Puzzles collection by @love_kanha aka DIVYANSHI 😊

PUZZLES

PO1

Six friends A, B, C, D, E and F are Pursuing engineering in four different

specialization, 2 in Electricals, 1 in Mechanical, 1in Electronics, and 2 in Civil. Three

of them play Volleyball. Two of them play Cricket and three of them play

Badminton. A person can play either Cricket or Badminton. Only one of them plays

Volleyball, Badminton and Football. Three of them play Football. Electrical

engineers do not play Badminton. F is either a Civil engineer or an Electronics

engineer and plays Cricket. B does not play Football but plays Cricket and

Volleyball. One who plays Cricket also plays Football. C is not an Electrical

engineer but plays Football. A is an Electrical engineer. E is a Civil engineer and

plays Football. The people having the same specialization do not play more than

one common games. D does not play Volleyball. The Mechanical engineer does

not play Football but play Badminton. Civil engineers do not play Volleyball

P02

There are eight members of a family–A, B, C, D, E, F, G and H. All of them are

sitting around a circular table facing the centre. They belong to three different

generations and there are three married couples among them. Four of them are

males and four of them are of the opposite gender (though not necessarily in the

same order.)They like different countries viz, Cambodia, Canada, Chile, China,

Typhon, Cuba, Croatia and Cyprus but not necessarily in the same order. Further,

some more information is also given. The son-in-law and grandson of H are

immediate neighbours. G cannot be an immediate neighbour of her sister-in-law.

G likes Canada. B, a spinster, is sitting two places to the right of her grandfather

E. Neither C nor E likes Croatia. A and his sibling cant sit to ether. Colombia is li ed

by the brother-in-law of C. There are only three persons sitting between the

person who likes Cuba and her aunt D. C, a married male, cannot be an immediate

neighbour of either E or B. C does not like Cyprus or Cambodia. Croatia is not liked

by either D or H. F and B are not siblings. E does not like Chile or Cambodia. There

is only one person sitting between C and his brother-in-law. Chile is not liked by

the Son-in-law of H.

P03

Ten friends are going to a restaurant for the dinner. They are of different caste viz;

Gupta, Sharma, Bisht, Saxena, Verma, Malhotra, Mehra, Arora, Saini and

Mukherjee, but not necessarily in the same order. These ten persons are sitting in

two rows in such a way that five persons in each row and each person from one

row is exactly opposite a person from the other row. They are of different weight

from 71 to 80, and sitting in such a way that the person has weight in odd number

is not opposite another person who has weight in odd number and no two persons

who have weight in

even number are adjacent to each other. Further information related to positions

of the persons is given below: The person whose caste is Malhotra has weight of

78 kg and is not sitting in the same row in which the person whose weight is 74 or

76 kg is sitting. The persons whose castes are Saxena and Verma are adjacent to

the person whose weight is 76kg, but the person whose caste is Saxena is not

sitting at an end. The person whose caste is Mehra has weight of 75 kg and is not

sitting in the same row in which the person whose weight is 73 or 76 is sitting.

The person whose caste is Gupta is neither adjacent nor opposite to the person

whose caste is Mehra or The person whose caste is Bisht. The person whose caste

is Malhotra is sitting at the rightend of the row. The person whose weight is 76 kg

is sitting second to the right end in its row. The person whose caste is Sharma has

weight in even number and is opposite to the person whose weight is 71 kg. The

persons whose castes are Saini and Mukherjee are sitting in the same row. The

person whose weight is 76 kg is not sitting to the left of person whose weight is 77

kg. The person whose caste is Bisht has weight in odd number but not 71kg and is

sitting in the same row with the person whose caste is Mehra. The person whose

caste is Verma is sitting opposite to the person whose weight is 72 kg and has

weight neither 73 nor 71kg.

PO4

Five friends Abdullah, Birbal, Chanakya, Durjan, and Eeshwar are working in 5

different departments M, N, O, P and Q and they earn different salaries i.e.

10,000, 15,000, 20,000, 25,000 and 30,000 and they all are of different ages i.e.

24, 26, 28, 30 and 32 years. These all information are not necessarily in the same

order.

Birbal works in department M and earns more than 20,000. Person who is 28

years old works in department Q. 32 years old person earns at least 20,000.

The person who is 26 years old earns 25,000. Abdullah earns 15,000, but does not

work in department N or P.

Person who is 30 years old earns highest salary but does not work in department

M and N. Eeshwar does not work in department P or Q, and his age is not 32. The

salary of Durjan is less than 20,000

PO5

Six friends Abhi, Deep, Myank, Prince, Rambo and Sumit married within a year in

the months of February, April, July, September, November and December and in

the cities of Ahmedabad, Bengaluru, Chennai, Delhi, Mumbai and Kolkata but not

necessarily following the above order. The brides names were Geetu, Jasmeet,

Harman, Bindia, Inpreet and Vanshika, once again not following any order. The

following are some facts about their weddings.

(i) Myank’s wedding took place in Chennai, however he was not married to

Geetu or Vanshika

(ii) Abhi’s wedding took place in Ahmedabad and Rambo’s in Delhi;

however neither of them was married to Jasmeet or Bindia.

(iii) The wedding in Kolkata took place in February

(iv) Harman’s wedding took place in April, but not in Ahmedabad

(v) Geetu and Inpreet got married in February and November and in

Chennai and Kolkata but not following the above order

(vi) Prince visited Bengaluru and Kolkata only after his marriage in

December

(vii) Sumit was married to Jasmine to September

P06

Seven students L, K, M, N, O, P and Q are going for a PG program to

seven different States of India for seven different Specializations. One

person is going to only one State and will post graduate in only one

Specialization. The States are Kerala, Punjab, Maharashtra, Assam,

Himachal, Haryana and Uttar Pradesh. The PGs specializations are Law,

Marketing, Finance, Human Resource, Designing, Sales

and IT Development but not necessarily in the same order. All Students

belong to seven different cities of India. The cities are Pune, Gurgaon,

Banaras, Bhopal, Chennai, Lucknow and Patna. • O is going to Punjab

and does Specialization in Designing. • L belongs to Chennai and he does

Specialization in Sales. M is going to Uttar Pradesh and does not

specialized in Law. P is going to Haryana. • The person does

Specialization in )T development belongs to Gurgaon. • The one who

does Specialization in Finance is going to Assam. N belongs to Patna and

does not go to Maharashtra. • The persons from Banaras and Lucknow

are not going to Uttar Pradesh. • Either P or K does Specialization in )T

development. • The person from Pune is going to Kerala, and Q belongs

to Banaras

P07

Seven students, P, Q, R, S, T, U and V of Career Power have cracked SBI

PO exam and they have attended class in seven different months (of the

same year) i.e. January, February, March, June, August, October and

December and each of them have liked teaching of different teachers of

Career Power i.e. Aniket, Neeraj, Prashant, Saurabh, Meena, Vandana

and Gopal but not necessarily in the same order. R has attended class in

a month which has less than 31 days. Only two students have attended

class between the month in which R and S have attended class. The one

who has liked teaching of Aniket has attended class immediately before

T. Only one person has attended class before the one who has liked

teaching of Prashant. Q has attended class immediately after the one

who has liked teaching of Prashant. Only three persons have attended

class between Q and the one who has liked teaching of Meena . T has

liked neither class of Meena nor Prashant. P has attended class

immediately before T. V has liked class of Gopal. The one who has liked

class of Neeraj attended class in the month, which has less than 31 days.

The one who has attended class in March has not liked teaching of

Saurabh.

P08

Seven person P, Q, R, S ,T,U and V like different dance forms, viz- Mask

dance Bihu, Nati, Mandi,

Bharatnatyam, Nautanki and Lavani, but not necessarily in the same

order. Each of them has a different profession, viz- Banking, Acting,

Business, Dancing, Anchoring, teaching and Writing, but not necessarily

in the same order. P is an Anchor. S likes Lavani. The person who likes

Bharatnatyam is doing a job of Acting. The person who does teaching is

fond of Nati dance. U does not like Teaching, Acting, Banking or Dancing.

U does not like Nautanki, Bihu or Mandi. Q doesn't have a profession of

Business, Acting, Banking or Dancing. Q does not like Mandi, Mask

dance, Bihu or Nautanki. R does not like Bharatnatyam and his

profession is neither Banking nor Dancing. Neither S nor V does a job a

Banking. P does not like Bihu dance and mask dance. The person who

does Business

likes Nautanki

P09

There are seven teams, owners L, M, N, O, P Q and R. All of them have

different teams, viz, Mumbai Indians,

Delhi Daredevils, Kolkata Knight Riders, Kings XI

Punjab, Chennai Super kings, Pune Worries and

Rajasthan Royals ,but not necessarily in the same order. Each of the

teams has one caption, viz- Sangkara,

Flintoff, Akram, Stain, Watson, Fleming and V. Richards but not

necessarily in the same order. Captains belong to three different

countries, viz, Sri Lanka, Africa and Australia. Atleast two captains are

from one country. O has team named Delhi Daredevils, the captain of

this team

is Akram. N and Q selected the captain from Sri

Lanka. N has Pune worries but doesn't have captain either Flintoff or

Stain. The one who has team Rajasthan Royals has captain from

Australia only with O. P has Mumbai Indians and Captain of Mumbai

Indian is Stain, who is not from Srilanka. Watson is captain of that team

which is owned by Q. Fleming is the caption of Rajasthan Royal but

neither his owner is M nor

he belongs to Africa. R owns Kings XI Punjab. Fleming is not from Africa

or Srilanka. The one who owns Chennai Super King has no captain from

Africa, from where there are three captains. V. Richards is not the

captain of Kolkata Knight Riders and Belongs to Africa.

