Reasoning High Level Puzzles For SBI PO 2017 (Set - 2)

MENTOR FOR BANK EXAMS
Reasoning High Level Puzzles

SBI PO 2017
Munipalli Sai Ram
3/11/2017
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Puzzle 1:
Eight persons are living in an apartment having eight floors. There are eight entrepreneurs living with eight leading
businessmen of the country. Only one entrepreneur and one businessman stay on one floor. The names of the eight
entrepreneurs are Mahesh, Rahul, Puzhal, Prakash, Anbu, Nirmal, Prabhu and Raja - not necessarily in the same
order. The name of the eight businessmen are Mukesh Ambani, Ratan Tata, Anil Aggarwal, Rahul Bajai, Anand
Mahindra, Kotak Mahindra, Cyrus Mistry and Anil Ambani.
(i) Rahul is staying on an even-numbered floor and Rahul Bajaj is staying on the first floor
(ii) There are two persons staying between the floors on which Prabhu and Anbu live.
(iii) Prakash is staying on the topmost floor with Anil Aggarwal.
(iv) Ratan Tata is staying on the floor exactly below the floor of Anil Ambani but not with Puzhal. Mukesh Ambani is
staying exactly between the floors of Cyrus Mistry and Anand Mahindra but not on the fifth floor.
(v) Prabhu is staying on the third floor.
(vi) Raja is staying on an even-numbered floor and Mahesh is staying on an odd-numbered floor but not on the first
floor.
(vii) Cyrus Mistry is staying on the fourth floor but Raja is not staying with him.
(viii) Anand Mahindra is staying on the second floor.
(ix) Kotak Mahindra and Mahesh are not staying on the fifth floor.
(x) Anil Ambani is staying with Anbu on floor number sixth.
Solution:
Floor Entrepreneur Businessman

8 Prakash Anil Aggarwal
7 Mahesh Kotak Mahindra
6 Anbu Anil Ambani
5 Nirmal Ratan Tata
4 Rahul Cyrus Mistry
3 Prabhu Mukesh Ambani
2 Raja Anand Mahindra
1 Puzhal Rahul Bajaj
Puzzle 2:
Five persons P, Q, R, T and L are travelling in Shatabdi Express, but not necessary in the same order. Everybody has
been allotted a berth in different coaches. The name of the berths are Lower Berth (LB), Middle Berth (MB), Side
Lower (SL), Side Upper (SU) and Upper Berth (UB) but not necessarily in the same order. The names of the coaches
are B5, B2, B3, B1 and B4 but not necessarily in the same order.
(i) T is travelling in an odd-numbered coach but not in B3. The person travelling in B2 has been allotted Side Upper
Berth.
(ii) R is travelling in an odd-numbered coach and T has been allotted Side Lower Berth.
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(iii) Q is travelling in an even-numbered coach.
(iv) The person travelling in B3 has been allotted Upper Berth and Q is not the person.
(v) The person travelling in B1 has been allotted LB but T is not the person.
(vi) L has been travelling in B2 and has been allotted Side Upper berth.
(vii) P is not travelling on an even-numbered coach and has been allotted Upper Berth.
Solution:
Compartment Person Name of berth

B1 R Lower Berth
B2 L Side Upper
B3 P Upper Berth
B4 Q Middle Berth
B5 T Side Lower
Puzzle 3:
There are five countries, namely India, Norway, America, Switzerland and Italy. Each of them has a national flower,
viz Lotus, Rose, Lily, Jasmine and Sunflower, and also a national animal, viz Lion, Tiger, Elephant, Panther and Bear
(but not necessarily in the same order.)
The country whose national animal is Bear has Rose as its national flower.
Neither Lily nor Jasmine is the national flower of Switzerland, whose national animal is Panther. India's
national flower is Lotus and Norway's national animal is Lion.
Sunflower is not America's national flower and Bear is not Italy's national animal.
The country whose national flower is Lily has Tiger as its national animal.
Solution:
Country Flower National Animal

America Rose Bear
Norway Jasmine Lion
India Lotus Elephant
Italy Lily Tiger
Switzerland Sunflower Panther
Puzzle 4:
There are six Indian cricketers, namely Sachin, Dhoni, Virat, Raina, Ishant and Yuvraj. Among them two are batsmen,
while others are wicket keeper, fast bowler, all-rounder and spinner, though not necessarily in the same order. Also,
each of these cricketers belongs to a different city, namely Kanpur, Surat, Bangalore, Pune, Ahmedabad and Kolkata.
Virat, a fast bowler, is neither from Pune nor from Kolkata.

The one who is from Ahmedabad is a spinner. Neither Raina nor Sachin is from Ahmedabad.
Sachin is the all-rounder of the team and is from Kolkata.
Virat is not from Bangalore while Yuvraj is not from Pune.
Raina the wicket keeper is from Surat. Neither Dhoni nor Yuvraj is a spinner.
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Solution:
Name City Player

Sachin Kolkata All-Rounder
Dhoni Pune Batsman
Raina Surat Wicket Keeper
Virat Kanpur Fast Bowler
Yuvraj Bangalore Batsman
Ishant Ahmedabad Spinner
Puzzle 5:
Six persons A, B, C, D, E and F are participants from different teams, viz Gold, Silver, Platinum and Diamond. They
participate in different categories, viz Singing, Dancing, Drawing, Cricket, Squash and Kho-Kho in different days of a
week from Monday to Saturday. There, is no competition on Sunday. Two of them are the players of team Gold and
two of them are the players of team Diamond.
E participates in Squash but he is neither from team Silver nor from Gold.
A is from team Gold but participates neither on Thursday nor on Wednesday.
Neither F nor B participates either in Drawing or in Cricket.
Dancing competition is held on Tuesday.
Persons participating in Kho-Kho and Drawing are from team Gold and Platinum respectively.
C participates in Singing on Friday and he is from team Silver but F does not participate on Tuesday.
Solution:
Name Competition Day Team

A Cricket Monday/Saturday Gold
B Dancing Tuesday Diamond
C Singing Friday Silver
D Drawing Monday/Wednesday/Thursday/Saturday Platinum
E Squash Monday/Wednesday/Thursday/Saturday Diamond
F Kho-Kho Monday/Wednesday/Thursday/Saturday Gold
Puzzle 6:
There are seven persons Rio, Regina, Rekha, Divya, Diya, Jiya and Ritu - who teach different subjects, viz Maths,
Politics, Tamil, Mechanical, Computer, French and English but not necessarily in the same order. They teach on
different days of the week starting from Monday. They like different colours, viz White, Yellow, Red, Black, Brown,
Green and Pink, but not necessarily in the same order.
Regina, who likes Green, teaches on the fourth day of the week but neither Maths nor English. Two persons teach
between Regina and Jiya, neither of whom teaches on the 1st day of the week. There is one person between Rio and
Rekha. But Rekha does not teach either on 1st or on 3rd day of the week. Rekha likes Yellow colour and teaches
Maths. The one who teaches Tamil teaches on the last day of the week and likes Red colour. Divya does not teach
on the day either immediately before or immediately after the classes by Rio, who does not like either Brown or
White or Black colour.
Ritu teaches immediately after Rekha and he likes White colour. Diya does not like Brown colour and teaches
French. Rio does not teach either Computer or Mechanical. The one who teaches Politics takes class immediately
after the day when Maths has been taught.
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Solution:
Day Person Colour Subject

Monday Divya Brown Mechanical/Computer
Tuesday Diya Black French
Wednesday Rio Pink English
Thursday Regina Green Mechanical/Computer
Friday Rekha Yellow Maths
Saturday Ritu White Politics
Sunday Jiya Red Tamil
Puzzle 7:
In a Public Sector Bank, there are five clerks Praveen, Mahesh, Ashwin, Irfan and Gokul. Two of them play
Badminton while the other three play different games viz. Carrom, Boxing and Billiards. One Badminton player and a
Billiards player stay in the apple flat, whereas the other three stay in different flats, i.e. Orange, Banana and Grapes.
Two of these five players are commerce graduates while the other three are computer graduate, English graduate
and Tamil graduate respectively. The billiards player is the oldest in age while one of the Badminton players, who
plays at the national level, is the youngest in age. The age of the other Badminton player, who plays at the
international level, lies between the Carrom player and the billiards player. Irfan is an international level player and
stays in the apple flat while Gokul is a computer graduate and stays in the Grapes flat. The Carrom player is an
English graduate and stays in the Orange Flat. Mahesh is a Tamil graduate and plays Billiards while Praveen is the
mechanical engineer and plays Badminton at the national level.
Solution:
Puzzle 8:
Seven Persons - Jayant, Laxman, Praveen, Kiran, Hanush, Eswar and Okas live on seven different floors of a building
but not necessarily in the same order. Lowermost floor is numbered 1. Each of them went to spend their vacations
in one of the following destinations - Fiji, Corsica, Guyana, Caribbean, Mauritius, Madagascar and Hawaii. Each left
on a different day of the week starting from Monday.
Laxman lives on an odd numbered floor but not on floor number three and left on Monday
The one who went to Guyana lives immediately above Okas who left on some day after Thursday
The one who went to Fiji lives on an odd numbered floor above Eswar
Hanush went to Hawaii and lives on the 4th floor
Jayant lives on the floor above Hanush and left for Mauritius on Saturday
The one who lives on top floor went to Caribbean and the person living on the bottom floor went to
Madagascar but not on Monday.
Praveen lives on an even numbered floor and left two days after the person who went to Corsica left.
Kiran left on Tuesday
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Solution:
Floors Persons Destination Days

7 Kiran Caribbean Tuesday
6 Jayant Mauritius Saturday
5 Laxman Fiji Monday
4 Hanush Hawaii Thursday
3 Eswar Corsica Wed/Fri
2 Praveen Guyana Fri/Sun
1 Okas Madagascar Fri/Sun
Puzzle 9:
Eight friends A, B, C, D, E, F, G and H are seated in a circular fashion facing the centre. They like different people: Bill
Gates, Donald Trump, Arundhati Bhattacharya, Dhoni, Sindhu, Rahul Gandhi, Aditya Birla and Amitabh not
necessarily in the same order. They also have a different occupation: banker, painter, politician, doctor,
businessman, teacher, musician and cricketer not necessarily in the same order. The arrangement is based on the
following rules:
A is seated 3rd to the right of the teacher.

One who likes Rahul Gandhi is seated opposite to the one who is a politician.
A is neither the politician and neither does he likes Rahul Gandhi
H is to the immediate left of the politician.
The painter is seated opposite to H
D is 21d to the left of F
H is not the teacher and F likes Donald Trump
D's neighbours like Sindhu and Dhoni
H likes Arundhati Bhattacharya
One who likes Sindhu is 2nd to the right of E, the musician.
One who likes Dhoni is not a neighbour of the painter
B is 3rd to the right of C
Cricketer is 3rd to the left of the doctor
One who like Dhoni is not the banker
G likes Aditya Birla
C does not likes Amitabh
Solution:
Puzzle 10:
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Hriday, Hridik, Hriman, Hrishikesh, Hrithik and Hritish are six children of Mrs Kaviya. Each of the children was born
on different days of the week except Sunday. Mrs. Kaviya gave birth to a child every alternate year but not
necessarily in the same order as the names of the children are given. Each child teaches a different subject. The
subjects are Reasoning, Quantitative aptitude, Current affairs, English, Computer and Banking. Hrishikesh was born
on Tuesday but not before 2010 and he teaches Reasoning whereas Hriman teaches Computer. The child who was
born on Wednesday teaches Quantitative aptitude. The fourth eldest child teaches English while Hridik teaches
Banking. Hriday, who was born in 2005, teaches Current affairs. Computer is studied by the third eldest child who
was born on Friday. Hridik was born on Thursday and Hritish on Saturday. Hriday is eldest child while Hrithik is
youngest.
Solution:
Puzzle 11:
There are 7 pairs of husband- wife among the following V, D, C, S, B, K, M, F, Z, A, X, G, N, H. They work in one of the
seven banks namely IOB, KVB, IDBI, ING VYSYA, LVB, DENA BANK, and YES BANK. The husband and wife live together
in the same city. The following information is known about them:
F is a female who lives in Nagpur and her husband works in ING VYSYA
There's only one pair who work in the same bank and they live in Agra.
M is a male whose wife works in LVB bank.
N is the husband of the one working in IOB in Indore
C & X are males who live in Coimbatore & Surat respectively and are married to S & A. but not necessarily in
the same order.
Z, a male works with the IOB in Ahmedabad and the female with the LVB works in Hyderabad.
D & H are females and B is the husband of G
Z's wife and X work in KVB
K's husband works in YES BANK
X's wife and H's husband work in Dena Bank
A works in ING VYSYA.
Solution:
Cities Male (Bank) Female (Bank)

Nagpur V (ING VYSYA) F (YES BANK)
Agra B (IDBI) G (IDBI)
Indore N (YES BANK/Dena Bank) H/K (IOB)
Coimbatore C (LVB) A (ING VYSYA)
Surat X (KVB) S (Dena Bank)
Ahmedabad Z (IOB) D (KVB)
Hyderabad M (YES BANK/Dena Bank) H/K (LVB)
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Puzzle 12:
Eight boxes are arranged in a stack from bottom to top numbered from 1-8 each having a different colour: green,
black, blue, white, yellow, orange, red and pink not necessarily in the same order. They contain a different food
item: fruits, burger, candy, chocolate, brownie, pastry, chips and coke not necessarily in the same order. The
arrangement is based on the following rules:
The yellow box is kept at an even numbered position

