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Puzzle 1: A, B, C, D, E, F, G, H, I and J are family members. There are three generations of the family. Each member likes a different drink viz, Coffee, Tea, Milk, Sprite, Fanta, 7up, Maaza, Pepsi, Appy and Limca, but not necessarily in the same order. There are five females in the family. In the family, each female member, except B and H, has two sisters and one unmarried brother. B has no sister-in-law. A does not like Tea. The grandson of J does not like Pepsi. No male member likes Maaza, Limca or Tea. I is the father-in-law of F and likes Fanta. G, who likes 7up, is the son-in-law of B. The mother of C likes Tea. D, who likes Coffee, is the unmarried sister of E, who does not like Maaza. C is the sister-in-law of F, but she does not like Fanta, Limca or Tea. E is the brother-in-law of G. The father of B is the husband of H and he does not like Appy. The grandparents do not like any beverage except Milk and Appy. C is a married sister of A. Solution:

Person A (-) B (-) C (-) D (-) E (+) F (+) G (+) H (-) I (+) J (+) Puzzle 2:

Drink Limca Tea Mazza Coffee Sprite Pepsi 7up Appy Fanta Milk

There are five managers Manprit, Pratik, Kunal, Sumit and Tilak, who live in a five-storey building. The lowermost floor is numbered one and the topmost floor is numbered five. Each manager likes a different pet viz Dog, Parrot, Cow, Cat and Rabbit but not necessarily in the same order. Each manager works in a different company, viz Apple, Motorola, Vodafone, LG and Samsung. Manprit works in Samsung and lives on the lowermost floor. The manager who lives on the topmost floor does not like Cow or Parrot. Sumit works in Vodafone and likes Cow. The one who likes Parrot does not live below the person who likes Dog. The one who works in Motorola likes Cat and lives on an even-numbered floor. Tilak lives on an odd-numbered floor and likes Rabbit. Kunal works in LG and lives just above the person who likes Cat. Solution: Floor 5 4 3 2 1

Person Tilak Sumit Kunal Pratik Manprit

Company Apple Vodafone LG Motorola Samsung

Pet Rabbit Cow Parrot Cat Dog

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Puzzle 3: Rakesh, Mohan, Meeta, Manish, Rekha, Reena and Mahesh live on seven different floors of a 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 soon till the topmost floor is numbered seven. Each one of them also likes different animals namely -Cow, Tiger, Dog, Lion, Cat, Wolf and Rat (but not necessarily in the same order.) Only three people live between Mohan and Rekha. Mohan lives on one of the floors above Rekha. Rekha does not live on the lowermost floor. Only one person lives between Mohan and the one who like Dog. The one who likes Rat lives on one of the even numbered floors above the one who like Dog. Only two people live between Mahesh and the one who like Dog. The one who likes Cow lives immediately above Mahesh. Rakesh lives immediately above Reena. Rakesh does not like Dog. The one who likes Lion lives on one of the odd numbered floors below Reena. Mahesh does not like Lion. Manish lives on one of the Floors above Meeta. Only one person lives between the one who likes Cat and the one who likes Wolf. Manish does not like Cat. Mahesh does not like Tiger. Solution:

Puzzle 4: Seven people M, N, O, P, Q, R and S stay in an eight storied building with the lowermost floor numbered as 1 and so on. One of the floors is vacant. Each of them like a different fruits viz, Banana, Apple, Plum, Orange, Papaya, Pear and Mango not necessarily in the same order. The arrangement is based on the following rules: * S lives on an even numbered floor. * The floor immediately above or below the one in which S resides is vacant. * There is a gap of four floors between the one who likes Mango and the floor that is vacant. * Q likes Apple and lives immediately below the one who likes Papaya. * There is a gap of one floor between the one who likes Papaya and the floor that is vacant. * R's immediate neighbours like Pear and Papaya. * P lives above M and M likes neither Papaya nor Banana. * There are four floors between the ones who like Orange and Banana. One who likes Orange stays on a floor higher than the one who likes Banana. * N does not like Papaya. Solution:

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Puzzle 5: Eight friends P, Q, R, S, T, V, W and Y are sitting around a square table in such a way that four of them sit at four corners of the square while four sit in the middle of each of the four sides. The ones who sit at the four corners face the centre while those who sit in the middle of the sides face outside. P, who faces the centre, sits third to the right of V. T, who faces the centre, is not an immediate neighbour of V. Only one person sits between V and W. S sits second to right of Q. Q faces the centre. R is not an immediate neighbour of P. Solution:

Puzzle 6: Ten people sitting in two parallel rows having five people each in such a way that there is equal distance between adjacent persons. In row-1, A,B,C,D and E are seated (not necessarily in the same order) and all of them are facing south. In row-2 P,Q,R,S and T are seated (not necessarily in the same order) and all of them are facing north. Therefore, in the given seating arrangement each member seated in a row faces another member of the row. T sits third to the right of Q. P sits second to the left of T. The person facing P sits on immediate right of B. Only one person sits between B and D. A is not an immediate neighbor of B. Only two people sit between A and C. Neither B nor A faces S. Solution:

Puzzle 7: Eight friends A, B, C, D, E, F, G and H are working in IT , HR and Finance departments in three different companies viz. Google, TCS and Infosys but not necessarily in the same order. At least two & not more than three person are working in any of the three departments. Persons Working in the same companies are from the same department as well. C is not working in the same company as B and F. D is working in the same company along only with G and both of them are not in HR department. A is working in the Finance department of Google. H is working in Infosys. E and C are working in the same company. F is not working in HR department. Solution:

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Puzzle 8: Eight friends – G, H, I, J, K, L, A and B - live in a nine-floored apartment where the floors are numbered 1 to 9 from ground to top. Each of them plays a different game from among Cricket, Badminton, Tennis, Golf, Shooting, KhoKho, Football and Rugby. Each floor has one flat and one of the flats in the building is vacant. 1) The person who plays Badminton is the only person who lives between A and G. 2) Only one person lives between H and G. 3) B plays Kho-Kho. 4) L lives immediately below the vacant flat. 5) One of the two people who live between A and B plays Golf. 6) H lives on the floor immediately below B. 7) The person who lives immediately above the vacant flat plays Football. 8) J lives on an odd numbered floor immediately below L. 9) The person who plays Tennis stays on an even numbered floor and the person who plays Shooting lives immediately above J. 10) A lives on an even numbered floor immediately above I. 11) The person who plays Cricket lives on an odd numbered floor, above the fourth floor. Solution:

Puzzle 9: Twelve people are sitting in two parallel rows containing six people each in such a way that there is an equal distance between adjacent persons. In row 1, A, B, C, D, E and F are sitting and all of them are facing South. In row 2, P, Q, R, S, T and V are sitting and all of them are facing North. Therefore, in the given seating arrangement, each member of a row faces another member of the other row. V sits third to the right of S. S faces F and F does not sit at any of the extreme ends of the lines. D sits third to the right of C. R faces E. The one facing E sits third to the right of P. B and P do not sit at the extreme ends of the lines. T is not an immediate neighbour of S and F is not an immediate neighbour of D. Solution:

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Puzzle 10: Eight different people, viz A, B, C, D, E, F, G and H are sitting around a circular table, facing the centre, but not necessarily in the same order. Each one of them is from a different Bank, viz Axis, SBI, BOI, HDFC, PNB, IOB, ICICI And BOB. F sits second to the right of the representative of HDFC. The representative of ICICI is an immediate neighbour of the representative of HDFC. Two persons sit between the representative of ICICI and B. F and E are immediate neighbours of C. Neither C nor E is an immediate neighbour of either B or the representative of HDFC. The representative of BOI sits second to the right of D, who is the representative of neither HDFC nor ICICI. G and the representative of Axis Bank are immediate neighbours. B is not the representative of Axis. Only one person sits between C and the representative of SBI. H sits third to the left of the representative of BOB. The representative of IOB sits second to the left of the representative of PNB. Solution:

Puzzle 11: Seven friends, namely A, B, C, D, E, F and G like different Companies laptops, Lenovo, Dell, HP, Apple, Sony, Asus and Acer, but not necessarily in the same order. Each friend also has a presentation on topics of different subjects, namely Civics, History, English, Geography, Chemistry, Physics and Biology but not necessarily in the same order. F has a presentation on Civics and likes neither HP nor Apple. The one who likes Lenovo has a presentation on History. A likes Dell and has a presentation neither on Geography nor on Chemistry. The one who likes Acer has a presentation on Biology. B has a presentation on Physics and does not like Apple. The one who likes Apple does not have a presentation on Chemistry. D likes Sony. G does not have a presentation on History and does not like Apple. E does not like Apple. Solution:

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Puzzle 12: Eight People – Aarti, Gita, Sakshi, Divya, Manisha, Anjali, Lata and Mona live in 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 likes a different colors which are - Pink, Red, Green, Yellow, Brown, Orange, Black and Blue (but not necessarily in the same order. Anjali lives an odd numbered floor above the floor numbered four. Only one person lives between Anjaliand the one who likes Green. Only three people live between Divya and the one who likes Orange color. Sakshi lives at one of the odd numbered floors above the one who likes Oange. Only two people live between Sakshi and the one who likes Pink color. The one who likes Black colour lives immediately above Lata. Lata likes neither Orange nor Pink color. The number of people living above Anjali is same as the number of people living between Anjali and Divya. Manisha does not like Black color. Only three people live between Lata and Aarti. The one who likes Blue color lives immediately above the one who likes Red color, but not on the topmost floor. Only one person lives between the one who likes Blue color and Mona. Only one person lives between Gita and the one who likes Brown color. Solution:

Puzzle 13: Nine persons A, B, C, D, E, F, G, H and I sit around a circular table facing towards the centre. They use different brands of mobile phones viz, Samsung, Apple, Nokia, Sony and Intex. Not more than two people use the same brand. The following information is known about them. * B and C use the same mobile phone. * H sits second to the right of the one who uses Nokia. * A sits third to the right of E. * B sits third to the left of D who either uses Samsung or Sony. * G sits to the immediate left of H. * Two persons sit between B and I. * The person sitting fourth to right of D uses the same mobile phone as that of D. * F does not use Samsung and Apple. * The immediate neighbours of C use Intex. * There is only one pair of people who like the same mobile phone (but neither Nokia nor Samsung) and sit together. Solution:

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Puzzle 14: D, E, F, G, H, P, Q and R are seated in a straight line but not necessarily in the same order. Some of them are facing South while some are facing North. G faces to south direction. D sits fourth to left of P. P sits at one of the extreme ends of the line. Both the immediate neighbours of D face North. E sits second to left of R. R is not an immediate neighbor of D. Neither R nor F sits at the extreme end of the line. F faces opposite direction to G. Both the immediate neighbors of F face North. H sits to the immediate left of Q. Immediate neighbours of G face opposite directions (i.e. if one neighbour of G faces North then the other faces South and vice-versa). Immediate neighbours of E face opposite directions (i.e., if one neighbor of E faces North then the other faces South and vice-versa). People sitting at the extreme ends face the opposite directions (i.e., if one person faces North then the other faces South and vice-versa). Solution:

Puzzle 15: I. Seven persons A, B, C, D, E, F, G belonging to different cities viz. Bihar, Tamilnadu, Calcutta, Goa, Keral, Jharkhand and Ahmedabad, not necessarily in the same order, went to UK for attending a Common Wealth Game. Each one had a different specialization viz. Shooting. Badminton, Table Tanis, Polo, Football, Basket Ball and Hocky. II. D' is from Calcutta and 'B' does not have specialization in Basket Ball and Table Tanis. C is a man of Polo and comes from Tamilnadu. The person from Goa has specialization in Football. `A' who is specialized in Shooting does not belong to Bihar. F having specialization in Badminton is from Ahmedabad. Hocky is the specialization of G who comes from Keral. Solution:

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Puzzle 16: 5 Foreign Delegates A, B, C, D and E come to India for a tournament. They stay in different hotels i.e.; Taj, Radison, Kanha Shyam, Grand Continental and Ravisha and in different level of rooms i.e., Deluxe, luxury, diamond, gold and platinum. i. D does not stay in Grand Continental and Ravisha hotels but stay in gold room. ii. A either stay in Grand Continental or in TAJ hotels and does not stay in deluxe or luxury room. iii. Cstay in Kanha Shyam hotel but does not like to stay in platinum or deluxe rooms. iv. The person who stay in Grand Continental hotel does not stay in diamond room and the person who like to stay in TAJ hotel like to stay in luxury room. B does not like to stay in luxury room. Solution:

Puzzle 17: Eight persons P, Q, R, S, T, U, V and W are sitting around a circular table. Each of them has a different car, BMW, Maruti, Audi, Honda, Mahindra, Toyota, Fiat and Suzuki but not necessarily in the same order. Four of them are not facing the centre. The one who has Mahindra is on the immediate left of S, who does not have Fiat. S is third to the right of W. V is fourth to the left of U. Neither V or U is an immediate neighbour of S. R has Audi and sits exactly between P and U.R is facing the centre and is to the right of both P and U. T is third to left of P, who has Suzuki. P sits third to left of the one who has Mahindra. The one who has Maruti sits second to the left of the one who has Suzuki. The one who has BMW sits second to the right of S. The one who has Toyota sits second to the right of the person who has Audi. Q does not like Mahindra. P faces the centre. Solution:

Puzzle 18: Nine friends A,B,C,D,E,F,G,H and I like different companies mobile phone namely Samsung, Sony, Nokia, Apple, LG, HTC, Lenovo, Intex and Jio are sitting in a row from left to right but not necessarily in the same order. Some of them are facing north and some of them are facing south.

