. Mayank gifted His wife Swift on their wedding, however he was not married to Simran or
Aishwarya.
II. Aryan gifted his wife Duster and Paritosh gifted i20 to his wife. However neither of them was
married to Harpreet or Priyanka.
III. The bride who was gifted i10 got married in Trident Hotels.
IV. Vrinda's wedding took place in Oberoi Hotel, but she was not gifted Duster.
V. Simran and Gunjan got married in Trident Hotels and Le Meridian and own Swift and i10 but
not necessarily following the above mentioned order.
VI. Harman did not gift Fortuner or i10 to his wife and was married in ITC Maurya.
vii. Mandeep was married to Harpreet in Taj Hotel.
FINAL ANSWERS#####
Puzzle 1:
Person - School - Competition - Food - Place
anjali - xlri - debate - nv - bangalore
bhanu - iim - pp - nv - ahmedabad
deepak - fms - ad - nv - pune
kritika - iift - bp - nv - mumbai
manisha - mdi - quiz - v - delhi
2.
Namit infosys fortis civil
Manish forex fortis aero
Roshan ibm saket geo/cs
Riya Grant saket cs/geo
Pankit wipro max mech
punit google max chemical
3.
Aryan duster ashoka aiswarya
rahul i10 trindent simran
mayank swift le meredian gunjan
harman wagon r itc maurya priyanka
paritosh i20 oberoi vrinda
mandeep fortuner taj harpreet
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4, 2016
Puzzle 1:
Poorvika, Purnima, Poonam, Payal. Pallavi, Preeti and Priya are a group of friends travelling in
three vehicles Safari, Scorpio and Fortuner. At least two people sit in the same vehicle. There are
two Photographer Two Psychiatry and three Artist. Only one male travels in each vehicle. No
two persons belonging to the same field travel together. Poonam does not travel with pair of
sisters Poorvika and Priya. Purnima, a male photographer travels only with Preeti, an Artist in
Safari car. Poorvika is not a photographer and travels in Scorpio car. Poonam is a female
psychiatry. Payal is a male psychiatry.
Puzzle 2:
Parry, Qabil, Ronald, Steven, Teresa, Velar and William are sitting in a straight line facing north.
Each one of them lives in different floors numbered one to seven Qabil sits fourth to the left of
the person living on the 6th floor. Either Qabil or person living on the sixth floor sits at the
extreme ends of the line. Only one person sits between Qabil and William. William lives on the
third floor. The person living on the first floor sits third to the right of Steven. Steven is not an
immediate neighbor of William. Only one person lives between the floor where Teresa lives and
the person who lives on the second floor. Parry and Ronald are immediate neighbors of each
other. Parry does not live on the sixth floor. One who lives on the fifth floor sits third to the right
of one who lives on the topmost floor.
Puzzle 3:
Ankit, Deepa, Harshit Kartik, Mehak, Nikita, Pankaj and Shefali are working in three different
departments viz. Finance, Marketing and Human Resource in three different companies viz.
Airtel, ITC and Tata Motors. There are three females among them one in each company. There
are at least two persons working in each company. People working in same company are
working in the same department as well. Harshit is not working in the same company as Deepa
and Pankaj. Mehak. a male is working in a company along with Shefali only and both of them
are not in the Marketing department. Ankit works in the Human Resource department of Airtel
Kartik is sister of Ankit and he is working in Tata Motors. Nikita and Harshit are working in the
same company. Pankaj is not in the Marketing department.
FINAL ANSWERS######
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Person - Vehicle - Profession - Gender
poorvika - scorpio - artist - f

purnima - safari - photographer - m
poonam - fort - phys - f
payal - scorpio - phys - m
pallavi - fort - artist - m
preeti - safari - artist - f
priya - scorpio - photographer - f
Puzzle 2 :
S(4) V(2) Q(7) T(1) W(3) P(5) R(6)
Puzzle 3:
ITC:
Mehak +. Finance
Shefali. - Finance
Airtel:
Ankit +/- HR
Deepa. +/- HR
Pankaj +/- HR
Tata:
Kartik. - Marketing
Harshit + Marketing
Nikita + Marketing
The Fighter's Puzzle Test for Bank PO - June

29, 2016
Puzzle 1:
Eight persons P. O, N, M: L: K: J and I are seated in a straight line facing towards north. Each
one has different numbers of toffees i.e. 1,2,3,4,5,6,7 and 8 but sequence of persons and toffees
are not necessarily in the same order O sits third from the left end of the line and he/she have 7
toffees. Only three persons sit between O and I. L sits to the immediate left of J and he/she have
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3 toffees. Only one person sits between N who does not have 6 toffees and J. K sits third to the
left of M who have 5 toffees. P has 1 toffee. The one who has 3 toffees is third to the left of that
person who has 4 toffees. K does not have 2 or 6 toffees. O is not an immediate neighbour of P.
Puzzle 2:
There are six players Z,Y, X, W, V and U in a school. Each of the player playing two games; one
compulsory game and the other optional game. Ws optional game is hockey while three others
have it as compulsory games. V and U have polo as one of their game. Us compulsory game is
match which is an optional game of both X and V. Hockey and basketball are Z's game but, in
terms of compulsory and optional game, they are just reverse of those of W. Football is an
optional game of only one of them. The only female player in the school has basketball as her
compulsory game.
Puzzle 3:
Chanchal, Chamelir Chetana, Champa, Chaman, Charu, Chanakya and Chhoti are sitting around
a circular table with equal distance amongst each other but not necessarily in the same order.
Only two people face the centre and the rest people face the outside. Chameli sits second to the
left of Chanakya. Chanakya faces outside. Chetana sits third to the right of Chameli. Two people
sit between Chetana and Chhoti. Immediate neighbours of Chhoti face outside. Chaman sits
second to the right of Chhoti. One of the immediate neighbour of Chaman faces outside. Champa
is not an immediate neighbour of Chameli.Charu is an immediate neighbour of Chhoti.
# ANSWER
<puzzle 1="">
from left to right
L3.,J2/6.,O7,N4. K8. P1. I2/6. M5
PUZZLE 2
comp-opt
Z- hoc.bask
Y- hoc.foot
X- hoc.match
W- bask.hoc
V- polo.match
U- match.polo
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puzzle 3
clockwise
chetna,chaman,champa,chhoti,charu,chameli,chanchal,chanakya
inside: chetna,chhoti

28, 2016
Puzzle 1:
Twelve people are sitting in two parallel rows containing six people each; in such a way that
there is an equal distance between adjacent persons. In row 1- G; H. I; J; K and L are sitting
facing North. In row 2-1S; R, Q, P and O are sitting facing South. All members sitting in one
row face opposite to members of other row. G sits third to the left of K. Neither G nor K sits an
extreme end of the line. T sits second to the right of P. Neither T nor P faces opposite to G or K.
T does not sit at an extreme end of the line. I does not face opposite to T and I does not sit at
extreme end of the line. Only one person sits between O and R. Neither O nor R faces opposite
to K. R does not sit at the extreme end. Only one person sits between L and H. O is not an
immediate neighbour of S and T does not face opposite to L.
Puzzle 2:
Eight persons R Q, R: S; T U, V and W are sitting around a circular table, but not necessarily in
the same order. Three of them are facing inwards, while five are facing outwards. U is sitting
third to the left of T. Three persons are sitting between U and Q. V is sitting third to the right of
U. T is third to the right of R who is neighbour of V. S is sitting third to the right of R who is
facing towards the centre.
Puzzle 3:
Eight persons - S, R, Q, P, O, N, M and L are standing in a straight line at equidistant. Some of
them are facing north while others are facing south. Each of them likes to read the novels of
different writers i.e- Chetan Bhagat, Gulzar, Swati Kaushal, Birbal Jha, Anu Garg, Arundhati
Roy, David Davidar and Mukul Deva but not necessarily in the same order. N, who likes to read
the novel of Mukul Deva: is standing third to the right to S who likes to read the novel of David
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Davidar. N is standing at one of the extreme ends and he is the immediate neighbours of R; who
likes to read the novel of Anu Garg. M does not like to read the novel of Birbal Jha. O is
standing third to the left of S and likes to read the novel of Chetan Bhagat. The immediate
neighbours of Q; who likes to read the novel of Arundhati Roy; face north. M is not an
immediate neighbour of S. The persons standing at the extreme ends face the same direction
(both are facing either North or South). The immediate neighbours of S face just opposite
direction as that of N. The immediate neighbours of L face opposite direction with respect to
each other. One of the immediate neighbour of O is P who is facing north. R is standing between
Q and N. Not more than four persons are facing north. Immediate neighbour of O likes to read
the novel of Swati Kaushal.
Puzzle 1:-
SOUTH -O,Q,R,T,S,P
NORTH -J,G,I,H,K,L
PUZZLE 2:-
inside-R,U,P
Outside--V,Q,T,W,S
Puzzle 3:-
South-M(Gulzar/sk),O(chetan bhagat),L(birbal /Gulzar/sk),Q(arundhati Roy)
North-P(Gulzar/sk/BJ),S(David Davidar),R(anu Garg),N(mukul deva)

27, 2016
Puzzle 1
Eight person H, E, N, D, K, I S, and W are sitting in three rows R1, R2 and R3. And they are
in three different categories, either dancer or singer or photographer, In each row at least two and
at most three persons are sitting there. And at least two person are in each category but not more
than three. E and N are in different rows but not in rows R2, and both are in same categories. W
and S are in same row and in same categories, but not photographer, D and K are in different row
but not in row R1 and in different categories but not photographer. H is in row R2 and D is not in
same as in H, Both person of row R2 are singer, I is photographer and not in row R1, From three
photographer two are row in R3, I and M are in same row, and there are three dancer.
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Puzzle 2
A building has seven floors numbered one to seven. In such a way that the ground floor is
numbered one: the floor above it is numbered two and soon such that the topmost floor
numbered seven. One out of seven people viz. P. Q R S. T. U and V lives on each floor, the
person who has even plate value according to alphabet series, lives on fourth floor. T does not
live on the floor immediately below U's floor. U lives on the second or seventh floor. R does not
live on an even numbered floor. Q lives on floor immediately above or below R's floor who does
not live on seventh floor. S does not live on the second topmost floor. V does not live on fifth
floor, There are two persons live between P and S.
Puzzle 3
Eight persons Z, Y X. W; V; U: T and S are sitting around a circular table but not facing towards
the centre. Each of them likes different news channels i.e. Bloomberg UTV, CNN IBN, India
Today, NDTV 24x7, NDTV Profit, News 9, News X and Times Now but not necessarily in the
same order. X. who likes CNN IBN channel, is second to the right of Y who is fourth to the left
of V. U and Z are not immediate neighbour of Y who likes News X channel. U is third to the left
of Z and likes NDTV Profit channel. S is not an immediate neighbour of Z who likes Times Now
channel. T is not immediate to the left of Z. The person who likes News 9 is not the neighbour of
X and Z. Persons who like NDTV 24x7 and India Today channels are in front of each other. The
person who likes India Today channel is not the neighbour of that person who likes News X
channel.
FINAL ANSWERS##
Puzzle 1:-
Row 1-E(photographer),W(Dancer),S(dancer)
Row 2-H(Singer),K(Singer)
Row 3-N(photographer),D(dancer),I(photographer)
Puzzle 2:-
7--S/U/V
6--Q
5--R
4--P
3--T
2--U/V
1--V/S
PUZZLE 3:-
CLOCKWISE
Y(newsx), S(NDTV247), X(CNN INN), U(NDTV PROFIT), V(NEWS 9), W(INDIA
TODAY), Z(TIMES NOW), T(UTV)
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24, 2016
Puzzle 2:
Seven students of a school Gaurav Mohit; Saurabh, Priya; Ritika; Gautam and Kajal appeared for
their annual exams. Following additional information is known:
i) No two students get same marks.
ii) Kajal always scores more than Gaurav.
iii) Gaurav alwaysscores more than Mohit.
iv) In each exam either Saurabh scores the highest marks and Ritika gets the least marks or
alternatively Priya scores the highest and Gautam or Mohit scores the least.
Sponsored
Puzzle 3:
Eight friends are sitting in a circle facing towards the centre. Each of them likes different
subjects i.e. Hindi. Physics, English, Maths. History, Biology, Chemistry and Zoology but not
necessarily in the same order. Z, Y, X and W are females and V, U, T and S are males. Neither
two female nor two male are adjacent with each other. U: who likes English, is sitting third to the
right of X. X is sitting third to the right of V who likes Hindi. No male likes history and Maths. T
is not the neighbour of V and U. S is sitting third to the right of Y who likes Chemistry. W, who
likes Biology, is sitting between V and U. The one who likes History is not the neighbour of
those who like Chemistry and English.
FINAL ANSWERS#####
Puzzle 2
highest 1st case
saurav priya kajal gautam mohit ritika
highest 2nd case
priya kajal gautam mohit
Puzzle 3
clockwise
XTYVWUZS
hist phy/zoo chem hindi bio eng maths phy/zoo
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23, 2016
Puzzle 1:
Four students Amit, Bhanu, Sachin and Jagan participated in a quiz competition. It is known that
the person who was wearing the black t-shirt won the quiz. All of them were sitting in a row. All
of them wore t-shirts of different colours, viz. red, black, white and green. There was only one
runner-up and he was sitting beside Jagan. The runner-up was wearing the red t-shirt. Sachin was
not sitting at the ends and was not the runner-up. The winner and the runner-up were not sitting
adjacent to each other. Jagan was wearing white t-shirt. Amit was not wearing the red t-shirt.
Students wearing black t-shirt and white t-shirt were at the ends.
Puzzle 2:
Six persons Chetan, Gaurav Jatin. Karan, Sahil and Tarun who are wearing Black, White, Red,
Green, Blue and YeIlow coloured t-shirts are driving different cars -Verna, City, SX4, Vento,
Optra and Civic not necessarily in that order, these persons had participated in a car racing
competition at the end of which each of them secured different ranks. It is also known that:
(i) Tarun secured 4th position and was driving City
(ii) The person wearing blue coloured t-shirt was driving Vento and didn't secure 2nd position
(iii) Karan wearing white coloured t-shirt was not driving Verna or Optra and he was not ranked
1st (iv) The person wearing green coloured t-shirt was ranked 6th and he was driving Optra
(v)The person who secured 3rd position was driving Civic
(vi) The person who secured 1st rank was driving 3X4 and he was not wearing black or red
coloured t-shirt
(vii) Chetan was wearing yellow coloured t-shirt while Tarun was not wearing red coloured t-
shirt
Sponsored
Puzzle 3:
Seven students Rahul, Abhinav, Akash, Arnav, Kartik, Paridhi and Saumya are studying in seven
different schools- BPS, BSNr CMS, RLB, DPS, SDA and LPS. They like different subjects-
Maths, Science, Art, Hindi, English, Moral science and History. They read in different classes
IV, V, VI, VII, VIH, IX and X, but not necessarily in the same order, Kartik studies in DPS and
he is in class VI. Akash's favourite subject is English and he studies either in BSN or CMS. One
who reads in CMS is in class V and likes Science. Paridhi does not like either Art or Moral
Science and she is in class X and studies in LPS. One who reads in DPS likes Art. Arnav does
not like Science and he is in class IV. Saumya is in class VIH and does not study in 3PS.One
who studies in SDA, is in class VII. Rahul is not in class VII. One who is in class IV likes
History. Abhinav does not like Hindi and Moral science.
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Puzzle 1:-
Amit(black)winner,Sachin (green),Bhanu(Red)runner up,Jagan(white)
Puzzle 2:-
1)Chetan--sx4--yellow
2)Gaurav/jatin/sahil--verna--red
3)Karan---civic--white
4)Tarun--city--black
5)Gaurav/jatin/sahil--vento--blue
6)Gaurav/jatin/sahil--optra--green
PUZZLE 3:-
Rahul--CMS--Science--5
Abhinav--SDA--Maths--7
Akash--BSN--English--9
Arnav--BPS--History--4
Kartik--DPS--art--6
Paridhi--LPS--hindi--10
Saumya--BSNr--m.sci.--8

