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1 Reasoning Puzzle PDF Part-1 for upcoming exams 50 Puzzles topic wise FLOOR BASED and BOX BASED PUZZLE SEATING ARRANGEMENT ROW BASED CIRCULAR SEATING ARRANGEMENT SEATING ARRANGEMENT RECTANGULAR TABLE/ SQUARE TABLE WEEK/DAY/MONTH/BIRTHDAY BASED PUZZLE MISCELLANEOUS PUZZLE

2 Table of Content S.No Content Page Number Floor based and box based puzzle Solution to floor based and box based puzzle Seating arrangement row based Solution to seating arrangement row based Circular seating arrangement Solution to circular seating arrangement Seating arrangement rectangular table/ square table Solution to seating arrangement rectangular table/ square table Week/day/month/birthday based puzzle Solution to week/day/month/birthday based puzzle Miscellaneous puzzle Solution to miscellaneous puzzle

3 FLOOR BASED and BOX BASED PUZZLE Puzzle 1 There are 10 people A, B, C, D, E, M, N, O, P and Q who stay on 4 floors (numbered 1 to 4) of a building. There are three flats on each of the four floors out of which two flats are vacant. The flats are numbered 1, 2 and 3 on each of the floors and are left to right on the floor respectively. Flat no. 1 of floor no. 2 is exactly above the flat no. 1 of floor no. 1 and so on. M stays on flat no. 1 of the floor just below the floor on which B stays. The flat no 2 of floor no 2 is empty. B stays on flat no. 2 on one of the floors. D stays on flat no. 2. C stays on flat no. 3 of same floor on which M stays. Flat to the right of B is empty. Flat on which A stays is below the flat of B such that no one lives between them. Flat no 3 of floor no 4 is empty. Q stays on flat to the right of D. O and E stays on the same floor. C and O do not share same flat no. P does not stay on top floor. Puzzle 2 Eight people A, B, C, D, E, F, G, and H stay in a building having three floors (numbered 1 to 3). They are either Accountant or Businessman or Manager. In each floor there are at least two and at most three flats. And at least two peoples are in each profession but not more than three. B and C stay on different floors but not in floor numbered 2, and both are in same profession. H and G stay on same floor and are in same profession, but not Manager. D and E stay on different floors but not on floor numbered 1 and are in different professions but not Manager. A stays on floor numbered 2 and D does not on same floor as A. Both people staying on floor numbered 2 are Accountants. F is Manager but does not stay on floor numbered 1. From three Managers two stay on floor numbered 3. F and C stay on same floor, and there are three businessman. Puzzle 3 Eight People A, B, C, D, E, F, G and H live on eight different floors of building (but not necessarily in the same order). The lowermost floor of the building is numbered one, the one above that is numbered two, and so on till the topmost floor is numbered eight. Each one of them knows a different foreign language, namely Italian, Polish, French, Chinese, German, Danish, Swedish and Thai, but not necessarily in the same order. F lives an odd numbered floor above the floor numbered four. Only one person lives between F and the one who knows French. The number of people living above F s floor is same as the number of people living between F and D. Only three people live between D and the one who knows Danish. C lives on one of the odd numbered floors above the one who knows Danish.

4 Only two people live between C and the one who knows Italian. The one who knows Swedish lives immediately above G, G knows neither Danish nor Italian. E does not know Swedish. Only three people live between G and A. The one who knows Thai lives immediately above the one who knows Polish, but not on the topmost floor. Only one person lives between the one who knows Thai and H. Only one person lives between B and the one who knows German. Puzzle 4 In a nine floored building numbered 1 to 9, 9 people having different professions- Shreya, Vikas, Ekta, Aditya, Ankit, Anshul, Tiya, Gaurav and Maira stay, but not necessarily in the same order. They have different cars Skoda, I20, Audi, Swift, Nissan, Toyota, Mercedes, Fabio and Scorpio, but not necessarily in the same order. Shreya stays on any even-numbered floor below the floor on which Gaurav stays. Gaurav has Swift and stays on an even numbered floor. The one who has Fabio stays on the fourth floor. Ankit stays on the second floor and has Audi. The one who has Scorpio stays on the third floor. Shreya does not have Toyota and there are two floors between the floors on which the people having the Mercedes and the Swift stay. Ekta has I20. There are three floors between the floors on which Ekta and Tiya stay. Aditya stays on a floor immediately above Maira s floor. There is one floor between the floors on which Anshul and Tiya stay. Anshul does not have Scorpio. The one who has Skoda stays on the topmost floor. Anshul does not stay on the first floor. Puzzle 5 Seven girls nameley Shikha, Bhavika, Sapna, Neha, Shreya, Prerna and Krishna have shifted to a hostel having seven floors. All chose to stay on different floors of the hostel building (numbered 1 to 7) but not necessarily in the same order. They all have come from different states Haryana, Punjab, Himachal Pradesh, Jharkhand, Assam, Uttarakhand and Bihar but not necessarily in the same order. Bhavika chose third floor and is from Punjab. Neha has chosen the floor immediately below the floor which Shreya has chosen and immediately above the floor which Sapna has chosen. There is only one floor between the floors which Bhavika and Prerna have chosen. Neha has not come from Jharkhand. The one who chose the top floor has come from Bihar. There is only one floor between the floors of which Sapna has chosen and the one who is from Haryana. The one who is from Himachal Pradesh has chosen the floor immediately above the floor which the one from Jharkhand has chosen. The one who is from Uttarakhand has not chosen the floor below the one from Haryana.

5 Puzzle 6 There are 8 boxes which are colored with different colors white, pink, green, blue, yellow, red, orange and brown. Each of them contains a number written on them from 1 to 8 according to which they are placed one above the other. The box containing number 1 is at the lowest place. Each box has different sweets namely Rasgulla, Laddu, Peda, Nankhatai, Jalebi, Gulab Jamun, Petha and Burfi but not necessarily in the same order. Only one box is there between pink box and the one which contains Jalebi. Number 4 is written on the brown box. The number on red colored box is odd and is placed somewhere above the box numbered four. There are three boxes between blue box and the one which contains Gulab Jamun. The number written on Green box is odd and is placed above the box which contains Gulab Jamun.The box which contains Petha is placed immediately above orange colored box, which contains neither Gulab jamun nor Rasgulla. The yellow box does not contain Petha. There are three boxes placed between orange and white boxes. The box which contains Burfi is placed immediately above the one which contains Laddu, but not at the topmost position. Only one box is there between red colored box and the one which contains Peda. The number of boxes placed above red colored box is same as the number of boxes placed between blue and red colored boxes. Only one box is there between the one which contains Burfi and brown colored box. Two boxes are placed between green colored box and the one which contains Rasgulla. Puzzle 7 10 persons Mohit, Mukul, Ravi, Avneesh, Deepak, Shekhar, Gaurav, Anish, Raghav and Ankit live in a 4 storeyed building with lowest floor numbered as 1, immediately above it as 2, and so on. Each floor has 3 flats and all 12 of them form a grid pattern having flats directly above and /or below and/or beside them. Each flat is numbered 1, 2 and 3 in each floor from left to right. 2 flats in the building are vacant. The two vacant flats are not in the same row (floor) or column. It is further known that: Flat number 2 on the 2nd floor is vacant. Mukul lives in an even numbered flat. One of the flats neighbouring Mukul is empty. Raghav lives to the immediate left of Gaurav. There is a gap of one floor in between Gaurav and Shekhar. None of the flats that is in the same row or same column as Shekhar is empty.

6 Gaurav lives directly below a vacant flat. Mohit and Gaurav live on the same floor. Deepak lives directly above Ravi. Mukul lives on a floor with 2 other persons. Avneesh lives above Ankit. Mukul and Deepak do not live on the same floor. Puzzle 8 In a nine floored building numbered 1 to 9, 9 people live from different states Uttarakhand, Punjab, Odisha, Nagaland, West Bengal, Jharkhand, Bihar, Haryana and Manipur stay, but not necessarily in the same order. They know different dance forms Bharatanatyam, SATTRIYA, Mohiniyattam, Kathakali, Kathak, Yak Dance, Kuchipudi, Ghumura and Odissi, but not necessarily in the same order. The one from Uttarakhand stays on any even-numbered floor below the floor on which the one from Haryana stays. The one from Haryana knows Kathakali and stays on an even numbered floor. The one who knows Ghumura stays on the fourth floor. The one from West Bengal stays on the second floor and knows Mohiniyattam. The one who knows Odissi stays on the third floor. The one from Uttarakhand does not know Yak Dance and there are two floors between the floors on which the people knowing Kuchipudi and Kathakali stay. The one from Odisha knows Sattriya. There are three floors between the floors on which the ones from Odisha and Bihar stay. The one from Nagaland stays on a floor immediately above the one from Manipur. There is one floor between the floors on which the ones from Jharkhand and Bihar stay. The one from Jharkhand does not know Odissi. The one who knows Bharatanatyam stays on the topmost floor. The one from Jharkhand does not stay on the first floor.

7 SOLUTION OF FLOOR BASED and BOX BASED PUZZLE Puzzle Solution Number Puzzle 1 Puzzle 2 Puzzle 3

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10 SEATING ARRANGEMENT ROW BASED Puzzle 9 There are 8 people A, B, C, D, E, F, G and H who are made to sit in a row having 10 seats numbered left to right. All are facing North and are not necessarily sitting in the same order. They belong to different states Bihar, Punjab, J&K, Rajasthan, West Bengal, Odisha, Tamil Nadu and Haryana but not necessarily sitting in the same order. Six people out of 8 are Engineers and remaining two are Doctors. If two people are sitting on consecutive seats, then only they will be considered neighbors. Six of these 8 people have only one neighbor. One doctor has 2 neighbors and the other has only one neighbor. No one is sitting between the ones from Punjab and Haryana. A is sitting equidistant from both the ones from Bihar and Haryana. Similarly G is sitting equidistant from both the one from J&K and F. H is sitting to the immediate left of E. A is sitting to the immediate left of the one from Punjab. C is from West Bengal and is a doctor having only one neighbor. F belongs to Odisha. E, who is an Engineer, is from Tamil Nadu. D is not from Punjab and A is not from Rajasthan. The sum of seat numbers on which the ones from Haryana and Punjab are sitting is 12. Puzzle 10 Ten persons are sitting in two parallel rows containing five persons each. In row 1, Mayank, Mahi, Sahil, Chirag and Priya are sitting and all of them are facing south. In row 2, Jaya, Poonam, Reena, Gaurav and Anish 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 have different cars Nissan, BMW, I20, Santro, Wagon-R, Chevrolet, Ford, Audi, Bentley and Alto but not necessarily in the same order. There are only two persons sitting between the person who has Nissan, who sits at an extreme end, and Priya. Jaya, who sits in the middle of the row, is not an immediate neighbour of Poonam, who does not have Alto. Anish is sitting at an extreme end. Priya, who has Wagon-R, sits on the immediate right of the person who has BMW and faces the immediate neighhour of Poonam. Mahi is not sitting at the extreme left end. Jaya does not have Bentley. There is only one person between Sahil and Chirag, who has Nissan. Gaurav, who has Chevrolet, is an immediate neighbour of the person who has Alto and does not face the person who has I20. Reena, who has Santro, is an immediate neighbour of the person who has Bentley, who in turn faces the immediate neighbour of the person who has Wagon-R. There are two persons between the person who has Ford and the person who has I20. Anish does not have Audi.

