Saturday, March 31, 2012

Crowns

In the following figure, in 15 seconds, can you find which three crowns are identical?


Crowns




Answer:


C, D, and L

5 Squares

The numbers 1 to 9 are arranged in five overlapping squares where the total of numbers in each squre is 14. Can you re-arrange these numbers so that the total of numbers in each squre would be 13?


Squares





Answer:


Word Ladder: Chase to Catch!

In this word ladder, you should start from Chase and end to Catch by adding 8 words in between!

Note: A Word Ladder is a word game invented by Lewis Carroll. A word ladder puzzle begins with two words, and to solve the puzzle one must find a chain of other words to link the two, where at each step the words differ by altering a single letter [for more info visit http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Word_ladder].









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 ANSWER: 
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Find a 12-letter English Word

In the following puzzle, starting from any letter, trace out a 12-letter English word by going along the lines without crossing any letter more than once.


Find a 12-letter English Word






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 ANSWER: Tastefulness
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Word Odd Out

Which of the following words is odd one out?
  1. actualized
  2. authorizer
  3. customized
  4. carbonized
  5. scandalize




Answer:

No. 3. All other words share 4 letters A, E, I, and Z.

Monday, March 26, 2012

PRNNGSLWDRSCP!

Four words related to basic gardening have been written in a row with neither spaces nor vowels. What are these four words?

PRNNGSLWDRSCP


Answer




Answer:

Pruning Soil Weeder Scoop

Saturday, March 24, 2012

Memory Challenge - Objects

Study this picture for 30 seconds!



Now, do not refer to the above picture, and identify which three objects appear more often!







Which is the odd one out?

Which is the odd one out?







Answer:

C.
C has three white and one black on the left and three black and one white on the right. The others are the opposite way round.


Which tile is missing?

Which tile is missing?








Answer:

In each row and column, every ring is shaded black once.


Missing Number

1. What is the missing number?

14
4 7 4
5 1 4 1 5
1 2 3 5 3 2 1
1 1 1 1 ? 1 1 1 1

a. 1
b. 2
c. 6
d. 10


Answer:

d

14 = 14
4 + 7 + 4 = 15
5 + 1 + 4 + 1 + 5 = 16
1 + 2 + 3 + 5 + 3 + 2 + 1 = 17
1 + 1 + 1 + 1 + 10 + 1 + 1 + 1 + 1 = 18

Trace out a 13-letter word!

In this figure, trace out a 13-letter word by travelling along the lines without crossing a letter twice.





Answer:
Cachinnation  (cachinnation means "loud convulsive laughter")

Next Item (Easy Test)

What is the next item in this sequence?









Answer:

B

Number of Blocks

If the stack of blocks pictured here looks the same from all four directions, what is the maximum number of blocks that could be used to build it, based on what you can see from this angle?

source: Brain Flexing IQ Tests






Answer:

19 blocks. There are four layers. From the top down, they could have at maximum 1 block, 4 blocks, 9 blocks, and 5 blocks.

Sunday, March 18, 2012

Symbols for Numbers

In the following puzzle, the numbers 1 to 9 are replaced with nine symbols. Can you identify what value should replace the question mark?




Answer:

0


Friday, March 16, 2012

1 to 25

Use the numbers 1 to 25 to fill in the missing numbers! Remember that each number is used once and multiplication and division are performed prior to addition and subtraction.






Answer:


Identical Units!

Add two lines in the following figure to make two identical units - note that the units could be rotated.

Add two lines to make two identical units!



Answer:



What Number

What number should replace the question mark?







Answer:

7 [each number at the lower of sector is equal to sum of the 3 numbers in its opposite divided by 2; hence, (1+9+4)/2 = 7].


Two Numbers

Two numbers are such that if the first gets 100 from the second they will be in the ratio 9 to 1, but if the second receives 36 from the first, their ratio will be 1 to 2. What are these two numbers?  







Answer:

116 and 124

Grid Puzzle





What grid should come next?

(A)

(B)

(C)

(D)




Answer:

C: