Sunday, October 9, 2011

Logic Puzzles

These are not brain teasers and don't require much of knowledge of mathematics. Just common sense is enough to solve each of these.

Have fun solving puzzles!

1. A man who lives on the tenth floor takes the elevator down to the first floor every morning and goes to work. In the evening, when he comes back; on a rainy day, or if there are other people in the elevator, he goes to his floor directly. Otherwise, he goes to the seventh floor and walks up three flights of stairs to his apartment. Can you explain why? (Courtsey Harshvardhan Mandad)

This puzzle is taken from the movie Fermat's Room(nice movie)

2. There are two rooms. In one of the room A, there are three light bulbs and in another room B, there are three switches corresponding to these bulbs. Initially, you are in the room B
How can you identify which switch correspond to which bulb with just one trip to room A.

3. How can you throw a ball as hard as you can and have it come back to you, even if it doesn't bounce off anything? There is nothing attached to it, and no one else catches or throws it back to you.

4. You are in a room with no metal objects except for two iron rods. Only one of them is a magnet. How can you identify which one is a magnet?

7 comments:

  1. ROT13ed answers.
    1. Fubeg urvtug. Pna'g ernpu ohggbaf cynprq uvtu. Hfrf hzoeryyn gb ernpu gurz.
    2. Fjvgpu bar ba. Yrg vg urng. Fjvgpu vg bss. Fjvgpu nabgure naq tb va. Ubg naq Bss, Ba, Bss.
    3. Rez, guebj vg hcjneqf?
    4. Gnxr bar raq bs n ebq naq zbir vg nybat gur ragver obql bs gur bgure ebq. Vs gur nggenpgvba qbrfa'g punatr, gura gur bar lbh ner ubyqvat vf n zntarg. Bgurejvfr, gur nggenpgvba ng gur pragre jbhyq or artyvtvoyr vs lbh ner ubyqvat gur cynva veba ebq naq zbivat npebff gur zntargvp bar.


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  2. First three correct. Last one is almost correct. Just that, how exactly are you measuring the force?

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  3. Here is an alternate answer to the 3rd one (rot13ed)
    Guebj vg fb uneq gung vg tbrf vagb beovg, naq pbzrf onpx sebz gur bgure fvqr.

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  4. problem 2 can be done for 4 bulbs and 4 switches

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  5. yeah, thats a valid solution. Thanks for letting me know.

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  6. I SUPPOSE 2ND CAN BE DONE FOR ANY NUMBER OF BULBS... WE CAN JUST CHECK THE TEMPRATURE OR THE LUMINOSITY OF DIFFERENT BULBS TO CHECK IN WHICH ORDER WE LIGHTED THEM.

    AND WHAT IS THE SOLUTION TO 3RD WUESTION I DINT GET THE SOLUTION OF ANY PERSON

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  7. @nishant: You are right in case, we can differentiate between bulbs of different Luminosity.

    Don't write in CAPS.

    Answer to third question: Just throw it vertically upward.

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