11 Puzzle 11 There are eight persons seated in two rows. In row I A, B, C and Dare seated who all are facing south. In row II P, Q, R and S are seated who all are facing north. These eight persons are wearing different colored dresses blue, white, green, red, yellow, orange, grey and brown but not necessarily in the same order. In the seating arrangement each member seated in a row faces one of the members of the other row. C is seating second to the right of the person wearing brown dress. R is an immediate neighbor of the person who faces the one wearing brown dress. Only one person sits between R and the one wearing red dress. The immediate neighbor of the one wearing red dress faces the one wearing green dress. The one wearing blue dress faces the one wearing orange dress. R is not wearing orange dress. P is not wearing red dress and he does not face the one wearing brown dress. Q faces the one wearing yellow dress. The one who faces S is to the immediate left of A. B is not sitting at any of the extreme ends of the line. The one wearing brown dress does not face the one wearing white dress. Puzzle persons are sitting on 10 chairs in two rows having 6 chairs each such that 1 chair is vacant in each row. In row 1 A, B, C, D and E are sitting facing South. In row 2 P, Q, R, S, and T are sitting facing North. All chairs in 1 row are directly opposite the 1 chair in another row. Sitting adjacent means there is no vacant seat in between the persons. Vacant chairs are not facing each other. A is sitting on the second chair which is right of C. P is facing the one who is sitting at second chair to the right of A. R is facing the one who is sitting second to the left of E. Two people are sitting between P and Q. D is facing the vacant chair. There are 2 chairs between B and D. B is facing the one who is sitting at immediate left of R. P is not facing E. E is facing the one who is sitting adjacent to P. Two people are sitting between S and T such that T is sitting to the right of P. Puzzle 13 Ten friends are sitting in two parallel rows having six seats each. One seat is vacant in each row and vacant seats are not opposite to each other. In row-1, M, N, O, P and Q are sitting facing South. In row-2 D, E, F, G and H are sitting facing North. Each is from a different state Assam, J&K, Tamil Nadu, Odisha, West Bengal, Mizoram, Maharashtra, Telangana, Karnataka and Uttarakhand, but not necessarily in the same order.

12 G sits third to the right of F and is from Odisha. Only two people sit between E and the vacant seat. E is neither from West Bengal nor Tamil Nadu. Q is not an immediate neighbor of O. N is from Uttarakhand. The one from Tamil Nadu faces the one who is from Telangana. The one who is from Tamil Nadu sits opposite to the one who sits third right of the person who sits opposite to G. O is not an immediate neighbor of P. H, who is from neither West Bengal nor Mizoram, does not face the vacant seat. G and F do not sit at any of the extreme ends of the row. F is facing P. Two seats are there between O and N, who sits third right of the one who is from Maharashtra. The one from Karnataka faces the one who is from Odisha. The persons who are from Assam and Telangana are adjacent to each other. P is not sitting adjacent to the vacant seat. E sits at one of the extreme ends of the row. F is not from Assam and Telangana. G who is not sitting at any of the extreme ends of the row is not facing vacant seat. Puzzle 14 There are eight people J, K, L, M, N, O, P and Q who are seated in a line. Equal number of people are facing north and south. P is facing north. M is sitting fourth to the right of P. Neither P nor M is sitting at extreme end of the line. J is sitting third to the right of M. K is sitting facing opposite direction as of P. O is sitting second to the left of K. N is sitting second to the right of M and is facing opposite direction as that of M. L and Q are immediate neighbors of each other. L is sitting third to left of J. Q if facing direction opposite to that of O. N is sitting third to the left of O. Puzzle 15 Twelve friends are sitting in two parallel lines. There are 6 people in each row and sitting facing a person of other row. 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 knows different Indian languages, viz Hindi, Bengali, Malayalam, Odia, Assamese, Bhojpuri, Marathi, Telugu, Haryanvi, Gujarati, Punjabi and Tamil, but not necessarily in the same order. C, who knows Assamese, sits third to the left of B. C is not an immediate neighbour of either E or A. P, who knows Punjabi, sits third to the right of S. Neither P nor S sits at the extreme ends of any row. E, who knows Hindi, faces the one who knows Telugu. F, who knows Malayalam, faces O, who sits second to the left of T and does not know Odia. T is not an immediate neighbour of S. Only two people sit between Q and T, who know Tamil and Haryanvi respectively. D, knows neither Bengali nor Odia who sits on the immediate right of the person who knows Assamese. A, who knows Bhojpuri, does not face R. The one who knows Gujarati sits second to the left of the person who faces the one who knows Malayalam.

13 Puzzle 16 Nine dancers P, Q, R, S, T, U, V, W, X who have performed dances of nine different subjects namely Garba, Kathak, Odissi, Bihu, Lavani, Jhumur, Giddha, Chhau and Bhangra are sitting from left to right. Some of them are facing North and some are facing South. The following information is known about them. T who has performed the Chhau dance is sitting along with the dancer who has performed Giddha dance. S has performed neither Kathak nor Giddha. The dancer who performed Garba dance is sitting immediately left of Q. Q is sitting in the middle of the row. R is sitting fourth to the right of the dancer who performed the Chhau dance. The dancer who performed Bhangra dance is sitting 3rd to the right of S. The dancer who performed Odissi and Kathak dances are facing the same direction and sitting together and one of them is sitting at one of the ends. V is sitting two places away from P and they both face opposite directions. W performed Jhumur dance and is facing North direction and is sitting at third position from the right end. The dancer who performed Bihu dance is sitting 2nd to the right of the dancer who performed Kathak dance. X faces south direction. The dancer who performed the Bihu dance is facing the direction opposite to that of X. The immediate neighbours of the dancer who performed the Bihu dance is facing the direction same as that of X. The dancer who performed the Bihu dance is neither sitting with the dancer who has performed the Jhumur dance nor with the dancer who has performed Odissi dance. V did not perform Bhangra. Puzzle 17 Eight People A, B, C, D, E, F, G and H are sitting in a straight line, all of them facing the same direction. Each one of them has birthdays in different months January, February, April, May, July, September, October and December but not necessarily in the same order. G sits third to the right of the person whose birthday is in July. The person whose birthday is in December sits second to the right of G. A and E are immediate neighbors of each other and neither of them have their birthdays either in July or December and they are not immediate neighbor of G. H sits third to the right of the person whose birthday is in January. Neither A nor E join in January. H s birthday is not in December. Only two people sit between E and the person whose birthday is in October. The person whose birthday is in February sits to the immediate left of D. Only one person sits between E and B. C has his birthday in one of the months before October. E s birthday is in a month after May. G s birthday is after A s.

