Friday, April 24, 2015

Puzzle No 3

There are four bungalows in our cul-de-sac. They are made from these materials: straw, wood, brick and glass.

Mrs Scott's bungalow is somewhere to the left of the wooden one and the third one along is brick.

Mrs Umbrella owns a straw bungalow and Mr Tinsley does not live at either end, but lives somewhere to the right of the glass bungalow.

Mr Wilshaw lives in the fourth bungalow, whilst the first bungalow is not made from straw.

Who lives where, and what is their bungalow made from?


Answer Here

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Friday, April 17, 2015

Puzzle No 2

Complete this grid with the digits 1 to 6 to make the sum correct.

Perform each mathematical operation in the order shown, from left to right, e.g. 1 + 2 x 3 is treated as (1 + 2) x 3 = 9.

Note: there is no ÷ 1, and at no point is a decimal or fraction used.

Puzzle Grid

So answer is 

Answer Grid

Enjoy !

Vaibhav Kulkarni gave correct answer. 

Wednesday, April 15, 2015

Puzzle time !

We get lots of puzzles on group and many a times someone shoots the answer before interested person can even answer it.

So a thought came up why not start series of posts with puzzles.

Public can post their answers in separate sheet.

So here is first one -



Answer -

Correct answer is July 16.

It helps to put the list of 10 dates into table form:



Now let’s examine what Albert and Bernard say. Albert goes first

I don’t know when your birthday is, but I know Bernard doesn’t know, either.

The first half of the sentence is obvious — Albert only knows the month, but not the day — but the second half is the first critical clue.

The initial reaction is, how could Bernard know? Cheryl only whispered the day, so how could he have more information than Albert? But if Cheryl had whispered “19,” then Bernard would indeed know the exact date — May 19 — because there is only one date with 19 in it. Similarly, if Cheryl had told Bernard, “18,” then Bernard would know Cheryl’s birthday was June 18.

Thus, for this statement by Albert to be true means that Cheryl did not say to Albert, “May” or “June.” (Again, for logic puzzles, the possibility that Albert is lying or confused is off the table.) Then Bernard replies:

I didn’t know originally, but now I do.

So from Albert’s statement, Bernard now also knows that Cheryl’s birthday is not in May or June, eliminating half of the possibilities, leaving July 14, July 16, Aug. 14, Aug. 15 and Aug. 17. But Bernard now knows. If Cheryl had told him “14,” he would not know, because there would still be two possibilities: July 14 and Aug. 14. Thus we know the day is not the 14th.

Now there are only three possibilities left: July 16, Aug. 15 and Aug. 17. Albert again:
Well, now I know too!

The same logical process again: For Albert to know, the month has to be July, because if Cheryl had told him, “August,” then he would still have two possibilities: Aug. 15 and Aug. 17.

Cheryl is a Cancer, which still does not explain her behavior.

Source - NYT


Thursday, March 05, 2015

ICC Cricket World Cup Predict the Champion

Mandar Prabhughate, Chaitanya Joshi, Parag Tengashe, Maheshwar Sawant, Chetan Waghmare, Amarjeet Karmarkar & Vaibhav Kulkarni are joint winners for WCEValentino Predict and Score contest. 

Congratulations !



  1. Correct Prediction for each semifinalist spot will earn 10 Points.
  2. Correct Prediction for each Finalist spot will earn 20 Points. 
  3. Correct Prediction of  The Champion will earn 50 Points. 
Last date for submission of entry is March 17, 2015. 

Enjoy and all the best !