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E who likes Intex is sitting along with the one who likes Lenovo. D likes neither Sony nor Lenovo. The one who likes Samsung is sitting immediately left of B. B is sitting in the middle of the row. C is sitting fourth to the right of the one who likes Intex. The one who likes Jio is sitting third to the right of D. The one who likes Nokia and Sony are facing the same direction and sitting together and one of them is sitting at one of the ends. G is sitting two place away from A and they both face opposite directions. H likes HTC and is facing in the North direction and is sitting at third position from the right end. The one who likes Apple is sitting 2nd to the right of the person Who likes Sony. I faces in the south direction. The one who likes Apple is facing the direction opposite to that of I. The immediate neighbours of the one who likes Apple is facing the direction same as that of I. The one who likes Apple is neither sitting with the one who likes HTC nor with the one who likes Nokia. G does not like Jio. Solution:

Puzzle 19: Eight friends A,B,C,D,E,F,G and H are sitting around circle table, facing the centre and like different sports viz, Cricket, Badminton, Tennis, Golf, Football, Rugby, Shooting and Archery but not necessarily in the same order. They also prefer different channels viz, Sony Six, Star Sports and Ten 1. At least two and not more than three persons prefer one channel. •O l D a d E p efer Sony Six. •D is thi d to the ight of E. •A likes Shooti g a d p efe Sta Spo ts a d is sitti g to the i •F likes Golf a d p efe s Te •H p efe s the sa e ha

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Puzzle 20: Eight persons from different cities, viz. Jaipur, Delhi, Goa, Kolkata, Indore, Jodhpur, Mumbai and Bangalore ,are sitting in two parallel rows containing four persons each, in such a way that there is an equal distance between adjacent persons. In row 1, T, U, V and W are sitting and all of them are facing north. In row 2, P, Q, R and S are sitting and all of them are facing south. Therefore, in the given seating arrangement each member sitting in a row faces another member of the other row. (All the information given above does not necessarily represent the order of seating as in the final arrangement.) • The pe so f o

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Puzzle 21: Eight persons P,Q,R,S,T,U,V and W are sitting around a circular table. Each of them likes different colors viz, Pink, Red, Blue, Black, Green, White, Yellow and Orange but not necessarily in the same order. Four of them are not facing the centre. The one who likes Green is on the immediate left of S,who does not like Yellow. S is third to the right of W. V is fourth to the left of U. Neither V nor U is an immediate neighbours of S. R likes Blue and sits exactly between P and U. R is facing the centre and is to the right of both P and U. T is third to the left of P, who likes Orange. P sits third to the left of the one who likes Green. The one who likes Red sits second to the left of the one who likes Orange. The one who likes Pink sits second to the right of S. The one who likes White sits second to the right of the one who likes Blue. Q does not likes Green. P faces the centre. Solution:

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Puzzle 22: Ten members of a family are sitting in a restaurant in two parallel rows of chairs containing five people each, in such a a that the e is e ual dista e et ee adja e t pe so s. I facing south. In o

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colors, viz Red, Black, White, Green, Blue, Grey, Yellow, Pink, Orange and Brown but not necessarily in the same order. In the given seating arrangement, each member seated in a row faces another member of the other row. U sits third to the left of the person who likes Orange. G, who likes Green faces the immediate neighbour of U. I, who likes White, sits second to the right of G. Only one person sits between H and J, who like Black and Grey respectively. S and V are immediate neighbours of each other. V does not face G and H, likes Red. S does not like Orange. R sits second to the right of the person who likes Blue. T likes neither Green nor Yellow. The one who likes Black faces the one who likes Brown. K does not like Green. Solution:

Puzzle 23: There are seven national parks namely Jim Corbett, Ranthambore, Kaziranga, Periyar, Bandipur, Manas and Satpura located in different cities such as Chennai, Mumbai, Kochi, Hyderabad, Bangalore, Patna & Kolkata, not necessarily in the same order. Different animals such as, Lion, Tiger, Elephant and Deer were presented in the park. Depends on the length of the Parks it was listed from 1 to 7 positions, from top to bottom. The following information is known about them. *Not more than 3 Parks has same animals. *There's only one park has Deer which belongs to Bangalore and listed in bottom 3 positions and is not Kaziranga Park *The one belongs to Chennai listed just ahead of Ranthambore Park, which does not belong to Bangalore. *The park in which Tiger presented is listed 1st. *The Parks which listed in 3rd and 4th have same animals and it is not Lion. *The park located in Mumbai listed in last and park located in Patna listed as 4th and none of them are has Tiger. *Manas Park have Lion animal and is not in bottom 3. *Periyar Park belongs to Hyderabad and Satpura Park belongs to Chennai, both are not having lion animal and in the list there are two Parks between them. *The Parks from Kolkata and Mumbai are having same animals. *Bandipur Park not located in Kochi, Mumbai or Bangalore. Solution:

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Puzzle 24: Six friends - Harish, Mohan, Suresh, Vikram, Ram, and Gopal went to six different cities namely Mumbai, Bangalore, Hyderabad, Delhi, Chennai and Patna (not necessarily in the same order) to attend different probationary officers exam. They exams are IBPS PO, SBI PO, BOB PO, Syndicate Bank PO, Indian Bank PO and Dena Bank PO. They attend exams from Monday to Saturday (not necessarily in the same order). *Harish attends exam in Delhi and he wrote either IBPS PO or Dena Bank PO. *Ram did not wrote Dena Bank PO exam *Suresh attends exam on Tuesday and he is not wrote IBPS PO or BOB PO exam. *The person who wrote the Syndicate Bank PO exam wrote on Saturday and neither in Mumbai nor in Bangalore. *Gopal wrote the SBI PO exam in Patna but not on Wednesday. *Ram attends the exam at Hyderabad and wrote the exam one day before Gopal *On first day of the week, Mohan attends the exam in Bangalore. *The person who attends the exam on Thursday is not wrote BOB PO or IBPS PO exam. *The person who attends the exam on Thursday is not Gopal. Solution:

Puzzle 25: Seven friends Harish, Laxman, Vinoth, Sanjay, Madhan, Rajesh and Ganeshlikes different days Sunday, Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday and Saturday. But not necessarily in the same order. Everybody has different favouritemonths namely January, February, March, April, May, June and July but not necessarily in the same order. I. Harish likes Monday and Sanjay likes Tuesday, II. Ganesh'sfavouritemonth is July. III. Laxmanlikes Sunday and his favouritemonth is January. IV. Rajesh likes Wednesday and Vinoth'sfavouritemonth is March. V. Madhandoes not like Friday and Rajesh favouritemonth is not April. VI. The person,whose favourite month is May, likes Thursday VII. Sanjay and Rajesh favourite month is not February.

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VIII. The person who likes Saturday his favouritemonth is July. Solution: Name Days Harish Monday Laxman Sunday Vinoth Friday Sanjay Tuesday Madhan Thursday Rajesh Wednesday Ganesh Saturday Puzzle 26:

Month February January March April May June July

Eight People – Indran, Kavin, Mani, Gandhi, Ajay, Prasanth, Mishra and Varun live in 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 also makes awareness about different days, namely National Technology Day, International Nurses Day, World Migratory Day, International Day of the Family, World Information Society Day, World Museum Day, World Metrological Day and Anti-Terrorism Day (but not necessarily in the same order). Only one person lives between Kavin and the one who makes awareness about World Information Society Day. Prasanth lives an odd numbered floor above the floor numbered four. Only three people live between Gandhi and the one who makes awareness about World Museum Day. Mani lives on one of the odd numbered floors above the one who makes awareness about World Museum Day. The one who makes awareness about World Metrological Day lives immediately above Mishra, Mishramakes awareness about neither World Museum Day nor National Technology Day. Ajay does not makes awareness about World Metrological Day. Only three people live between Mishra and Indran. The one who makes awareness aboutAnti-Terrorism Day lives immediately above the one who makes awareness about International Nurses Day, but not on the topmost floor. Only one person lives between Prasanth and the one who makes awareness about World Migratory Day. The number of people living above Prasanth is same as the number of people living between Prasanth and Gandhi. Only two people live between Mani and the one who makes awareness about National Technology Day. Solution: Floor Person 8 Kavin

Days International Day of the Family 7 Mani World Migratory Day 6 Indran World Information Society Day 5 Prasanth World Museum Day 4 Ajay National Technology Day 3 Varun World Metrological Day 2 Mishra Anti-Terrorism Day 1 Gandhi International Nurses Day Puzzle 27: A show case fixed against the wall of a showroom has six compartments. Each compartment contains a chain of different e-books vizReasoning, Quantitative Aptitude, English, Computer, Banking and Current Affairs, but not necessarily in the same order. The Reasoninge-book has been kept neither on the top nor on the bottom. Only one

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e-book has been kept between the Bankinge-book and the Englishe-book. There are two e-books between the Current Affairse-book and the Reasoninge-book. The Computere-book is just above the Bankinge-book. The Quantitative Aptitudee-book is below the Reasoninge-book. Solution:

Puzzle 28: There are seven friends, namely Deepa, Archana, Lakshmi, Divya, Nisha, Shivya and Geeta. They work in the different banks, ieAxis Bank, HDFC Bank and ICICI Bank. There are at least two persons in the same bank. Moreover, each of these seven friends has a different salary as well. No two of them have the same salary. In addition to this, some information is given as follows. I. Shivya works in HDFC Bank and earns more than only Geeta. II. Deepa does not work with Archana and Geeta. III. Archana stands 4th from the top when arranged in descending order of their salaries. IV. Nisha is neither from Axis Bank not from the bank where Divya works. V. Geeta and Lakshmi are in the same bank. VI. Divya works only with Archana but not in Axis Bank and she earns less than only Lakshmi and Nisha. VII. At most three people can work in the same bank. Solution:

Salary in descending order 1 = Lakshmi/Nisha; 2 = Lakshmi/Nisha; 3 = Divya; 4 = Archana; 5 = Deepa; 6 = Shivya; 7 = Geeta Puzzle 29: There are seven bollywood actors named Aamir Khan, Akshay Kumar, Ajay Devgan, Shahid Kapoor, Hrithik Roshan, Salman Khan and Shah Rukh Khan. They are born in a different month of the same year from January to July, but not necessarily in the same order. No two people are born in the same month. They also acted in different movies among Dilwale, Sultan, Dangal, Rustom, Drishyam, Krrish and Dhoom. Akshay Kumar has his birthday in a month which has 30 days.The ones who have their birthday in the month immediately preceding & succeeding that of Akshay Kumar's acted in Drishyam and Krrish respectively.Ajay Devgan has his birthday in the month just before that of Akshay Kumar.Salman Khan has his birthday in a month that has more than 30 days.Dangal is not acted by Salman

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Khan or Shahid Kapoor.Hrithik Roshanacted in Sultan. There is only one person's birthday between Hrithik Roshan and the one who acted in Dilwale.The persons who acted in Rustom or Dhoom do not have birthdays in successive months. Akshay Kumarnot acted in Rustom or Dhoom.There are three persons' birthday between Aamir Khan and the one who acted in Dangal. Aamir Khan is not born in February.The one who acted in Dhoom has his birthday before the one who acted in Rustom. Solution:

Puzzle 30: Eight players are stayed in a building from bottom to top floor numbered from 1-8 each player from a different international cricket team; Australia, South Africa, England, West Indies, Sri Lanka, Bangladesh, New Zealand and Afghanistan not necessarily in the same order. Theyplay for different IPL teams; Mumbai Indians, Delhi Daredevils, Royal Challengers Bangalore, Gujarat Lions, Rising Pune Supergiants, Kolkata Knight Riders, Sunrisers Hyderabad and Kings XI Punjab not necessarily in the same order. Each international player plays for one IPL team only. The arrangement is based on the following rules: (i) The player from Sri Lanka team is stayed at an even numbered floor (ii) There are 3 players between the player from Sri Lanka team and the player play for Kings XI Punjab team (iii) The player from West Indies team is either at the top or at the bottom floor (iv) The player who stayed in floor number 2 plays for Mumbai Indians team and he is not from Sri Lanka team (v) The player plays for Rising Pune Supergiants team is stayed between the player from New Zealand team and the player plays for Gujarat Lions team (vi) The player from Australia team is stayed 1floorabove the player from England team (vii) There are 4 players between the player who plays for Delhi Daredevils team and the player from New Zealand team (viii) There are 3 players between the player who plays for Rising Pune Supergiants team and the player who plays for Royal Challengers Bangalore team (ix) The player from Afghanistan team is stayed between the player who plays for Sunrisers Hyderabad team and the player from Bangladesh team (x) The player from New Zealand team does not play for Sunrisers Hyderabad team. Solution:

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Puzzle 31: Twelve persons A, B, C, D, E, F, H, J, K, L, M and P are sitting around a circular table and all of them facing centre. There are six benches i.e. S1, S2, S3, S4, S5 and S6 around the table and two persons sit on each bench. Bench S3 is on immediate left of S6. There are two benches between S3 and S4. E sits on fourth to the right of C, who sits on bench S2. There are three persons between C and F. Both H and F is an immediate neighbour of A. F sits fourth to the right of E, who is sitting immediate left of L. Bench S2 is between bench S5 and S4. D sits on neither S2 nor S6. J sits in the same banch with C. There are three persons between M and P. A is sitting on the bench S1. M is sitting second to the left of F. B sits on neither S4 nor S6. Solution:

Puzzle 32: M, N, O, P, Q, R and S are seven boxes. They are kept one above the other but not necessarily in the same order. Each box contains different things i.e. Soaps, Paints, Bags, Books, Biscuits, Chocolates and Crackers. The each box is in different colors i.e. Red, Yellow, Green, Blue, Pink, Orange and White. There are only three boxes are kept between P and S. Only one box is kept between Q and M. S is kept an immediately below the Chocolate box. Only one box is kept between Chocolate box and M, which is an Orange in color. There are three boxes between Red and Yellow color boxes. The S is not kept in the bottom of the stack. Q is kept above M. Only three boxes are kept between Crackers box and Soap box. Crackers box is kept an immediately above Q and in Yellow in color. The S box is not in Pink color. The box R is kept immediately below the books box. The box Q is in neither White nor Green color. Paint box is in Pink color and kept immediately above biscuits box. The box N has neither Bags nor Crackers. The Biscuits box is not in Green color. Solution:

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Puzzle 33: There are different Athletic events which are to be held from Monday to Sunday, such that one event is held to be on one day. The Athletic events are Long Jump, High Jump, 100m running, 400m running, Javelin, Shot put and Discus throw. In each of these events different number of players are participated viz. 25, 32, 35, 48, 50, 67 and 75, but not necessarily in the same order. Discus throw is to be held on Friday. There are 48 participants took part on Sunday. Javelin is not to be held on Saturday. Only one event is held between Shot put and Discus throw. Neither lowest number of players nor highest number of players is participating on Monday. The event in which 35 players took part held immediately after the one in which 75 players took part. The number of event held between 100m running and Long Jump is same as between 400m running and 100m running. The 100m running event has 15 participants more than that the shot put event. High Jump is held before 100m running. There are 67 participants took part in Long Jump. There are 50 participants are took part on Thursday. The Shot put is not to be held on the last day of the event. Solution:

Puzzle 34: A wooden Shelf contains five racks, placed one above other and numbered from 1 to 5 from bottom to top. Each racks in different colors i.e. Pink, Blue, Orange, Purple and Grey, not necessarily in the same order. Each rack contains certain Books and Records. The total number of Books and Records is 280. There is only one rack between pink and orange colored rack. There are 83 books and records in rack 1. Pink color rack is not an odd numbered rack. One rack contains equal number of books and records but it is not an orange colored rack. The Blue colored rack is an odd numbered rack. Purple colored rack is immediately below the rack, in which contains equal number of books and records. The Grey colored rack is above the Purple colored rack.The rack 3 contains 22 records. The number of records in purple colored rack is equal to the total number of books and records in the pink rack. Blue rack contains 65 books and records. Rack 3 contains not less than 30 books. The rack 4 contains 25 books. One rack contains 42 books and records but it is not immediately above the one, which contains maximum number of books and records. The rack 3 contains either 51 or 52 books and records. The blue rack contains 7 books less than the purple rack and 10 records more than the orange rack. Solution:

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Puzzle 35: PV Sindhu, Virat Kohli, Ravindra Jadeja, Lionel Messi, Amitabh Bachchan, Rohit Sharma, Ashwin, Anushka Sharma, Kangana Ranaut, Anil Kapoor, Madhuri Dixit and Akshay Kumar are 12 persons sitting in two rows, among them PV Sindhu, Ravindra Jadeja, Lionel Messi, Rohit Sharma, Kangana Ranaut and Madhuri Dixit are facing north while the remaining are facing south. Each person faces exactly one person in the other row. Each one of them appointed as brand ambassador for different companies they are, Equitas Bank, Zeven, Intex, One Plus, Micromax, Tata Motors, Gionee, Hublot Watch, Huawei, CRPF, Reebok and Colgate (not necessarily in the same order) and each company function held at different cities among Mumbai, Indore, Kolkata, Lucknow, Pune, Chennai, Hyderabad, Kochi, Jaipur, Patna, Shimla and Bangalore (again not necessarily in the same order). (i) The one who is brand ambassador for Micromax is attend function in Chennai and is facing Rohit Sharma. None of Virat Kohli, Akshay Kumar and Amitabh Bachchanis a brand ambassador for Micromax or Equitas Bank. The persons who attend function in Kolkata and Bangalore are the immediate neighbours of Anil Kapoor. (ii) Virat Kohli is second to the right of Ashwin, who attend the function in Hyderabad. Virat Kohliis a brand ambassador for Gionee Company and faces the person who is attended the function in Patna, who is third to the right of Lionel Messi. Neither PV Sindhu nor Lionel Messiare abrand ambassador of ZevenCompanyor attend the function inIndore. (iii) Madhuri Dixitis abrand ambassador forIntex Company, sits second to the right of the person who is a brand ambassador for CRPF, who faces the person attend the function in Bangalore, None of them sits at an extreme end. (iv) The ZevenCompany conduct the function in Shimla, the person who is a brand ambassador for Zeven Companysits as far as possible from Lionel Messi. (v) Akshay Kumar is a brand ambassador for Tata Motors Company, sits opposite to the person who is the brand ambassador for Reebok Company, who is an immediate neighbour of the person sitting at an extreme end. (vi) The Gionee and One PlusCompany conduct the function in Kolkata and Mumbai respectively. The persons who are a brand ambassador for Tata MotorsCompanyand One PlusCompanyface the same direction. (vii) Rohit Sharma is the brand ambassador for Hublot WatchCompanyand attends the function in Lucknow, sits equidistant in the same row of the person who is the brand ambassador forHuaweiCompanyand the person who attends the function in Indore. (viii) The person who attends the function in Jaipur is opposite to the one who attends the function in Mumbai and second to the left of the person who attendsthe function in Lucknow. PV Sindhu, who is not a brand ambassador for Reebok company, is third to the left of Kangana Ranaut; and neither of them are a brand ambassador for Zeven company.

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(ix) Anushka Sharma is the brand ambassador for Colgate Company and is third to the right of person who is a brand ambassador for Tata Motors Company, attends the function in Pune. Solution:

Puzzle 36: There are seven persons Mahesh, Akilan, Pandiyan, Lenin, Suresh, Indran and Anand who participated in a competitive exam which started on Monday and ended on Sunday. In the first round of the examination, each of them got different ranks, First, Second, Third, Fourth, Fifth, Sixth and Seventh, but not necessarily in the same order. They uses different Anti Virus programs, Norton Anti Virus, K7 Anti Virus, Kaspersky Anti Virus, ESET Anti Virus, McAfee Anti Virus, Avast Anti Virus and Panda Anti Virus, but not necessarily in the same order. Akilan did not write exam on the day either immediately before or immediately after the exam of Lenin, who does not use either McAfee Anti Virus or Norton Anti Virus or ESET Anti Virus program. Two exams were held between the exam of Anand and Indran, neither of whom wrote on Monday. There was one exam between the exams of Lenin and Pandiyan. But Pandiyan s exam did not happen either on Monday or on Wednesday. Pandiyanuses K7 Anti Virusprogram and got First rank. The one, who got Thirdrank wrote exam on the last day of examination, uses Kaspersky Anti Virus program. Sureshwrote exam immediately after Pandiyan and he uses Norton Anti Virus program. Mahesh does not useMcAfee Anti Virusprogram and got Fourth rank. Lenin did not get either Seventh rank or Sixth rank. The one who got Fifth rank was wrote the exam immediately after the one who gotFirst rank. Anand, who uses Avast Anti Virus, wrote exam on the fourth day of the examination but got neither First nor Second rank. Solution:

Puzzle 37: In a global summit, tencountry Prime Ministers are sitting in two parallel rows of six seats each. One seat is vacant in each row. Alexis Tsipras, António Costa, Lee Hsien Loong, Najib Razak and Narendra Modi are sitting in row-1 facing south. Xi Jinping, Theresa May, Sheikh Hasina, Édouard Philippe and Malcolm Turnbull are facing north. Each prime

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minister support forone country in a votingi.e. South Africa, Greece, China, Russia, Japan, Bangladesh, UK, India, Australia and Germany (i). Edouard Philippe sits third to the right of Sheikh Hasina and support Russia. (ii). Only two people sit between Theresa May and the vacant seat. (iii). Theresa May does not support Japan or China. (iv). Narendra Modi is not an immediate neighbour of Lee Hsien Loong. (v). António Costasupport for Germany. The one who support for China faces the one who support for India. (vi). The one who support for Chinasits opposite to the one who sits third right of the person who sits opposite to Édouard Philippe (vii). Lee Hsien Loong is not an immediate neighbour of Najib Razak. (viii). Malcolm Turnbull, who support for neither Japan nor Bangladesh, does not face the vacant seat. (ix). Neither Édouard Philippe nor Sheikh Hasina sits at any of the extreme ends of the row. (x). Najib Razak faces Sheikh Hasina. Vacant seats are not opposite to each other. (xi). Two seats are there between Lee Hsien Loong and António Costa, who sits third right of the one who support for UK. (xii). The one who support Australia faces the one who support Russia. (xiii). The persons who support forSouth Africa and India are adjacent to each other. (xvi). Vacant seat of row – 1 is not an immediate neighbour of Najib Razak. (xv). Theresa May sits at one of the extreme ends of the row. Sheikh Hasina does not support for South Africa and India. (xvi). Vacant seat of row-1 does not face Édouard Philippe who doesn t sit at any of the extreme ends of the row. Solution:

Puzzle 38: Hockey World LeagueFourteen teams Australia Team, China Team, France Team, Germany Team, Argentina Team, India Team, Italy Team, Japan Team, Malaysia Team, Pakistan Team, Russia Team, Spain Team, Chile Team and Brazil Team stay in an eight stored building. Each floor has 2 flats numbered as 1 or 2 such that all same numbered flats are in the same column. The floors are numbered 1-8 from bottom to top. There are 2 vacant flats in the building. It is also known that: (i). Japan Team and Italy Team live on the same floor. (ii). Only one team stays above Australia Team. (iii). Only 3 teams stay above Japan Team. (iv). India Team and Malaysia Team live on the floor that is just below a floor which has a vacant flat.

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(v). Malaysia Team and Spain Teamdoes not live on the same floors as their flat numbers. (vi). There is a gap of 3 floors between Russia Team and Argentina Team. (vii). None of the flats above Germany Team's floor is vacant. (viii). Malaysia Team and Italy Team have same flat numbers. (ix). Sum of China Team and Malaysia Team s floor number is equal to Chile Teams floor number. (x). Not more than 4 teams stay above Chile Team. (xi). Russia Team does not live below China Team. (xii). France Team and Australia Team do not have the same flat number as Argentina Team s. (xiii). Only 4 teams stay below Pakistan Team. (xiv). Germany Team, Chile Team and Pakistan Team have the same flat numbers. (xv). Brazil Team has the same flat number as China Team. Solution:

Puzzle 39: A Medical Representative (MR) of a company has to meet seven Doctors A, B, C, D, E, F and G on a particular day between 9.00 am to 3.25 pm. Each Doctor is in different specialization viz. Neurologist, Nephrologists, Pediatrician, Cardiologist, Dentist, Gynaecologists and Oncologist. He spends 30 minutes with each doctor and keeps a gap of 25 minutes between two appointments for travel. After fifth visits he takes another 25 minutes break for a lunch. An MR has to meet doctor A, who is an Oncologist, immediately before E but immediately after F, who is the third doctor to meet. There are two doctors are in between Oncologist and Pediatrician. B is not the last doctor to meet the MR. D is neither a Pediatrician nor Gynaecologists. G doesn t give time to the MR before 9.30 am and after 10.30 am. The sixth doctor to meet the MR is a Neurologist. He has to meet Cardiologist immediately after Nephrologists. D and B meet the MR between 2 pm and 3.25 pm. D is a Dentist. Solution:

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Puzzle 40: B, D, H, J, P, S and T are seven students studying in seven different schools i.e. St.Anne s, St.Joseph, Sri Amrita, Nava Bharath, KendriyaVidyalaya, Cauvery Global and BalaVidyaMandir, but not necessarily in the same order. They have a special class on one day from Monday to Sunday. No two students have classes on the same day. S is studying in Cauvery Global and he does not have special class on Friday or Wednesday. The one who study in KendriyaVidyalaya has special class on Tuesday. H is studying in BalaVidyaMandir and has a special class on Sunday. D is studying neitherin Nava Bharath nor in Sri Amrita. T and P do not study in St.Anne s and do not have classes on Wednesday. The one who study in St.Anne s is have a class immediately after P. B is studyingin St.Joseph and have a class on Monday. There is only one class between B and One who study in Amrita. T does not study in Nava Bharath. D has a class on neither Thursday nor Friday. Solution:

Puzzle 41: In a circus eight animals Lion, Tiger, Elephant, Horse, Deer, Monkey, Bear and Leopard from different states Bihar, Gujarat, Rajasthan, Kerala, Tamil Nadu, Maharashtra, Punjab and Haryana not necessarily in same order sitting around a rectangular table. 3 animals are sitting on each longer side and each on the smaller sides. All animals are facing centre. (i) Horse is sitting second to the right of the animal which is from Haryana. (ii) Deer is sitting third to the left of the animal which is from Maharashtra. (iii)Monkey and Bear are sitting opposite each other. (iv) Elephant is sitting diagonally opposite the animal from Punjab. (v) Tiger is sitting opposite the animal which is from Bihar. (vi) The animal from Kerala is sitting second to the right of the animal from Tamil Nadu and second to the left of Lion, which is not sitting near the animal which is from Punjab. (vii) Bear is sitting on the smaller side and to the right of the animal which is from Punjab. (viii) Animals from Tamil Nadu and Kerala are not on the same side of the table. (ix) The animal from Kerala is sitting third to the right of the animal from Haryana, which is not sitting diagonally opposite the animal from Gujarat. (x) The animal from Kerala is third to the left of Elephant. Monkey sits second to the left of Leopard. (xi) The animal from Gujarat sits opposite to the animal from Tamil Nadu. Solution:

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Puzzle 42: There are seven union ministers, Arun Jaitley, Rajnath Singh, Sushma Swaraj, Nitin Gadkari, Smriti Irani, Suresh Prabhu and Venkaiah Naidu who participated in a different ministries department function which started on Monday and ended on Sunday. Each minister participated in each day only, each of them working in different ministries, External Affairs Ministry, Transport Ministry, Railway Ministry, Finance Ministry, Textile Ministry, Urban Development Ministry and Home Affairs Ministry, but not necessarily in the same order. They selected from different constituency, Gujarat, Vidisha, Rajapur, Maharashtra, Lucknow, Udayagiri and Nagpur, but not necessarily in the same order Rajnath Singh did not attend the function on the day either immediately before or immediately after the function of Nitin Gadkari, who does selected from either Lucknow or Gujarat or Maharashtra constituency. Two functions were held between the function of Venkaiah Naidu and Suresh Prabhu, neither of whom attends the function on Monday. There was one function between the function of Nitin Gadkari and Sushma Swaraj. But Sushma Swaraj s function did not happen either on Monday or on Wednesday. Sushma Swaraj selected from Vidisha constituency and worked in External Affairs Ministry. The one, who worked in Railway Ministry attend the function on the last day of function, selected from Rajapur constituency. Smriti Irani attends the function immediately after Sushma Swaraj and she selected from Gujarat constituency. Arun Jaitley does not selected from Lucknow constituency and worked in Finance Ministry. Nitin Gadkari did not work in either Home Affairs Ministry or Urban Development Ministry. The one who worked in Textile Ministry was attended the function immediately after the function of External Affairs Ministry. Venkaiah Naidu, who selected from Udayagiri, attend the function on the fourth day of the function but worked in neither External Affairs Ministry nor Transport Ministry. Solution:

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There are seven players Jadeja, Rahane, Dhawan, Rohit, Yuvraj, Ashwin and Raina. They like different Cars, Bikes and were born in different States and Months. They all were born in the same year. One of the Cars is Skoda. One of the States is Rajasthan. One of the Bikes is Bajaj. One of the players was born in the month of September. The following information is known about them. (i) Ashwin was born either in Bihar or in Karnataka. (ii) The one who was born in the month of May likes Kawasaki bike and Mercedes-benz car and is either Dhawan or Raina. (iii)Rohit is not the one who likes Suzuki bike. (iv) The one who likes Hero bike likes Chevrolet car. (v) The one who was born in Karnataka is the youngest one and is either Rahane or Raina. (vi) The one who likes TVS bike was born in Odisha but is not Rahane. (vii) Yuvraj was born in the month of February. (viii) Rohit was born in Haryana in the month of July and likes Honda car. (ix) The one who likes Ducati bike was born in November but is not the youngest person. Rahane likes Fiat car. (x) The one who likes Hero bike was born in Punjab but that person is not Dhawan who likes Toyota car. (xi)The youngest person likes Suzuki bike and he is not Raina. (xii) The one who was born in Maharashtra likes Hyundai car but is not Yuvraj. (xiii) Ashwin is the second youngest person. (xiv) The one who likes Yamaha bike is one month younger than Yuvraj. Solution:

Puzzle 44: Seven actors namely Rajini, Kamal, Ajith, Vijay, Surya, Vikram and Madhavan buy different company mobiles viz. Samsung, Redmi, Vivo, Oppo, Lenovo and Apple and different company tablets viz. Micromax, i ball, Datawind and Lava from different shops Poorvika Mobiles, Universal Mobiles, Mobile Store and Chennai Mobiles. Not more than two people buy from same shop. It is known that each actor buys both the items from the same shop. (i) The actors who buy Redmi mobile get from the same shop and they do not buy the same company tablets and is neither Rajini nor Madhavan. (ii) Vikram buys from Chennai Mobiles. (iii) Vijay and Vikram buy same company tablets which are bought by no one apart from them and they get from different shops.

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(iv) The only actor who orders Lava company tablet from Mobile Store and is neither Kamal nor Ajith (v) Vijay does not shop on Poorvika Mobiles. (vi) Apple mobile is get from Poorvika Mobiles but not by Rajini. (vii) Ajith buy Vivo mobile. (viii) One who buys Micromax tablet buys from Poorvika Mobiles and is not Kamal and also buys either Samsung or Lenovo mobile. (ix) The actors who buy i ball tablet get on different shops but not on Universal Mobiles. (x) Only one actor buys Micromax tablet. (xi) Ajith does not get Datawind tablet. (xii) Vikram neither orders Samsung or Oppo mobile. Solution:

Puzzle 45: Eight persons Nainika, Virat, Vani, Vaibhav, Nakul, Viji, Namith and Nareshare sitting around a square table, four of them facing towards centre while four of them facing outside but not necessarily in the same order. Vaibhav sits fourth to right of Naresh. Vani is sitting immediate right of Vaibhav. Only one person sits between Namith and Vaibhav and both are facing same directions. Namith sits fourth to the right of Viji, whodoesn t sits in middle of the table. Viji is not a neighbour of Naresh and faces towards the centre. Vani sits adjacent to Namith, who faces opposite direction of Vani. Nakul is to the immediate left of Vaibhav. Virat faces opposite direction of Vani and sits second to the left of Vani. Nakul is sitting second to left of Nainika, who faces same direction as Viji. Solution:

Puzzle 46: There are eight family members P, Q, R, S, T, U, V and W are sitting around a rectangular table, facing the centre of the table. They are in different profession Engineer, Banker, Farmer, Mechanic, Driver, Pilot, Teacher and Doctor, but not necessarily in the same order. T is Sitting opposite to R. S sits one of the long side of the rectangular table.

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Farmer and Mechanic are sitting opposite to each other. The Pilot is not sitting in the same row of P sits. S sits between P and T. The Teacher is sitting immediate right of the Driver. The pilot is sitting in the middle of, one of the long side of the table. Q is between U and V. Q is neither a Doctor nor Driver. R is a Banker and sitting immediate left of Mechanic. U is facing the person, who sits immediate left of P, who is not a teacher. W is sitting with no one. Solution:

Puzzle 47: Nine people Samitha, Sharmi, Kishore, Anu, Akshaya, Priyan, Divya, Prinitha and Oviya stay in a building. The building has nine floors and only one person stays on one floor. Each of them likes differentsports namely- Cricket, Hockey, Chess, Carrom, Tennis, Badminton, Golf, Boxing and Table Tennis. Each person belongs to different city, i.e. Chennai, Mumbai, Bangalore, Cochin, Jaipur, Indore, Punjab, Patna and Kolkata 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 o e ho elo gs to Pat a sta s o the th floo . • The e a e floo s et ee the floo s o • Kisho e sta s o the floo i

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Puzzle 48: Twelve friends are sitting in two parallel rows of chairs containing six people each, in such a way that there is equal distance between adjacent persons. In row 1: Krishnan, Mohan, Rajesh, Gowtham,Sekar and Harish are seated and all of them are facing south. In row 2: Suresh, Prathap, Dinesh,Lokesh, Varun and Bhavan are seated and all of them are facing north. Each of them likes different app such as, Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, Google Plus, YouTube, Pinterest, Instagram, Tumblr, Flickr, Snapchat, WhatsApp and Viber but not necessarily in the same order. Each of them using different browsers: Opera Browser, Maxthon Browser, Chrome Browser, Dolphin Browser, Atlas Browser, Mozilla Browser, UC Browser, One Browser, Boat Browser, Mercury Browser, Next Browser and i Browser. In the given seating arrangement, each member seated in a row faces another member of the other row. • Seka ,

ho usesMozilla B o se , sits thi d to the left of the pe so

ho likes T itte app a d ot sitti g at the

extreme end • Moha , ho likes Google Plus app, does ot sit at an extreme end of the row. • If Seka sits at a e t e e e d the Moha does ot sit to the i

ediate ight of the o e ho likes T itte app.

• Di esh a d Su esh fa e the pe so s ho a e usi g Mozilla B o se a d Atlas B o se espe ti el . • The e a e two persons sitting on the right side of Prathap, who sits second to the right of the person, who usesMercury Browser. • P athap, ho likes YouTu e app, fa es the i

ediate eigh ou of K ish a . K ish a likes Li kedI app.

• Su esh sits ith the pe so s who like YouTube app and Viber app. • Ha ish fa es the pe so

ho likes WhatsAppapp a di B o se

ut Ha ish does ot like T itte app.

• The o e ho likes Vi e app does ot sit ith the o e ho likes WhatsAppapp. • The pe so , ho likes S ap hatapp, sits second to the right of the person who likes Pinterest app. • Lokesh does ot like WhatsAppapp a d fa es the pe so , ho likes Fa e ook app. • The pe so

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• Rajesh s uses Dolphin Browser and he does not sit with Krishnan. • Di esh does ot use Ma tho B o se • The pe so , ho uses Ope a B o se , fa es the pe so , ho sits se o d to the ight of the pe so , ho uses Atlas Browser. • The pe so

ho uses O e B o se does not sit in row 2 and faces the person who uses Next Browser.

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Puzzle 49: In Asian Athletics Championship,Eight players Hassan Taftian, Govindan Lakshmanan, Gopi Thonakal, Chen Chieh, Jamal Hairane, Park Bong-go, Arokia Rajiv and Mohammad Anas 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. Each of them participates in different Race viz, 5000 metres, 1500 metres, 12000 metres, 100 metres, 800 metres, 400 metres, 10000 metres and 200 metres but not necessarily in the same order. • The o e ho pa ti ipate i

et es li es o a e e -numbered floor but not on the topmost floor

• O l o e pla e li es et ee Pa k Bo g-go and the one who participates in800 metres. • O l t o pla e li es et ee Pa k Bong-go and the one who participates in1500 metres. • Neithe Ja al Hai a e o Gopi Tho akal li es o the fi st floo . • O l o e pla e li es et ee Gopi Tho akal a d the o e ho pa ti ipates i

et es.

• Hassa Taftia li es just a o e Pa k Bo g-go. Only two players live between Jamal Hairane and Hassan Taftian. • The o e

ho pa ti ipates i

et es does ot li e o floo

u

e o e, Go i da Laksh a a li es o a

even-numbered floor and just above Gopi Thonakal. • The o e

ho pa ti ipate in100 metres lives on an even numbered floor and lives just above the player who

participate in200 metres • Gopi Tho akal does ot pa ti ipate i • O l t o pla e s li e et ee the o e

et es o

et es.

ho pa ti ipates i

et es a d the o e

metres. • Che Chieh does ot pa ti ipate i • The o e ho pa ti ipates i • Moha Solution:

et es. et es does ot li e o a odd-numbered floor.

ad A as li es just elo the o e ho pa ti ipates i

et es.

ho participates in5000

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Puzzle 50: In Asian Athletics Championship,Nine players Mark Harry Diones, Woo Sang-hyeok, Suttisak Singkon, Muhammad Irfan, Dilshod Nazarov, Chan Ming Tai, Ali Samari, Masaki Ejima and Neeraj Chopra stay in a building. The building has nine floors and only one player stays on one floor. Each of them participates in different sports namely- Long jump, Triple jump, Shot put,High jump, Decathlon, Discus throw, Pole vault, Javelin throw, and Hammer throw. Each player belongs to different countries, i.e. South Korea, Thailand, Tajikistan, Japan, Philippines, Hong Kong, Iran, Malaysia and India, 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 o e ho elongs to Malaysia stays on the fourth floor. • Ma k Ha

Dio es does ot elo g to Ho g Ko g a d does ot pa ti ipate i Lo g ju p a d Shot put.

• The e a e th ee floo s et ee the floo s o • Muha

hi h Suttisak Si gko a d Ali Sa a i sta .

ad I fa stays on a floor immediately above the Neeraj Chopra s floor.

• The o e ho pa ti ipate i T iple ju p sta s o a e e

u

e ed floo .

• Cha Mi g Tai does ot elo g to I dia .The o e ho elo gs to South Ko ea sta s o the top ost floo . • The o e ho pa ti ipate i Pole ault sta s i

ediate elo to the o e ho pa ti ipate i High ju p.

• Cha Mi g Tai pa ti ipate i Lo g ju p a d does ot sta o the g ou d floo . • Masaki Eji a elo gs to Japa a d sta s o a e e -numbered floor and he participates in Pole vault. • Dilshod Naza o sta s o the se o d floo a d elo gs to Tajikista . • The e a e th ee people et ee the o e ho pa ti ipate i De athlo a d the o e ho pa ti ipate i Shot put. • The o e ho pa ti ipate i De athlo stays below the player who participates in Shot put. • The o e ho elo gs to I dia sta s o the thi d floo . The o e ho pa ti ipate i Ja eli th o

does ot sta o

sixth floor. • The e a e t o floo s et ee the floo s o • The pla e

hi h the people ho a e f om Iran and Japan stay.

ho pa ti ipates i Shot put is f o

• The o e ho pa ti ipates i Ha • The e is o e floo • The e is o e floo

I a . Suttisak Si gko

e th o sta s i

et ee the floo s o et ee the floo s i

elo gs to Thaila d.

ediate a o e to Suttisak Si gko .

hi h Chan Ming Tai and Ali Samari stay. hi h the o e

ho pa ti ipates i Dis us th o

a d the o e

participates in Hammer throw stay. • Ma k Ha Solution:

Dio es sta s o a e e -numbered floor below the floor on which Masaki Ejima stays.

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Puzzle 51: Eight balls are arranged in a stack from bottom to top numbered from 1-8 each from a different e commerce games; Cricket, Football, Hockey, Golf, Tennis, Rugby, Table Tennis and Badminton not necessarily in the same order.Each ball has different colours viz,Red, Blue, Green, Yellow, White, Black, Pink and Orange not necessarily in the same order. The arrangement is based on the following rules: •The all f o

Te

isga e is kept at a e e

u

e ed positio

•The e are 3 balls between the ball from Tennisgame and the ball with Orangecolour •The all f o

Golfga e is eithe at the top o at the otto

•Ball u

has Red olou a d it is ot f o

e

Te

of the sta k

isga e

•Ball ith the White olou is kept et ee the ball from Table Tennisgame and the ball having Yellowcolour •The all f o

C i ketga e is kept o e all a o e the all f o

Ho ke ga e

•The e a e

alls et ee the all ith Blue olou a d the all f o

•The e a e

alls et ee the all with Whitecolour and the ball with Greencolour

•The all f o

Bad i to ga e is et ee the all ith Pi k olou a d the all f o

•The all f o

Ta le Te

Ta le Te

isga e Rug ga e

isga e does ot ha e Pi k olou

Solution: Ball Position 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 Puzzle 52:

Games Tennis Cricket Table Tennis Hockey Badminton Rugby Football Golf

Ball Colours Yellow White Black Pink Orange Green Red Blue

Seven games - High jump, Pole vault, Long jump, Triple jump, Shot put, Discus throw and Javelin throw–held on Bhubaneswar on Sunday. Each game starting at different times 4 AM, 7 AM, 8 AM, 10 AM, 1 PM, 3 PM and 6 PM not necessarily in the same order. And ends at different times. •Lo g ju p is the ea liest to sta t. Its sta ti g ti e is ot afte

a. . a d its total time is two hours less than the

total time of Discus throw. •Si e High ju pis the least du atio ga e, it sta ts efo e p. . a d the ga es e d at p. . •T iple ju psta ts at Su da

a. . a d takes

hou s to fi ish the ga e.

•The e is a fou hour gap between the starting times of Shot put, starting at 8 a.m. and Long jump. •Shot put takes o e hou

o e tha the total ti e of Lo g ju p to fi ish the ga e.

•High ju psta ts fi e hou s afte Pole aultsta ts ut takes o l th ee hou s to fi ish the game. •Dis us th o a d Ja eli th o take •Dis us th o sta ts at

hou s a d hou s to fi ish the ga e.

p. . a d the e is gap of

throw. •O e ga e e ds at p. .

hou s et ee the sta ti g ti es of Dis us th o

a d Ja eli

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Solution: Spots Names High jump Pole vault Long jump Triple jump Shot put Discus throw Javelin throw Puzzle 53:

Starting Time 6:00 PM 1:00 PM 4:00 AM 10:00 AM 8:00 AM 3:00 PM 7:00 AM

Ending Time 9:00 PM 6:00 PM 12:00 noon 5:00 AM (Monday) 5:00 PM 1:00 AM (Monday) 3:00 PM

Eight persons from different states such as Maharashtra, Punjab, Rajasthan, Haryana, Kerala, Tamil Nadu, Karnataka and Bihar eating 8 different sweets such as Badam Halwa, Besan laddu, Gulab jamun, Jalebi, Rasgulla, Rava laddu ,Mysore pak and Kaju katli . And each of them having a mobile in the brand names of Samsung J2, Samsung J3, Samsung J5 and Samsung J7 *The person who is from Punjab eating Kaju katli as a sweet *The person who is eating Mysore pak having Samsung J7 mobile *The third floor stayed person eating Besan laddu and having a mobile in the brand name of Samsung J2. *Gulab jamun is eaten by the person who is having Samsung J3 mobile. *Minimum of three persons stayed below of Bihar state person. And the person who belongs to Haryana not stayed in the odd numbered floor. *The mobile s brand name Samsung J3 and Samsung J7 having same number of state-men. *Rajasthan state person stayed two floor below from the person who is belongs to Punjab. *The top floor is not occupied by the person from Karnataka. *The Samsung J5 owned person eating Badam Halwa. *The persons from Haryana and Punjab having same mobile brand and both of them not having Samsung J3 mobile and also three persons stayed in between them. *The persons who are eating Jalebi sweet and Besan laddu are having same mobile brand with the one who is eating Rasgulla. *The Samsung J5 owned person stayed in fourth floor. There are four persons stayed in between of Karnataka state and Haryana state. The lowest floor is occupied by the Kerala state person. *Only three persons having one kind of mobile brand name and the person from Karnataka who is eating Rasgulla is one of them. *The person from Tamil Nadu and the person who eating Rasgulla are not stayed in the even numbered floor *Only one person having Samsung J5 mobile *The Maharashtran who likes to eat Rava laddu stayed in even numbered floor and is having same mobile brand name with the person, who is eating Gulab jamun also stayed in first floor. *Samsung J7 mobile is owned by the person who is from Haryana. *The person who eating Kaju katli stayed above the floor of the person who is eating Mysore pak. *The person from Tamil Nadu who is eating Besan laddu having same mobile brand with the state person from Bihar Solution:

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Puzzle 54: Eight friends Prakash, Arun, Dinesh, Gupta, Vinoth, Ramesh, Karthik and Anand 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. Each of them likes different months viz, January, February, March, April, May, June, July and August but not necessarily in the same order. *The one who likes February lives on an even-numbered floor but not on the topmost floor *Only one person lives between Ramesh and the one who likes May. *Only two persons live between Ramesh and the one who likes February. *Neither Vinoth nor Dinesh lives on the first floor. *Only one person lives between Dinesh and the one who likes March. *Prakash lives just above Ramesh. Only two persons live between Vinoth and Prakash. *The one who likes May does not live on floor number one, Arun lives on an even-numbered floor and just above Dinesh. *The one who likes April lives on an even numbered floor and lives just above the person who likes August *Dinesh does not like May or August. Only two persons live between the one who likes June and the one who likes January, Gupta does not like July. *The one who likes June does not live on an odd-numbered floor. Anand lives just below the one who likes August. Solution:

Puzzle 55: There are nine members in a family – P, Q, R, S, T, U, V, W, X. They all are sitting in a straight line from left to right. All of them have a relationship with P. Some of them are facing North and others are facing South. The following information is known about them:

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T who is the father of P is sitting to the immediate of V s wife. S is neither P s mother nor V s wife. P s wife is sitting immediately left of Q who is sitting at 5th position from left end of row. R is sitting fourth to the right of P s father. P is sitting 3rd to the right of S. Mother and brother of P are facing the same direction. Both of them are sitting together with one of them at an extreme end of the line. There is one person sitting between P and V and they both are facing opposite directions. W who is P s sister is sitting at third position from the right end. She is sitting facing North direction. Daughter of P is sitting 2nd to the right of the mother of P. X is sitting facing south direction which is opposite of what P s daughter is facing. The immediate neighbors of P s daughter are facing same direction as X. Neither P s brother nor his sister is sitting to the immediate side of P s daughter. From nine members, one is son of P. Solution:

Puzzle 56: Eight People – A, B, C, D, E, F, and G live in eight different floors of building (but not necessarily in the same order). One of the floors in the building is vacant. 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 owns a different car namely – Santro, I20, Audi, Swift, Maruti, Bentley and BMW (but not necessarily in the same order). The number of people leaving above F is same as the number of floors between F and D. F lives on an odd numbered floor above the floor numbered four. Only one person lives between B and the one who owns Swift. Only three floors are there between D s floor and the one who owns Maruti. The one who owns Bentley lives immediately above G, G owns neither Maruti nor Audi. E does not own Bentley. There are only three floors between the floors of G and A. The one who owns BMW lives immediately above the one who owns Santro, but not on the topmost floor. C lives on one of the odd numbered floors above the one who owns Maruti. There is one floor between F and the one who owns I20. Only one person lives between the one who owns BMW and the vacant floor. Only two people live between C and the vacant floor. Solution: Floor Number 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 Puzzle 57:

Person B C G F E A D

Car Audi Bentley Swift Maruti I20 BMW Santro

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Ten friends are sitting on twelve seats in two parallel rows containing five people each, in such a way that there is an equal distance between adjacent persons. In Row 1: A, B, C, D and E are seated and all of them are facing south, and in Row 2: P, Q, R, S and T are sitting and all of them are facing north. One seat is vacant in each row. Therefore, in the given seating arrangement each member seated in a row faces another member of the other row. All of them like different colors – Red, Green, Black, Yellow, White, Blue, Brown, Purple, Pink and Grey, but not necessarily in the same order. There are two seats between Q and the vacant seat. Q does not like White, Red and Purple. E is not an immediate neighbor of C. B likes Grey. Vacant seat of row 1 is not opposite to S and is also not at any of the extreme ends of Row-1.The one who likes Black sits opposite to the one, who sits third to the right of the seat, which is opposite to S. C is not an immediate neighbor of D. T, who likes neither White nor Blue, does not face vacant seat. D faces R. The vacant seats are not opposite to each other. Two seats are there between C and B, who sits third right of the seat, on which the person who likes Brown is sitting. S sits third to the right of seat on which R sits and likes Yellow. The one who likes Pink faces the one who likes Yellow. The persons who like Red and Purple are adjacent to each other. The vacant seat in row 1 is not adjacent to D.Q sits at one of the extreme ends. E neither likes Pink nor faces the seat which is adjacent to the one who likes Blue. The one who likes White is not to the immediate right of the one who likes Yellow. The person who likes Green doesn t face the person who likes Purple. Solution: E (Red) T (Green) Puzzle 58:

D (Purple) R (Black)

B (Grey) ---

--P (White)

A (Pink) S (Yellow)

C (Brown) Q (Blue)

Nine people Ankul, Priyal, Seema, Abhi, Rajat, Charu, Reema, Anjali and Gaurav stay in a building (floors numbered 1 to 9). They are studying different courses – BSc and BCom. Four of them are studying BCom and remaining persons are studying BSc. All of them belong to a different state viz – Haryana, Punjab, Assam, Nagaland, Telangana, Kerala, Jharkhand, Maharashtra and Bihar, but not necessarily in the same order.. Each of them also likes a different color – Orange, Grey, Pink, Purple, White, Blue, Green, Red and Yellow, again but not necessarily in the same order. There is one floor between the floors on which Charu, who likes Grey color and Reema stay. Abhi, who likes Blue, stays on a floor immediately above Gaurav s floor, who likes Green color. Neither Ankul nor Seema belongs to Telangana. Seema does not belong to Haryana and likes Red color. The one who belongs to Jharkhand stays on the fourth floor but is not studying BSc. There are two floors between the floors on which the people who belong to Kerala and Nagaland stay. Rajat stays on the second floor and belongs to Assam. There are three floors between the floor on which Seema, who is studying BCom and Reema stay, who does not belong to Bihar and likes Pink color. The person who belongs to Telangana and Haryana are studying same course. Ankul is studying BSc and lives on an even numbered floor which is below the floor on which Anjali stays, who likes purple color. The one who belongs to Bihar stays on the third floor and is not studying BCom. The one who belongs to Haryana stays on the topmost floor and likes Orange color. The person belongs to Kerala and Nagaland are studying same course. Anjali belongs to Nagaland and is studying BSc and lives on an even numbered floor. The person belongs to Maharashtra does not live below the person who belongs to Punjab. Ankul does not like Yellow color. Solution:

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Puzzle 59: Eight persons who names start with – A, B, C, D, E, F, G and H are sitting in a circle. Some are facing outside, and others towards the centre of the circle. The persons whose name starts with consecutive letters in English alphabetical series are not sitting together like A is not sitting with B, B is not sitting with A and C, and so on. Also not more than 2 consecutive persons face the same direction. Equal number of people are facing outside and inside. C is sitting second to the left of F. There are 2 people sitting between B and A. A is facing outside. A and C are immediate neighbors. The one who likes blue color is sitting second to the right of C. C is not sitting opposite B. 2 people are sitting between A and the one who likes blue color. Also 3 people are sitting between D who does not like red color and the one who likes orange color. E is sitting second to the left of D. The one who likes green color is sitting third to the left of the one who likes black color. Both of them are not immediate neighbors of the one who like blue and orange colors. The one who likes white color is sitting third to the right of the one who likes red color. 2 people are sitting between G and the one who likes yellow color. B and G are not facing same direction. Solution:

Puzzle 60: There is a rectangular sheet pasted on a wall with 8 unequal divisions (in height) vertically. Its dimensions are 16*64 sq. cm. Top division is numbered 1, then 2, and so on. Each division contains different number of small square sheets pasted in them. The side of these small square sheets is 4 cm each. One layer inside a division can contain only 4 sheets and remaining sheets are kept above these 4 in layers accordingly (The second layer can be started to fill with sheets only after filling the first layer with 4 sheets, and so on). So height of a particular division is according to the number of layers in respective divisions. Each division contains different colored sheets – pink, blue, white,

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yellow, red, grey, silver, green but not necessarily in the same order (If division 1 contains blue colored sheet, then all sheets in division 1 are blue colored) There are 2 divisions between the division with 4 sheets and red colored sheets. The sum of sheets in division number 1 and 6 is 14. If the sheets in division number 4 are combined to form a large square, they form a 8*8 sq. cm square. Height of division number 7 is 12 cm. The division carrying yellow colored sheets is next in number to division carrying red colored sheets. The division leaving 3 divisions from division carrying red colored sheets is 4 cm in height. No division carries less than 2 sheets. There are 3 divisions between the division with 7 sheets and blue colored sheets. The division with red colored sheets contains 6 sheets. 3 of the divisions have same height (in cm) and number of sheets in them respectively. There is 1 division between the division with 8 sheets and white colored sheets. There are 3 divisions between the division with 10 sheets and silver colored sheets. There are more than 2 divisions between the division with silver colored and white colored sheets. The division with blue colored sheets does not contain 8 sheets. There is 1 division between the division with 5 sheets and green colored sheets. The division with grey colored sheets is above the division with green colored sheets. The division with pink colored sheets is below the division with grey colored sheets. There are total 54 sheets to be pasted on the rectangular sheet. Solution: Division Height (in cm) 1 8 2 12 3 8 4 4 5 4 6 8 7 12 8 8 Puzzle 61:

No. of Sheets 6 12 7 4 2 8 10 5

Colour Red Yellow Silver Grey Pink Green Blue White

12 family members – Rahul, Preeti, Sahil, Rani, Seema, Amit, Dheeraj, Parul, Kavya, Manish, Neena, and Nitin have birthdays in January, February, March, July, September and December. February has 28 days. The birthday is either on 22 or 28 on any of the months. They have different ages. Also the age of the ones having birthday in months having odd number of days is even and vice-versa. Like if Sahil has birthday in February (even number of days), his age is an odd number. Preeti s birthday is on February 22. Her birthday is before the birthday of the one having age 36 years. Age of Manish is 11 years. 3 people have birthdays between Manish s and Seema s birthday. Manish s birthday is not on 22nd of any month. 3 people have birthdays between Sahil and one having age 68 years. Sahil s birthday is before the one having age 68 years. 2 people have birthdays between Kavya and one having age 68 years. Rahul and Kavya have birthdays in same month. Sahil s birthday is not in March. 2 people have birthdays between Amit and one having age 8 years. Amit s birthday is before the one having age 8 years. Amit s birthday is not in September. Rahul is not the youngest member in the family. Nobody has age less than 8 years. 2 people have birthdays between Rahul and one having age 23 years. Sum of ages of Preeti and Amit is 105 years. Sum of ages of Nitin and Kavya is 10 less than the age of Preeti. Neena and one having age 40 years have birthdays in same month. Neena s age is less than

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40 years. 4 people have birthdays between Rahul and one having age 40 years. The average age of Neena and Rani is 45 years. Sum of ages of Neena and Kavya is 6 less than that of Dheeraj s age. The average age of Sahil, Seema and Neena is 24 years. The age difference in Sahil s and Seema s age is 18 years. Sahil is younger to Seema. Age of one of the members is 64 years. Solution: Month January February March July September December Puzzle 62:

22 Sahil (14) Preeti (37) Amit (68) Rabul(36) Nitin (19) Neena (26)

28 Rani (64) Parul (23) Seema (32) Kavya (8) Manish (11) Dheeraj (40)

Eight people – A, B, C, D, E, F, G and H are sitting in a straight line facing North. They have different ages – 14, 19, 21, 24, 30, 33, 40 and 50 but not necessarily in the same order. A is sitting third to right the one who is 24 years old. D and the one who is 24 years old are sitting together. One person is sitting between H and one whose age is 50 years. Difference between the ages of E and H is 5 years. The one who is 10 years older than D is sitting third to right of D. G and C are sitting together. One of them is sitting at an extreme end of line. C is 9 years older than B. A is sitting in the middle of D and G. A is 12 years younger than C. H is not 14 years old. Solution: E

…..B

….D

……H

….A

…..F

……G

…C

Puzzle 63: There are 12 children – A, B, C, D, E, F, G, H, I, J, K and L who live in a building with 5 floors (Numbered 1 to 5). There are 3 flats on each floor from left to right numbered 1 to 3. Immediate right of flat 2 means flat 3. Flat above flat means same flat number of above floors. There are 3 flats empty in this building. There can be only 1 flat empty on any floor. Also same flat number cannot be empty on any of the floors i.e. if Flat number 1 is empty on floor number 1, than flat 1 of any other floor cannot be empty. They all have got different marks in a class test. They all like different colors – Yellow, Pink, Red, Green, Orange, Black, Brown, White, Blue, Violet, Purple, Grey. K lives on flat number 1 of floor number 3. One who likes red color lives somewhere in the flat which is above K s flat. One person lives between the one who likes red color and G who has got 96 marks. A likes green color who lives just below G s flat. One of the flats on which A lives is empty but that is not immediate left of A s flat. The one who likes violet color lives on the flat 2nd to right of K. There are 2 floors between H who got 72 marks and the one who got 85 marks. H lives above the one who got 85 marks. H does not like red color. J likes purple color and lives immediate right of the one who has got 85 marks. L and J live on same floor. L likes pink color and has got 9 marks more than F. There are 2 flats between L and an empty flat. F and the one who likes orange color lives on the same floor which is either floor number 1 or 2. One flat is empty on that floor. There is one empty flat between the one who got 61 marks and the one who likes yellow color. The one who got 61 marks is above the one who likes yellow color. The one who has got 55 marks lives on floor number 1. F has got 25 marks less than D who does not live on top floor. C and empty flat are on same floor.

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I lives on one of the flats on the floor on which G lives. The one who likes grey color lives immediate right of I. The one who likes white color lives just above the one who likes blue color. The one who likes brown color lives below the one who likes blue color such that no one lives between them. E and F lives on same floor. E has got 15 marks more than A. C lives on a floor on which one flat is empty. One of the children on same floor as one liking blue has got 50% marks obtained by G. The one who got 82 marks lives on one of the floors above the floor of one who got 90 marks. Solution: 1st 5 B, Red (61) 4 --3 K, Yellow (63) 2 E, Orange (90) 1 L, Pink (69) Puzzle 64:

2nd I, White (82) H, Blue (72) --F, Brown (60) D, Black (85)

3rd G, Grey (96) A, Green (48) C, Violet (76) --J, Purple (55)

There are 10 friends – A, B, C, D, E, F, G, H, I and J who have their birthdays in five months – January, March, June, August, and September on either 22nd or 28th of the month. E s birthday falls on 22nd August. There is one birthday between C and E s birthdays. There are 2 birthdays between that of G and I. G s birthday is before I s. G s birthday is in one of the months which has 31 days. A and I have birthdays in same month. There are at least 2 birthdays between birthdays of E and A. F s birthday is in one of the months which has 30 days. There are at least 2 birthdays after the birthday of B. H s birthday is on 28th of any month. There are 3 birthdays between the birthdays of H and F. Birthday of C and H does not fall in same month. D s birthday is somewhere before B s. B and H does not have birthdays in same month. Solution: Month January March June August September Puzzle 65:

22 G A C E J

28 D I F B H

There are 10 people sitting in two rows (5 people in each row). 5 of them are teachers and other 5 are students. No teacher sits next to or opposite to another teacher. The two rows are facing each (north and south). Ravi sits at the left corner of the north facing row. Ravi is a student. 2 people sit between Amit and James. Davis sits at the center in the south facing row. Vineet sits opposite to the neighbor of Umesh. Vineet is facing south. Vineet and Umesh do not sit at the end. Ruchi sits opposite to the person who is next to Arul. Ruchi is facing north. Ruchi is a teacher. No one is sitting to the right of Arul. Amit is a student. Pradeep is a teacher. Solution: South Facing North Facing Puzzle 66:

Arul (Teacher) Ravi (Student)

Amit (Student) Ruchi (Teacher)

Davis (Teacher) Umesh (Student)

Vineet (Student) Pradeep (Teacher)

James (Teacher) Vikalp (Student)

Eight people Birla, Narayan, Evan, Lisa, Jeff, Tim, Warren and Mittal work in three different Software Company: Microsoft, Google and Facebook. Out of these, two are females who work in different companies and have different

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specializations. Two of them are specialists in Operating System (OS), two in DBMS, two in Hardware and one each in OOPs and Artificial Intelligence (AI). Lisa one of the female, working in Microsoft is a specialist in DBMS and her friend Warren, an Operating System specialist is working in Facebook. Mittal, a specialist in DBMS, is working with Narayan, a specialist in Hardware and does not work in Google. Evan is not a specialist in Artificial Intelligence. No two persons with same specializations work together. Tim is a specialist in Hardware working in Google and his friend Birla is a specialist in Operating System and is working in Microsoft with only one other specialist. Not more than three of them work in any company. No female is a specialist in OOPs or Artificial Intelligence. Solution: Company Microsoft Google

Facebook

Person Lisa (F) Bira (M) Tim (M) Evan (M) Jeff (M) Warren (M/F) Mittal (M) Narayana (M/F)

Specialization DBMS OS Hardware OOP s AI OS DBMS Hardware

Puzzle 67: 8 people – A, B, C, D, E, F, G and H are sitting in a straight line. All are facing north direction. They have different ages – 12, 15, 21, 32, 36, 43, 45 and 56 but not necessarily in same order. They like different colors – red, yellow, green and blue. Exactly 2 people like one color. No 2 people who like same color sit together. A sits second to left of one who is 56 years old. 2 people sit between A and the one who likes blue color. There is difference of 2 years between the ones who like green color. H likes green color and sits second to right of one who is 56 years old. 1 person sits between A and the one who likes blue color. One of the persons who like blue color has age 36 years. G likes red color. The one who is 12 years old sits immediate left of the one who likes blue color. The ones having ages 36 and 43 sit together. There are 3 persons between F and the one who is 12 years old. F does not like yellow color. F is 6 years older than B. 2 persons sit between the one who is 43 years old and one who likes red color. One person sits between G and the one who is 4 years younger than the one who likes blue color. One of the persons who like green color sits with one of the persons who likes red color. D sits with the one who is 45 years old. C sits to the immediate left of E. Solution: Colour Red Person G Age 12 Puzzle 68:

Blue B 15

Yellow D 32

Green A 45

Red F 21

Yellow C 56

Blue E 36

Green H 43

There are 12 friends – A, B, C, D, E, F, G, H, I, J, K and L who have their birthdays in six months – January, April, May, July, September and November on either 22nd or 28th of the month. K s birthday falls on 22nd July. There are two birthdays between those of K and L. Also there are three birthdays between those of F and L. There are 3 birthdays after that of E s birthdays. A s birthday falls in a month with 30 days. D s birthday is just before A s birthday. There are at least 2 birthdays between the birthdays of A and F. I has birthday on 28th of any month but before K. There are three birthdays between those of G and C. H s birthday falls

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on 22nd of any month. J s birthday is somewhere after H s birthday. There are at least 2 and at most 4 birthdays between the birthdays of C and B. C and I do not share same birthday month. Also C and F do not share same birthday month. Solution: Month January April May September November Puzzle 69:

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28 D I F L G

There are eight persons A, B, C, D, E, F, G, and H are sitting around a circle. Some are facing the center while some are not. They also like different colors – Green, Red, Yellow, Black, White, Blue, Grey and Pink, but not necessarily in the same order. D is sitting fourth to right of B. The person who likes Yellow sits second to right of D. A is sitting third to right of C. There is one person sitting between A and B. A does not like Yellow color. Three persons sit between the person who like Yellow and Pink color. The person who likes Green color sits second to right of person who like Pink color. D does not like Green color. The person who likes Blue sits third to right of person who like Green color. C likes Blue color. There are two persons sitting between D and E. There are three persons between the person who like White and Black color. E does not like White and Black color. There is one person sitting between the person who like Black and Red color. The person who likes Yellow color sits third to right of person who like Red color. The person who likes Grey color sits third to right of person who like Black color. G sits fourth to right of person who like White color. F is not immediate neighbor of G. The person who like White color sits third to left of person who like Yellow color and both faces the same direction.(Same direction means if one faces center then other also faces the center and vice-versa).E faces opposite the center. A likes the Pink color. Solution:

Puzzle 70: Seven boxes – A, B, C, D, E, F and G are arranged vertically from top to bottom. They all have different colors – blue, pink, green, orange, red, yellow and white but not necessarily in the same order. Also they contain different items – Rasgulla, Laddu, Peda, Nankhatai, Jalebi, Petha and Burfi but not necessarily in the same order. The box which has rasgulla is at the even numbered place from top to bottom. E has laddu and F doesn t have nankhatai. G is kept at the bottom. Rasgulla is in either a blue or red box. A has Jalebi but not in the orange-colored

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box and is not kept vertically adjacent to B. There are 2 boxes between F which is a yellow colored box and the green colored box. D is neither a green nor red colored box. The orange colored box is kept at the third place from the bottom. B is a white colored box containing Burfi but is not kept with F which is at an odd numbered place. Neither petha nor nankhatai is kept in a blue box. B and D boxes are kept vertically adjacent to each other and none of them is an orange colored box. The box which has petha is kept at second place from the top. Solution:

Puzzle 71: Eight persons Bhavya, Ravi, Kavya, Meena, Amit, Rohit, Sahil, and Medha have their birthdays on either 12th or 14th of four different months i.e March, April, May, June not necessarily in the same order. Bhavya has birthday on 12th of a month having 31 days. Only one person has birthday before Ravi. Number of persons between Bhavya and Ravi is one less than the number of persons between Ravi and Megha. Kavya and Meena have their birthdays in the same month having 30 days, but not in April. Rohit s birthday is after Sahil s. Only three persons have birthday between Ravi and Amit. Kavya has the birthday before Meena. Solution:

Puzzle 72: Eight persons – A, B, C, D, E, F, F, G and H are sitting in a straight line facing North (not necessarily in the same order). They have different ages – 12, 18, 27, 32, 34, 49, 55 and 63 (not necessarily in the same order). B is sitting second to left of one having age 49 years. Two persons are sitting between B and D. One who is 32 years old is sitting second to right of D. One person is sitting between the persons having ages 32 and 18 years. A is sitting second to left of E. A is sitting somewhere to the left of D. The one who is 63 years old is sitting to immediate left of B. Difference between the ages of B and G is 7 years. Both are not sitting together. One who is 27 years old is sitting somewhere left of A. C is 6 years younger to D. The one who is 55 years old and H are immediate neighbors. Same number of persons are sitting between H and one having age 34 years and between F and one having age 55 years. Solution:

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There are 9 managers namely-A, B, C, D, E, F, G, H and I come to play UEFA Champions League, Staying in a hotel on a different floors of the building. Each of them owns a different football club team among Barcelona, Arsenal, Dortmund, Napoli, Monaco, Real Madrid, Bayern, Sevilla and Manchester City but not in order. The ground floor is numbered 1, the floor above it is numbered 2 and so on until the topmost floor is numbered 9. a) There is just one floor between the floors on which E and the floor on which G stay. A s floor is not below E s floor. b) D stay on a floor immediately above B s floor. The one who owns Real Madrid stays on the topmost floor. E does not stay on first floor. c) H owns Manchester City and there are three floors between the floor on which H stay and the floor on which G stay. d) C stays on the 2nd floor and owns Monaco. F does not own Barcelona team. e) The one who owns Dortmund stays on the 3rd floor. The floor on which D lives is immediately adjacent to the floor on which, the person having Bayern team lives. f) I stays on an even numbered floor and owns Napoli. The one who owns Sevilla stays on 4th floor. g) The person having Barcelona does not live on the floor, which is immediately above the floor of the person, who is having Napoli. If A has Barcelona then E can never have Arsenal. h) E s floor is above G s floor. B does not own Bayern Team. Solution:

Puzzle 74: Eight persons, M, N, O, P, Q, R, S and T, are sitting around a circular table facing the centre but not necessarily in the same order. Each one of them have a different designation-Teacher, Doctor, Engineer, Writer, Pilot, Businessman, Student and Banker but not in order. M sits third to the right of the Banker. Only two people sit between the Banker and T. The Pilot and the Doctor are immediate neighbours. Neither M nor T is a Pilot or a Doctor. The Pilot is not an immediate neighbour of the Banker. The Teacher sits second to the left of Q. Q is not an immediate neighbour of T. The Teacher is an immediate neighbour of both the Businessman and the Student. The Student sits third to the right of N. N is not the Pilot. O sits on the immediate right of the Engineer. M is not the Engineer. R is not an immediate neighbour of M. S is not an immediate neighbour of the Teacher. Solution:

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Puzzle 75: Seven representatives of a company-Samir, Nita, Richa, Shweta, Gifty, Paul and Mohit-travelled to three different countries, ie, South Africa, Australia and France. Each of them travelled on different days of the week (no two persons travelled on the same day), starting on Monday and ending on Sunday. Minimum two people travelled to each country and South Africa is the only country to which three people travelled. Samir travelled to South Africa on Monday. Paul travelled to Australia but neither on Tuesday nor on Saturday. Mohit travelled on Sunday but not to France. The one who travelled to Australia travelled on Tuesday and the one who travelled to France travelled on Saturday. Gifty travelled on Wednesday. Richa travelled to South Africa but not on Thursday. Nita did not not travel to France. Solution:

Puzzle 76: Seven friends A, B, C, D, E, F and G who watched different tv serials- Dexter, Shooter, Friends, Homeland, Suits, Sherlock and Vikings- each one on a different day of the week starting Monday and ending on Sunday. C watched Vikings on Monday. On the last day of the week the person watched Homeland. E watched the serial next day of A, who watched Sherlock and E watched the serial on the previous day of G. D watched Suits on Friday. B did not watch either Friends or Homeland and G watched Dexter. Solution:

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Eight family members G,H,I,J,K,L,M and N are sitting in a row facing south, but not necessarily in the same order. Half of them are males. There are three couples in the family. K is a female and sits second to the left of M, who is the husband of I. J sits second to the right of H, who is a male. J is husband of N and sits adjacent to his wife. L is son of N and is not sitting between K and M. H is on the immediate right of M and second to the right of his mother in law. G is sister of N, who is on the immediate left of G. K and L are siblings. Solution:

Puzzle 78: Eight persons M, N, O, P, Q, R, S and T live in an eight storey building. Each of them likes a different drinks viz, Coffee, Tea, Milk, Pepsi, Appy, Fanta, Limca and Maaza but not nessarily in the same order. The lowermost floor is numbered 1 and the topmost floor is numbered 8. There is only one floor between the one who likes Milk and the one who likes Maaza. There are two floors between the one who likes Tea and O. R lives on an even numbered floor and likes Limca. Neither M nor N likes Tea or Appy. The one who likes Pepsi lives on floor no. 1. There are three floor between the floor on which N lives and the floor on which Q lives. R lives above O, who does not live on first floor but likes Coffee. Only one person live between the one who likes Appy and the one who likes Tea. The one who likes Milk lives on the topmost floor. T does not like Milk. S lives on the floor number which is between M and R. N lives above Q. Solution:

Puzzle 79: Eight persons from different cities, viz. Jaipur, Delhi, Goa, Kolkata, Indore, Jodhpur, Mumbai and Bangalore ,are sitting in two parallel rows containing four persons each, in such a way that there is an equal distance between adjacent persons. In row 1, T, U, V and W are sitting and all of them are facing north. In row 2, P, Q, R and S are sitting and all of them are facing south. Therefore, in the given seating arrangement each member sitting in a row faces another member of the other row. (All the information given above does not necessarily represent the order of seating as in the final arrangement.) • The pe so f o I do e fa es the o e ho is o the i ediate left of V. V is eithe f o Delhi o f o Goa. •A i ediate eigh ou of P fa es the person from Jaipur. The person from Jodhpur faces the person who is on the left of the person from Delhi. • The e is o l a e pe so sitti g et ee the pe so s f o Delhi a d Mu ai ut that pe so is ot T. The pe so s from Delhi and Goa are not sitting at the extreme ends.