14 Puzzle people are sitting in two rows. In row 1-A, B, C, D, and E sit facing North and in row 2 P, Q, R, S and T sit facing South. There are 6 seats in each row, one is vacant in each row. Each of them belongs to different states Telangana, Tripura, Jharkhand, Odisha, Mizoram, Kerala, Karnataka, Punjab, Haryana, Delhi, but not necessarily in the same order. (i) P sits 3rd right with respect to T and R does not face the vacant seat. (ii) The one who is from Karnataka faces the one who is from Mizoram and the one who is from Delhi faces Vacant Seat. D is from Punjab who is facing North. (iii) 3 people can sit between the ones from Jharkhand and from Haryana who also sit at extreme. (iv)the one from Odisha faces the one who is the immediate neighbor of the vacant seat. Q sits 3rd to left of R who sits adjacent to T. (v) The one facing the one who is from Tripura sits 3rd right of the one who is from Telangana who faces the immediate neighbor of the vacant seat. (vi) One person sits between C and D and no one sits between D and B. Also no one sits between the ones who are from Kerala and Karnataka. C is neither from Telangana nor Delhi. (vii) S is not an immediate neighbor of R and sits between the ones who are from Tripura and Odisha. (viii) E who is not from Telangana is an immediate neighbor of the one who faces the vacant seat. Puzzle 19 There are eight persons seated in two rows. In row I A, B, C and D are seated who all are facing south. In row II P, Q, R and S are seated who all are facing north. These eight persons reads different newspapers TOI, The Tribune, Economic Times, Indian Express, The Hindu, Hindustan Times, Financial Express and Business Standard but not necessarily in the same order. In the seating arrangement each member seated in a row faces one of the members of the other row. C is seating second to the right of the person who reads Business Standard. R is an immediate neighbor of the person who faces the one who reads Business Standard. Only one person sits between R and the one who reads Indian Express. The immediate neighbor of the one who reads Indian Express faces the one who reads Economic Times. The one who reads TOI faces the one who reads Hindustan Times. R is not the one who reads Hindustan Times. P is not the one who reads Indian Express and he does not face the one who reads Business Standard.

15 Q faces the one who reads The Hindu. The one who faces S is sitting at the position which is immediate left of A. B is not sitting at any of the extreme ends of the line. The one who reads Business Standard does not face the one who reads The Tribune. SOLUTION TO SEATING ARRANGEMENT ROW BASED Puzzle Solution Number Puzzle 9 Puzzle 10 Puzzle 11 Puzzle 12

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18 CIRCULAR SEATING ARRANGEMENT Puzzle 20 A,B,C,D,E,F,G and H are eight family members sitting around a circular table, facing the centre, but not necessarily in the same order. Each member likes a different color viz. Red, Maroon, White, Green, Blue, Yellow, Orange, and Black, but not necessarily in the same order. A is the head of the family and sits third to the left of his wife B. G has two sisters and sits second to the right of his grandfather, who likes Red color. D sits on the immediate left of her brother, who sits in front of his father. F sits between the person who like Maroon color and the person who like Green color. Her favorite color is Blue. B has two sons and one of the son s like Green color. H sits in front of her mother-in-law who likes Black color. E s son likes Orange color. C and his sister-inlaw like Green and White colors respectively. Puzzle 21 There are eight friends Ritika, Sohail, Karan, Saurabh, Neha, Shivam, Riya and Shreya. They have different cars Wagon-R, I20, Ertiga, Nissan, Alto, Santro, Audi and Suzuki, but not necessarily in the same order. They like different fruits apple, strawberry, banana, melon, papaya, mango, orange and grapes but not necessarily in the same order. They all are sitting around a circular table with equal people facing inside and outside. The one having Nissan is sitting third to left of one having Wagon-R whose name is not Neha and does not like banana. The one having Ertiga is facing outside and sitting between the ones having Audi and Santro who like mango and papaya respectively. Sohail is sitting to the immediate left of the one having Wagon-R who does not like melon and grapes. Shreya is sitting second to right of the one who likes mango. The one who likes grapes is facing inside and sitting second to left of the one who likes melon and he is also sitting third to right of Ritika. The one having Ertiga is sitting second to right of the one having Nissan whose name is Karan and likes apple. Shivam who likes strawberry is neither Wagon-R nor Suzuki. Ritika is not sitting to the immediate left of Karan. Both the neighbors of the one having I20 are facing inside. The one having Santro is facing inside. The ones having I20 and Ertiga face same direction. The one having Alto is to the immediate right of Riya and he is also sitting second to right of the one having Suzuki. The one who likes orange is sitting second to left of the one having Audi. Puzzle 22 Eight persons A, B, C, D, E, F, G and H are sitting around a circular table facing the center. Each of them plays a different sports Hockey, Football, Cricket, Tennis, Badminton, Golf, Wrestling and

19 Basketball but not necessary in the same order. A is sitting opposite to G. The one who plays Basketball is sitting third to right of A. G is not sitting immediate left of E. E is sitting second to the left of B. The persons who plays Hockey and Tennis are opposite each other but they are neither B nor A. D, who plays Cricket, is third to the right of the person who plays Tennis. F and H are neither opposite nor adjacent to each other. E is not adjacent to A. C is neither adjacent to F nor adjacent to the person who plays Badminton. Neither A nor G plays Wrestling and the person who plays Wrestling is to the immediate left of the person who plays Football. Puzzle 23 There are eight friends, namely Ravi, Anish, Atul, Ajay, Devansh, Rohit, Mukul and Pranav, sitting around a circular table facing the centre. All of them own a different model of Samsung phones, as C7, A3, J2 Pro, J7, A8, J5, ON PRO and S6, but not necessarily in the same order. Pranav is not a neighbour of Anish while Rohit owns neither On Pro nor S6. There is only one person between Ravi and Ajay. Atul, who owns J5, is third to the left of the one who owns J2 Pro. The one who is sitting opposite the one who had A3 owns S6. Neither Ravi nor Ajay has J2 Pro. There are two persons between Devansh and Mukul, who own A3 and A8 respectively, but neither of those two persons is Atul. Ravi is second to the left of Devansh and owns J7. Anish is an immediate neighbour of Mukul. Puzzle 24 Eight friends Priya, Sonakshi, Vinita, Radhika, Medhavi, Shweta, Ruhani and Kanika are sitting around a circular table. Four of them are facing towards the centre and rest people are facing away from the centre. All of them like a different movie, viz. Befikre, Bajirao, Dilwale, Raees, Kaabil, Shivaay, Dangal and Dear Zindagi, but not necessarily in the same order. Medhavi faces towards the centre and likes Befikre. Both the immediate neighbours of Medhavi face away from the centre and like Dilwale or Raees. Radhika faces away from the centre. Both the immediate neighbours of Radhika do not face away from the centre. Medhavi sits third to the right of Shweta, who likes Kaabil and faces away from the centre. Vinita sits third to the left of Shweta. The one who likes Dilwale sits opposits of Shweta. The one who likes Bajirao is not the immediate neighbour of Shweta and faces away from the centre. Priya sits second to the left of Vinita and does not like Dangal or Dear Zindagi. The one who likes Dangal sits between Kanika and Shweta. Sonakshi faces away from the centre and does not like Bajirao.