22, 2016
Puzzle 1:
Twelve people are sitting in two parallel rows containing six people each, in such a way that
there is an equal distance between adjacent persons. In row -1 - P, Q, R, S, T and V are seated
and all of them are facing south. In row-2 - A, B, C, D, E and F are seated and all of them are
facing North. Therefore, in the given seating arrangement each member seated in a row faces
another member of the other row. P sits third to the left of T. Neither P nor T sits at an extreme
end of the line. A sits second to the right of E. Neither A nor E faces T or P. A does not sit at an
extreme end. R does not face A and R does not sit at an extreme end of the line. Only one person
sits between F and C. Neither F nor C faces T. C does not sit at the extreme end. Only one person
sits between V and Q. F is not an immediate neighbour of B and A does not face V.
Puzzle 2:
Six friends Deepa, Vandana, Anita, Nikita, Rashmi and Sonika have ordered six different food
items which are Chola- Bhatura, Chowmein, Pizza, Burger, Dosa and Idli not necessarily in same
order. Each one likes a different type of Ice cream Mango, Strawberry, Black Current, Vanilla,
Choco chip and Butter Scotch again not in the same order. Nikita did not like Idli. Rashmi order
Pizza and likes Mango ice cream. Anita likes Black Currant ice cream and did not order Idli. The
one who likes Vanila ice cream has ordered Dosa, Sonika ordered Burger and does not like
Butter Scotch. The one who likes Choco chip has ordered Chowmein. Deepa and Vandana not
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like Choco chip. Deepa does not like Butter Scotch.
Puzzle 3:
R Q, R. S, T, V, W are sitting in a straight line facing north. Each one of them works in different
companies viz. Olay, Tressme, Tide, Ford. Ferrari, Sunsilk and Santoor. Q sits fourth to the left
of the person working in Sunsilk. Either Q or the person working in Sunsilk sits at the extreme
end of the line. Only one person sits between Q and W. W works in Tide. The person working in
Olay sits third to the right of S. S is not an immediate neighbor of W. Only one person sits
between T and the person who works in Tressme. P and R are immediate neighbors of each
other. P does network in Sunsilk. One who works in Ferrari sits third to the right of the one who
works in Santoor.
FINAL ANSWERS####
Puzzle 1.
Row 1 - VTQRPS
Row 2- EBACDF
Puzzle 2
Friend - Food - Ice cream
Deepa - Dosa - Vanila
Vandana - Idli -Butter Scotch
Anita - Chola Batura - Black Current
Nikita - Chowmin - Chochip
Rashmi - Piza - Mango
Sonika - Burger - Strawberry
Puzzle 3
SVQTWPR
S-Ford
V-Tressme
Q-Santoor
T- Olay
W-Tide
P-Ferari
R-Sunsilk
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20, 2016
Puzzle 1:
There are seven teachers P, Q, R, S, T, U and V in Bank Power. Each one of them teaches a
different subject. There are three female and four male teachers, and out of these, there are two
pairs of couples. R who teaches Computers is married to the teacher who teaches English. T and
V are female teachers who teach History and Economics respectively. P teaches Reasoning and
his wife does not teach Economics. Q does not teach English or Mathematics. U and S are male
teachers. U is unmarried. One of them teaches Geography.
Puzzle 2:
Eight playersSachin, Virender, Mahender, Suresh, Praveen, Rahul, Ravinder, and Dinesh are
sitting in three lines L1, L2 and L3. And they are in three different categories, either batsman or
bowler or all rounder. In each line at least two and at most three players are sitting there. And at
least two players are in each category but not more than three. Virender and Mahender are in
different lines but not in line L2, and both are in same categories. Dinesh and Ravinder are in
same line and in same categories, but not all rounder. Suresh and Praveen are in different lines
but not in line L1 and in different categories but not all rounder. Sachin is in line L2 and Suresh
is not in same as in Sachin. Both players of line L2 are bowlers. Rahul is all rounder and not in
line L1. From three all rounder two are line in L3. Rahul and Mahinder are in same line, and
there are three batsmen.
Puzzle 3:
Five friends Rosy, Mandy, Denial, Lucky and Ella like five different watches Titan, Samay,
Sonata, Citizen and Fastrack 5 different cars Wagon R, Alto, Santro, Swift and Xylo & 5
different pens Reynolds, Parker, Cello, Montex and Elkos. Ella like wagon R car but not like
Parker pen and Citizen Watch; lucky likes sonata watch and Reynolds pens but not like Xylo car.
Mandy likes Xylo car and Samay watch. Rosy like Santro car and Cello pen, person who likes
wagon R car likes Fastrack watch. Elkos pen is liked by a person who has swift car and citizen
watch.
#FINAL ANSWERS
Puzzle 1:-
P--Reasoning
Q--Geography
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R--computer
S--english
T--history
U--maths
V--economics
Male--PQSU Female--RTV
Couple--(P-T),(S-R)
puzzle 2-
L1- dinesh(bat) ravi(bat) virendr(all)
L2- sachin(bowler) pravin(bowler)
L3- suresh(bat) rahul(all) mani(all)
Puzzle 3-
titan- rosy- cello- santro
samay- mandy- parker-xylo
sonata- lucky- reynolds- alto
citizen- daniel - elkos swift
fastrck- ela-montex- wagonr

18, 2016
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Puzzle 1:
Shukla, Mishra, Singh, Kulkarni, Rao, Joshi and Nair are to conduct interviews simultaneously
either alone or in pairs at four different locationsSurat, Chandigarh, Delhi and Lucknow. Only
one wants to travel by rail, two prefer travelling by car and the rest travel by air. Shukla is going
to Lucknow but neither by car nor by air. Mishra prefers to travel by car. Neither Joshi nor Nair
is going to Delhi. Only those going to Surat travel by road. Kulkarni will assist his friend Mishra.
The two managers who go to Delhi travel by air.
Puzzle 2:
B, M, T, R, K, H and D are travelling in a train compartment with three tier sleeper berth. Each
of them has a different profession of Engineer, Doctor, Architect, Pharmacist, Lawyer, Journalist
and Pathologist. They occupied two lower berths, three middle berths and two upper berths. B,
the engineer, is not on the upper berth. The Architect is the only other person who occupies the
same type of berth as that of B. M and H are not on the middle berth and their professions are
Pathologist and Lawyer respectively. T is a Pharmacist. D is neither a Journalist nor an Architect.
K occupies the same type of berth as that of the Doctor.
Puzzle 3:
Eight people A, B, C, D, E, F, G and H work in three different companies: X, Y and Z. Out of

these, two are female who work in different companies and have different specializations. Two
of them are specialists in Finance, two in HR, two in Marketing and one each is an Engineer and
a Computer Specialist. D, working in a company X has specialized in HR and her friend G, a
Finance Specialist is working in company Z. H, an HR specialist, is working with B, a Marketing
Specialist and does not work in company Y. C is not a Computer Specialist. No two people with
the same specialization work together. F is a specialist in Marketing working in company Y and
his friend A has specialized in Finance and is working company X with only one another
Specialist. Not more than three of them work in company Z. No female is an Engineer or a
Computer Specialist.
SHUKLA- RAIL- LUCKNOW

MISHRA- CAR- SURAT
KULKARNI- CAR- SURAT
SINGH- AIR- DELHI
RAO- AIR- DELHI
JOSHI- AIR- CHANDIGARH/ LUCKNOW
NAIR- AIR- CHANDIGARH/ LUCKNOW
LOW-B R - ENG & ARCH RESPECTIVELY

MID- D T K- DOC , PHAR & JOUR
UPPER- H M- LAW & PATHO
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X- A(FINANCE)MALE D(HR)FEMALE
Y- F(MARKETING)MALE C(ENGINEER)MALE E(COMPUTER)MALE
Z- G(FINANCE)M/F H(HR)M B(MARKETING)M/F
d and either b/g is a female.

17, 2016
Puzzle 1:
Seven boys A, D, Y, U, P, Q and J live in three different buildings Ashiana, Top-view and
Ridge. Each of them is flying kites of different colours i.e. red, green, blue white, black, yellow
and pink, not necessarily in that order. Not more than three or less than two stay in any of the
buildings. Q is flying a pink and does not live in Ridge building. U does not live in the same
building as A or P and is flying a yellow coloured kite. D lives in Ridge building with only one
more person and is flying a green kite. None in the Top-view building flies a white kite. P does
not fly a blue kite.
Puzzle 2:
Six banks clerks Anu, Esha, Indu, Om, Uma and Yogi are working in three SBI associates banks
SBI Patiala, SBI Hyderabad, SBI Mysore. They are belonging to four different cities i.e. Delhi,
Dehradoon, Agra and Ajmer. At least one clerk qorks in each bank and at least one clerk belong
to each city. Uma works either in SBI Patiala or SBI Mysore. One clerk of SBI Hyderabd
belongs to Delhi. Esha eithr belongs to Delhi or Dehradoon and does not work in SBI
Hydrerabad. Yogi does not work with Om and Esha. Indu works in SBI Patiala and she is not
from Delhi. Both the clerks of SBI Mysore are not from Ajmer. Anu is not from Ajmer and Om
work with SBI Patiala. Two persons belong to Delhi and they dont work with SBI Mysore.
Person from Agra does not work in SBI Patiala. Uma is from Delhi and Om is not from
Dehradoon. Clerks of same banks does not belong to same city.
Puzzle 3:
Twelve friends are seated along the two rows (such that facing each other) A, B, C, D, E and F
are seated in first row and facing South. P, O, R, S, T and V are seated in Second row and facing
North. Q is on the immediate right of S who is facing A. D is on the immediate right of A. P, F
and C are at extreme ends and nobody is seated on the right of F. Only V is seated between P and
T and he is not facing B. Q is on the immediate left of R.
Final Answers###
Puzzle 1-
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A--blue--tv
D--green--RB
Y--black--TV
U--yellow--RB
P--red--TV
Q--pink--Ash
J--white--Ash
Puzzle2-
Persons Bank Place
Anu SBI Mysore Agra
Esha SBI Mysore Dehradun
Indu SBI Patiala Deahradun
Om SBI Patiala Ajmer
Uma SBI Patiala Delhi
Yogi SBI Hyderabad Delhi
Puzzle 3-
FEDABC
PVTSQR