There are 3 boxes between the yellow box and the box with coke
White box is either at the top or at the bottom of the stack
Box number 2 has fruits and it is not yellow in colour
Box with the Brownie is kept between the box having red colour and the box having chocolate
The green coloured box is kept 2 boxes above the blue box
There are 4 boxes between the box with burger and the red coloured box
There are 3 boxes between the box with brownie and the box with candy
Pink box is between the box with chips and the orange coloured box
The red box does not have chips.
Solution:
Position Colour Food Items

8 Yellow - Chocolate
7 Green Brownie
6 Red Pastry
5 Blue Chips
4 Pink Coke
3 Orange Candy
2 Black Fruits
1 White Burger
Puzzle 13:
Eight friends- Rahul, Sehwag, Laxman, Gambhir, Sachin, Zaheer, Kumble and Ganguly visit different cities viz.
Mumbai, Bangalore, Hyderabad and Chennai are sitting around a circular table facing the centre of the table. Each
city is being visited by two people only, but not necessarily in the same order. All these friends have different pens
i.e. -Cello, Camel, Natraj, Montex, Sharp, Ambassador, Linc and Luxor. No two people visiting the same city are
sitting adjacent to each other except those visiting Bangalore. The person who has Montex is sitting on the
immediate left of the person who has Luxor. Sachin neither has Luxor nor Natraj. Ganguly has Ambassador and visits
Hyderabad and is sitting to the immediate left of Sehwag, who visits Bangalore. Sehwag does not have Natraj.
Zaheer has Sharp and visits Bangalore, who is sitting opposite to Kumble. Only Rahul, who has Camel, is sitting
between Kumble, who has Montex and the person who has Linc. Persons who visit Mumbai are sitting opposite to
each other. Each of the persons who visit Chennai is sitting adjacent to a person who visits Mumbai. Gambhir does
not have Luxor.
Solution:
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Puzzle 14:
Seven friends namely, Vignesh, Harish, Gopal, Sukumar, Gokul, Sharma and Abdul attend different sports coaching
namely, Cricket, Football, Hockey, Skating, Boxing, Tennis and Volley ball, not necessarily in the same order, from
Monday to Sunday (of the same week). Vignesh attends a coaching on Friday. Only two people attend coaching
between Vignesh and the one who is learning Skating. Sharma attends a coaching immediately before Sukumar,
Neither Sharma nor Sukumar is learning Skating. Only one person attends a coaching between Sharma and the one
who is learning Hockey. The one who is learning Hockey does not have a coaching on Monday. Harish attends a
coaching immediately before the one who is learning Cricket. Vignesh is not learning Cricket. Only one person has a
coaching between Sharma and Gokul. Gopal is learning Tennis. Only two people have coaching between Gopal and
the one who is learning Boxing. Gokul is not learning Volley ball.
Solution:
Puzzle 15:
There are nine persons Sunil, Anand, Rajan, Sankar, Karthik, Albert, Raman, Murali and Vimal stay on a nine floors
building, but not necessarily in the same order. Only one person stays on each floor. All of them have either Mobile
or Tablet of different colours i.e. yellow, golden, red, orange, Pink, Blue, Green, silver and grey, but not necessarily
in the same order. Only five of them have Tablet. The ground floor is numbered 1 and the topmost floor is
numbered 9.
There are two floors between the floors on which the persons having a Blue Mobile and silver Tablet stay. Rajan
owns a red Mobile. Albert does not own a grey Mobile. Sunil stays on even numbered floor below the even
numbered floor on which Murali stays. The one who own a Pink Tablet stays on the fourth floor. Sankar stays on the
second floor and owns the orange Tablet. The one who owns the golden Tablet stays on the topmost floor. Sunil
does not own a Green Tablet. Albert owns a Blue Mobile and stays on an odd-numbered floor.
There is only one floor between the floors on which Albert and Raman stay. Karthik stays immediate above the floor
on which Vimal stay. Raman does not stay on the ground floor. Anand stays immediate above the floor on which
Murali stay. There are three floors between the floors on which Rajan and Albert stay. The one who owns the silver
Tablet stays immediate above Raman .Karthik stays on the fourth floor. The one who owns the grey Mobile stays on
the third floor.
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Solution:
Puzzle 16:
There are seven persons M, P, Q, R, S, T and U who participated in a dancing competition which started on 25th
March and ended on 31st March. In the first round of competition, each of them performed regional Dances, viz
Bharatanatyam, Kathakali, Kathak, Kuchipudi, Odissi, Sattriya and Mohiniyattam, but not necessarily in same order.
They like different cars, viz Nissan, Toyota, Honda, Buick, Chevrolet, Dodge and Mercedes, but not necessarily in
same order.
U, who likes Dodge, performed on fourth day of competition but performed neither Bharatanatyam nor Kathakali
Dance. Two performances were held between the performance of U and T, neither of whom performed on 1st day
of eek. There as o e perfor a e et ee perfor a e of R a d Q. But Qs perfor a e did ot happe either
on 1st or on 3rd day of competition. Q likes Toyota car and performed Bharatanatyam Dance. The one who
performed Kathak Dance on the last day of competition, likes Honda car. P did not perform on day either
immediately before or immediately after performance of R, who does not like either Chevrolet or Nissan or Buick
car. S performed immediately after Q and he likes Nissan car. M does not like Chevrolet car and performed a
Kuchipudi Dance. R did not perform either Mohiniyattam or Sattriya Dance. One who performed in Odissi was
scheduled immediately after performance of Bharatanatyam dancer.
Solution:
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Puzzle 17:
Ajith, Surya, Vikram, Siva, Vijay, Arun and Vivek are seven shopkeepers of different shops, viz Electronic Appliances,
Jewellery, Books, Sportswear, Toys, Vegetables and Medicines. They go to supermarkets, viz. HyperCity, D-Mart,
Foodworld and Easyday only on Sunday but not necessarily in the same order. At least one shopkeeper goes to one
supermarket, but no super market is visited by more than two shopkeepers.
Arun, who is a shopkeeper of Books, goes alone to Foodworld. The one who is a shopkeeper of Sportswear does not
go to HyperCity. Also, he never goes either with Vijay or with Vivek. Siva goes to Easyday with the person who is the
shopkeeper of Medicines. Vikram goes to D-Mart. Vivek is not a shopkeeper of Medicines. The one who is the
shopkeeper of Sportswear goes to the market with the person who is the shopkeeper of Electronic Appliances. The
one who is the shopkeeper of Toys goes to Easyday. Ajith is a shopkeeper of neither Jewellery nor Medicines. The
one who is the shopkeeper of Vegetables goes to HyperCity neither with Vijay nor with Siva. The person who is the
shopkeeper of Jewellery goes to the supermarket with Ajith.
Solution:
Puzzle 18:
There are eight people namely P, Q, R, S, T, U, V and W who sit around a circular table facing towards or away from
the centre. They like different sports teams. One of the teams is Cricket. The following information is known about
them.
Ws eigh ours fa e i sa e dire tio ut opposite to that of W. V sits third to the left of T ho fa es towards the
e tre. Ss spouse ho likes Te is tea sits third to the left of S. R sits third to the right of a ale a d the fa e i
the sa e dire tio . Qs i ediate eigh ours fa e i sa e dire tio ut opposite to that of Q. The fe ale ho likes
Hockey team sits opposite to the male who likes Boxing. P who likes Football team sits second to the left of S and
they face in the same direction. The immediate neighbours of R like Hockey and Volley Ball teams. Q and U sit
together and none of them sits with P a d S. Vs spouse ho likes Bad i to tea sits se o d to the left of V. The
i ediate eigh ours of Ws o l sister ho are either R or T are P a d S. Q ho likes Basket Ball tea is the
only one whose both the immediate neighbours are of opposite gender to Q.
Solution:
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Puzzle 19:
A group of seven friends M, N, O, P, Q, R and S has four males and three females. Each of them has a different colour
of ID card, viz Yellow, Orange, Red, White, Green, Blue and Grey, and each of them has working from a different
bank RBI, SBI, UBI, BOI, IOB, HDFC and ICICI but not necessarily in the same order.
None of the females has Blue or Yellow. O has Red and her working from neither BOI nor HDFC. M has working from
HDFC and has neither yellow nor blue. N does not have White. Q has Grey and has working from either SBI or RBI. R
has Yellow or Green and has not worked in RBI. S has either Blue or Yellow and has worked in UBI. The one who has
White has working from ICICI. The one who has Orange has worked in either HDFC or RBI. None of the female
members has worked either in HDFC or in SBI.
Solution:
Puzzle 20:
Ten students namely viz Rakesh, Naveen, Kumar, John, Suresh, Divya, Priya, Ramya, Anjali and Deepa from a banking
coaching institute but not necessarily in the same order have exam on five different days starting from Monday to
Friday of the same week. Students have exam at two different time slots, i.e 09.30 A.M and 01.30 P.M. Anjali has a
exam on Tuesday at 09.30 A.M. The number of people who have exam between Priya and John is same as the
number of people who have exam between Kumar and Ramya. Naveen has a exam day immediately before Anjali.
Anjali does not have exam on any of the days before Priya. There is one student who has exam at 09.30 A.M
immediately before Deepa. Ramya does not has exam at 01.30 P.M. John has an exam immediately after the day of
one who has exam on Monday. Divya does not have exam at 01.30 P.M. John does not has exam on any one of the
days after Suresh. Only three people have exam between Priya and Suresh. Neither Suresh nor Priya does not have
exam on Friday. Only two people have exam between Divya and Deepa. Divya does not have exam on any of the
days after Ramya.
Solution:
Students
Days
Morning shift Noon shift
Monday Priya Naveen
Tuesday Anjali John
Wednesday Suresh Kumar
Thursday Divya Rakesh
Friday Ramya Deepa
Puzzle 21:
Udhaya, Mahesh, Arun, Fasal, Raja, Gopi and Johnson are seven people live on seven different floors of a building
but not necessarily in the same order. The lower most floor of the building is numbered 1, the one above that is
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numbered 2 and so on till the topmost floor is numbered 7. Each one of them earn different amount per month. i.e.
24000, 18000, 12000, 27000, 33000, 39000 and 45000. (But not necessarily in the same order).
The one who earn Rs.24000 lives immediately above the one who earns Rs.45000. Only one person lives between
Mahesh and Raja. Mahesh lives on one of the floors above Raja. Neither Arun nor Udhaya earns Rs.27000. Raja does
not earn Rs. 12000. Udhaya lives on an odd numbered floor but not on the floor numbered three. The one who
earns Rs.33000 lives immediately above Udhaya. Only two people live between Udhaya and the one who earns
Rs.12000. The one who earns Rs.18000 lives on one of the odd numbered floors above Fasal. Only three people live
between Arun and the one who earns 18000. The one who earn Rs.12000 lives immediately above Arun. Gopi earns
12000.
Solution:
Puzzle 22:
A group of seven friends Chandru, Chahal, Charan, Chamu, Chandran, Charu and Chadrasekar has four males and
three females. Each of them has wear different coloured T-shirts, viz Yellow, Orange, Red, White, Green, Blue and
Grey, and each of them belongs to different states Maharashtra , Odisha, Tamilnadu, Uttar Pradesh, Madhya
Pradesh, Manipur and Karnataka but not necessarily in the same order. None of the females wear Blue or Yellow.
Charan wear Red and she belongs to neither Uttar Pradesh nor Manipur. Chandru is from Manipur and wear neither
yellow nor blue. Chahal does not wear White. Chandran has Grey and from either Odisha or Maharashtra . Charu
has Yellow or Green and not belong to Maharashtra. Chadrasekar has either Blue or Yellow T-shirt and from
Tamilnadu. The one who wears White belongs to Karnataka. The one who wears Orange either from Manipur or
Maharashtra . None of the female either from Manipur or Odisha.
Solution:
Puzzle 23:
There are six persons- Aarthi, Shreya, Kavya, Vidya, Diya and Madhu living in a triple floor building with six flats. The
floors are Ground, Middle and Top, each having two flats. Those who have four or more books occupy the top floor
and go by different Vehicles. The one who is in engineering department in a company goes by Cycle and she is not
Madhu while the one who is in Computer department of a company goes by Bus, Both of them occupied same floor.
Shreya who is in Science department has three books and not stayed in the Top floor. Kavya, an unmarried woman,
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does not have any book, occupies the middle floor. Diya and Madhu have Round purses while the rest have Square
purses. Vidya, a middle floor occupant, goes by Car. One of the two persons having two books goes by Bike and is in
Agri department in a company also occupied in ground floor. Two persons, of whom one is in Commerce
department, do not go by Vehicles.
Solution:
Puzzle 24:
There are seven people M, N, O, P, Q, R and S. They like different Mobiles, Banks and were born in different States
and months. They all were born in the same year. One of the Mobiles is HTC. One of the States is Maharashtra. One
of the Banks is Bank of India. One of the persons was born in the month of September. The following information is
known about them. R was born either in Tamil Nadu or in Goa. The one who was born in the month of May likes
Indian Bank and Apple mobile and is either O or S. P is not the one who likes Syndicate Bank. The one who likes
Canara Bank likes LeEco mobile. The one who was born in Goa is the youngest one and is either N or S. The one who
likes Dena Bank was born in Rajasthan but is not N. Q was born in the month of February. P was born in Bihar in the
month of July and likes Micromax mobile. The one who likes Vijaya Bank was born in November but is not the
youngest person. N likes Motorola mobile. The one who likes Canara Bank was born in Punjab but that person is not
O who likes Nokia mobile. The youngest person likes Syndicate Bank and he is not S.The one who was born in Kerala
likes Samsung mobile but is not Q. R is the second youngest person. The one who likes UCO Bank is one month
younger than Q.
Solution:
Puzzle 25
Seven students P, Q, R, S, T, U and V go to school by school bus. The school bus picks them up from the nearby
station of their home and they get down at the nearby bus station of their father's office. The bus stations at which
they get into and get down are base station, I, II, III, IV and V respectively and bus leaving from the base station. The
rest of the information is given below:
(a) Three among them get into the bus at the base station.
(b) S gets down at the next station at which U gets down.
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(c) Q does not get down either with P or T.
(d) V alone gets into at station III and gets down with R
(e) P travels between only two stations after get in and gets down at V.
(f) None of them gets into at station II.
(g) R gets into with U but does not get into with either Q or S.
(h) T gets into with two others and gets down alone after S.
(i) Q and S's father work in the same office and they get down together at station III.
(j) None of them gets down at station I.
Solution:
Bus Station Get in Get Down

BASE R, U, T -
I P, Q, S -
II - U
III V Q, S
IV - V, R, P
V T
Puzzle 26:
I. There are six persons- Meeta, Sapna, Tina, Puja, Shivi and Ansh living in a triple story building with six flats. The
floors are Ground, Middle and Top, each having two flats.
II. Those who have four or more trophies occupy the top floor and go by different cabs.
III. The one who is in Finance department in a company goes by Mega cab while the one who is in Research
department of a company goes by Meru cab.
IV. The ground floor occupants have round faces.
V. Sapna who is in Production department has three trophies.
VI. Tina, an unmarried woman, does not have any trophy, occupies the middle floor.
VII. Shivi and Ansh have oval faces while the rest have round faces.
VIII. Puja, a middle floor occupant, goes by Uber cab.
IX. One of the two persons having two trophies goes by Ola cab and is in HR department in a company.
X. Two persons, of whom one is in marketing department, do not go by cabs.
Solution:
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Puzzle 27:
There are nine people namely A, B, C, D, E, F, G, H and I sitting around a circular table out of which some are females
and some are males. Some are facing towards the centre and some are facing away from the centre. The following
information is known about them.
i.Es eigh ours fa e i sa e dire tio as that of Cs sister ho is sitti g to the i ediate right of C.
ii. The female sitting between B and D is not E.
iii.E sits fourth to the right of F.
i . Fs spouse is B.
v. I sit exactly between G and C and they face in opposite directions.
vi. G is a male sitting with two females and one of them has husband facing towards the centre who is sitting third to
the left of B.
vii. The person sitting second to the left of H is the wife of H and they face in the same direction.
iii. As i ediate eigh ours are G and B.
i . Is spouse sits se o d to the right of I.
x. D sits second to the left of B.
xi. The person 4th to the left of H sits faces in a direction opposite to that of H but same as D.
Solution:
Puzzle 28:
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.
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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:
Puzzle 29:
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:
Puzzle 30:
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There are nine people A, B, C, D, E, F, G, H and I who sit around a circular table. Some are facing towards and some
are facing away from the center. They like different seasons among summer, winter, Rainy, spring and autumn. Not
more than 2 people like the same season. The following information is known about them.
C and G form the only pair that is sitting together and like the same season. They are facing in opposite directions to
each other. The one who likes Rainy season sits third to the left of B but is neither C nor F. A sits second to the left of
F, who likes winter. The one who likes summer is an immediate neighbour of H and E but none of them sits adjacent
to C or G. A and H face in the same direction as that of E. I sits third to the right of D, who is facing away from the
center and likes spring. E sits second to the left of C. The persons who like winter face towards the center. A either
likes Summer or Spring season. One who sits second to the right of I likes spring and faces opposite to the center.
Solution:
Puzzle 31:
Eight friends- Misha, Neeta, Om, Piya, Rita, Siya, Tina and Umang visit different malls viz. Westend, Ansal Plaza, MBD
and Flames are sitting around a circular table facing the centre of the table. Each mall is being visited by two people
only, but not necessarily in the same order. All these friends have different phones i.e. -Motorola, Samsung Galaxy,
HTC, Panasonic, Lava, LG, Oppo and Xiaomi.
No two people visiting the same mall are sitting adjacent to each other except those visiting Ansal Plaza. The person
who has Panasonic is sitting on the immediate left of the person who has Xiaomi. Rita neither has Xiaomi nor HTC.
Umang has LG and visits MBD Mall and is sitting to the immediate left of Neeta, who visits Ansal Plaza.
Neeta does not have HTC. Siya has Lava and visits Ansal Plaza, who is sitting opposite to Tina. Only Misha, who has
Samsung Galaxy, is sitting between Tina, who has Panasonic and the person who has Oppo. Persons who visit
Westend mall are sitting opposite to each other. Each of the persons who visits Flames is sitting adjacent to a person
who visits Westend Mall. Piya does not have Xiaomi.
Solution:
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Puzzle 32:
There are nine people P, Q, R, S, T, U, V, W and X in a family. It is a three generation family. They are sitting in a row
facing in North and South directions not necessarily in the same order. The following information is known about
them.
R ho is Ps father sits fourth to the right of Q ho is the o l daughter of T a d the oth fa e in the opposite
dire tio s. S sits third to the right of U ho is Qs gra d other a d o e of the sits adja e t to X. S is u arried
a d fa es i a dire tio si ilar to that of V. T ho is the sister of S sits at o e of the e ds ith a fe ale. Rs
neighbours are fe ales a d fa e i opposite dire tio s. Us spouse R fa es i the North dire tio . X ho is the ife
of V sits at the iddle fa i g i South dire tio . P, ho is ale, is the o l si li g of V sits e a tl et ee S a d Qs
cousin who is a male. The people sitting at ends face in North direction. P faces in same direction as that of U. R sits
adjacent to X.
Solution:
Puzzle 33:
Eight friends P, Q, R, S, T, U, V and W are sitting in a straight line facing north. All of them like a different subject, viz
English, Hindi, Maths, Biology, Physics, Psychology, Chemistry and Accounts, but not necessarily in the same order.
The one who reads Accounts sits third to the right of V. R is on the immediate left of V. The person who reads Maths
sits second to the left of R. Q sits second to the right of W, who reads neither Accounts nor Maths. Only two persons
sit between R and the one who reads Physics. P and U are immediate neighbours and both of them do not read
Accounts. The person who reads English sits second to the right of P. There are two persons between S and the one
who reads Hindi. S does not like Accounts. The one who reads Psychology is an immediate neighbor of the one who
reads Accounts. The one who reads Physics sits second to the left of P. One of the immediate neighbours of V reads
Chemistry. S sits on an extreme end of the line.
Solution:
Puzzle 34:
There are 7 people A, B, C, D, E, F and G who play a game, each one throws a dice with numbers 1-6, then picks a
card and then performs a particular activity.
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A number on the dice is repeated only once. And each activity is performed by not more than 2 people. There are 4
activities that is singing, dancing, acting and mimicry. All four cards color i.e. Hearts, Spade, Clubs and Diamond are
picked by the people and not more than 2 people picked the same color card.
F gets a 5 and performs same activity as that of A. D gets a number between B and A. A gets a number less than G. G
performs acting and gets the same number on dice as that of C. The one who gets 3 does not get a spade. The one
who gets the lowest number performs dancing. A either performs singing or dancing. E gets a 6 on the dice and
opens a card of hearts and performs dancing. The one who gets a club does not perform singing. Only one of the
persons who sing gets a spade. Those who gets club, gets the lowest two numbers. B and D get the same card. The
one who gets a diamond card performs mimicry and is the only one to get this card and perform this activity.
Solution:
Puzzle 35:
Eight boxes namely P, R, S, T, U, V, W and X are placed from top to bottom not in the same order. They contain
different flavours of cake among Pineapple, Butter White, Cappuccino, Cherry Marble, Black Forest, Milk Chocolate,
Chocolate Almond and Raspberry. Boxes are made up of different materials among steel, plastic, wood and card
box. Exactly two boxes are made of same material. Consider top as 1st position. The following information is known
about them.
1. There is one box between Box R and Box T and Box T is made up of plastic and both are in the top 4 positions
when boxes are arranged from top to bottom.
2. The box containing Cherry Marble is kept immediately below wooden box and is made up of same material as T.
3. Box S is kept somewhere between W and X and X being below S.
4. The two cardboard boxes are kept vertically adjacent to each other and one of the cardboard boxes is
immediately under the plastic box.
5. Cappuccino cake is kept exactly between V and the box containing Milk Chocolate.
6. X does t o tai Pi eapple ake.
7. There is one box between Box U and Box W, and W is kept immediately below the box containing Cherry Marble
cake.
8. The box containing Raspberry cake is placed at even numbered place but is not placed at the bottom.
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9. The steel box which is kept at top either contains Pineapple or chocolate almond cake.
10. Box U is not made up of cardboard.
