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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:
Analytical Logical Shape and Arrangement Mechanical
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Puzzle Title
Asked in Company
1
Find ages of daughters Google , Microsoft
2
Calculate total distance travelled by bee Yahoo
3
Puzzle – 6×6 Grid: How Many Ways? Amazon , Zoho
4
Monty Hall problem VMWare
5
Torch and Bridge Google , Microsoft
6
2 Eggs and 100 Floors VMWare
7
Maximize the probability of White Ball Amazon
8
Poison and Rat Amazon
9
Hourglasses Puzzle Bank of America , Yahoo
10
The ratio of Boys and Girls in a Country where people want only boys Google , Goldman Sachs
11
Car Wheel Puzzle MakeMytrip
12
Maximum Chocolates Infosys , MakeMytrip
13
Puzzle | Splitting a Cake with a Missing Piece in two equal portion Alcatel-Lucent , Cognizant
14
Rs 500 Note Puzzle CAT, UPSC
15
Girl or Boy Amazon
16
Know Average Salary without Disclosing Individual Salaries Infosys , Bloomberg .
17
Maximum run in cricket FAANG
18
Completion of Task Reflexis Systems
19
Find missing Row in Excel philips
20
Four People on a Rickety Bridge Jumbotail, SAP
21
Man fell in well Puzzle American Express
22
50 red marbles and 50 blue marbles Google , Microsoft , JP morgan chase
23
Puzzle | Form Three Equilateral Triangles Google
24
10 identical bottles of pills ZS Associate
25
Puzzle | Maximum pieces that can be cut from a Circle using 6 straight lines TCS
26
Chain Link Puzzle cognizant
27
The shopkeeper and the lady who made a purchase of Rs 200 with fake note Persistent Systems
28
Egg Dropping Puzzle with 2 Eggs and K Floors Google , Microsoft
29
Minimum number of Apples to be collected from trees to guarantee M red apples Leetcode
30
Snail and Wall TCS
31
1000 light bulbs switched on/off by 1000 people passing by UK university interview
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Puzzle | Four Alternating Knights Amazon , Google
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TCS DIGITAL PUZZLE | Lateral Thinking 2 TCS
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Puzzle | 100 Cows And Milk ZS
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Puzzle | One Mile on the Globe Microsoft
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TCS DIGITAL PUZZLE | Lateral Thinking TCS
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Puzzle | The Counters and Board JP-morgan
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Camel and Banana Puzzle Amazon , Yahoo
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Puzzle | (Six Matches , Right Foot Forward) TCS
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How much he had initially? IAS interview question
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Puzzle | 3 cuts to cut round cake into 8 equal pieces Adobe , Citius Tech , Cognizant , blackrock
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Two Creepers Climbing a Tree Adobe , Google , Microsoft
Recent articles on Analytical/mathematical puzzles
S.No.
Puzzle Title
Asked in Company
1
Pay an employee using a gold rod of 7 units ? FAANG, Ola cabs
2
Find the fastest 3 horses Accolite , Goldman Sachs , MakeMyTrip
3
Finding the injection for Anesthesia Google , Yahoo
4
3 Bulbs and 3 Switches MakeMyTrip , Qualcomm
5
Camel and Banana Puzzle Amazon , Yahoo
6
Find the Jar with contaminated pills MakeMyTrip
7
100 Prisoners with Red/Black Hats Google , Microsoft
8
10 Coins Puzzle Google , Yahoo
9
Strategy for a 2-Player Coin Game TCS
10
5 Pirates and 100 Gold Coins Microsoft
11
Minimum cut Puzzle Amazon
12
Prisoner and Policeman Puzzle Microsoft
13
Puzzle – Cheating Husband Microsoft , Google
14
Puzzle – Blind Games Bloomberg L.P.
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Puzzle – Chameleons go on a date Amazon
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Heaven and Hell Amazon , Infosys
17
Mislabeled Jars Google , Microsoft
18
8 balls problem Microsoft , Simence
19
Cheryl’s Birthday Puzzle and Solution Facebook , Whatsapp, Singapore math Olympic
20
Puzzle – The Lion and the Unicorn The Access Group (UK), TCS
21
Farmer, Goat, Wolf, and Cabbage Infosys
22
Water Jug Problem Wells Fargo
23
Blind man and Pills Mentor Graphics
24
The Burning Candles Wipro
25
Puzzle | The Burning Candles Wipro , IBM , TCS
26
Rat and Poisonous Milk Bottles Google
27
Measuring 6L water from 4L and 9L buckets Microsoft
28
Six Houses P, Q, R, S, T, and U CAT Quiz
29
Melting Candles Faang
30
Red Hat vs Blue Hat Microsoft
31
Puzzle | Joint family of seven persons (L, M, N, O, P, Q, and R) TCS
32
Puzzle | The Circle of Lights Microsoft , Bloomberg
33
Puzzle | 9 Students and Red Black Hats Google
34
Light all the bulbs Microsoft , Bloomberg
35
Distribute the Water Microsoft
36
Puzzle | Can 2 persons be with same number of hairs on their heads? oppo , inflame
37
Weight of Heavy Ball IBM
Recent articles on Logical puzzles
Recent articles on Arrangement puzzles
Recent articles on Shape based puzzles
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