16, 2016
Puzzle 1:
There are six persons A, B, C, D, E and F in school. Each of the teachers teaches two subjects,
one compulsory subject and the other optional subject. Ds optional subject was History while
three others have it as compulsory subject. E and F have Physics as one of their subjects. Fs
compulsory subject is Mathematics which is an optional subject of both C and E. History and
English are As subjects but in terms of compulsory and optional subjects, they are just reverse
of those of Ds. Chemistry is an optional subject of only one of them. The only female teacher in
the school has English as her compulsory subject.
Puzzle 2:
Five friends P, Q, R, S and T travelled to five different cities of Chennai, Kolkata, Delhi,
Bangalore and Hyderabad by different modes of transport of Bus, Train, Aeroplane, Car and
Boat from Mumbai. The person who travelled to Delhi did not travel by boat. R went to
Bangalore by car and Q went to Kolkata by aeroplane. S travelled by boat whereas T travelled by
train. Mumbai is not connected by bus to Delhi and Chennai.
Puzzle 3:
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Madan and Rohit are in the same team of hockey. Parth defeated Rohit in badminton but lost to
Sachin in tennis. Nitin teams with Sagar in football and with Sachin in hockey. Rohit defeated
Sachin in chess. Those who play cricket do not play badminton, volleyball or tennis. Madan and
Parth are in opposite teams of basketball. Nitin represents his state in cricket while Sagar does so
at the district level. Boys who play chess do not play football, basketball or volleyball. Madan
and Parth are together in the volleyball team. Boys who play football also play hockey.
FINAL ANSWERS####
puzzle1
(Compulsory,optional)
A- history,eng
B- his,chem
C- his ,maths
D- eng,his
E- phy, maths
F- maths,phy
Puzzle 2
Friends_cities_mode
P- H- bus
Q- K - air
R- B- car
S- C - Bo
T- D - T
Puzzle 3
Nitin- cricket, football, hockey
Sagar - cric,foot ,hock
Sachin - hockey ,chess ,tennis
Rohit - hockey ,bd,chess
Parth- VB,basket,tennis,bd
Madan- hockey,basket,vb

15, 2016
Puzzle 1:
P, Q, R, S, W, X, Y, Z are sitting around a circle facing centre but not necessarily in the same
order. The husband of Z is sitting second to the right of Q who is sitting between two males. X
sits second to the left of the daughter of S. X is the sister of Y. X is not an immediate neighbour
of Z's husband. Only one person sits between P and X. P is the father of Y. S who is brother of Z
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sits to the immediate left of his mother. Only one person sits between Z's mother and W. Only
one person sits between Z and Y. Y is mother of R. Y is not an immediate neighbour of W.
Puzzle 2:
Six persons A, B, C, D, E and F are sitting around a round table facing towards the centre of the
table in a restaurant. They have ordered for different items (Pizza, Strawberry, Vanilla, Burger,
Pastries and Patties) as their lunch. They are wearing Tshirts of different colours, i.e. white,
black, green, red, yellow and blue. Order of items for the lunch and colours of T-shirts are not
necessarily according to the order of their names. The persons who have ordered for Pizza,
Vanilla and Pastries are neither in white Tshirt nor in black. The persons who are in green and
yellow T-shirts have neither ordered for Pizza nor for Vanilla. A is neither in white T-shirt nor
on the immediate left of the person who has ordered for Burger. The only person who is between
E and F eats Strawberry. The person who is on the left side of the person in white T-shirt does
not eat Patties. D has ordered Burger and the colour of his T-shirt is green. He is facing the
person who has ordered for Strawberry. One who has ordered for Pizza is seated opposite to the
person wearing blue T-shirt, while the person whose T-shirt is of green colour is on the left of
the person who has ordered for Pastries. One who has ordered for Patties is on the immediate
right of the person in white T-shirt but on the immediate left of the person who has ordered for
Vanilla. C has not ordered for Vanilla while F has not ordered for Pizza.
Puzzle 3:
There are five types of cards viz. A, B, C, D and E. There are three cards of each type. These are
to be inserted in envelopes of three colours Red, Yellow and Brown. There are five envelopes
of each colour. B, D and E type cards are inserted in red envelopes. A, B and C type cards are to
be inserted in yellow envelopes and C, D and E type cards are to be inserted in brown envelopes.
Two cards each of B and D type are inserted in red envelopes.
FINAL ANSWERS######
puzzle 1 :
clockwise from Q
Q(-)
S(+)
W(-)
Z(-)
X(-)
Y(-)
P(+)
R(+)
puzzle 2:
starting from C clockwise
CEADBF
C white (strawberry)
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E red (pizza)
A yellow ( pastry)
D green (burger)
B blue (vanilla)
F black (patties)
puzzle 3:
Red - BDEBD
Yellow- ABCAA
Brown - CDECE

14, 2016
Puzzle 1:
A committee has nine members A, B, C, D, E. F. G, H and I and it is divided into three groups,
viz Play group, Entertainment group and Food group with three members in each group.
There are certain conditions for the formation of the groups. Only three members will be selected
in each group. One person cannot be selected for more than one group. A is in the Play group. H
is in the Entertainment group. C and D are in the same group but not in the group of I. A and B
are not in the same group. E is not in the same group as I but is in the Food group. F is in the
group in which either H or B or both of them are present. I and H are not in the same group. F is
neither with E nor with I.
Puzzle 2:
Six persons A, B, C, D, E and F are sitting in row - I facing South but not necessarily in the same
order and each of them is working in a different company among Microsoft, Amazon, TCS,
SAPIENT , HDFC and Axis. Six persons P, Q, R, S, T and U are sitting in row - II facing north
but not necessarily in the same order and each of them is working in a different company among
Google, Infosys, Accenture, IBM, Capital One and ICICI. Each person in one row faces exactly
one person from the other row. A is third from the left end and is opposite the person who is to
the immediate right of the IBM employee. The IBM employee is opposite the person who is to
the immediate left of the TCS employee. The Google employee and the SAPIENT employee sit
at right ends in their respective rows. C is a SAPIENT employee, and is adjacent to E. D sits
opposite Q and to the left of A but does not sit at any extreme. B is not adjacent to D but
opposite P. The ICICI employee sits neither at an end nor opposite A, but sits to the right of P.
The Accenture employee is adjacent to neither the Infosys employee nor the Capital One
employee. S sits at an end. R is opposite the Amazon employee but sits at neither end. T is
opposite the HDFC employee and the Microsoft employee is second to the right of the Axis
employee. The Capital One employee is not adjacent to P.
Puzzle 3:
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Six exams Maths, science, History, Economics, English and Hindi are to be scheduled starting
from 2nd March and ending on 8th march wit Sunday being an off day, not necessarily in the
same order. Each of the exam has different time duration: 40 mins, 50 mins, 60 mins, 75 mins,
90 mins and 100 mins, again not necessarily in the same order. 8th march is not sunday and an
exam of 40 mins is scheduled on that day. Maths exam is for less than 60 mins and is scheduled
immediately before English exam. There are two exams scheduled between Hindi exam which is
for 100 mins and History exam which is for 60 mins. English exam is before Sunday and there
are two days between sunday and maths exam. Economics exam which is for 75 mins is not
scheduled on 2nd march. The exam schedules on saturday is of 100 mins.
.
Puzzle1
play-A G I
ENT-B F H
FOOD-CDE
Puzzle-2
CEBADF( SAP TCS MICROSOFT AMAZON AXIS HDFC)
SUPRQT( CAPITALONE INFOSYS IBM ACCENTURE ICICI GOOGLE)
Puzzle 3
f5
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13, 2016
Puzzle 1:
A committee has nine members A, B, C, D, E. F. G, H and I and it is divided into three groups,
viz Play group, Entertainment group and Food group with three members in each group.
There are certain conditions for the formation of the groups. Only three members will be selected
in each group. One person cannot be selected for more than one group. A is in the Play group. H
is in the Entertainment group. C and D are in the same group but not in the group of I. A and B
are not in the same group. E is not in the same group as I but is in the Food group. F is in the
group in which either H or B or both of them are present. I and H are not in the same group. F is
neither with E nor with I.
Puzzle 2:
Six persons A, B, C, D, E and F are sitting in row - I facing South but not necessarily in the same
order and each of them is working in a different company among Microsoft, Amazon, TCS,
SAPIENT , HDFC and Axis. Six persons P, Q, R, S, T and U are sitting in row - II facing north
but not necessarily in the same order and each of them is working in a different company among
Google, Infosys, Accenture, IBM, Capital One and ICICI. Each person in one row faces exactly
one person from the other row. A is third from the left end and is opposite the person who is to
the immediate right of the IBM employee. The IBM employee is opposite the person who is to
the immediate left of the TCS employee. The Google employee and the SAPIENT employee sit
at right ends in their respective rows. C is a SAPIENT employee, and is adjacent to E. D sits
opposite Q and to the left of A but does not sit at any extreme. B is not adjacent to D but
opposite P. The ICICI employee sits neither at an end nor opposite A, but sits to the right of P.
The Accenture employee is adjacent to neither the Infosys employee nor the Capital One
employee. S sits at an end. R is opposite the Amazon employee but sits at neither end. T is
opposite the HDFC employee and the Microsoft employee is second to the right of the Axis
employee. The Capital One employee is not adjacent to P.
Puzzle 3:
Twelve people are sitting in two parallel rows containing six people each, in such a way that
there is an equal distance between adjacent persons. In row l, P, Q, R, S, T and V are seated and
all of them are facing south. In row 2, A, B, C, D, E and F are seated and all of them are facing
north. Therefore, in the given seating arrangement each member seated in a row faces another
member of the other row. A sits third to right of D. Neither A nor D sits at extreme ends. T faces
D. V does not face A and V does not sit at any of the extreme ends. V is not an immediate
neighbour of T. B sits at one of the extreme ends. Only two people sit between B and E. E does
not face V. Two persons sit between R and Q. R is not an immediate neighbour of T. C does not
face V. P is not an immediate neighbour of R.
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FINAL ANSWERS#####
puzzle1
play-A G I
ENT-B F H
FOOD-CDE
puzzle-2
CEBADF( SAP TCS MICROSOFT AMAZON AXIS HDFC)
SUPRQT( CAPITALONE INFOSYS IBM ACCENTURE ICICI GOOGLE)
puzzle 3
PTQVSR
CDEFAB