11. V which contains Black Forest cake is made up of wood and among top five.
12. The box containing Butter White cake is made up of wood.
13. S does t o tai a of Pi eapple or Rasp err ake.
Solution:
Puzzle 36:
There are seven rings labeled as A, B, C, D, E, F, G which are of different colors viz. green, yellow, red, blue and pink.
They are made up of different material viz. Ruby, Pearl, Diamond, Emerald, Topaz, Garnet and Sapphire. They are of
different shapes viz. square, oval, hexagonal, circle, pentagonal and rectangle. Not more than two rings are of
samecolor and there is at least one ring of each of the above colours. The following information is known about
them.
1. A is of yellow color.
2. E is a pink colored emerald ring.
3. Only diamond ring is of pentagonal shape.
4. D and F are of samecolor.
5. Only Ruby ring is of square shape but is not of blue color.
6. B is either a pearl or garnet ring.
7. F is of rectangular shape.
8. Only Topaz ring is of circular shape but is neither a yellow colored ring nor D.
9. None of B and F is of red color.
10. A green colored ring is of hexagonal shape and in any case is not D.
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11. The sapphire ring is of red color.
12. C and E are of same shape.
13. There are two red colored rings.
Solution:
Puzzle 37:
There are five friends who study in Delhi Universiy. All of them belongs to five different cities.The name of five
friends are Shubhi, Manoj, Anuj, Ranjana, and Neelam but not necessarily in the same order. And the five different
cities name from where they hail are Agra,Varanasi,Kanpur,Delhi, Noida but not necessarily in the same order. They
are experts in five different fields (i.e) teaching, music, medical, Software engineering and fashion designing but not
necessarily in same order.And all of them living in Hostel allotted by the University. The hostel has five different
floors numbered one to five(ground floor is 1 and so on).Neelam is living on the even number floor.The person who
is from Varanasi also living on even number floor but above the floor on which the person who is from
Noida.Ranjana is living on the top floor.There is agap of one floor between the person who is from Agra and Kanpur.
Manoj is not from Varanasi. The doctor is either from Delhi or Agra.Neelam is from Noida.Ranjana is in musical
activity.Anuj and Neelam are Doctor and fashion designer but not necessarily in same order. The person who is
expert in music belongs to Agra. The teacher is not from Varanasi.
Solution:
Puzzle 38:
A group of eight friends A, B, C, D, E, F, G and H are sitting in a straight line facing north. Each of them has
different professions Doctor, Banker, Businessman, Teacher, Lawyer, Engineer, Pilot and CA. Each of them likes
different colours Pink, Yellow, Red, Black, Blue, Orange, White and Green, but not necessarily in the same order. A,
who is a Lawyer, sits third to the left of F. Neither A nor F sits at the extreme ends of the line. E, who likes Pink
colour, is a Businessman. E is not an immediate neighbour of either A or F. One person is sitting between H and C, H
likes Orange colour. C, who is a Pilot, likes Red colour. G, who is a Doctor, sits at an extreme end of the line and likes
White colour.B who is a Teacher, likes Green colour and sits on the immediate left of A. A does not like either Blue
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or Yellow colour. One who is aCA sits on the immediate left of the Doctor. F, who is a Banker, does not like Yellow
colour.
Solution:
Puzzle 39:
P, Q, R, S, T, U and V are seven persons wearing a shoes of different colours - white, red, black, green, yellow, blue
and violet - and socks of different colours - blue, red, white, black, cream, yellow and indigo. The persons, colour of
the shoes and colour of the socks above are not necessarily in the same order. No person is wearing shoes and socks
of same colour.
Q is wearing red shoes and is not wearing cream or yellow socks. S is wearing green shoes and indigo socks. Colour
of Ps shoes a d U so ks is sa e. Colour of Ts shoes a d Rs so ks is same. V is wearing blue shoes and T is wearing
blue socks. U is not wearing any yellow dress. Red and blue is not the combination of shoes and socks of any of the
persons.
Solution:
Puzzle 40:
J, K, L, G, P, Q, R, and S are sitting around a circular table facing the center at equal distances between each other
(but not necessarily in the same order). Each one of them is also related to G in some way or the other.Only two
people sit between Q and L. G sits second to the left of Q. Only three people sit et ee L a d Gs sister. Gs so sits
se o d to the right of Gs sister.O l o e perso sits et ee the so of G a d S. J sits o the i ediate right of R.
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R is either the so or the other of G. S is a i ediate eigh our of Gs other. O l three people sit between
Gs other a dGs rother. Gs daughter sits se o d to the left of Gs rother.Gs father is ot a i ediate
eigh our of G. Gs ife sits third to the right of K.
Solution:
Puzzle 41:
A, B, C, D, E, F, and G are sitting in a straight line facing north. Each one of them lives on a different floor in the same
building which is numbered from one to seven. B sits fourth to the left of the person living on the 6th floor. Either B
or the person living on the 6th floor sits at the extreme ends of the line. Only one person sits between B and G. G
lives on the 3rd floor. The person living on 1st floor sits third to the right of D. D is not an immediate neighbour of G.
Only one person lives between E and the person who lives on the 2nd floor. A and C are immediate neighbours of
each other. A does not live on the 6th floor. One who lives on 5th floor sits third to the right of the one who lives on
the 7th floor.
Solution:
Puzzle 42:
Eight friends A, B, C, D, E, F, G and H and are sitting in a circle, not necessarily in the same order. Four of them are
facing outside and four of them are facing the centre. All are of the different height. C is smaller than only D and E.G
is greater than only H. B is greater than A and less than F. E is not tallest. E faces outside. Both the immediate
neighbours of E face the centre. H sits second to the right of E. B sits third to the left of E. D faces the centre. Both
the immediate neighbours of person who is thetallest face outside. G sits second to the left of A. B sits third to the
right of aperson who is smallest. F is an immediate neighbour of D. C is an immediate neighbour of G. D is not an
immediate neighbour of B. F sits second to theright of C.
Solution:
D>E>C>F>B>A>G>H
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Puzzle 43:
Nine people A, B, C, D, E, F, G, H and J stay in a building, not necessarily in the same order. The building has nine
floors and only one person stays on one floor. All of them wear one shirt each, and each shirt is a different colour i.e.
blue, grey, white, black, yellow, green, red, orange and pink not necessarily in the same order. The ground floor is
numbered 1, the floor above it number 2 and so on and the top most floor is numbered 9.
H wear a black coloured shirt and stays on an even numbered floor. A stays on any even numbered floor below the
floor on which H stays. The one who wears an orange coloured shirt stays on the fourth floor. E stays on the second
floor and wear the white coloured shirt. The one who wears a pink coloured shirt stays on the third floor. A does not
wear a green coloured shirt. There are two floors between the floors on which the people wearing the red and the
black colouredshirts. C wear a grey coloured shirt. There are three floors between the floors on which C and G stay.
D sta s o a floor i ediatel a o e Js floor. There is o e floor et ee the floors o hi h F and G stay. F does
not wear the pink coloured shirt. The one who wears the blue shirt stays on the top most floor. F does not stay on
the ground floor.
Solution:
Puzzle 44:
There are seven different friends viz, Siddhu, Akshit, Dhiru, Neeraj, Anurag, Mohit and Sharwan . And all of them
goes to different country for their summer vacation, viz ,USA, UK, Russia, France, Singapur, Japan and Itly, on
different days of the week from Monday to Sunday, but not necessarily in the same order.
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Akshit goes to France on Wednesday . Anurag does not go Itly or Sigapur but goes on the next day of when Neeraj
goes. Sharwan goes to Russia on Friday. Mohit goes on Monday, but not for Singaur or USA. Dhiru goes to Itly but
not on Tuesday. Neeraj goes to UK.
Solution:
Puzzle 45:
Eight People A, B, C, D, E, F, and G 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 laptops,
namely Lenovo, Acer, DELL, HP, Samsung, Toshiba, HCL and Sony(but not necessarily in the same order).
The one who likes SONY and ACER not live in the floors numbered 8 and 7 respectively. The one who likes HP app
lives immediately below the floor in 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 HCL and the one who likes HP is two. The one who likes Toshiba 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 HP. 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 ACER 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.
Solution:
Floor No Person Laptop