20 Puzzle 25 A, B, C, D, E, F, G and H are sitting around a circle facing the centre but not necessarily in the same order. Each of them has a relationship with A. G is sitting second to the left of father of A. F is immediate neighbor of A. D, mother of A is sitting opposite to the sister of A. B is sitting to the immediate right of wife of A. E who is a male is sitting second to the right of mother of C. Brother of A is sitting third to right of B. Daughter of A is sitting to third to right of sister of A. A is sitting second to the right of daughter of E. E is sitting to the immediate left of sister of A. Puzzle 26 A, B, C, D, P, Q, R and S are sitting around a circle facing the centre but not necessarily in the same order. S s husband is sitting second to right of B. Q is sitting second to the left of D s daughter. Q is the sister of R. S s husband is not an immediate neighbour of Q. Only one person is sitting between Q and A. Similarly there is only one person sitting between P and S s mother. No female sits to the immediate side of B. A is father of R. S s mother is sitting to the immediate right of D, S s brother. Only one person sits between S and R. P is not an immediate neighbour of R, who is the mother of C. Puzzle 27 Eight students P, Q, R, S, T, U, V and W have come to Delhi University from different states Haryana, Rajasthan, Gujarat and Uttar Pradesh. At least 2 persons are from a single state. They are sitting around a circular table, all facing outside. These play different sports viz Cricket, Basketball, Badminton, Hockey, Chess, Football, Tennis and Golf, but not necessarily in the same order. No two students from the same state are sitting adjacent to each other except those who are from Gujarat. The ones who are from Uttar Pradesh, are sitting opposite to each other. S neither plays Golf nor Badminton. The student who plays Tennis is sitting on the immediate right to the sport person who plays Golf. R, who plays Hockey, is from Haryana. He is sitting on the immediate right of U, who is from Gujarat. U does not play Badminton. Q, who plays Basketball, is neither from Uttar Pradesh nor Haryana or Rajasthan. Q is sitting opposite to T. Only P, who plays Football is sitting between T, who plays Tennis and the person who plays Chess. Both the students from Rajasthan are sitting adjacent to the ones who are from Uttar Pradesh. V does not play Golf.

21 Puzzle 28 Eight friends A, B, C, D, E, F, G and H are sitting around a circular table. Four of them are facing centre and rest are facing away from centre. All 4 facing a same direction are not adjacent to each other. They like different flowers Lily, Jasmine, Rose, Lotus, Daffodil, Tulip, Daisy, and Hibiscus, but not necessarily in the same order. They are from different states Canada, UK, Japan, USA, China, Russia, Singapore and Australia, but not necessarily in the same order. G is sitting second to the left of the one who is from Australia. The one who likes Daffodil is opposite the one who is from UK and they are not facing each other. C is from Russia and likes Rose. The one from Japan is second to the right of G. A who likes Lotus is third to the right of B who is from Canada and both are facing same direction. The one who likes Tulip is immediate to the right of one who is from Australia. G is adjacent to the one who likes Daffodil and the one from UK does not like Tulip. The one from Singapore likes Hibiscus and is opposite to C and he faces back of C. E who likes Daisy is third to the right of one from Australia. F is sitting second to the left of G. E is sitting opposite the one who likes Daffodil. The one from USA faces inside and is fourth to left of D who is from China. H is sitting to the immediate right of the one who likes Jasmine. Puzzle 29 There are nine members in the family i.e. A, B, C, D, E, F, G, H and I. Each person likes different colors viz. Brown, Green, Black, Pink, Blue, Red, Yellow, Orange and White. All members of the family have a relation with A which can be defined as Father, Mother, Brother, Sister, Wife, Daughter, Son, and Brother-in-law but not in the same order. They are seating around a circular table but not necessarily in the same order. Some of them are facing towards the center while others are facing away from the center. A s brother is seating on the immediate right of the brother of A s sister and they both face the same direction. I is brother of A s daughter. I s father likes Green color. H has a sister. The mother of A s son is E and sits second to the left of the married son of A s father. F s daughter-in-law likes White color. A is facing away from the center. F is a male. A s father sits third to the right A s daughter. Either I or H sits third to the left of the mother of C, but both I and H face the same direction. A s brother and sister likes Black and Brown color respectively. G is not father of H. In two generations, the members of the same generation are sitting immediate next to each other and face the same direction. A s father does not like Orange or Yellow color. F s grandson likes Pink color. B is a female and of the same generation as of A. G sits on the immediate left of the granddaughter of A s father. The one, who is the wife of F likes Yellow color. A s brother-in-law neither likes Orange color nor blue color. A s father doesn t sit immediate next to his children. G is facing the centre and is second to the right of A. B sits second to the left of F. No three members seating together can face the same direction.

22 Puzzle 30 Eight friends A, B, C, D, E, F, G and H are sitting around a circular table but not necessarily in the same order. Some of them are facing outward. They like different colors, viz Red, Yellow, Green and Blue. Two friends like same color. Further: C sits third to the left of H, who likes Green, and both are facing the same direction. G sits on the immediate right of B, who likes Red. C and B are not facing the same direction but C is an immediate neighbor of E, who is fourth to the left of G E and G both are facing opposite directions and like same colors. Those who like Red color sit adjacent to each other but face opposite directions. The person, who like Yellow color sit opposite each other. The immediate neighbor of E are not facing outward. A person who like Green color is an immediate neighbor of the both persons who like Blue color. D and F are immediate neighbors of H. D is not facing the center and likes Blue color. The one who is on the immediate left of F is not facing the centre. F sits second to the right of C. Puzzle 31 Eight friends A, B, C, D, E, F, G and H are sitting around a circular table not necessarily in the same order. Three of them are facing outward while five are facing towards the centre. There are equal number of males and females in the group. C who is facing the centre is sitting third to the left of E. E is sitting third to the right of F. There are three persons sitting between B and F. The immediate neighbours of B are females. F is sitting third to the left of G. D is sitting third to the right of A. E is not an immediate neighbour of A. The immediate neighbours of E are males and both of them are facing the centre. The immediate neighbours of D are females and they both face outside. The one sitting third to the left of B is a male. No female is an immediate neighbour of G.

23 SOLUTION TO CIRCULAR SEATING ARRANGEMENT Puzzle Solution Number Puzzle 20 Puzzle 21

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29 SEATING ARRANGEMENT RECTANGULAR TABLE/ SQUARE TABLE Puzzle 32 In a conference 8 people Naina, Reena, Shikha, Bhanu, Pallavi, Tina, Sheetal and Diksha from different cities Karnataka, Haryana, Punjab, Kerala, Assam, Odisha, Goa and Manipur not necessarily in same order sitting around a rectangular table. 3 persons are sitting on each longer side and each on the smaller sides. Bhanu is sitting second to the right of the person who is from Manipur. Pallavi is sitting third to the left of the person who is from Odisha. Tina and Sheetal are sitting opposite each other. Shikha is sitting diagonally opposite the person from Goa. Reena is sitting opposite the person who is from Karnataka. The person from Kerala is sitting second to the right of the person from Assam and second to the left of Naina, who is not sitting near the person who is from Goa. Sheetal is sitting on the smaller side and to the right of the person who is from Goa. Persons from Assam and Kerala are not on the same side of the table. The person from Kerala is sitting third to the right of the person from Manipur, who is not sitting diagonally opposite the person from Haryana. The person from Kerala is third to the left of Shikha. Tina sits second to the left of Diksha. The person from Haryana sits opposite to the person from Assam. Puzzle 33 8 people A, B, C, D, E, F, G and H like to play different sports Cricket, Football, Basketball, Hockey, Table Tennis, Chess, Volleyball and Badminton not necessarily in same order are sitting around a rectangular table. 3 persons are sitting on each longer side and each on the smaller sides. D is sitting second to the right of the person who likes to play Badminton. E is sitting third to the left of the person who likes to play Chess. F and G are sitting opposite each other. C is sitting diagonally opposite the person who likes to play Volleyball. B is sitting opposite the person who who likes to play Cricket. The person who likes to play Hockey is sitting second to the right of the person who likes to play Table Tennis and second to the left of A, who is not sitting near the person who likes to play Volleyball. G is sitting on the smaller side and to the right of the person who likes to play Volleyball. Persons who like to play Table Tennis and Hockey are not on the same side of the table. The person who likes to play Hockey is sitting third to the right of the person who likes to play Badminton, who is not sitting diagonally opposite the person who likes to play Football. The person who likes to play Hockey is third to the left of C. F sits second to the left of H. The one who likes to play Football sits opposite the one who likes to play Table Tennis.

30 Puzzle 34 8 people P, Q, R, S, M, N, O and L are sitting around a rectangular table where 3 are sitting on each width side and 1 each on the length side of the table. All of them are facing the centre. They are from different states: Haryana, Himachal Pradesh, Kerala, Punjab, Jharkhand, Manipur, Tripura and Goa but not necessarily in same order. The person from Goa is sitting second to left of S. The person from Manipur is sitting third to right of M. O and N are sitting opposite to each other. The person from Tripura is sitting diagonally opposite to R Q is sitting opposite to the person who is from Haryana. The person from Punjab is sitting second to the right of the person from Jharkhand and second to the left of P, who is not sitting near to the person who is from Tripura. O is sitting on the length side and to the right of the person who is from Tripura. Persons from Jharkhand and Punjab are not on the same side of the table. Person from Punjab is sitting third to the right of the person from Goa, who is not sitting diagonally opposite to the person from Himachal Pradesh. Puzzle 35 8 people A, B, C, D, E, F, G and H are sitting around a rectangular table where three of them are sitting on each longer side and remaining two each on the smaller sides. They like to play different sports Cricket, Football, Basketball, Hockey, Table Tennis, Chess, Volleyball and Badminton not necessarily in same order. D is sitting second to the right of the person who likes to play Badminton. E is sitting third to the left of the person who likes to play Chess. F and G are sitting opposite each other. C is sitting diagonally opposite the person who likes to play Volleyball. B is sitting opposite the person who who likes to play Cricket. The person who likes to play Hockey is sitting second to the right of the person who likes to play Table Tennis and second to the left of A, who is not sitting near the person who likes to play Volleyball. G is sitting on the smaller side and to the right of the person who likes to play Volleyball. Persons who like to play Table Tennis and Hockey are not on the same side of the table. The person who likes to play Hockey is sitting third to the right of the person who likes to play Badminton, who is not sitting diagonally opposite the person who likes to play Football. The person who likes to play Hockey is third to the left of C. F sits second to the left of H. The one who likes to play Football sits opposite the one who likes to play Table Tennis.

31 SOLUTION TO SEATING ARRANGEMENT RECTANGULAR TABLE/ SQUARE TABLE Puzzle Solution Number Puzzle 32 Puzzle 33

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33 WEEK/DAY/MONTH/BIRTHDAY BASED PUZZLE Puzzle 36 There are 7 competitions which are to be held from Monday to Sunday such that on any day one only competition is to be held. The events of competitions are Olympiad, Painting, Debate, Dancing, Singing, Short Story and Skating, but not necessarily in the same order.. In each of these competitions different number of students took part as 100, 130, 145, 175, 215, 250 and 280, but not necessarily in the same order. Olympiad took place on Thursday. Lowest number of students took part in Dancing. Debate competition is to be held after Singing. There is one competition which is to be held between Olympiad and Debate. The competition in which 215 students took part held immediately before the one in which 145 students took part. 130 students took part in Singing. There are three competitions which are to be held between Dancing and Debate. The competition in which 175 students took part held on Friday. There are as many competitions between Singing and Skating as between Short Story and Skating. Painting competition did not take place on Sunday. Also the largest number of students did not take part in Painting competition Puzzle 37 Six lecturers Bhavesh, Atul, Sumit, Akshay, Kartik and Mohan will visit a college from 18th September to 24th September to give lectures but not necessarily in the same order. There is a Sunday in between and no visit is scheduled on Sunday. Each of the lectures has different time duration: 30 mins, 45 mins, 60 mins, 75 mins, 100 mins and 120 mins, again not necessarily in the same order. 24th September is not sunday and lecture of 30 mins is scheduled on that day. Bhavesh s lecture is for less than 60 mins and is scheduled immediately before Kartik s lecture. There are two lectures scheduled between Mohan s lecture which is for 120 mins and Sumit s lecture which is for 60 mins. Kartik s lecture is before Sunday and there are two days between Sunday and Bhavesh s lecture. Akshay s lecture which is for 75 mins is not scheduled on 18th September. The lecture scheduled on Saturday is of 120 mins Puzzle 38 India is to play cricket matches with 7 different countries Zimbabwe, Pakistan, West Indies, Bangladesh, England, Sri Lanka and New Zealand on seven days of a week from Monday to Sunday but not necessarily in the same order. These matches are to be played at different venues Mumbai, Mohali, Hyderabad, Ahmedabad, Ranchi, Kanpur and Kolkata again not necessarily in