7, 2016
Puzzle 1:
Brock Lesnar, Shane McMahon, Undertaker, Roman Reigns, Dean Ambrose, Kevin Owens, Seth
Rollins and Rusev are eight fighters sitting around a circular table. Four of them are facing
towards the centre and four of them are facing away from the centre. All of them like a different
movie, viz. Tamasha, Bajirao, Dilwale, Massan, Airlift, Sultan, Dangal and Ready, but not
necessarily in the same order. Dean Ambrose faces towards the centre and likes Tamasha. Both
the immediate neighbours of Dean Ambrose face away from the centre and like Dilwale or
Massan. Roman Reigns faces away from the centre. Both the immediate neighbours of Roman
Reigns do not face away from the centre. Dean Ambrose sits third to the right of Kevin Owens,
who likes Airlift and faces away from the centre. Undertaker sits third to the left of Kevin
Owens. The one who likes Dilwale sits opposits of Kevin Owens. The one who likes Bajirao is
not the immediate neighbour of Kevin Owens and faces away from the centre. Brock Lesnar sits
second to the left of Undertaker and does not like Dangal or Ready. The one who likes Dangal
sits between Rusev and Kevin Owens. Shane McMahon faces away from the centre and does not
like Bajirao.
Puzzle 2:
Ten persons are sitting in two parallel rows containing five persons each. In row 1, Amitabh,
Rakesh, Akshay, Arti and Ritesh are sitting and all of them are facing south. In row 2, Jaya,
Poonam, Twinkle, Gaurav and Genelia are sitting and all of them are facing north. In the given
seating arrangement, each member seated in a row faces another member of the other row.
Moreover, each of them belongs to different cities Meerut, Gurgaon, Begusarai, Hajipur,
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Noida, Cuttack, Banaras, Haridwar, Allahabad and Mednipur but not necessarily in the same
order. There are only two persons sitting between the person from Merrut, who sits at an extreme
end, and Ritesh. Jaya, who sits in the middle of the row, is not an immediate neighbour of
Poonam, who is not from Mednipur. Genelia is sitting at an extreme end. Ritesh, from Noida ,
sits on the immediate right of the person from Gurgaon and faces the immediate neighhour of
Poonam. Rakesh is not sitting at the extreme left end. Jaya is not from Allahabad. There is only
one person between Akshay and Arti, who is from Meerut. Gaurav, from Cuttack, is an
immediate neighbour of the person from Mednipur and does not face the person from
Begusarai.Twinkle, who is from Hajipur, is an immediate neighbour of the person from
Allahabad, who in turn faces the immediate neighbour of the person from Noida. There are two
persons between the person from Banarasand the person from Begusarai. Rakesh is not from
Banaras. Genelia is not from Haridwar.
Puzzle 3:
World Cup is being organised by India. Different teams are participating in the World Cup.
Seven teams which are participating are Pakistan, Australia, Srilanka, India, Kenya, South
Africa and West Indies. They will be playing there matches at different places, namely Delhi,
Ranchi, Chennai, Nagpur, Chandigarh and Mumbai, but not necessarily in the same order, on
different days of the week, starting from Monday. Pakistan will be playing at Ranchi, but neither
on Friday nor on Monday. The host country will be playing on Thursday at Nagpur. There is a
gap of one day between Pakistan and India match. South Africa will be playing the match before
West Indies but after Kenya at Cuttack on Wednesday. West Indies will be playing on the last
day of the week. Australia will be playing at Mumbai. No match will be played at Delhi on
Monday. The match at Chandigarh will be played on the last day of the week. The match at
Chennai will be played on Tuesday. No match will be played at Mumbai on Tuesday and Friday.
FINAL ANSWERS ########
puzzle 1.
clock wise.... Brock L -sultan- IN ,,,,Kevin -airlift- out,,,,,Seth R - Dangal - in ..
Rusev - masaan- out.... Dean A - Tamasha - In... Shane M - Dilwale - out.... Undertaker - Ready
- in .. Roman - bajirao - out..
puzzle 2.
row 1
RAKESH (bagusari) - RITESH (noida )- AKHSHAY (gurgaon)- AMITABH(benaras)-
ARTI(meerut)
row 2
POONAM (allahabad)-TWINKLE (hajipur)- JAYA (haridwar)- GAURAV (cuttck)- GENELIA
( medinipur)
puzzle 3.
from mon to sun
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AUS (mumbai ) --KENIA (chennai )--SA ( cuttak )--INDIA ( nagpur)-- SRILANKA ( delhi)--
PAK (ranchi)-- WI (chandigarh)

6, 2016
Puzzle 1:
There are six boys Amit, Bhushan, Dhruv, Manoj, Harsh and Arvind. They want to go out with
six girls Neha, Shruti, Kruti, Chanchal, Sujata and Radhika, not necessarily in the same order.
The pairs went to a movie, beach, park, play and two of them went to circus. They like different
cars, viz Esteem, Matiz, Santro and Tata. But Esteem and Matiz are preferred by two pairs.
Further information is as follows:

I. Amit and Manoj visit circus but do not like either Esteem or Tata.
II. Arvind cant go out with Sujata. Both of them do not like Santro.
III. Chanchal and Kruti want to go to movie and park respectively.
IV. Dhruv goes out with Radhika to beach but does not like either Matiz or Tata.
V. Bhushan goes for a movie and likes Esteem.
VI. Harsh cant go out either with Neha or with Shruti and he does not go to a park either in
Santro or in Matiz.
Puzzle 2:
Eight teachers P, Q, R, S, T, U, V and W are teaching different subjects viz Electronics,
Robotics, Arts, Commerce, Computer, Java, Mechanics and Painting but not necessarily in the
same order. All of them are sitting around a circular table but not facing the centre. W sits third
to the right of S. P and R and also their immediate neighbors do not teach Electronics. Only one
teacher sits between T and the Electronics teacher. Java and Arts teachers are immediate
neighbor of each other. P is neither Computer nor Java teacher. Two teachers sit between U and
Commerce teacher. U does not teach either Electronics or Arts. P sits third to the left of V. V
teaches Robotics. S is not the immediate neighbor of either P or V. The one who teaches Painting
is an immediate neighbor of S. Three teachers sit between V and the Mechanics teacher. W is not
teaching either Electronics or Painting.
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Puzzle 3:
Five friends A, B, C, D and E are working in 5 different Companies P, Q, R, S and T and they
earn different salaries i.e. Rs 9000, Rs 12000, Rs 15000, Rs 18000 and Rs 21000 and they all are
of different ages i.e. 26, 27, 28, 29 and 30 years not necessarily in same order. Person who is 29
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year old earns highest salary but does not work at P and Q. E does not work at S and T and his
age is not 30. The salary of D is less than Rs 15000. The person who is 27 years old earns Rs
18000 per month. A earns Rs 12000 per month but does not work at Q and S. B works at P and
earns more than Rs 15000. Person who is 28 years old works at T. 30 years old person earns at
least Rs 15000.
ANSWERS
Puzzle 1-
Amit - circus- santro/matiz- Neha/shruti
Bhushan-movie-esteem-chanchal
Dhruv-beach-esteem-radhika
Manoj-circus-santro/matiz-Neha/shruti
Harsh-play-Tata-Sujata
Arvind-park-matiz-kruti
Puzzle 2-
clockwise QVTRSUPW -
''ELEC,ROB,COMM,PAINT,COMP,MECH,ART,JAVA'' (FROM Q CLOCKWISE)
Puzzle 3-
A-T-28-12k
B-P-27-18k
C-Q/S-30-15k
D-Q/S-26-9k
E-R-29-21k
Abhinav's Reasoning Challenges for Bank

PO Exams 2016 - 17 August, 2016
Directions (Questions 1 - 5): Study the following information carefully to answer the given
questions:
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Madan and Rohit are in the same team of hockey. Parth defeated Rohit in badminton but lost to
Sachin in tennis. Nitin teams with Sagar in football and with Sachin in hockey. Rohit defeated
Sachin in chess. Those who play cricket do not play badminton, volleyball or tennis. Madan and
Parth are in opposite teams of basketball. Nitin represents his state in cricket while Sagar does so
at the district level. Boys who play chess do not play football, basketball or volleyball. Madan
and Parth are together in the volleyball team. Boys who play football also play hockey.
1. Name the boys who do not play football.