10 _ _
9 H HCL
8 B DELL
7 C Toshiba
6 G HP
5 F Samsung
4 _ _
3 E Acer
2 A Sony
1 D Lenovo
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Puzzle 46:
Twelve students namely viz A, B, C, D, E, F, G, H, I, J and K of twelve different colleges have Seminar 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
seminar 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 seminar in June. The persons who have seminar 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 seminar on 19th. The one who stayed on the first floor has a seminar in September. E
has a seminar on the date immediately after the date on which K has seminar. There are two persons live between G
and H. The floor number and the seminar date is same for the person B. The person who has seminar on 15th lives
immediately below E. K has seminar on one of the dates after 12 and before 16. There are four persons live between
K and E. K has seminar in the month of June. B and I have seminar in the same month which has 31 days. D who lived
in floor numbered 11, has the seminar in the month which has less than 30 days. Only one person live between two
persons who have seminar in the month of October. The persons who have seminar 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 seminar in the month of September. The person F stays in a middle between
the person E and C. L does not have seminar in the month of June. The person who has seminar on 17th lives
immediately above the person who has seminar on 20. H does not have seminar on 20th. L does not have seminar
on 16th. There is only one person lives between the persons who have seminar in the month of July. There are four
floors between the persons who have seminar on 19th and 10th. The person who has seminar on 17th lives
immediately above the person who has seminar on 20. H does not have seminar on 20th. A does not have seminar
on 11th. The person who has seminar on 18th lives immediately above the person who has seminar on 11.
Solution:
Floor Person Month Date

