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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