#671 - Amazing Maths Movie Puzzle
You see a mathematical expression in the picture. Can you think of a movie that this expression refers to?
The movie name that this picture refers to is - 21 and Over.
#672 - NYC Hardest Logical Deduction Puzzle
You are hanging around in NYC when a person approaches you.
"Leaving the bald people aside, I can bet a hundred bucks that there are two people living in NYC who have same number of hairs on their heads," he says to you.
You say that you will take the bet. After talking to the man for a couple of minutes, you realize that you have lost the bet.
What did the person say to you that proved his statement ?
This problem can be best solved using the pigeonhole principle.
The argument will go like this:
Assume that all the non-bald people in NYC have different number of hairs on their head. The population is about 9 million and let us assume that there are 8 million among them who are not bald.
Now, those 8 million people need to have different number of hairs. On an average, people have just 100, 000 hairs on their head. If we keep on assuming that there is someone with just one hair, someone with two, someone with three and so on, there will be 7, 900, 00 other people left who will have more than 100, 000 hairs on their head and need different number of hairs.
Now, as per this assumption, if we keep increasing one hair for each person, to make everybody hair different in numbers, we will come across someone with 8, 000, 000 hairs. But that is practically impossible (even 1, 000, 000 is impossible). Thus there must be two people who are having same number of hairs.
#673 - 9 dots 4 Lines Picture Puzzle
You will find nine dots in the picture that has been attached with this question. Can you join all the dots drawing four straight lines without picking up your pen?
So many of you might have struggled solving this. This is because our mind usually restricts us to work within the space given which here were the dots.
#674 - Find Which Movie
This cute little figure holds the name of a movie. Can you find out which movie is that ?
The movie name is - Identity Thief. The thief clipart on the top of the code was a giveaway.
#675 - Hardest Counting Squares Puzzle
A network of 20 x 10 squares is given to you.
Can you calculate how many unique squares and rectangles can be formed combining two or more individual squares ?
11550
Total number of rectangles and squares will be equal to: (Summation of row numbers) * (Summation of column numbers)
= (1 + 2 + 3 +......+ 19 + 20) * (1 + 2 + 3 +......+ 9 + 10)
= 210 * 55
= 11550
#676 - Read Word Tiger Picture Puzzle
In the given picture, in how many ways can you read the word "Tiger"?
Tiger can be read in 60 ways in the given picture.
The easiest way to find out is to start with the T in the center and then move to an adjoining letter vertically or horizontally (not diagonally).
#677 - Lateral Thinking Game Winner Puzzle
Aaron, Brad, Christopher, Danny and Elvis decided to play a game of tiddly winks. In this game they decided that one win will get 1 point for winning, 0 for losing and 1/2 in case of a tie.
They finished the game in alphabetical order and it was found that the scores were different for each person.
Based on the following two statements, can you find out the result of the individual games?
Brad: No one could finish like me, without a loss.
Elvis: No one played worse than me, I finished without a single win.
One of the possible solution is given below:
Aaron lost to Brad, but won every other game for a total of 3 points.
Brad beat Aaron, but tied in all other games for a total of 2.5 points.
Christopher beat Danny and tied with Brad and Elvis for 2 points.
Danny beat Elvis and tied only with Brad for 1.5 points.
Elvis tied with Brad and Christopher for 1 point.
#678 - Word Series Puzzle
You can find some missing letters in the picture. By placing two particular letters in the spaces, you can from a nine lettered word beginning from one of the corners and going clockwise direction to the middle.Can you find out the letters and the word ?
The missing letters are H and L. The word is Avalanche.
#679 - Hard Missing Number Grid
Can you find out the missing number in the grid?
The missing number is 19. Let us label the boxes with Rs and Cs where R refers to the Row number and C refers to the Column number.
#680 - Confusing Lost Chocolates Puzzle
Alex bought 150 chocolates but he misplaced some of them. His mother asked him how many chocolates were misplaced and he gave the following answer to her:
If you count in pairs, one remain
If you count in threes, two remain
If you count in fours, three remain
If you count in fives, four remain
If you count in sixes, five remain
If you count in sevens, no chocolate remain.
Can you analyze the statements and tell us how many chocolates were lost?
119 chocolates were lost.