12 B January 12
11 D February 17
10 A June 20
9 E October 14
8 F September 15
7 C October 10
6 I January 18
5 H July 11
4 K June 13
3 L July 9
2 G February 19
1 J September 16
Puzzle 47:
Seven friends A,B, C, D,E, F and G. Each of them is an officer in Army, Airforce, Navy, IAS, RBI, VAO and CBI. They like
different colours White, Blue, Red, Yellow, Pink Black and Green colour but not necessarily in that order. Their
hobbies are Photography, Gardening, Reading, Painting, Dancing, Singing and Riding but not necessarily in the same
order. Three of them preferred Pepsi and remaining all preferred Cola.
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The person whose hobby is dancing preferred Pepsi while who is the RBI officer preferred Cola. F is the
Airforce officer like pink color.Navy officer does not like black and yellow color.
The two friends who took Pepsi were the person whose favourite colour is Pink and the one whose hobby is
Riding.
D did ot take Pepsi a d his fa ourite olour is White. Bs favourite colour is Blue. He did not like Pepsi and
he likes to read novels
D clicks a picture of his friend B who is an Army officer.
The person whose favourite colour is Red likes painting but he is not E and the person who is RBI likes
gardening.
D is not a Navy officer. The person who likes red color is either Navy or IAS officer. The person who is an
Army officer likes Blue colour is not preferred Pepsi
The Riders fa ourite olour is Bla k a d he is either VAO or CBI a d he is ot A. Cs fa ourite olour is
Green and his hobby is not Singing or painting.
E is VAO officer, his hobby is not painting, reading or gardening and he preferred pepsi.
Solution:
A Cola Red Navy Painting