P10

There are five Players viz. P, R, S, T and V are from five different countries

viz. Russia, China, India, Britain and USA, but not necessarily in the same

order. They are the players of five different games viz. Football, Hockey,

Cricket, Tennis and Badminton and use three cars viz. Mercedes, Maruti

and Honda to travel but not necessarily in the same order. Maximum

two players can share one car. The player who goes along with the

player

who is from USA, plays Tennis. R plays football. V does not go with

Russian footballer. S is from Britain but does not travel in

Mercedes.

Hockey players belong to Russia. One who is a player of football

travels in that car which is shared by two persons. The one who plays

Cricket likes to travel

with whom who plays Badminton. Mercedes car is used by only one

player. V is

the player of Cricket. Chinese does not play Hockey or Tennis and

does not like Honda. The one who play Football like Honda. P, who is

from India, cannot share his ride either with the player of 'China' or

'Britain'. The player who is from Britain does not play Tennis.

.

P11

:Ten film stars from Tollywood are sitting in two parallel rows containing five

persons each in dining hall. In row 1, Venkatesh, Nagarjuna, Bala Krishna,

Jagapathi Babu and Chiranjivi are sitting and all of them are facing south. In row

2, N.T.R, Pavan Kalyan, Mahesh Babu, Allu Arjun and Ram Charan 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

going to different

countries for shooting — Switzerland, USA,

Netherlands, Canada, Germany, AUSTRALIA, Dubai, Egypt, Italy and Turkey but

not necessarily in the same order. There are only two persons sitting between the

person going to Switzerland, who sits at an extreme end, and Chiranjivi. N.T.R,

who sits in the middle of the row, is not an immediate neighbour of Pavan Kalyan,

who is not going to Turkey.Ram Charan is sitting at an extreme end. Chiranjivi, is

going to German, sits on the immediate right of the person going to USA and faces

the immediate neighhour of Pavan Kalyan. Nagarjuna is not sitting at the extreme

left end. N.T.R is not going to Italy. There is only one person between Bala Krishna

and Jagapathi Babu, who is going to Switzerland. Allu Arjun, who is going to

AUSTRALIA, is an immediate neighbour of the person going to Turkey and does not

face the person going to Netherlands.Mahesh Babu, who is going to Canada, is an

immediate neighbour of the person going to Italy, who in turn faces the

immediate neighbour of the person going to Germany. There are two persons

between the person going to Dubai and Netherlands. Nagarjuna is not going to

Dubai. Ram Charan is not going to Egypt

P11

:There are nine persons Anil,Balaji, Chaitu, Dinesh, Eswar, Feriq, Ganesh, Hari and

Ishant stay on a nine floors building, but not necessarily in the same order. Only

one person stays on each floor. All of them have either Bike or Car of different

colours i.e. yellow, golden, red, orange, purple, black, white, silver and grey, but

not necessarily in the same order. Only five of them have Car.The ground floor is

numbered 1and the topmost floor is

numbered 9. There are two floors between the floors on which the persons having

a black Bike and silver Car stay. Chaitu owns a red Bike. Feriq does not own a grey

Bike. Anil stays on even numbered floor below the even numbered floor on which

Hari stays. The one who own a purple Car stays on

the fourth floor. Dinesh stays on the second floor and owns the orange Car. The

one who owns the golden Car stays on the topmost floor. Anil does not own a

white Car. Feriq owns a black Bike and stays on an odd-numbered floor. There is

only one floor between the floors on which Ferriq and Ganesh stay. Eswar stays

immediate above the floor on which Ishant stay. Ganesh does not stay on the

ground floor. Balaji stays immediate above the floor on which Hari stay. There are

three floors between the floors on which Chaitu and Feriq stay. The one who owns

the silver car stays immediate above Ganesh .Eswar stays on the fourth floor. The

one who owns the grey Bike stays on the third floor.

P12

There are eight persons namely A, B, C, D, E, F,G and H has born in the same

month of different year i.e. 1969, 1972, 1978, 1981, 1989, 1997, 2000 and 2005.