(a) Sachin, Nitin(b) Rohit, Sagar(c) Rohit, Sachin
(d) Rohit, Nitin(e) None of these
2. Who plays both hockey and tennis?

(a) Sachin(b) Rohit(c) Nitin(d) Parth(e) None of these
3. Which is the most popular game with this group?

(a) Cricket(b) Hockey(c) Football(d) Badminton(e) None of these
4. Who plays the largest number of games?
(a) Sagar(b) Rohit (c) Parth(d) Nitin(e) None of these
5. Which boy plays both badminton and hockey?

(a) Sachin(b) Rohit(c) Nitin(d) Parth(e) None of these
Directions (Questions 6 - 10): Study the following information carefully and answer the
questions given below:
Seven boys A, D, Y, U, P, Q and J live in three different buildings Ashiana, Top-view and
Ridge. Each of them is flying kites of different colours i.e. red, green, blue white, black, yellow
and pink, not necessarily in that order. Not more than three or less than two stay in any of the
buildings. Q is flying a pink and does not live in Ridge building. U does not live in the same
building as A or P and is flying a yellow coloured kite. D lives in Ridge building with only one
more person and is flying a green kite. None in the Top-view building flies a white kite. P does
not fly a blue kite.
6. Who live in Ridge building?

(a) D, U(b) D, A, P(c) Y, A, P(d) A, P(e) None of these
7. Who is flying the blue kite?

(a) A(b) J(c) P(d) Data inadequate(e) None of these
8. Who flies the red kite?

(a) A(b) J(c) P(d) Data inadequate(e) None of these
9. Who stay in Top-view building?

(a) Y, J, P(b) A, P(c) A, P, D(d) Y, U, J(e) None of these
10. What coloured kite is J flying?
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(a) Blue(b) White(c) Black(d) Data inadequate
(e) None of these
#Final Answers
1. c
2. a
3. b
4. c
5. b
6. a
7. a
8. c
9. e
10. B

1, 2016
Puzzle 1:
L, N, P, R, M, Q, T and Y are the members of a committee sitting around a circular table but not
facing the centre. Each member has a different zodiac sign, viz Leo, Virgo, Libra, Cancer, Aries,
Gemini, Pisces and Scorpio, but not necessarily in the same order. T is third to the right of P. The
one whose sun-sign Leo is second to the left of the one whose sunsign is Libra. Y's sun-sign is
Libra and is sitting exactly between P and L. The one whose sun-sign is Pisces sits second to the
right of N. The one whose sun-sign is Aries is second to the right of the person whose sun-sign is
Gemini. P sits third to the left of the person whose sun-sign is Virgo. Neither Q nor L is the
immediate neighbour of N. Q is fourth to the left of L. N's sun-sign is neither Cancer nor Ariel.
The person whose sun-sign is Leo is sitting second to the right of the person whose sign is
Cancer. Rs sun-sign is Leo and is not an immediate neighbor of N.
Puzzle 2:
(i) Seven persons A, B, C, D, E, F and G are teaching seven subjects History, Geography,
Physics, Chemistry, Maths, Biology and English from Monday to Friday. Each person teaches a
different subject and not more than two subjects are taught on any one of the days.
(ii) Chemistry is taught by B on Tuesday.
(iii) D teaches on Friday but neither Geography nor Physics.
(iv) F teaches History but neither on Thursday nor on Friday.
(v) A teaches English on the day on which History is taught.
(vi) C teaches Maths on Monday.
(vii) Geography and Chemistry are taught on the same day.
(viii) G teaches on Thursday
Puzzle 3:
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In row 1, J, K, L and M are sitting and all of them are facing north. In row 2, A, B, C and D are
sitting and all of them are facing south. Therefore, in the given seating arrangement each
member sitting in a row faces another member of the other row. (All the information given above
does not necessarily represent the order of seating as in the final arrangement.)
The person from Infosys faces the one who is on the immediate left of L. L is neither from
Google nor from Facebook.
An immediate neighbour of A faces the person from Accenture. The person from Microsoft
faces the person who is on the left of the person from Google.
There is only are person sitting between the persons from Google and TCS but that person is
not J. The persons from Google and Facebook are not sitting at the extreme ends.
B sits on the immediate left of the person from Infosys. Persons from IBM and Microsoft are
immediate neighbours. C and K are not sitting at any of the ends.
M faces the one who is sitting on the immediate right of the person from Microsoft. A is not
from Microsoft or IBM.
Puzzle 4:
Eight friendsAman, Bharat, Rohit, Dinesh, Ishant, Farhan, Aditya and Hirenderare sitting
around a circular table, facing the centre but not necessarily in the same order. Each of them has
a different designation, viz Banker, Teacher, Company MD, Politician, Corporate Leader,
General Manager, Specialist Officer and CEO. Aman sits third to the right of the CEO. Only two
people sit between the CEO and Hirender. The Specialist Officer and the Company MD are
immediate neighbours. Neither Aman nor Hirender is either a Specialist Officer or a Company
MD. The Specialist Officer is not an immediate neighbour of the CEO. The Banker sits second to
the left of Ishant. Ishant is not an immediate neighbour of Hirender. The Banker is an immediate
neighbour of both the Politician and the Corporate Leader. The Corporate Leader sits third to the
right of Bharat. Bharat is not a Specialist Officer. Rohit sits on the immediate right of the
Teacher. Aman is not a Teacher. Farhan is not an immediate neighbour of Aman. Aditya is not
an immediate neighbour of the Banker.
FINAL ANSWERS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
1. clockwise
N(scor)-M(cancer)-Q(pisces)-R(leo)-P(gem)-Y(libra)-L(aries)-T(virgo)
2.
A-english-wed
B-chem-tues
C-maths-mond
D-bio-friday
E-geog-tues
F-history-wed
G-physics-thursday
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3.
D(ibm)-C(micr)-A(infy)-B
M(tcs)-K(face)-J(goo)-L(Accen)
4.
clockwiseDinesh(Corp)-Aman(Gm)-Aditya(so)-Bharat(CMD)-Rohit(ceo)-Ishant(Teach)-Farh

2, 2016
Puzzle 1:
Four boys, Pawan, Mahesh, Chandu and Ravi, and four girls, Eti, Seema, Hina and Anita, are
sitting around a circular table. Two girls and two boys are not facing the centre. No three girls
are sitting together. Chandu is second to the left of Seema, who is not sitting next to Mahesh. Eti
is third to the left of Anita and one of them is not facing the centre. Pawan is third to the right of
Mahesh, who is facing the centre. Hina and Ravi are facing each other and both are not sitting
next to Mahesh or Anita.
Puzzle 2:
A, B, C, D and E are five players, each playing for a different team, viz Red, Blue, Green,
Yellow and Black. Each of them likes a different dish, viz Chicken Tikka, Pizza, Burger, Dosa
and Gulabjamun, not necessarily in the same order. D plays neither for team Blue nor for team
Black but likes Dosa. The player who likes Chicken Tikka plays neither for team Green nor for
team Yellow. A plays for team Red but likes neither Pizza nor Burger. C plays for team Green
but doesnt likes Pizza. E likes neither Burger nor Gulabjamun. B likes neither Pizza nor Burger.
The one who plays for team Black likes neither Pizza nor Gulabjamun.
Puzzle 3:
A, B, C, D, E, F and G are seven members of a club. Each of them likes one day of the week, viz
Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday and Sunday, not necessarily in the
same order. Each of them owns a different car, viz Swift, Alto, Figo, Beat, SX4, Estillo and
Optra, not necessarily in the same order. C likes Wednesday and his favourite car is neither SX4
nor Optra. E does not like Monday and his favourite car is Beat. The favourite car of the one who
likes Friday is Figo. The one whose favourite car is Estillo likes Tuesday. D likes Saturday and
Ds favourite car is not SX4. Gs favourite car is Alto. F likes Thursday. B does not like Estillo.
Puzzle 4:
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P, Q, R, S, T, V, W and X are eight persons. Each is a professor of a different subject, viz Maths,
Physics, Hindi, English, Geology, Zoology, Botany and History. Each of them pursues a
different hobby, viz Singing, Music, Poetry, Shayari, Painting, Tracking, Cooking and
Swimming, but not necessarily in the same order. P, who likes Cooking, is a professor of neither
History nor Geology. Q is a professor of English and does not like either Singing or Poetry. The
one who is a professor of Maths likes Shayari. The one who likes Swimming is a professor of
Physics and the one who is a professor of Botany likes Music. X doesnt like Painting. T and V
like Music and Tracking, though not necessarily in the same order. S likes Swimming. W is a
professor of Zoology and doesnt like Singing. The one who is a professor of Geology likes
Tracking. R is not a professor of History. The one who is a professor of Hindi doesnt like either
Poetry or Painting.
FINAL ANSWERS!!
1.anticlockwise
hina(centre) pawan(outside) anita(centre) seema(outside) ravi(centre) chandha(outside)

mahesh(centre) eti(outside)
2.
A - Red - Gulab
B - Black - Chicken
C - Green - Burger
D - Yellow - Dosa
E- Blue - Pizza
3.
A - Estillo - TUesday
B - Figo - Fri
C - Swift - Wed
D - Optra - Sat