B Cola Blue Army Reading
C Cola Green RBI Gardening
D Cola White CBI Photography
E Pepsi Yellow VAO Dancing
F Pepsi Pink Airforce Singing
G Pepsi Black IAS Riding
Puzzle 48:
Amar, Anil, Ajay and Arun are 4 students of different classroom coaching centres of ABC, a leading classroom
coaching centre for Civil Service Examination. Each belongs to a different state, ie Karnataka, Uttarakhand, Tamil
Nadu and West Bengal, but not necessarily in the same order.
All the sudents attend the exam in 4 cities Bangalore, Kolkata, Dehradun and Chennai. Four students for the
test series in different cities. When the results were declared they got first to fourth position in All-India
ranking. They were students of ABC.ie Ahmedabad, Agra, Adyar and Aizwal, but not necessarily in the same
order.
The one who appeared at the Bangalore test centre got the 4th position in All India ranking.But he is not
Arun.The one who appeared at Chennai for the test got the first position. The one who belongs to the
Uttarakhand got the third position while one who studied at the Ahmedabad centre got the second position
Arun and Anil studied neither at Aizwal nor Ahmedabad centre. They appeared for test neither at Kolkata
nor at Dehradun. They belong neither to West Bangal nor to Uttarakahand.
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The one who studied at the Adyar center does not belongs to Karnataka. The one who belongs to
Uttarakhand is not Amar. The one who studied in Aizwal did not appear for the test at Kolkata center. The
o e ho elo gs to Ta il Nadu did t appear at Be galore e tre.
Solution:
Name Class Exam centre State Rank

Anil Agra Bangalore Karnataka 4
Arun Adyar Chennai Tamil Nadu 1
Ajay Aizwal Dehradun Uttarakhand 3
Amar Ahmedabad Kolkata West Bengal 2
Puzzle 49:
There are seven types of rings categorized as P, Q, R, S, T, U, and V which are of different color stones viz. green,
black, red, blue and orange. They are made up of different material viz. Ruby, Pearl, Diamond, Emerald, Topaz,
Garnet and Sapphire. They are of different shapes viz. square, oval, hexagonal, circle, pentagonal and rectangle. Not
more than two rings are of same colored stone and each ring must have any one of the above stones.
The ring P has black colored stone. T is an emerald ring and has an orange colored stone. Only diamond ring is of
pentagonal shape. S and U have same colored stones. Only Ruby ring is of square shape but is not of blue color. Q is
neither a garnet ring nor a diamond ring. U is of rectangular shape. Only Topaz ring is of circular shape but is neither
a black colored stone ring nor S. None of Q and U is of red color. A green colored ring is of hexagonal shape and in
any case is not S. The sapphire ring is of red color. R and T are of same shape. There are two rings having red
colored stones.
Solution:
Ring Stone Colour Material Shape

P Black Ruby Square
T Orange Emerald Oval
S Blue Diamond Pentagon
U Blue Garnet Rectangular
V Red Topaz Circular
R Red Sapphire Oval
Q Green Pearl Hexogonal
Puzzle 50:
Eight boxes namely A, B, C, D, E, F, G and H are placed from top to bottom not in the same order. They contain
different types of food namely viz Briyani, Pizza, Burger, Sandwich, Noodles, Butter Chicken, Masala Dosa and
Parotta. Boxes are made up of different materials among steel, plastic, wood and Aluminum box. Exactly two boxes
are made of same material. Consider the box kept at top as 1st position.
Box D which is made up of plastic kept two places above B and both are in the top 4 positions when boxes are
arranged from top to bottom. The box containing Sandwich is kept immediately below wooden box and made up of
same material as D. Box C is kept somewhere between G and H and H being below C. The two Aluminum boxes are
kept vertically adjacent to each other. Burger is kept exactly middle between F and the box containing Butter
Chi ke . H does t o tai Bri a i. Bo E kept t o pla es elo o G hi h is kept i ediatel elo the o
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containing Sandwich. The box containing Parotta is placed at even numbered place but is not placed at the bottom.
The steel box which kept at the top either contains Briyani or Masala Dosa. Box E, not made up of Aluminum. F
hi h o tai s Noodles is ade up of ood. The o o tai i g Pizza is ade up of ood. C does t o tain Briyani
or Parotta.
Solution:
Position Box Food Box Type

1 A Briyani Steel
2 D Parotta Plastic
3 F Noodles Wood
4 B Sandwich Plastic
5 G Burger Aluminium
6 C Masala Dosa Aluminium
7 E Butter Chicken Steel
8 H Pizza Wood
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Reasoning High Level Puzzles

(iii) Prakash is staying on the topmost floor with Anil Aggarwal.

(v) Prabhu is staying on the third floor.

(viii) Anand Mahindra is staying on the second floor.

(x) Anil Ambani is staying with Anbu on floor number sixth.

Floor Entrepreneur Businessman

(iii) Q is travelling in an even-numbered coach.

Compartment Person Name of berth

Country Flower National Animal

Virat, a fast bowler, is neither from Pune nor from Kolkata.

Name City Player

Name Competition Day Team

Day Person Colour Subject

Floors Persons Destination Days

A is seated 3rd to the right of the teacher.

Cities Male (Bank) Female (Bank)

The yellow box is kept at an even numbered position

Position Colour Food Items

(b) S gets down at the next station at which U gets down.

(c) Q does not get down either with P or T.

(f) None of them gets into at station II.

(j) None of them gets down at station I.

Bus Station Get in Get Down

IV. The ground floor occupants have round faces.

V. Sapna who is in Production department has three trophies.

VIII. Puja, a middle floor occupant, goes by Uber cab.

X. Two persons, of whom one is in marketing department, do not go by cabs.

ii. The female sitting between B and D is not E.

iii.E sits fourth to the right of F.

v. I sit exactly between G and C and they face in opposite directions.

iii. As i ediate eigh ours are G and B.

i . Is spouse sits se o d to the right of I.

x. D sits second to the left of B.

3. Box S is kept somewhere between W and X and X being below S.

6. X does t o tai Pi eapple ake.

10. Box U is not made up of cardboard.

12. The box containing Butter White cake is made up of wood.

13. S does t o tai a of Pi eapple or Rasp err ake.

2. E is a pink colored emerald ring.

3. Only diamond ring is of pentagonal shape.

4. D and F are of samecolor.

5. Only Ruby ring is of square shape but is not of blue color.

6. B is either a pearl or garnet ring.

9. None of B and F is of red color.

11. The sapphire ring is of red color.

12. C and E are of same shape.

13. There are two red colored rings.

Floor No Person Laptop

Floor Person Month Date

D clicks a picture of his friend B who is an Army officer.

A Cola Red Navy Painting

Name Class Exam centre State Rank

Ring Stone Colour Material Shape

Position Box Food Box Type

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