Their age are considered as on the same month of 2016.G is born in even number

year, but not born in the year, which does not divisible by 4.A is 36 years old now.B

is 17 year older than F, who is 8 years younger than A. There are eight year gap

between age of E and age of D. H is nine year younger than C, but not born in

2005. E was born earlier than G.

P13

: Seven people, namely M, N, O, P, Q, R and S will be attending seven different

meetings in seven different cities namely,

Mumbai, Delhi, Pune, Surat, Chennai, Baroda and Kolkata, not necessarily in the

same order, from Monday to Sunday (of the same week).And

also likes different colors red, white, pink, yellow, green, black, and blue color and

not necessarily in the same order. Q will attend a meeting on Thursday and like

yellow color. Only two people will attend a meeting between Q and the one who

will attend a meeting in Chennai. P will attend a meeting immediately before N. P

will attend a meeting on one of the days before Q. P will neither attend a meeting

in Chennai or black color. S like green color .Only two people will attend a meeting

between P and the one who will attend a meeting in Pune. Only one person will

attend a meeting between Q and the one

who will attend the meeting in Kolkata. Neither P nor N will attend a meeting in

Kolkata or pink.

M will attend the meeting immediately before the one who will attend the

meeting in Baroda. One who attend the meeting Baroda not like red color. P does

not like red color. The who attend

the meeting Kolkata likes pink color. Only three people will attend a meeting

between S and O. S will attend a meeting before O and O like’s blue color. P will

neither attend a meeting in Mumbai

nor in Surat. Q will not attend a meeting in

Mumbai.

P14

Seven persons namely P, Q, R, S, T, U, V not in the same order in a organization

working as a AM( Assistant Manager), MG(Manager), DGM(Deputy General

Manager), GM (General Manager), CGM (Chief General Manager), ED(Executive

Director), CEO(Chief Executive Officer). And likes different cities namely Mumbai,

Jaipur, Ranchi, Chandigarh, Agra, Patna, Bhopal not in same order. NOTE: position

has been increasing order of their experience. CEO is most experienced person and

Assistant manager least experienced. R is junior to only two persons. S does not

like Ranchi. Person who likes Chandigarh is junior to T but not a least junior.

Person who likes Patna is senior to ED.

P15

There are eight people namely A, B, C, D, E, F, G and H who sit around a circular

table facing towards or away from the centre. They like different ice cream

flavors. One of the flavors is Strawberry. The following information is known about

them. i. (s neighbors face in same direction but opposite to that of (. ii. G sits third

to the left of E who faces towards the centre. iii. Ds spouse who likes Chocolate

flavor sits third to the left of D. iv. C sits third to the right of a male and they face

in the same direction. v. Bs immediate neighbors face in same direction but

opposite to that of B. vi. The female who likes Vanilla flavor sits opposite to the

male who likes Red Velvet. vii. A who likes Black Current flavor sits second to the

left of D and they face in the same direction. viii. The immediate neighbors of C

like Vanilla and Mulberry flavors. ix. B and F sit together and none of them sits

with A and D. x. Gs spouse who likes Fruit and Nut flavor sits second to the left of

G. xi. The immediate neighbors of (s only sister who is neither C nor E are A and D.

xii. B who likes Butter Scotch flavor is the only one whose both the immediate

neighbors are of opposite gender to B.

P16

Nine people A, B, C, D, E, F, G, H and I stay in a building. The building has nine

floors and only one person stays on one floor. Each of them likes different actors

namely- Ajay Devgan, Anil Kapoor, Arjun Kapoor, Akshay Kumar, Amitabh

Bachchan, Aamir Khan, Arjun Rampal, Abhay Deol and Abhishek Bachchan. Each

person belongs to different cities, i.e. Mumbai, Delhi, Agra, Kolkata, Chennai,

Lucknow, Nagpur, Baroda and Jaipur, but not necessarily in the same order. The

ground floor is numbered 1, the floor above it is numbered 2, and so on, and the

topmost floor is numbered 9.

The one who belongs to Baroda stays on the fourth floor. A does not belong to

Lucknow and does not like Aamir Khan and Abhay Deol. There are three floors

between the floors on which C and G stay. D stays on a floor immediately above

the )s floor. The one who likes Arjun Rampal stays on an even numbered floor. F

does not belong to Jaipur .The one who belongs to Mumbai stays on the topmost

floor. The one who likes Akshay Kumar stays immediate below to the one who

likes Ajay Devgan. F likes Aamir Khan and does not stay on the ground floor. H

belongs to Kolkata and stays on an even-numbered floor and he likes Akshay

Kumar. E stays on the second floor and belongs to Agra. There are three people

between the one who likes Anil Kapoor and the one who likes Abhay Deol. The

person who likes Anil Kapoor stays below the person who likes Abhay Deol.