34 the same order. Match with Sri Lanka is to be played on Thursday. The match with New Zealand is to be played in Mohali. Three matches are scheduled between matches with England and New Zealand. The match in Kanpur is to be played on Monday. The matches in Mumbai and Hyderabad are not with Sri Lanka. On Wednesday, there is no match in Ahmedabad or Mohali or Mumbai. The match in Mumbai is played immediately after the day on which match in Kolkata is scheduled. The match in Hyderabad is not before the match in Mohali. There is 1 match scheduled between the matches with Sri Lanka and England. The match with West Indies is not scheduled in Kolkata or Ahmedabad or Ranchi. The match with Zimbabwe is not on Monday. The match in Ahmedabad is scheduled after the match in Mumbai. The match with Pakistan is not scheduled in Kanpur. The match in Mohali is scheduled just before the match in Hyderabad. The match with England and Pakistan is not scheduled in Ahmedabad. Puzzle 39 There are 8 friends P, Q, R, S, L, M, N and O who have their birthdays in four months March, June, September and October on either 13th or 22nd of the month. M has his birthday on 13th of a month having 30 days. P and S have their birthday in same month with P having birthday before. There are two people who have birthdays between P and Q. R s birthday is in June. O has his birthday on 22nd of a month. L does not have his birthday on 13th. N does not have his birthday in March. Puzzle 40 Seven persons A, B, C, D, E, F, and G like different colors black, orange, yellow, white, blue, red and green but not necessarily in the same order. They have their birthdays in different months January, March, April, June, July, September, and December, but not necessarily in the same order. A s birthday falls in month having 31 days and he does not like red color. B s birthday month is after A s birthday month. F s birthday falls in month having 31 days. The one who likes white color has his birthday in April. B s birthday month is followed by F s birthday month according to months given. D does not like green color. The ones who like green and blue color has their birthday in a month having 30 days. The one who likes orange color has his birthday in a month having 31 days but that person is not A. E s birthday fall in a month having 30 days but before September. C has his birthday in December. G and F like red and black color respectively. G s birthday month is not after B s birthday month.

35 Puzzle 41 There are 8 friends in a group A, B, C, D, P, Q, R and S. They have their birthdays in one of the following months January, April, September, and December. In each month there are two birthdays. The birthdays are either on 13th or 22nd of any given month. C and P have birthdays in month having 31 days. There are at least two birthdays between A and S. A does not have birthday in January. B has birthday in September. S s birthday is immediately after B s. P s birthday is not on 13th of any month. B s birthday is somewhere after C s. There are two birthdays between C and D. B and P have birthdays on same date. Similarly A and R have birthdays on same date. D and S do not have birthdays on same date. Q does not like December month. Puzzle 42 Eight friends Atul, Raghav, Ritika, Mansi, Bhavya, Vivek, Nisha, and Kanishka attend college on different days of the week, from Monday to Friday. They like to play different games Football, Basketball, Cricket, Badminton, Swimming, Archery, Table Tennis and Hockey, but not necessarily in the same order. Two of them are studying in Computer stream, two in Electronics, two in Aeronautical and two in Mechanical. Vivek is studying in Aeronautical stream and goes to college on Tuesday along with Atul who plays Table Tennis. Kanishka and Raghav are studying in Mechanical stream and attend college on different days after the day on which Atul goes to the college. Bhavya plays Basketball and she attends college on the day exactly between Kanishka and Raghav. Atul and Bhavya are studying in Electronics stream. Ritika likes Archery and alone goes on the day just before Vivek. The ones who like Football and Cricket attend college on Friday. Kanishka likes to play Badminton. Nisha, who likes to play cricket and Mansi, who like to play Hockey are studying in Computer stream. Mansi attends college on the same day as Bhavya. Puzzle 43 There are seven friends A, B, C, D, E, F and G who go to a party from Monday to Sunday (of the same week) not necessarily in the same order wearing different dresses whose costs are Rs 400, Rs 600, Rs 900, Rs 1200, Rs 1800, Rs 1500 and Rs 2700 but not necessarily in the same order. A went to party on one of the days after Friday. The one who went to party on Wednesday wore a dress worth Rs The difference between the amounts of dresses wore by the 2 friends on Monday and Friday is the multiple of the number 7. Two friends went to party between F and the one who wore dress worth Rs 400. B went to party on one of the days immediately before the one that was wearing dress worth Rs 900. Two friends

36 went to party between B and G. Similarly three friends went to party between F and D. C did not wear the dress which costs least. The price of the dresses of the ones who went to party on Wednesday and Saturday is more than Rs 1000 and the sum equals to the cost of dress wore by the one who went to party on Friday. The difference between the prices of the dresses wore by B and G is less than Rs 500. The one who wore dress worth Rs 900 did not go on Friday. F went to party on one of the days after the one who wore dress worth Rs 400. The one who wore dress worth Rs 1800 went to party immediately after the one which one who wore dress worth Rs The price of F dress was more than that of D s. Puzzle 44 There are 8 people Varun, Shivani, Meenu, Kanika, Vishal, Anika, Bhuvan and Ravi. Each of them have their birthdays in different months January, February, April, May, June, September, October and December but not necessarily in the same order. Each one of them likes different flowers Lily, Daisy, Hibiscus, Lotus, Jasmine, Rose, Tulip, and Marigold again not necessarily in the same order. Bhuvan s birthday months is having less than 31 days but not June. Kanika s birthday month is immediately before Meenu s birthday month. Ravi does not like Lotus or Lily or Hibiscus. Anika likes Jasmine. There are 2 months between birthday months of Bhuvan and Ravi. Ravi s birthday month is not February or April or May. The one who likes rose has his birthday in April. Meenu s birthday month is after May. The birthday month of the one who likes Marigold is just before Ravi s birthday month. There are 3 months between the birthday months of Ravi and Vishal. Varun s birthday is not in December. There are 3 months between the birthday months of the ones who like Rose and Jasmine. There is one month between the birthday months of the ones who like Daisy and Tulip. The one who likes Lotus does not have his birthday in a month having 31 days. There are 2 months between the birthday months of the ones who like Tulip and Lily.