8, 2016
Puzzle 1:
Four males and females namely R, Q, R, S, T, U, V and W are sitting around a square table in
such a way that four of them sit at the four corners of the square table while four sit in the middle
of each of four sides. The ones who sit at the four corners face the center while those who sit in
the middle of the sides face outside. Two females sit in the middle of the sides and two at the
corners. P sits second to the left of V. V sits on the middle of one of the sides. R sits fourth to the
right of his wife and his wife is not an immediate neighbour of P or V. Q sits third to the right of
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her husband. Q does not sit at any of the corners. Only S sits between G and W. W is the
husband of P. Both V and T are males.
Puzzle 2:
Seven boys Farhan, Javed, Monish, Sareen, Aman, Bimal and Kamal stay in three different
localities in Delhi viz. Saket. Green Park and Hauz Khas. Each locality has at least one of the
given boys. Each one of them studies seven different subjects viz. History, Accountancy,
Geology, Mathematics, Physics, Chemistry and Botany but not necessarily in the same order.
(i) Bimal is staying in Green Park and studies Mathematics.
(ii) The boys who study Chemistry and Accountancy stay in the same locality.
(iii) Monish studies Physics but does not stay in Saket.
(iv) Farhan is staying in Hauz Khas with Monish and studies Geology.
(v) Aman studies Botany and stays in Green Park.
(vi) Sareen studies neither Accountancy nor Chemistry and stays in Hauz Khas.
(vii) Javed does not study Chemistry.
Puzzle 3:
Eight persons Of Q, P, G, S, M, W and Z are living in a building. There are eight floors in a
building. Each of them is living at each floor. There is a part/ in floors 2 and 7. Four people are
going to the party of floor 2 and remaining persons are going to the party of floor 7. In the party
of floor 2, people are playing a game. They all are sitting in circular table and facing towards the
center. People of other party are also playing a game and they all are sitting in a square table and
facing opposite to the center. O lives at floor 4 and he is not going in the party of floor 7. Q is the
best friend of O and is going with him. P and Z are not going in a party where S is going. S and
M live at floors 3 and 1respectively. In a game G is second to the right of O and W is opposite of
P. Regarding floor Q is not a neighbour of O and lives between Z and P. W lives at 5th floor.
FINAL ANSWERS####
1---clckwise
wtprvuqs
males- w r t v
females- p s q u
2--
f--hk--geo
j--saket--acc
m--hk--phy
s--hk---his
a--gp--bot
b--gp--maths
k--saket--chem
3--
1--m
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2--g
3--s
4--o
5--w
6--z/p
7--q
8--z/p
2nd floor party---o q g s
7th floor- w p z m

30, 2016
Puzzle 1:
Eight friends are sitting in two parallel rows containing four people each, in such a way that there
is an equal distance between adjacent persons. In row-1 R, T, Z and O are seated (but not
necessarily in the same order) and all of them are facing East. In row-2 N, M, P and Q are seated
(but not necessarily in the same order) and all of them are facing West. Therefore, in the given
seating arrangement each friends seated in a row faces another friends of the other row. N sits
second to the left of P who has two neighbours. Z is not sitting at a corner and he does not faces
P. O is a neighbour of T but not of Z. M does not face Z.
Puzzle 2:
Seven persons R, J, M, Q, L. T and K conduct workshop on Developing Managerial skills in
seven different companies A. B. C. D. E. F and G on a different day of the week from Monday to
Sunday, The order of persons, companies and days of the week are not necessarily the same, J
organizes workshop in Company D on Wednesday. Q does not conduct workshop for companies
A or C and conducts on the next day of L who conducts the workshop for Company F. T
conducts workshop for Company E on Friday. K conducts workshop on Monday but not for
Company C or G. M conducts workshop for Company A but not on Tuesday.
Puzzle 3:
There are three houses on each side of the road. These six houses are labeled as P, Q, R, S, T and
U. The houses are of different colours, namely, Red, Blue, Green, Orange, Yellow and White.
The houses are of different heights. T, the tallest house, is exactly opposite to the Red coloured
house. The shortest house is exactly opposite to the Green coloured house. U, the Orange
coloured house, is located between P and S. R, the Yellow coloured house, is exactly opposite to
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P. Q, the Green coloured house, is exactly opposite to U. P, the White coloured house, is taller
than R, but shorter than S and Q.
FINALANSWERS#####
(1)
O-M
T-P
Z-Q
R-N
(2)
MON-K-B
TUE-R-C
WED-J-D
THU-M-A
FRI-T-E
SAT-L-F
SUN-Q-G
(3)
P( WHITE)--4TH R(YELLOW)--5TH
U (ORANGE)--6TH T(BLUE)--1ST
S(RED)--2/3 Q(GREEN)--2/3