The one who belongs to Jaipur stays on the third floor. The one who likes Amitabh

Bachchan does not stay on sixth floor. There are two floors between the floors on

which the people who are from Nagpur and Kolkata stay. The person who likes

Abhay Deol is from Nagpur. C belongs to Delhi. The one who likes Abhishek

Bachchan stays immediate above to C. There is one floor between the floors on

which F and G stay. There is one floor between the floors in which the one who

likes Arjun Kapoor and the one who likes Abhishek Bachchan stay. A stays on an

even-numbered floor below the floor on which H stays

9 - AJAY DEVGAN - MUMBAI – B

8 - AKSHAY KUMAR - KOLKATA - H

7 - AAMIR KHAN - LUCKNOW – F

6 - ARJUN RAMPAL - CHENNAI – A

5 - ABHAY DEOL - NAGPUR- G

4 - ARJUN KAPOOR - BARODA - D

3 - AMITABH BACHHAN - JAIPUR – I

2 - ABHISHEK BACHHAN - AGRA - E

1 - ANIL KAPUR - DELHI – C

P16

There are 5 houses in 5 different colours. In each house lives a person of a

different nationality. The 5 owners drink a certain type of beverage, smoke a

certain brand of cigar, and keep a certain pet (Cat Dogs Fish Horse and Bird.)

a) The Brit lives in a red house.

b) The Swede keeps dogs as pets.

c) The Dane drinks tea.

d) The green house is on the immediate left of the white house.

e) The green house owner drinks coffee.

f) The person who smokes Pall Mall rears birds.

g) The owner of the yellow house smokes Dunhill.

h) The man living in the house right in the middle drinks milk.

i) The Norwegian lives in the first house.

j) The man who smokes Blend lives next door to the one who keeps cats.

k) The man who keeps horses lives next door to the man who smokes Dunhill.

l) The owner who smokes Blue Master drinks chocolate.

m) The German smokes Prince.

n) The Norwegian lives next to the blue house.

o) The man who smokes Blend has a neighbor who drinks water.

P17

Eight family members Vijendera Thakur, Chinmay Choudhary, Malkhan Pehlwan,

Gabbar Pehlwan, Hanshal Choudhary, Samsher Pehlwan, Faluka Devi and Nathu

Singh are fan of three different actors: Salman Khan, John Abraham and Sanjay

Dutt. Out of these, two are female and have different specializations. Two among

all of them are specialists in Shooting, two in Wrestling, two are Sarpanch and

one each is a Businessman and a Boxer. Gabbar Pehlwan, who is fan of Salman

khan has specialized in Wrestling and her wife Faluka Devi, a Shooter is fan of

Sanjay Dutt. Nathu Singh, who is son of wife of Gabbar Pehlwan is a Wrestler.

Samsher Pehlwan has same specialization as Chinmay Chodhary, a Sarpanch who

is the cousin of Nathu Singh and is not a fan of John Abraham. Malkhan Pehlwan,

Grandfather of Nathu Singh is not a Boxer. The persons who have same

specialization are not the fan of same actors. Samsher Pehlwan who is son of

Gabbar Pehlwan is a Sarpanch, who is fan of John Abraham and Vijendera Thakur

who is brother in law of Faluka Devi is Shooter and is fan of Salman Khan, and

among all family members only two members are there who are fan of Salman

Khan. Not more than three of them are fan of Sanjay Dutt. No female is

Businessman or Boxer. Neither Businessman nor Boxer is the fan of Sanjay Dutt.

P18

There are seven persons – M, N, O, P, Q, R and S – who teach different subjects viz-

Philosophy, Psychology, Performance Studies, Politics, Portuguese, Performing

Arts and Physical Education but not necessarily in the same order. They teach on

different days of the week starting from Monday. They like different colours, viz-

Eburnean, Coquelicot, Xanadu, Wenge, Fulvous, Mikado and Smaragdine but not

necessarily in the same order. N, who likes Mikado, teaches on the fourth day of

the week but neither Philosophy nor Physical Education. Two persons teaches

between the days on which N and R teach and neither of them teach on the 1st

day of the week. There is one person between M and O. But O does not teach

either on 1st or 3rd day of the week. O likes Coquelicot colour and teaches

Philosophy. The one who teaches Performance Studies, teaches on the last day of

the week and likes Xanadu colour. P does not teach on the day either immediately

before or immediately after the day on which M teach, who doesnt like either

Fulvous or Eburnean or Wenge colour. S teaches immediately after O and he likes

Eburnean colour. Q does not like Fulvous colour and teaches Performing Arts. M

does not teach either Portuguese or Politics. The one who teaches Psychology

takes class immediately after the day when Philosophy has been taught.