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• Q sits o the i ediate left of the pe so f o I do e. Pe so s f o Kolkata a d Jodhpu a e i ediate neighbours. R and U are not sitting at any of the ends. • W fa es the o e ho is sitti g o the i ediate ight of the pe so f om Jodhpur. P is not from Jodhpur or Kolkata. Solution:

Puzzle 80: Seven friends A, B, C, D, E, F and G are living in different cities viz, Jaipur, Bikaner, Pune, Mumbai, Kota, Delhi and Goa not necessarily in same order. Each one of them has different brands car- BMW, Audi, Nissan, Maruti, Hyundai, Ford and Jaguar (not necessarily in same order). B lives in Pune and has Ford. D has Audi and does not live in Goa. The one who has BMW live in Jaipur. F lives in Mumbai. The one who has Jaguar live in Delhi. E has Hyundai and lives in Bikaner. A has Maruti. C does not live in Jaipur. Solution:

Puzzle 81: Seven people Jaya, Arun, Reena, Nitin, Neeraj, Rahul and Amit live on separate floors of a 7-floor building. Ground floor is numbered 1, first floor is numbered 2 and so on until the topmost floor is numbered 7. Each one of these likes different companies mobile, viz Sony, Samsung, Apple, Nokia, Panasonic, Oppo and Intex but not necessarily in the same order. Only three people live above the floor on which Jaya lives. Only one person lives between Jaya and the one who likes Oppo. Rahul lives immediately below the one who likes Samsung. The one who likes Samsung lives on an even numbered floor. Only three people live between the ones who likes Oppo and Apple. Neeraj lives immediately above Reena. Neeraj does not like Apple. Only two people live between Arun and the one who likes Panasonic. The one who likes Panasonic lives below the floor on which Arun. The one who likes Sony does not live immediately above or immediately below Arun. Nitin does not live immediately above or immediately below Jaya. Amit does not likes Nokia. Solution:

Puzzle 82: Seven persons A, B, C, D, E, F and G live on an eight-storey building. The ground floor is numbered 1 and the topmost floor is 8. One of the floors is vacant. They like different colors- Red, Pink, Black, Brown, Blue, White and Green but not necessarily in the same order. F stays on such a floor where the number of persons below his floor is two less than the number of persons of floors above him. Vacant floor is an odd numbered floor and is not 1 st floor. C likes Black and lives on the topmost floor. The number of person live above A and below is same and A likes Red. One person sits between A and B. B is not lives any of the floor below the vacant floor. The one who likes Blue live

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immediate above the one who likes White. B does not like Blue color and the one who likes white do not live on the even numbered floor. The number of person live between F and D is same as live between F and G. G lives on an even numbered floor. Two persons name matched with the first letter of their favorite colors. At least two persons live between the vacant floor and the one who likes Brown. Solution:

Puzzle 83: Seven friends G, H, I, J, K, L and M like seven different sports, namely Badminton, Cricket, Football, Tennis, Archery, Shooting and Rugby but not necessarily in the same order. They will also go for a picnic not necessarily in the same order from Monday to Sunday (of the same week). G will go for a picnic on Friday. Only one person go for a picnic between G and the one who likes Shooting. Only two persons go for a picnic between L and the one who likes Shooting. The one who likes Archery will go for a picnic immediately before H. Only three persons will go for a picnic between the one who likes Archery and I. Only one person go for a picnic between the one who likes Tennis and I. K does not like Archery. M will go for a picnic immediately before I. Only one person go for a picnic between K and the one who likes Cricket. Only two persons will go for a picnic between the one who likes Badminton and the one who likes Football. The one who likes Football will go for a picnic between the one who likes Cricket and Rugby. H does not like Cricket. Solution:

Puzzle 84: D,E,F,G,H,I and J live in a seven storey building. Each one of them has a mobile, Either Samsung, Apple or Nokia brand. There are two Apple phones, two Nokia phones and three Samsung phones in the building. The floors are numbered 1 to 7 from bottom to top. i) E lives on floor number 5 and he doesn't have a Apple mobile. ii) The person living on the lower most floor doesn't have an Apple mobile. iii) J doesn't live below D. iv) H neither owns Samsung nor lives adjacent to the floors on which, a person with a Samsung lives. v) The person living on the topmost floor has Nokia. vi) Both persons who have Apple live immediately below the floors on which a person with a Samsung lives.

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vii) J has Apple mobile and D has Samsung mobile. F has Samsung and he doesn't live adjacent to a floor on which a person with Apple mobile lives. viii) G doesn't have Apple mobile. Solution:

Puzzle 85: Eight friends – P, Q, R, S, T, U, V and Ware sitting around a circular table facing outward the circle. Each of them likes a different color Orange, Green, Blue, Red, Pink, Black, Grey and Yellow but not necessarily in the same order. P sits third to the left of the person who likes Yellow. P is not the person who likes Blue. U is not the immediate neighbour of P. Only two people sit between the person who likes Yellow and W. The person who likes Pink and the person who likes Green are immediate neighbours of each other. Neither P nor W likes Pink or Green. The person who likes Grey sits third to the left of Q. Q does not like Pink. R sits to the immediate left of the person who likes Blue. The person who likes Pink is not an immediate neighbour of the person who likes Yellow. The person who likes Orange sits second to the right of T. T is not an immediate neighbour of W. The person who likes Orange is the immediate neighbour of both the persons who likes Black and Grey. S does not like Pink. Solution:

Puzzle 86: There are eight persons-D, E, F, G, H, Q, R and S and out of them 4 are females. They sit in a row facing south direction and have different brands of watches-Sonata, Titan, Rolex, Fastrack and Omega. Only one person has Sonata and not more than two persons have the same watch. The following information is known about themThe two males having Rolex form the only pair who has the same watch and is sitting together (Apart from these two, no other two adjacent people have same watch). Neither G nor F has Fastrack. S sits 4 th to the left of Q. F sits

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adjacent to D and H. D who is the wife of E is sitting at 4th position from left end according to their own direction. R who is the husband of G has Titan and sits 2nd to the right of Q and none of them sits at extreme end. E sits to the immediate right of Q. The persons who have Omega have two persons in between them. Two females sit adjacent to each other and one of them sit on one of the extremes. Solution:

Puzzle 87: A, B, C, D, E, F and G are seven people live on seven different floors of a building but not necessarily in the same order. The lowermost floor of the building is numbered 1, the one above that is numbered 2 and so on till the topmost floor is numbered 7. Each one of them spends different amount per month. i.e. 20000, 15000, 10000, 25000, 30000, 35000 and 40000(But not necessarily in the same order). Each one of them likes different fruit i.e Lemon, Apple, Grapes, Mango, Pomegranate, Orange and Banana(But not necessarily in the same order). The person who likes Mango lived immediately below the one who likes Banana. The one who spends Rs.20000 lives immediately above the one who spends Rs.40000. Only one person lives between B and E. The one who likes Grapes lives on even numbered floor while the one who likes Apple fruit lives on odd numbered floor and not on the third floor. B lives on one of the floors above E. Neither C nor A spends Rs.25000. The one who likes orange live one of the floors above Banana. E does not spend Rs. 10000. Person A lives on an odd numbered floor but not on the floor numbered three. The one who spends Rs.30000 lives immediately above A. Only two people live between A and the one who spends Rs.10000. The one who spends Rs.15000 lives on one of the odd numbered floors above D. The person who likes orange does not live in the floor numbered 5 while the person who likes Mango does not live in the floor numbered 2. Only three people live between C and the one who spends 15000. The one who spends Rs.10000 lives immediately above C. F spends 10000. The one who likes Lemon lives immediately above the one who likes Orange. The person who likes Grapes lives in middle floor exactly. Solution: Floor Persons 7 G 6 B 5 A 4 E 3 D 2 F 1 C Puzzle 88:

Expenditure 25000 30000 15000 20000 40000 10000 35000

Fruit Lemon Orange Apple Grapes Pomegranate Banana Mango

Seven students namely viz A, B, C, D, E, F and G of seven different colleges have seminar 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 lower most floor of the building is numbered 1, the one above that is numbered 2 and so on till the topmost floor is numbered 7.Each one of them likes different Games i.e Temple Run, Fruit Ninja, Clash of clans, Pokemon Go, Candy crush, Angry Bird and Crossy Road.(But not necessarily in the same order).

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The one who likes Angry Bird lives immediately below the one who likes Candy crush. A does not like Fruit Ninja. G stayed in the second floor and has a seminar on Wednesday. The one who stayed in the first floor has a seminar on Saturday. The person who likes Temple Run lives on the floor above the floor numbered 4. More than four persons live between the person who likes Temple Run and the one Who likes Crossy Road. B has a seminar immediately before E. B does not have seminar on any of the days after G. The one who stayed in the seventh floor does not have a seminar on any of the days on or before Friday. The one who stayed in the third floor has a seminar immediately after C. E does not stay in the fifth floor. More than two persons live between the one who likes Candy crush and the one who likes Pokemon Go. The one who stays in sixth floor does not have a seminar 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. Solution: Floor Person 7 D 6 B 5 C 4 E 3 A 2 G 1 F Puzzle 89:

Day Sunday Monday Thursday Tuesday Friday Wednesday Saturday

Games Temple Run Candy crush Angry Bird Fruit Ninja Clash of clans Pokémon Go Crossy Road

Twelve People – M, Y, O, P, Q, R, S, T, U, V, W, and X live in twelve different floors of a 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 twelve. Each one of them also goes to 12 different places namely, Mumbai, Kochi, Patna, New Delhi, Jaipur, Pune, Hyderabad, Ahmedabad, Chandigarh, Bengaluru, Chennai and Kolkata (but not necessarily in the same order) in 12 different dates(Starting from 1 – 20) of 12 different months. The number of floors above R is same as the number of floors between R and M. The number of floors between R and M is more than four. S lives an odd numbered floor above the floor numbered Seven. The number of floors above S is same as the number of floors between S and X. The one who goes to Bengaluru lives immediately above S. There are four floors between one who goes to Bengaluru and Chandigarh. The number of floors below V is same as the number of floors between V and W. The number of floors between V and W is more than Two. V lives an even numbered floor below the floor numbered Six. T, S, Y, and O go on two digit prime-numbered dates. Y goes on the second lowest two digit prime date & in the month which has less than 30 days. There are five persons live above the person who goes to Hyderabad and there are five persons live below the person who goes to Ahmedabad. T goes on the lowest two digit prime date & in the month which has more than 30 days. T lives immediately above S. The persons live on the top three floors and the first three floors go in the month which has more than 30 days. X goes on the workers day. S goes on the highest two digit prime date & in the month of November. T goes immediately after the month in which S goes to Kolkata. P goes in the month immediately after O. V goes in the month immediately after X. Q lives immediately above U. P lives immediately above O but not in the top most floor. The person goes in March does not live on the top most floor. There are three persons live between the one who goes in April and the one who goes in March. Q goes to Mumbai on the International Day of Non-Violence. O goes to

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Kochi on the second highest two digit prime date. Two persons live between the one who goes to Chennai and the one who goes to Pune. Two persons live between the one who goes to Jaipur and the one who goes to Patna. The one who goes to Pune and Jaipur lives on an even numbered floor. The one who goes to Patna does not live on the second floor from the top. The date in which the person goes to New Delhi is 5th. V goes immediately after the date of P. U goes immediately after the date of Q. W goes immediately after the date of U. R goes on the square of the date in which U goes on. M goes immediately after the date of R. Solution: Floor No 12 11 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 Puzzle 90:

Person Q U T S W R Y X V P O M

Month October March December November September April February May June August July January

Date 2 3 11 19 4 9 13 1 6 5 17 10

Place Mumbai Chennai Bengaluru Kolkata Pune Hyderabad Ahmedabad Chandigarh Jaipur New Delhi Kochi Patna

Ten students namely viz P, Q, R, S, T, U, V, W, X and Y of ten different colleges but not necessarily in the same order have exam on five different days starting from Monday to Friday of the same week. Each student have exam at two different time slots, i.e 08.00 AM or 11.00 A.M. Each student have different papers namely – English, Maths, Physics, Chemistry, Biology, Micro Biology, Biotechnology, Commerce, Economics, and Electronics. Only two people have exam between U and Y. Neither T nor V does not have exam on Friday. X has exam on Tuesday at 08.00 A.M. W does not have exam at 11.00 AM. The number of people who have exam between V and S is same as the number of people who have exam between R and W. S does not have exam on any one of the days after T. U does not have exam on any of the days after W. Q has exam immediately before X. X does not have exam on any of the days before V. The one who has exam at 08.00 A.M. Immediately before Y. S has exam immediately after the day of one who has exam on Monday. U does not have exam at 11.00 A.M. Only three people have exam between V and T. The test of Microbiology has scheduled at 8:00A.M. Two persons have exam between the one who has Microbiology exam and the one who has Electronics. The Electronics Test not scheduled on Wednesday. Only one test scheduled between Electronics and Maths. Only two tests scheduled between Commerce and Maths. Economics and Physics scheduled on the same day but neither on Tuesday nor Thursday. Only two tests scheduled between Commerce and Physics. Chemistry and Biology scheduled on the same day. Only two tests scheduled between Chemistry and Biotechnology. Solution: Person V Q X S

Day Mon Mon Tue Tue

Time Slot 08.00 AM 11.00 AM 08.00 AM 11.00 AM

Subject Economics Physics Chemistry Biology

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Six People – A, C, D, E, F, and G live in eight different floors of a building (but not necessarily in the same order). Two of the floors in the building are vacant. 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 likes different brands of soaps, namely Lux, Dove, Pears, Dettol, Lifebuoy and HAMAM (but not necessarily in the same order). Each of them earns different amount of salary – 20,000 30,000, 40,000, 50,000, 60,000 and 80,000 but not in same order. The one who earns the lowest salary lives on one of the floors above the floor numbered 5. The one who earns 40,000 lives immediately below the one who earns the lowest salary. The salary of the person who lives on the ground floor is the sum of the salary of the persons who lived on the floors numbered 7 and 6. The person who lives on the ground floor does not earn 60,000. The number of floors above F is same as the number of floors between F and D. F lives an odd numbered floor above the floor numbered four. There are three people live between the two vacant floors. Only three floors between D and the one who likes Dettol. The one who likes Lifebuoy lives immediately above G. Only three floors between G and A. The one who likes HAMAM lives immediately above the one who likes Lux. C lives immediately above the one who likes Pears. The number of floors between F and the one who likes DOVE is only one. The one who likes DOVE perfume immediately below one of the vacant floors. The floor numbers of the vacant floors are even – number. Only two floors are there between the one who likes HAMAM and Dettol. C lived immediately below one of the vacant floors and not on the ground floor. C neither lived on floor number 5 nor floor number 3. The one who likes Dove lives on one of the floors below the floor numbered 4. The sum of the salary of the persons who live on second and third floor equals to the salary of the person who lives on the ground floor. The difference between the salary of the persons who live on the ground floor and the third floor equals to the salary of the person who lives on the second floor. A earns more than E. Solution: Floor No 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 Puzzle 92:

Person _ C G F _ E A D

Perfume _ Lifebuoy Pears Dettol _ DOVE HAMAM Lux

Salary _ 60,000 20,000 40,000 _ 30,000 50,000 80,000

Ten students namely viz P, Q, R, S, T, U, V, W, X and Y of ten different colleges but not necessarily in the same order have an exam on five different days starting from Monday to Friday of the same week. Each student has exam at two different time slots, i.e 08.00 AM or 11.00 A.M. Each one of them likes different brands of mobiles, namely Samsung, Apple, Microsoft, Sony, LG, HTC, Motorola, Lenovo, Xiaomi and Oppo (but not necessarily in the same

