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What is a Puzzle?
A puzzle is a game, problem, or piece of information about any facts, clues, etc., that tests a person’s ingenuity or knowledge. A person is required to put pieces or the given information together in a logical way to arrive at the answer.
Puzzles check the intellect, common sense, knowledge, awareness, logic and reasoning ability of a person. Crossword puzzles, word-search puzzles, number puzzles, relational puzzles, and logic puzzles are different genres of puzzles. The academic study of puzzles is enigmatology.
We at GeeksforGeeks have tried to cover all the reasoning questions, which are asked in competitive exams. We have provided tips and tricks to solve maximum questions in less time. By solving puzzles regularly at GeeksforGeeks, you would be able to master your reasoning and crack your desired examination.
Types of Puzzles
Reasoning or Puzzles can be divided into four parts as per a common examination pattern:
- Shape and Arrangement
- Analytical
- Logical
- Mechanical
|
Shape and Arrangement |
Analytical |
Logical |
Mechanical |
|---|---|---|---|
| Alphabetical and Miscellaneous Series | Machine Input | Statement & Course of Action | Rubik’s Cube |
| 2D & 3D shapes | Inequalities | Blood Relation | Cube and Dice |
| Image and Figure Counting | Decision Making | Cause & Effect | Jigsaw Puzzle |
| Chessboard arrangement | Syllogism | Statement & Argument | Crossword Puzzle |
| Order & Ranking | Box Puzzle | Drawing Inference | |
| Sitting Arrangement | Age Puzzle | Coding & Decoding | |
| Floor Arrangement | Month and Day Puzzle | ||
| Analogy | |||
Topics :
Analytical / Mathematical Puzzles:
- Puzzle – How many Chickens were sold by the farmer?
- Puzzle | 10 Stack of 10 Coins
- Puzzle – The Hands of a Clock First Overlap
- Puzzle – Probability of Seeing a Car in 10 Minutes & 30 Minutes
- Puzzle – Ali and 8 Loaves
- Puzzle | How much money did the man have before entering the bank?
- Puzzle | Man fell in well Puzzle
- The Fox, The Duck and a Circular Pond
- Puzzle | Probability of finding a job
- Puzzle | Supersonic Bee and Trains
- Puzzle | The symbols
- Puzzle | Handshakes
- Puzzle | The Egg Vendor and his Eggs
- Puzzle | Fill Brackets ( )+( )+( )+( )+( ) = 30
- Puzzle | Yesterday Was Tomorrow
- Puzzle 40 | (Find missing Row in Excel)
- Puzzle 33 | ( Rs 500 Note Puzzle )
- Puzzle 26 | (Know Average Salary without Disclosing Individual Salaries)
- Puzzle 18 | (Torch and Bridge)
- Puzzle 6 | (Monty Hall problem)
Recent articles on Analytical/mathematical puzzles
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- Puzzle | Six Houses P, Q, R, S, T, and U
- Puzzle | Rat and Poisonous Milk Bottles
- Puzzle | Minimum number steps to weigh 1 kg rice with 1gm weight
- Puzzle | Mislabeled Jars
- Puzzle | Couples crossing the river
- Puzzle | (Crack The Plan)
- Puzzle | Detective Sherlock
- Puzzle-59 | Catch the Thief
- Puzzle 54 | Fill the Jug
- Puzzle 24 | (10 Coins Puzzle)
- Puzzle 20 | (5 Pirates and 100 Gold Coins)
- Puzzle 13 | (100 Prisoners with Red/Black Hats)
- Puzzle 10 | (A Man with Medical Condition and 2 Pills)
- Puzzle 9 | (Find the fastest 3 horses)
- Puzzle 7 | (3 Bulbs and 3 Switches)
- Puzzle 5 | (Finding the Injection for Anesthesia)
- Puzzle 4 | (Pay an employee using a gold rod of 7 units ?)
Recent articles on Logical puzzles
- Puzzle: Table and coins
- Puzzle| 53 bricks of size 1x1x4 in 6x6x6 sized cube
- Puzzle – 6×6 Grid: How Many Ways?
- Puzzle | Greek Cross And Square
- Puzzle | Maximum pieces that can be cut from a Circle using 6 straight lines
- Puzzle | 10 Balls in 5 Lines
- Puzzle | Cut Blue Painted Cube
- Puzzle | Divide crescent moon into 6 parts in just two straight lines
- Puzzle | Maximum number of Kings on Chessboard without under check
- Puzzle | Draw 4 straight line in 3*3 matrix (9 dots)
- Puzzle | (4 Matchstick Problem)
- Puzzle 38 | (Tic Tac Toe Puzzle)
- Puzzle 36 | (Matchstick Puzzle)
- Puzzle 25 | (Chessboard and dominos)
- Puzzle 11 | (1000 Coins and 10 Bags)
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