37 SOLUTION TO WEEK/DAY/MONTH/BIRTHDAY BASED PUZZLE Puzzle Solution Number Puzzle 36 Puzzle 37

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40 MISCELLANEOUS PUZZLE Puzzle 45 Six people named Gaurav, Anish, Kartik, Mohit, Mayank and Manav are married to six women named Charu, Kriti, Sugandh, Priya, Neha and Deepa, but not necessarily in the same order. They have different professions, viz. Doctor, Accountant, CA, Engineer, Businessman and Architect, but not necessarily in the same order. They like to play different sports, viz. Cricket, Football, Hockey, Basketball, Badminton and Tennis but not necessarily in the same order. Kartik is CA but he was not married to Charu or Deepa. Gaurav is a Doctor and Mayank is an Engineer. However neither of them was married to Kriti or Priya. The woman whose husband is an Architect likes to play Cricket. Sugandh s husband likes to play Football, but he is not a Doctor. Charu and Neha s husbands like to play Cricket and Badminton and are CA and Architect but not necessarily following the above mentioned order. Mohit is not an Accountant or an Architect and likes to play Tennis. Manav is married to Kriti and he likes to play Basketball. Puzzle 46 There are seven persons A, B, C, D, E, F and G from different states Punjab, Haryana, Maharashtra, Odisha, Jharkhand, Gujarat and Rajasthan, but not necessarily in the same order. Each of them plays a different sport Volleyball, Golf, Tennis, Hockey, Cricket, Football and Basketball, but not necessarily in the same order. Each of them has a different profession lawyer, doctor, businessman, engineer, teacher, pilot and accountant, but not necessarily in the same order. C is from Jharkhand and is a doctor. E and F play Cricket and Football, though not necessarily in same order. A is not from Rajasthan. The person from Rajasthan is an engineer and plays Hockey. The lawyer plays Basketball. The businessman from Odisha plays Football. The teacher and the accountant play Volleyball and Tennis, though not necessarily in that order. F is a pilot. The one from Punjab is a teacher. The one from Gujarat plays Tennis. G who is from Haryana, does not play Golf. B is an accountant. Puzzle 47 7 friends A, B, C, D, E, F and G have come to a party wearing dresses of different colors pink, orange, black, green, yellow, grey and maroon but not necessarily in the same order. They have come in 7 different colored cars grey, orange, pink, black, blue, yellow and white but not necessarily in the same order. No person is wearing the same colored dress as her car s color. B is wearing orange colored dress and has not come in blue or yellow colored car. D is wearing

41 green colored dress and has come in white colored car. Color of A s dress and F s car is same. Similarly color of E s dress and C s car is same. G is wearing grey colored dress and E has come in grey colored car. F is neither wearing yellow colored dress nor came in yellow colored car. Orange and grey is not the combination of dress and car of any of the persons. C is not wearing yellow colored dress and A is not wearing pink colored dress. Puzzle 48 Seven persons A, B, C, D, E, F and G have come to a party in different colored cars red, black, white, green, grey, yellow and maroon but not necessarily in the same order. They hold different positions AM (Assistant Manager), MG (Manager), DGM (Deputy General Manager), GM (General Manager), CGM (Chief General Manager), ED (Executive Director) and CEO (Chief Executive Officer). The positions given are in increasing order of seniority. AM is the least junior and the CEO is the most senior. A is senior to only three persons. Person who came in red car is senior to GM. C is junior to the one who came in white car and senior to DGM. DGM did not come in yellow car. The person who came in white car is not the most senior. B is junior to A but not the least junior and has come in yellow car. F is senior to one came in yellow car and junior to one came in red car. E is junior to GM. The one who came in green car is junior to G and senior to DGM who came in maroon car. F did not come in white car. D came in black car. Puzzle 49 There are seven friends namely A, B, C, D, E, F and G. Each of them is wearing a different colored dress viz. Blue, Yellow, Green, Violet, Red, Black and Pink but not necessarily in the same order. They are from different states Haryana, Punjab, Karnataka, Sikkim, Odisha, Tripura and Kerala but not necessarily in the same order. E is wearing violet colored dress and is from Punjab. C is wearing yellow colored dress and is from Kerala. G is not wearing black colored dress and is not from Karnataka. The person who is wearing red colored dress, is from Sikkim while the person who is from Odisha, is wearing blue colored dress. A is wearing pink colored dress but F is not wearing green or black colored dresses and he is not from Sikkim. D is from Haryana. B is neither from Karnataka nor from Tripura.

42 Puzzle 50 A family has five married couples and each one of them have one child. Ages of children are 2, 5, 7, 4 and 8 years whose names are A, B, C, D, and E but not necessarily in the same order Male members are Gaurav, Ajay, Mukul, Sahil and Deepak and female members are Sheena, Radhika, Naina, Tiya and Priya but not necessarily in the same order. (i) Name of Gaurav s child is not C or E and he is not eldest or youngest. (ii) Naina s child is 7 years old and her husband is one among Ajay, Mukul and Deepak. (iii) D is 2 years old but she is not a child of Mukul. (iv) A s age is not a multiple of 2 and is not a child of Gaurav or Sheena. (v) Radhika s husband is either Mukul or Deepak. (vi) Priya s child is 5 years old but the name of the child is not B or E. (vii) Mukul s wife name is Sheena SOLUTION TO MISCELLANEOUS PUZZLE Puzzle Solution Number Puzzle 45 Puzzle 46

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