Puzzle january 2025
1➤ Seven students A, B, C, D, E, F and H who all live in a seven-storey building such that ground floor is numbered as 1 and above it is numbered as 2 and so on till the top most floor which is numbered as 7. Not more than three persons live below the floor on which H lives. Only two persons live between B and E, who lives above B. D lives on an odd numbered floor above C. Only two persons live between H and A, who lives above B, but not immediately above. B lives on an even numbered floor. Only three persons live between E and F.
2➤ Seven boxes A, B, C, D, E, F and G are kept in the warehouse of a printing press. The boxes contain books of different subjects which are English, Mathematics, Biology, Hindi, Polity, Chemistry and Accounting but not necessarily in the same order. Each box contains books of only one subject. As the thickness of the books differs from one subject to the other, the number of books in each box is different.
Box C does not contain books of either Polity or Mathematics. Box E contains either English or Biology books. The number of Biology books is 22 less than the number of books in box C. The box containing Polity books has 23 books in total. Box F has 18 more books than box D but 8 more books than box B. The box that contains Hindi books has the highest number of books and the box with English books has the second highest number of books. Box E has 7 more books than box G but 22 more books than box B. Mathematics books are odd in number. Box B contains either Chemistry or Polity books and the number of books is 8/11 of the number of books in box G.
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Six friends A, B, C, D, E & F rolled different numbers on a standard dice. Each number of the dice appears at least one time. The numbers rolled by D & B are consecutive numbers. C rolled a number which is less than the number rolled by E but more than the number rolled by F. B rolled a number which is twice of the number rolled by A. Difference in numbers rolled by E and F is equal to number rolled by C.
4➤ Seven people P, Q, R, S, T, U, V had their interview for a prestigious MBA college. The interview was in the month of June, July and August. The dates for these interviews were 16, 19 and 23. Each of them had interview on a different day. Further it is known that Q had interview immediately after R but before U. V and R had interview on same date but in different months. Nobody had interview on 23rd August. U had interview on 19th of a month with 31 days. P was interviewed on 16th of a month but not in August. S was not interviewed on 23rd. T whose interview was on 16th July had interview after S. V was interviewed before R.
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Nine persons i.e., A, Q, B, S, C, U, V, D and X live on a separate floor of a nine floored building but not necessarily in the same order. The ground floor is numbered as 1, the first floor is numbered as 2 and so on until the topmost floor is numbered as 9.A does not live on the odd numbered floor and doesn’t live just below of the top floor. There are two floors gap between A and U, who lives above of the floor in which A lives. Q lives just above of the floor of D. B lives just below of the floor of X. There are three persons live between U and V, who lives just above the floor of S. Both B and D do not live on ground floor. D lives below of the floor of S but not just below. The number of floors gap between X and V is same as between C and S.
6➤ Eight different colour boxes, viz., Red, Orange, yellow, Pink, Blue, Green, Black and White are kept from top to bottom, but not necessarily in the same order. The top position is 1 and the bottom is 8.
Only three boxes between Green colour box and Orange colour box. Only three boxes kept between Yellow colour box and Red colour box. Yellow colour box is kept above Red colour box. One box is kept between Pink colour box and White colour box. White colour box is below the Pink colour box. Pink colour box is kept immediately above the Green colour box. There are the same number of boxes between Yellow colour box and Blue colour box is same as between Blue colour box and Green colour box.
7➤ Nine people A, B, C, D, E, F, G, H, and J celebrate their birthdays in different months i.e., March, April, May, June, July, August, October, November, and December of the same year but not necessarily in the same order. F is older than J but younger than G. B celebrates its birthday after August. Only two people celebrate their birthdays between D and A. E celebrates its birthday in the month of 30 days before June. Five people celebrate their birthdays between B and C. Three people celebrate their birthdays between A and H. Four people celebrate their birthdays between E and D.