P19

At a recent International award function, five persons A, B, C, D and E

participated. Every Person observed some languages i.e. English, Portuguese,

French, Spanish and Italian, but not necessarily in the same order. Each person

belongs to some countries viz.- Italy, Japan, France, London and Britain. The

following statements are: I. The only common language between C and E is

Italian. II. A does not belong to Italy or Britain. III. Three persons can speak

Portuguese. IV. The most common language is Spanish. V. D belongs to France. B

and C speak English. Although when D joined them, they all changed to Spanish,

the only common language among the three of them. VI. C belongs to either

London or Italy. VII. The one who belongs to London cannot speak only French.

VIII. The only common language among A, B and E is French. IX. The one who

belongs to Britain could speak only Italian and French languages. X. Each one of

the five persons A, B, C, D and E knows either one, two, three, four or five

languages (but not in the same order).

P20

Edward and his family live in a house. There are nine members in the family i.e.

Edward, Daniel, Helen, Denise, Emily, Alan, James, Henrich and Alfred. Each

person likes different colours viz. Brown, Red, Black, White, Blue, Violet, Yellow,

Green and Purple. The relation of Edward with the members is defined as Father,

Mother, Brother, Sister, Wife, Daughter, Son, and Brother-in-law but not in the

same order. All the family members are seated at a circular table, but not

necessarily in the same order. Some of them face the centre while others face

outward. Alfred is brother of Edwards daughter. Edwards brother is seated on the

immediate right of the brother of Edwards sister and the two face the same

direction. Alfreds father likes Red colour. (enrich has a sister. The mother of

Edwards son is Emily and sits second to the left of the married son of Edwards

father. Alans daughter-in-law likes Purple colour. Edward faces outward. Alan is a

male. Edawards father sits third to the right Edwards daughter. Either Alfred or

(enrich sits third to the left of the mother of (elen, but both Alfred and (enrich face

the same direction. Edwards brother and sister likes Black and Brown colour

respectively. James is not father of Henrich. In two generations, the members of

the same generation are sitting immediate next to each other and face the same

direction. Edwards father does not like Green and Yellow colour. Alans grandson

likes White colour. Daniel is a female and of the same generation as of Edward.

James sits on the immediate left of the granddaughter of Edwards father. The one,

who is the wife of Alan likes Yellow colour. Edwards brother-in-law neither likes

Green colour nor blue colour. Edwards father doesnt sit immediate

Next to his children. James is facing the centre and is second to right of Edward.

Daniel sits second to left of Alan. No three members seated together can face the

same direction.

P21

Seven students namely viz A, B, C, D, E, F and G of seven different colleges have

Seminar in seven different months namely viz January, February, June, July,

September, October and November on seven different days, namely viz Monday,

Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday and Sunday of the same week

but necessarily in the same order. Each student stays in a hostel in different floor.

The ground floor of the building is numbered 1, the one above that is numbered 2

and so on till the topmost floor is numbered 7.

There are four floors between the person who have seminar in November and

January. G stayed on the second floor and has a seminar on Wednesday. The one

who stayed on the first floor has a seminar on Saturday. B has a seminar on the

day immediately before E. B does not have seminar on any of the days after G. The

one who stayed on the seventh floor does not have a seminar on any of the days

on or before Friday. There are three floors between the person who have seminar

on July and September. The one who stayed on the third floor has a seminar on

the day immediately after C. B does not have seminar in January. E does not stay

on the fifth floor. The one who stays on sixth floor does not have a seminar on the

day immediately before or after G. F does not have any seminar on Sunday and

does not live in third floor. D does not have seminar on any one of the days before

A. The top three floors occupied by the persons who have seminar on one of the

months which has 31 days. A has seminar on one of the month which has less than

30 days.

P22

Six students P, Q, R, S, T & U is sitting around a circular table facing towards the

centre of the table in a public library. They read different books -History, Physics,

Chemistry, Biology, English and Hindi. They carry different colours of bags – Black,

Red, Blue, Green, violet and Brown, but not necessarily in the same order.

The students who read History, Chemistry and English books are having neither

black nor red bag. The students who have blue and violet bag do not read History

or Chemistry books. P do not have black bag and he is not on the immediate left of

the student who read Biology. The only student who is between T and U reads

physics. The student, who is on the left side of the student, who has black bag,

does not read Hindi book. S reads biology book and the colour of his bag is blue

also he is facing the student who reads physics book. One who reads history book

is seated opposite to the student having Brown bag .The student whose bag is of

blue colour is on the left of the student who reads English book. One who reads

Hindi book is on the immediate right of the student, who has black bag but on the

immediate left of the student, who reads Chemistry. R does not read chemistry

and U does not read History book.