23, 2016
Puzzle 1:
Four students Amit, Bhanu, Sachin and Jagan participated in a quiz competition. It is known that
the person who was wearing the black t-shirt won the quiz. All of them were sitting in a row. All
of them wore t-shirts of different colours, viz. red, black, white and green. There was only one
runner-up and he was sitting beside Jagan. The runner-up was wearing the red t-shirt. Sachin was
not sitting at the ends and was not the runner-up. The winner and the runner-up were not sitting
adjacent to each other. Jagan was wearing white t-shirt. Amit was not wearing the red t-shirt.
Students wearing black t-shirt and white t-shirt were at the ends.
Puzzle 2:
Six persons Chetan, Gaurav Jatin. Karan, Sahil and Tarun who are wearing Black, White, Red,
Green, Blue and YeIlow coloured t-shirts are driving different cars -Verna, City, SX4, Vento,
Optra and Civic not necessarily in that order, these persons had participated in a car racing
competition at the end of which each of them secured different ranks. It is also known that:
(i) Tarun secured 4th position and was driving City
(ii) The person wearing blue coloured t-shirt was driving Vento and didn't secure 2nd position
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(iii) Karan wearing white coloured t-shirt was not driving Verna or Optra and he was not ranked
1st (iv) The person wearing green coloured t-shirt was ranked 6th and he was driving Optra
(v)The person who secured 3rd position was driving Civic
(vi) The person who secured 1st rank was driving 3X4 and he was not wearing black or red
coloured t-shirt
(vii) Chetan was wearing yellow coloured t-shirt while Tarun was not wearing red coloured t-
shirt
Puzzle 3:
Seven students Rahul, Abhinav, Akash, Arnav, Kartik, Paridhi and Saumya are studying in seven
different schools- BPS, BSNr CMS, RLB, DPS, SDA and LPS. They like different subjects-
Maths, Science, Art, Hindi, English, Moral science and History. They read in different classes
IV, V, VI, VII, VIH, IX and X, but not necessarily in the same order, Kartik studies in DPS and
he is in class VI. Akash's favourite subject is English and he studies either in BSN or CMS. One
who reads in CMS is in class V and likes Science. Paridhi does not like either Art or Moral
Science and she is in class X and studies in LPS. One who reads in DPS likes Art. Arnav does
not like Science and he is in class IV. Saumya is in class VIH and does not study in 3PS.One
who studies in SDA, is in class VII. Rahul is not in class VII. One who is in class IV likes
History. Abhinav does not like Hindi and Moral science.
Puzzle 1:-
Amit(black)winner,Sachin (green),Bhanu(Red)runner up,Jagan(white)
Puzzle 2:-
1)Chetan--sx4--yellow
2)Gaurav/jatin/sahil--verna--red
3)Karan---civic--white
4)Tarun--city--black
5)Gaurav/jatin/sahil--vento--blue
6)Gaurav/jatin/sahil--optra--green
PUZZLE 3:-
Rahul--CMS--Science--5
Abhinav--SDA--Maths--7
Akash--BSN--English--9
Arnav--BPS--History--4
Kartik--DPS--art--6
Paridhi--LPS--hindi--10
Saumya--BSNr--m.sci.8
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3, 2016
Puzzle 1:
Twelve members of a family are sitting on two apposite sides of rectangular dining table for a
dinner. Two parallel rows of chairs containing six people each are set in such a way that there is
an equal distance between adjacent persons. In row 1, A, B, C, D, E and F are seated and all of
them are facing south. In row 2, P, Q, R, S, T and O are seated and all of them are facing north,
but not necessarily in the same order. Each of them likes different types of food, viz Indian,
African, English, French, German, Chinese, Italian, Mexican, Thai, Spanish, Korean and
Russian, but not necessarily in the same order. C, who likes German food, sits third to the left of
B. C is not an immediate neighbour of either E or A. P, who likes Korean food, sits third to the
right of S. Neither P nor S sits at the extreme ends. E, who likes Indian food, faces the one who
likes Mexican food. F, who likes English food, faces O, who sits second to the left of T and does
not like French food. T is not an immediate neighbour of S. Only two people sit between Q and
T, who like Russian and Thai food respectively. D, likes neither African nor French food who
sits on the immediate right of the person who likes German food. A, who likes Chinese food,
does not face R. The one who likes Spanish food sits second to the left of the person who faces
the one who likes English food.
Puzzle 2:
Eight friends, A, B, C, D, E, F, G and H, are sitting around a square table in such a way that four
of them sit on four corners of the square while four sit in the middle of each of the four sides.
Each of them likes different motor bikes, viz Avenger, Pulsar, Suzuki, Yamaha, Karizma,
Splendour, Apache and Activa. The ones who sit on the four corners face the centre while those
who sit in the middle of the sides face outside, but not necessarily in the same order. A, who
likes Pulsar, faces the centre and sits third to the right of F. E, who faces the centre, likes Activa
and, is not an immediate neighbour of F. Only one person sits between F and G and they like
Karizma and Suzuki respectively. D, who does not like Splendour, sits second to the right of B,
who likes neither Avenger nor Splendour. D faces the centre. C is not an immediate neighbour of
A. H likes Apache.
Puzzle 3:
Six persons, viz Sinha, Saini, Bhagat, Yadav, Gupta and Mishra plan to go to six different hill
stations, viz Manali, Kullu, Mussourie, Rishikesh, Shimla and Nainital. They wish to go in six
different months, viz January, March, May, June, August and December. Two of them want to
travel by bus and two by rail and others are planning to go either by car or by flight. Following
information is also given. I. Gupta goes to Manali but neither by air nor by bus. II.Sinha prefers
bus journey but travels neither in August nor in May. III. Neither Mishra nor Saini goes either to
Shimla or to Mussourie. IV.Rishikesh is visited in December. V. Persons going to Kullu and
Shimla go by bus and car respectively. VI.Mr Bhagat goes to Nainital in March by air but Mishra
does not travel in December.
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ANSWERS.............................:)
1) E(Indian) A(Chinese) B(French) F(English) D(Italian) C( German); {Facing south}
R(Mexicon) S(Spain) Q(Russian) O(African) P(Korean) T(Thai) ; {facing north}
2) F-karizma(out)
B-yahama(in)
G-suzuki(out)
A-pulsar(in)
H-apache(out)
E-activa(in)
C-splender(out)
D-avenger(in)
3) sinha -->bus-->mussorie-->jan/june
saini-->railway-->rishikesh-->december
bhagat-->air-->nanital-->march
yadav-->car-->shimla-->jan/may/june/aug
gupta-->railway-->manali-->jan/may/june/aug
mishra-->bus-->kullu-->jan/may/june/aug

15, 2016
Puzzle 1:
P, Q, R, S, W, X, Y, Z are sitting around a circle facing centre but not necessarily in the same
order. The husband of Z is sitting second to the right of Q who is sitting between two males. X
sits second to the left of the daughter of S. X is the sister of Y. X is not an immediate neighbour
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of Z's husband. Only one person sits between P and X. P is the father of Y. S who is brother of Z
sits to the immediate left of his mother. Only one person sits between Z's mother and W. Only
one person sits between Z and Y. Y is mother of R. Y is not an immediate neighbour of W.
Puzzle 2:
Six persons A, B, C, D, E and F are sitting around a round table facing towards the centre of the
table in a restaurant. They have ordered for different items (Pizza, Strawberry, Vanilla, Burger,
Pastries and Patties) as their lunch. They are wearing Tshirts of different colours, i.e. white,
black, green, red, yellow and blue. Order of items for the lunch and colours of T-shirts are not
necessarily according to the order of their names. The persons who have ordered for Pizza,
Vanilla and Pastries are neither in white Tshirt nor in black. The persons who are in green and
yellow T-shirts have neither ordered for Pizza nor for Vanilla. A is neither in white T-shirt nor
on the immediate left of the person who has ordered for Burger. The only person who is between
E and F eats Strawberry. The person who is on the left side of the person in white T-shirt does
not eat Patties. D has ordered Burger and the colour of his T-shirt is green. He is facing the
person who has ordered for Strawberry. One who has ordered for Pizza is seated opposite to the
person wearing blue T-shirt, while the person whose T-shirt is of green colour is on the left of
the person who has ordered for Pastries. One who has ordered for Patties is on the immediate
right of the person in white T-shirt but on the immediate left of the person who has ordered for
Vanilla. C has not ordered for Vanilla while F has not ordered for Pizza.
Puzzle 3:
There are five types of cards viz. A, B, C, D and E. There are three cards of each type. These are
to be inserted in envelopes of three colours Red, Yellow and Brown. There are five envelopes
of each colour. B, D and E type cards are inserted in red envelopes. A, B and C type cards are to
be inserted in yellow envelopes and C, D and E type cards are to be inserted in brown envelopes.
Two cards each of B and D type are inserted in red envelopes.
FINAL ANSWERS######
puzzle 1 :
clockwise from Q
Q(-)
S(+)
W(-)
Z(-)
X(-)
Y(-)
P(+)
R(+)
puzzle 2:
starting from C clockwise
CEADBF
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C white (strawberry)
E red (pizza)
A yellow ( pastry)
D green (burger)
B blue (vanilla)
F black (patties)
puzzle 3:
Red - BDEBD
Yellow- ABCAA
Brown - CDECE

20, 2016
Puzzle 1:
Seven persons Z, Y, X, W V I and P are from different cities such as Pune Kolkata,
Mumbai, Lucknow, Delhi, Aligarh and Chennai (but not in the same order). Each of them
belongs to three different hotels Nanda, Deep, Gagan, At least two persons are belong to the
same hotel, W is from Mumbai city and belongs to hotel Nanda. V is from Lucknow city but
does not belong to hotel Nanda. I is from Delhi city and belongs to hotel Deep with only Y. Z is
neither from Kolkata city and nor belongs to hotel Nanda. P is from Aligarh city but does not
belong to hotel Nanda. The persons who are from Pune and Kolkata cities, do not belong to hotel
Nanda,
Puzzle 2:
Komal, Latika, Meetu, Praveen, Anup; Ritu, Shikha and Tripti are sitting around a square table
in such a way that four of them sit at four comers of the square while four sit in the middle of
each of the four sides. Those who sit at the four comers faces outside while those who sit in the
middle of the sides face the centre of the table. Praveen sits third to the right of Shikha. Shikha
faces the centre. Anup sits third to the left of Meetu. Meetu does not sit in the middle of the
sides. Only one person sits between Anup and Ritu. Ritu is not an immediate neighbour of
Meetu. Tripti faces the centre. Komal is not an immediate neighbour of Ritu.
Puzzle 3:
Seven girls Z, Y, X, W, V,U and T are sitting around a circular table and facing towards the
centre. Each of them likes different languages i.e. French, Arabian, Spanish, Italian, Chinese,
German and Japanese but not necessarily in the same order. The one who likes Italian language
sits second to the left of Y who is immediate to the left of V. Neither T nor W likes Italian
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language. Only one girt sits between U and the one who likes Spanish language. The one who
likes Spanish language, is not an immediate neighbour of X. Y is immediate to the right of that
girl who likes French language. Z does not like French language. Only one girl sits between U
and V. X likes German language. Only two girls sit between X and the one who likes Chinese
language. U likes Japanese language and is not the neighbour of T.
Puzzle 1
Person - Hotel- City

P - gagan- aligarh
Z - gagan- pune
V- gagan - lucknow
Y- deep - kolkata
I - deep- delhi
X - nanda - chennai
W- nanda - mumbai
Puzzle 2
Clockwise : praveen, anup, komal, shikha, meetu, tripti, latika, Ritu
Facing outside : komal, meetu, latika, praveen

Facing inside :shikha, tripti, ritu, anup,
,
Puzzle 3
Clockwise: x(ger.), u(jap.), w(ara.), v(span.), y(chin.), t(fren.), z(italian)
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