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order). Only two people have exam between U and Y. Neither T nor V does not have the exam on Friday. X has the exam on Tuesday at 08.00 A.M. W does not have the exam at 11.00 AM. The number of people who have exam between V and S is same as the number of people who have exam between R and W. S does not have exam on any one of the days after T. U does not have exam on any of the days after W. Q has exam immediately before X. X does not have exam on any of the days before V. The one who has exam at 08.00 A.M. immediately before Y. S has exam immediately after the day of one who has the exam on Monday. U does not have the exam at 11.00 A.M. Only three people have exam between V and T. Four people have exam between the one who likes Samsung pen and the one who likes Oppo. The one who likes Oppo has the exam on Wednesday. Y does not like Samsung. Four people have exam between the one who likes Microsoft and the one who likes Xiaomi. The one who likes Xiaomi has the exam on Thursday. X does not like Microsoft. The one who likes Apple has exam immediately after the one who likes LG and immediately before the one who likes Sony. The one who likes Lenovo has exam immediately after the one who likes HTC. The one who likes HTC has the exam on Thursday. Solution: Person Day V Mon Q Mon X Tue S Tue T Wed R Wed U Thu P Thu W Fri Y Fri Puzzle 93:

Time Slot 08.00 AM 11.00 AM 08.00 AM 11.00 AM 08.00 AM 11.00 AM 08.00 AM 11.00 AM 08.00 AM 11.00 AM

Mobile Samsung Microsoft LG Apple Sony Oppo Xiaomi HTC Lenovo Motorola

Eight People – A, B, C, D, E, F, G and H live in ten different floors of a building (but not necessarily in the same order). Two of the floors in the building is vacant. 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 ten. Each one of them also likes different mobiles, namely Lenovo, Apple, ONE PLUS, HTC, Samsung, Oppo, ASUS and Sony(but not necessarily in the same order). Each one of them also participates in different number of events starting from 1 to 10. The one who likes SONY and APPLE not live on the floors numbered 8 and 7 respectively. The one who likes HTC lives immediately below the floor on which C lives. The number of people living below F is same as the number of people living between F and H. Only three floors between D and the one who likes Samsung. The number of floors between the one who likes ASUS and the one who likes HTC is two. The one who likes Oppo lives immediately above G. F lives an odd numbered floor above the floor numbered four. The top most floor is vacant. Only one person lives between B and the one who likes HTC. Only three floors between G and A. The one who likes SONY lives immediately above the one who likes Lenovo. C lives one of the odd numbered floors above the one who likes Samsung. The number of floors between F and the one who likes APPLE is only one. Only one person lives between the one who likes SONY and the vacant floor. Only two people live between C and vacant floor. The number of floors between two vacant floors is five. Total number of events participated by B is one less than that of the total number

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of events participated by H. Total number of events participated by the person who lives on ground floor is the square of the total number of events participated by B. Total number of events participated by A is the difference of number of events participated by D and H. Total number of events participated by C is one less than that of B. Total number of events participated by F is one more than that of G. Total number of events participated by E is one more than that of F. Total number of events participated by G is the multiple of number of events participated by B and C. Total number of events participated by the one who likes Asus is four. Solution: Floor No 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 Puzzle 94:

Person _ H B C G F _ E A D

Mobile _ ASUS ONE PLUS Oppo HTC Samsung _ Apple Sony Lenovo

Number of events _ 4 3 2 6 7 _ 8 5 9

Twelve students namely viz A, B, C, D, E, F, G, H, I, J and K of twelve different colleges have Conference in six different months namely viz January, February, June, July, September and October on twelve different days i.e., (all persons have different dates) from 9th to 20th of any month but not necessarily in the same order. Two students must have Conference in the same month. 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 12. There are five floors between the person who have Conference in June. The persons who have Conference in June does not occupy the floor above the floor numbered 10 and also not occupy the floor below the floor numbered 4. G stayed on the second floor and has a Conference on 19th. The one who stayed on the first floor has a Conference in September. E has a Conference on the date immediately after the date on which K has Conference. There are two persons live between G and H. The floor number and the Conference date is same for the person B. The person who has Conference on 15th lives immediately below E. K has Conference on one of the dates after 12 and before 16. There are four persons live between K and E. K has Conference in the month of June. B and I have Conference in the same month which has 31 days. D who lived in floor numbered 11, has the Conference in the month which has less than 30 days. Only one person lives between two persons who have Conference in the month of October. The persons who have Conference in the month of October live two of the floors above the floor numbered 6. There are five floors between B and I. There are six floors between the person J and the person who has Conference in the month of September. The person F stays in a middle between the person E and C. L does not have Conference in the month of June. The person who has Conference on 17th lives immediately above the person who has Conference on 20. H does not have Conference on 20th. L does not have Conference on 16th. There is only one person lives between the persons who have Conference in the month of July. There are four floors between the persons who have Conference on 19th and 10th. The person who has Conference on 17th lives immediately above the person

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who has Conference on 20th. H does not have Conference on 20th. A does not have Conference on 11th. The person who has Conference on 18th lives immediately above the person who has Conference on 11. Solution: Floor Person 12 B 11 D 10 A 9 E 8 F 7 C 6 I 5 H 4 K 3 L 2 G 1 J Puzzle 95:

Month January February June October September October January July June July February September

Date 12 17 20 14 15 10 18 11 13 9 19 16

There are 16 persons – B,C,D,E,F,G,H,I,P,Q,R,S,T,U,V and W standing in a square plot. Inside a Square plot, a square shaped garden is developed. The persons who are standing inside the garden facing outside. The persons who are standing outside the garden facing inside the centre. So all the persons standing in the inner square faces the persons standing in the outer Square. G faces the centre and W faces G. D sits second to the right of G. There are four persons sits between G and E. D is not an immediate neighbour of E. There are three persons standing between I and E. There are two persons standing between I and B. B stands exactly between the E and F. F stands to the immediate left of G. There are two persons standing between W and U. U faces H. T faces outside. There are two persons standing between T and Q. T faces C. Q stands to the immediate left of W. R, the one who faces B stands exactly between the persons P and V. P faces E. Solution:

Puzzle 96: There are 16 persons – B,C,D,E,F,G,H,I,P,Q,R,S,T,U,V and W standing in a Circular plot. Inside a circular plot, a circularly shaped garden is developed. The persons who are standing inside the garden facing outside. The persons who are standing outside the garden facing inside the centre. So all the persons standing in the inner circle faces the persons standing in the outer circle. G faces outside and S faces G. D sits immediate right of G. There are four persons sits between G and E. H is not an immediate neighbour of E. There are two persons standing between D and H. H faces R. There are three persons

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standing between R and U. U stands exactly between the B and F. B faces D. There are two persons standing between P and C. Neither S nor R is an immediate neighbour of P. I stands to the immediate left of H. I faces T. The one who faces F stands exactly between the persons Q and W. W faces P. H stands second to the left of G. Solution:

Puzzle 97: There are 16 persons – B,C,D,E,F,G,H,I,P,Q,R,S,T,U,V and W standing in a square plot. Inside a Square plot, a square shaped garden is developed. The persons who are standing inside the garden facing outside. The persons who are standing outside the garden facing inside the centre and likes colours namely viz., – Red, Blue, Black, Brown, Yellow, Green, Violate and Pink. So all the persons standing in the inner square faces the persons standing in the outer Square and likes fruits namely viz., – Apple, Orange, Mango, Grapes, Papaya, Pomegranate, Guava and Banana. G faces the centre and W faces G. D sits second to the right of G. There are four persons sits between G and E. D is not an immediate neighbour of E. There are three persons standing between I and E. There are two persons standing between I and B. B stands exactly between the E and F. F stands to the immediate left of G. There are two persons standing between W and U. U faces H. T faces outside. There are two persons standing between T and Q. T faces C. Q stands to the immediate left of W. R, the one who faces B stands exactly between the persons P and V. P faces E. The one who sits in the corner of the square likes Red. The one who likes Red sits between the persons who like Black and Blue. The one who likes Blue sits second to the right of the person who likes Green. Three persons sit between one who likes Black and one who likes Green. Two persons sit between one who likes Black and one who likes Yellow. Two persons sit between one who likes Yellow and one who likes Pink. G and F do not like Violate and Yellow respectively. The one who likes Red faces P. The immediate neighbours of P are the one who likes apple and the one who likes Grapes. The one who likes Apple faces the one who likes Black. Three persons sit between the one who likes apple and the one who likes Guava. The immediate neighbours of the person who likes Orange are the one who likes apple and the one who likes Pomegranate. The one who likes Papaya sits exactly behind to the one who likes Orange. The one who likes Banana sits exactly behind to the one who likes Mango. The one who likes Banana faces E. Solution:

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There are 16 persons – B,C,D,E,F,G,H,I,P,Q,R,S,T,U,V and W standing in a Circular plot. Inside a circular plot, a circularly shaped garden is developed. The persons who are standing inside the garden facing outside. The persons who are standing outside the garden facing inside the centre and lives in a different number of floors. So all the persons standing in the inner circle faces the persons standing in the outer circle and hold a different number of chocolates. G faces outside and S faces G. D sits immediate right of G. There are four persons sits between G and E. H is not an immediate neighbour of E. There are two persons standing between D and H. H faces R. There are three persons standing between R and U. U stands exactly between the B and F. B faces D. There are two persons standing between P and C. Neither S nor R is an immediate neighbour of P. I stands to the immediate left of H. I faces T. The one who faces F stands exactly between the persons Q and W. W faces P. H stands second to the left of G. B lives on the second floor and sits exactly opposite to the person who lives on the floor which is the square number of the floor of B. F lives on the third floor and stands exactly opposite to the person who lives on the floor which is the square number of the floor of F. P lives on 6th floor and S lives immediately above P. U lives immediately below B. R lives immediately above T. The one who faces P holds chocolates two less than the number of the floor occupied by P. The one who faces U holds chocolates six more than the number of the floor occupied by U. Number of chocolates hold by E is the difference between the number of chocolates hold by D and W. Number of chocolates hold by G is the sum of the number of chocolates hold by D and E also equals to number of chocolates hold by V and H. Number of chocolates hold by I is the square of the number of chocolates hold by H. Solution:

Puzzle 99: Ten persons from ten different countries viz. Switzerland, Spain, Italy, USA, UK, Australia, New Zealand, Brazil, Canada and Singapore are sitting in two parallel rows containing five people each, in such a way that there is an equal distance between adjacent persons. In row 1- A, B, C, D and E are seated and some of them are facing South and some of them are facing North. In row 2 – P, Q, R, S and T are seated and some of them are facing South and some of them are facing North. Therefore in the given seating arrangement, each member seated in a row either faces another member of the other row or seated behind each other.(All the information given above does not necessarily represent the order of seating in the final arrangement.). Each person stays in ten different floors numbered 1 to 12.(From Ground Floor to Top floor) There is only one floor between the person from Switzerland and the person from UK. S is not from Italy. D is neither from UK nor from Australia. P sits immediate right of the person from Canada. R sits one of the extreme ends of the line and from Canada. C sits third to the right of the person from Spain. P does not face A and faces south direction.

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The person from Switzerland sits exactly between the persons from Singapore and UK. The person from Australia faces the person from Singapore. The person from Canada stays on the odd numbered floor. T faces North Direction and sits immediate left of Q. Only one person sit between the persons from Italy and USA. The person from USA sits to the immediate right of Q, who seated exactly in the middle of the row. P faces one of the immediate neighbors of the person from Spain. D faces one of the immediate neighbors of the person from Italy. The person from Singapore stays on the top floor. Only One person sits between the person from Canada and Q. C sits to the immediate right of the person who faces S. The person from Australia stays on the 4th floor. Only two people sit between C and E. S is neither from Switzerland nor from Brazil. The person from UK sits second to the right of the one who faces North Direction. One of the immediate neighbors of the person from UK behind the person from Italy. A faces the opposite direction to the person from New Zealand. The persons from Italy, New Zealand and USA stay on the consecutive floors. The floor number of the person from Spain is the double of the floor number of the person from Canada. The floor number of the B is the square of the floor number of P. Neither E nor A stays on floor numbered 6. Solution:

Puzzle 100: Ten friends are sitting in two parallel rows of six seats each. One seat is vacant in each row. M, N, O, P and Q are sitting in row-1 facing South. D, E, F, G and H are facing North. Each likes a different Cartoon Characters i.e. Mickey mouse, Bugs Bunny, Tweety, Donald Duck, Minnie Mouse, Popeye, Jerry, Tom, Goofy and Sylvester. Each person has different number of their favourite chocolates – 2, 3, 4, 6, 7, 8, 9, 11, 15 and 16. The difference between the chocolates hold by N and O is 3. G sits third to the right of F and likes Donald Duck. Only two people sit between E and the vacant seat. E does not like Minnie Mouse or Tweety. Q is not an immediate neighbour of O. N likes Sylvester. The persons who sit at the extreme end of the line have chocolates in consecutive order. Neither E nor H has 8 chocolate. One of the neighbors of vacant seat in both rows have chocolates in odd number. The one who likes Tweety faces the one who likes Tom. The one who likes Tweety sits opposite to the one who sits third right of the person who sits opposite to G. O is not an immediate neighbour of P. H, who likes neither Minnie Mouse nor Popeye, does not face the vacant seat. Neither G nor F sits at any of the extreme ends of the row. P faces F. Vacant seats are not opposite to each other. Two seats are there between O and N, who sits third right of the one who likes Jerry. The one who likes Goofy faces the one who likes Donald Duck. The persons who like the Mickey mouse and Tom are adjacent to each other. Vacant seat of row – 1 is not an immediate neighbour of P. E sits at one of the extreme ends of the row. F does not like Mickey mouse and Tom.

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Vacant seat of row-1 does not face G who doesn t sit at any of the extreme ends of the row. The person who likes Mickey mouse has 3 chocolates. The total number of chocolates hold by Q is the half of the total number of chocolates hold by H. The total numbers of chocolates hold by M, F and G is the Square of the total number of chocolates hold by P, Q and M respectively. Neither P nor G has 4 chocolate. Solution:

Puzzle 101: There are eight friends A, B, C, D, E, F, G, and H are living on eight storey building. The ground floor is numbered one and next floor is numbered two and so on upto last last floor is numbered eight. They all like different movie viz. Don, Murder, Jani Dushman, Katil, Bahubali, Zehar, Dar and Khooni but not necessarily in the same order. They also like different colour viz. Red, Blue, White, Black, Pink, Violet, Yellow and Green but not necessarily in the same order. There are three floor between the person A and who likes green colour, both of them living on even number floor but none of them living on top floor. F lives on 3rd floor and likes Zehar movie. H likes Don movie and lives immediately below A. B likes murder movie. There are gap of two floors between B and H. There is only one floor between B and G, who likes Jani Dushman movie. C lives immediately above D, who likes Yellow colour. There are gap of two floors between the person who like yellow and violet colour. The one who likes pink colour also likes Khooni movie but does not live on odd number floor. The one who likes Bahubali movie lives on of the below floor on which the person who likes red colour lives. There are as many as person lives between the one who likes Zehar movie and the person who likes black colour as between the person who likes black colour and white colour. The one who likes blue colour lives below the floor on which the person who likes Bahubali movile lives. There are as many as floor between C and E, who like Katil movie as between A and who like red colour. Solution:

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