Candies interview puzzle

In a closed jar,
There are

• Three strawberry candies,


• Two mango candies and


• Five pineapple candies.

You can't see inside the jar.
Now, how many toffees you must take out from the jar to make sure that you have one of each flavor?




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Number of chocolate ice creams puzzle

There is a ice cream box containing ice creams that can be either mango flavored or chocolate flavored. You know the fact that there is at least one mango flavored ice cream in that box. Your eyes are then closed and you pick two ice creams at random.

You are provided with the fact that at least one of them will be chocolate flavored ice cream.

Can you now find out how many chocolate ice creams are there in that box?




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100000 dollar stealing case

Max leaves a $100,000 dollar bill on his desk and leaves work. When Max returns the money is gone.
He has three suspects: the cook, the cleaning lady, and the mail guy.
The cook says he put the money under a book on his desk to keep it safe. They check and it is no longer there.
The maid says she moved it when she was cleaning to the inside of the book between page 1 and 2. They open the book and look between page number 1 and 2 but it isn't there.
The mail guy says he saw it sticking out of the book and to keep it safe he moved it to between page number 2 and 3.
Once they are done the culprit is promptly arrested.

Who did it and how did Max know?




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Get out of mansion puzzle

You're in a mansion and the power's out.
You see a green door and a red door.  Pick one (it doesn't matter which.)
Now,
You see a purple door and a orange door. Pick one (again, it doesn't matter which you pick).
Now,
You see a door with a golden handle and a door with a silver handle. Pick one.

You finally come to some signs on three doors.
One says "Death from drowning," another says "Death from machine guns," and the last one says "Death from electric chair." Then you see a big sign off to the side that says "Or stay in the mansion and starve to death."

What do you choose and still live?




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Hard boiling 20 eggs puzzle

If it takes twenty minutes to hard-boil one goose egg,

How long will it take to hard-boil four goose eggs?




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Seconds or Hours, which is greater puzzle

'S' refers to the number of seconds in a day and
'H' refers to the number of hours in ten years.

Which quantity out of these two is greater?




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Forest and dog riddle

How far a dog can run into the forest?




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Calculating smallest possible children in the family

Each child in a family has at least 4 brothers and 2 sisters.
What is the smallest number of children the family might have?




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Maximum distance travelled by scooter puzzle

There is one scooter which has 2 tyres and one stepney/spare (i.e. total 3 tyres). Each Tyre can run up to max 5 km.

How far can you ride the scooter?




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A change to prevent Disaster lateral thinking puzzle

An American nightclub called 'The Coconut Grove' had a terrible fire in which over 400 people died. A simple design flaw in the building led to the death toll being so high. Subsequently, regulations were changed to ensure that all public buildings throughout the country eliminated this one detail which proved so deadly.

What was it?




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Richard and truth lie puzzle

Richard is a strange liar. He lies on six days of the week, but on the seventh day, he always tells the truth. He made the following statements on three successive days:
Day 1: "I lie on Monday and Tuesday."
Day 2: "Today, it's Thursday, Saturday, or Sunday."
Day 3: "I lie on Wednesday and Friday."

On which day does Richard tell the truth?




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How many squares would there be in total on chess board

If you were to construct a 8 x 8 checkered square (i.e., a 8 x 8 chess board).

How many squares would there be in total?



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Vacation at cousin's place puzzle

It was vacation time,  So I decided to visit my cousin's home. What a grand time we had! In the mornings, we both would go for a jog. The evenings were spent on the tennis court. Tiring as these activities were, we could manage only one per day, i.e., either we went for a jog or played tennis each day. There were days when we felt lazy and stayed home all day long. Now, there were 13 mornings when we did nothing, 16 evenings when we stayed at home, and a total of 11 days when we jogged or played tennis. For how many days did I stay at my cousin's place?


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Fortune Teller predition puzzle

There is a village that has five fortune tellers. The first fortune teller's prediction has 83% chance of being correct. The second has 63% chance of being correct, The third 44%, The fourth 33 %, and The fifth 5 %. If you were trying to get the best prediction of your future for selecting a one lucky draw coupon out of 2 Coupons, which fortune teller would you go to?


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Fortune Teller predition puzzle

There is a village that has five fortune tellers. The first fortune teller's prediction has 83% chance of being correct. The second has 63% chance of being correct, The third 44%, The fourth 33 %, and The fifth 5 %. If you were trying to get the best prediction of your future for selecting a lucky draw coupon, which fortune teller would you go to?

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Out of box thinking in Five start hotel puzzle

In a five star hotel, a man was sleeping when he heard a knock on the door. He shifted the blanket and stepped down from the bed. He waked to the door and opened it to find a stranger standing outside.

Upon opening the gate, that stranger said, “Pardon me, I must have made a mistake. I thought this was my room.”

The stranger then walked the corridor and climbed down the stairs. The man closed the door and immediately called the security. He asked them to arrest that stranger immediately.

Why did he asked them to arrest that stranger? What made him suspicious?

 

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