P23

Eight people P, Q, R, S, T, U, V and W were born in three different months(of the

same year) but not necessarily in the same order, namely March June and

December such that not less than two people and not more than three people

were born in a month. Each of them also likes a different fruit namely Guava,

Peach, Banana, Cherry, Mango, Orange, Kiwi and apple but not necessarily in the

same order.

Only Q and W were born in March. R likes Apple and was born in the same month

as T.

R was not born in December. The one who likes Mango was born in the month

which has 30 days only.

U was not born in the same month as T. S likes Cherry and born in the same month

as U. V does not like Mango.

The one who likes Kiwi and the one who likes Banana were born in the same

month, The one who likes Kiwi was not born in the same month as W.

U does not like Kiwi. The one who likes Guava was born in the same month as P. Q

does not like Peach. T does not like Mango.

P24

Seven Lecturers – A, B, C, D, E, F and G will go to Seven different Universities

namely Indian Institute of Science, University of Delhi, Banaras Hindu University,

Osmania university, IIT Madras, Shivaji University and University of Mumbai but

not in necessarily same order to give guest lectures.

They take lectures on the subjects like Economics, History, Electronics, Computer,

Agriculture, Bio Technology and Chemistry but not necessarily in the same order.

They delivers lectures on Monday to Sunday(of the same week) not necessarily in

same order.

A gives guest lecture in Indian Institute of Science either in Economics or Bio

Technology.

The person who give guest lecture on the seventh day of the week went to

University of Mumbai and He is expert in Chemistry. C does not give lecture in Bio

Technology

B takes the lecture on Wednesday only and He is not expert in computer and

Economics

The lecturer who takes guest lecture in agriculture went on Thursday and neither

in University of Delhi nor in Shivaji University.

D delivers lecture on Electronics in Osmania Univeresity except on Monday and

Tuesday.

C delivers a guest lecture at Banaras Hindu University and takes lecture one day

before D.

G does not went to Thursday.On the second day of the week F gives the guest

lecture in Shivaji University.The lecturer who delivers lecture on Friday is not

expert in Computer, Bio Technology and Economics.

P25

Aparna, Aruna, Arya, Ashwini and Anu are five women sitting in a line facing south

– while Aditya, Akash, Anand, Ashok and Akshay are five men sitting in a second

line parallel to the first line and are facing North. All of them are residents of a

five storey building. There are two people living one each floor of the

building.Aruna, who is sitting to the immediate left of Ashwini, is facing Akshay,

who lives on the floor below Aruna. Arya, who lives on the same floor as Akshay, is

on one of the extreme ends of her line. Akash who lives on the topmost floor is on

one of the extreme ends of his line. Anu sits opposite to Anand and both live on

the same floor, which is two floors below Akash.Anand’sneighbourAditya lives on

the same floor as Aruna and he faces Arya who lives on the floor below him.

Ashwini lives on the same floor as Akash. Akshay is on the immediate left of Akash

who faces Aparna, who lives on the floor below Akash.

Arya(1) Anu(3) Ashwin(5) Aruna(2) aparna (4)

Aditya(2) anand(3) ashok(4) akshy(1) Akash(5)

P26

Six friends — Arun, Sathish, Yogesh, Ganesh, Peter and Hemantharestudying six

different specialisations of engineering which are —

metallurgy,telecommunication, software, mechanical, electrical and hardware

notnecessarily in the same order. Each one likes a different sport – hockey,

cricket,swimming, football, badminton and tennis again not in the same order.

Ganesh is not studying hardware Peter is studying software and likeshockey.

Yogesh likes swimming and is not studying hardware. The one wholikes football is

studying electrical. Hemanth is studying mechanical anddoes not like tennis. The

one who likes badminton is studying telecommunication. Arun and Sathish do not

like badminton. Arun doesnot like tennis.

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Seven Persons – A, B, C, D, E, F, and G – live on separate floors of a seven storey-ed

building, but not in the same order. The ground floor of the building is numbered

1, the floor above it 2 and so on until the topmost floor is numbered 7. Each

person likes different fruits – Apple, Banana, Orange, Guava, Pomegranate,

Grapes and Pineapple, but not necessarily in the same order. Each person has 7

different weight of their favorite fruit starting from 1kg to 10 kg. The weight of

Guava is more than 2 kg. The total weight of Pomegranate and Grapes is 10 kg.

The person who likes Guava lives on floor numbered four. A does not live on the

lowermost floor. A lives on any odd numbered floor below the one who likes

Guava. Only two persons live between A and the person who likes Pineapple. Only

one person lives between B and F. The total weight of apple is square of the total

weight of Pomegranate while The total weight of Pine apple is square of the total

weight of Guava. F lives on an even numbered floor and does not like Guava. Only

three persons live between the persons who like Apple and Orange respectively.

The person who likes Apple live on any floor above the B’s floor. The person who

likes Apple does not live on the topmost floor. G lives on an even numbered floor

but neither immediately above nor immediately below the floor of A. C does not

like Apple or Orange. Only two persons live between D and the one who likes

Guava. The person who likes Pomegranate lives on the floor immediately above

the floor of the person who likes Grapes. The difference between the weight of the

Orange and Grapes is 2 kg. The floor number and the weight of favorite fruit is

same for the person C.

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P35

Seven students namely viz A, B, C, D, E, F and G of seven different colleges have

Seminar in seven different months namely viz January, February, June, July,

September, October and November on seven different days, namely viz Monday,

Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday and Sunday of the same week

but necessarily in the same order. Each student stays in a hostel in different floor.

The ground floor of the building is numbered 1, the one above that is numbered 2

and so on till the topmost floor is numbered 7.

There are four floors between the person who have seminar in November and

January. G stayed on the second floor and has a seminar on Wednesday. The one

who stayed on the first floor has a seminar on Saturday. B has a seminar on the

day immediately before E. B does not have seminar on any of the days after G. The

one who stayed on the seventh floor does not have a seminar on any of the days

on or before Friday. There are three floors between the person who have seminar

on July and September. The one who stayed on the third floor has a seminar on

the day immediately after C. B does not have seminar in January. E does not stay

on the fifth floor. The one who stays on sixth floor does not have a seminar on the

day immediately before or after G. F does not have any seminar on Sunday and

does not live in third floor. D does not have seminar on any one of the days before

A. The top three floors occupied by the persons who have seminar on one of the

months which has 31 days. A has seminar on one of the month which has less than

30 days.

P37

Eight friends A, B, C, D, E, G, H and J live on eight different floors of a building but

not necessarily in the same order. The lowermost floor of the building is numbered

1 and the topmost floor of the building is numbered 8. The DOB of each of the

persons falls in different months i.e. March, April, May, June, July, August,

September and October, but not necessarily in the same order. All persons like

different types of fruits i.e. Guava, Apple, Grapes, Mango, Banana, Pineapple,

Litchi and Orange but not necessarily in the same order. The one whose DOB is in

August does not live on an odd-numbered floor and does not like Apple & Litchi. J

lives just below the one whose DOB is in October. The one who lives on Third floor

likes Guava. The one whose DOB is in April lives on an even-numbered floor but

not on the topmost floor and likes either Orange or Pineapple. Only one person

lives between G and the one whose DOB is in July. The one who likes Banana lives

immediate above the floor in which J lives. E likes Litchi. The one whose DOB is in

June lives on an even numbered floor and lives just above the person whose DOB is

in October. Cs DOB is not in July or October. The persons who likes Apple, Mango,

Orange and Grapes) lives on even numbered floor. The one who likes Grapes lives

below the one who likes Mango. Only two persons live between the one whose

DOB is in August and the one whose DOB is in March. Ds DOB is not in September.

Only two persons live between G and the one whose DOB is in April. Neither E nor

C lives on the first floor. Only one person lives between C and the one whose DOB

is in May. A lives just above G. Only two persons live between E and A. The one

whose DOB is in July does not live on floor number one. A does not like Grapes or

Mango. B lives on an evennumbered floor and just above C.

P38

Six friends Amit, Siddhesh, Monish, Vikram, Netaji and Sahil visit a Tadoba

National Park. Each of them travel using their own vehicle Audi, BMW, Toyota,

Honda, Ford and Volkswagan not necessarily in the same order and each one

travel through different routes Chandrapur, Nagpur, Warda, Gondia, Bhandara,

Amravati not in same order. They likes animal lion, Tiger, Leaopard, Deer, Bear,

Snake not in same order. Amit travel through Chandrapur route and like Lion. He

neither travel in Ford nor in BMW. The one who travel through route warda likes

Deer or Bear. Monish travel in Volkswagan and neither like Tiger or Snake. The

Friend who travel in Toyota likes Bear or Deer. Sahil travel through Gondia route

neither in Ford nor in Honda. The one who travel through Bhandara route travels

in Honda or Toyota. Siddesh neither travel through Bhandara nor Amravati.

Vikram like tiger.

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