Questions tagged [logical-deduction]
A puzzle that requires formal logical deduction to arrive at the solution. This suggests more than merely reasoning through clues to find an answer (you might want [situation] for that).
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Coin Game with infinite paradox
Here’s the puzzle/problem:
Let’s presume we are best friends. I own the house next to you. I make a gaming proposition along the following lines:
You throw a coin over and over again. So long as it ...
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Sequence made of symbols
(My friend in real life gave me this)That's the original sequence:
⬅↕➡,⬅↕,➡,⬅,?,?,↕➡
I'm going to use other symbols to make it readable:
(/), (/,), (/, ?, ?, /)
I've noticed that the comma ...
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Reflections in a Square
An ideal billiards table (no friction, ideal reflections off of the walls, no pockets) is shaped like a square. From the bottom-left corner, shoot a point-sized cue ball at some angle.
What is the ...
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Help me solve this riddle, please [closed]
There once was a man with seven sons. One of his sons was very smart. Four of his sons are of average intelligence. The four sons that were of average intelligence but much smarter than the one. But ...
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Girl Hackers - Logic Puzzle
StackExchange Top Ranked Girl Hackers
The Stack Exchange Hacking Federation (of course fictitious) has just released its list of top-ranked female hackers for the year.
Using only the clues below, ...
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Find 108 by using 3,4,6
Assemble a formula using the numbers $3$, $4$ and $6$ in any order to make 108.
You may use the operations;
$x + y$
$x - y$
$x \times y$
$x \div y$
$x!$
$\sqrt{x}$
$\sqrt[\leftroot{-2}\uproot{2}x]{...
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Sum letters are not two different
The following letters all have something in common which may not be obvious at a first glance:
A B D H P
No other letters share this attribute.
Hint
More ...
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8 Prisoners wearing hats
A warden lines up these prisoners. He announces, "I see a white hat." He then leaves the room. Every few minutes he comes back in and asks if anybody knows their hat color. Anyone who figured it out ...
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A story about liars
Evelyn, Skylar, Alayna, Madelyn, Jonathon, Lara, Alyin, Felix, Iris, Bob and Roslina live on an island where some people always tell the truth, and the rest always lie.
Roslina says "Alyin and Evelyn ...
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3 doors, three guards, one stone
You are in a room with three doors. You find out that behind two of these doors, the darkest pit of hell is waiting for you to make a mistake. The other door leads to heaven, where you obviously want ...
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Can't figure this one out.. What is the missing box?
I've been stuck on this for ages, and can't figure this out.
What is the missing box, and the logic behind the answer?
This was taken from a Korn Ferry Leadership Assessment practice trial.
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Pattern Recognition: $7 \star 8$ =?
The following pattern was given to me by one of my friends:
If $$\quad 5 \star 5 = 10$$
$$\quad 6 \star 6=18$$
$$\quad 7 \star 7=36$$
then $$\quad 7 \star 8 = ?$$
a) $54 \quad$ b) $51 \...
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What is the solution for this progression puzzle? [duplicate]
I encountered this in an online test and was unable to solve it.
My approach was that the sticks were rotating, like hands of a clock in either direction at different rates. But by using this I was ...
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What is the minimum High Card Points needed for a partnership to be able to claim all 13 tricks in Bridge?
Assume you have basic knowledge of how a contract bridge game plays. There are 40 total HCPs in a set of cards. 4 for each Ace, 3 for each King, 2 for each Queen and 1 for each Jack.
What is the ...
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IQ test question from Vietnam [duplicate]
If anyone know how to do it? Confuse
from https://testiq.vn/iq-test.html
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Gold, silver and bronze in the balance
Equivalent to finding three heaviest coins in order of weight,
on a balance that holds one coin on each side.
(Simplified, with some Wikipedia references corrected, from the original puzzle.
The ...
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What's the hand of the lonely man?
Albert, Fred, Larry, Ron and Patrick are playing cards at Albert’s house with a regular 52 card deck that is missing all the 2s. Patrick has 10 cards, none of which are higher than 6. Ron has 13 cards,...
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Pattern Recognition problem : $… ,224,8,3,4,11,…$
The following pattern was given to me by one of my friend:
$$\color{red}{224}$$
$$14 \quad \quad 8$$
$$4 \quad \quad \quad \quad \quad 3$$
$$8 \quad \quad \quad \quad \quad \quad \quad 4$$
$...
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Writing differences on a blackboard
The numbers 25 and 36 are written on a blackboard. At each turn,
a player writes on the blackboard the (positive) difference between two numbers
already on the blackboard, if this number does not ...
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Which one is the true statement? [closed]
All five statements below are true.
None of the four statements below are true.
Both of the statements above are true.
Exactly one of the three statements above is true.
None of the four statements ...
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Don't be Greedy
this is a cs50 puzzle day 2019 question
as you would know the questions have a one english word answer.
will someone like to collab with me to solve all of them? there are 10 more of them.
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Bold, vivid family
I remember organising the colours of the rainbow in columns. In the way that I did, I could create the word RAINBOW from certain letters in each word, indicated by the columns they were each placed in....
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Masyu puzzles with many circles
The rules of Masyu:
Make a single loop with lines passing through the centers of cells, horizontally or vertically. The loop never crosses itself, branches off, or goes through the same cell ...
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Which gate leads to heaven? [duplicate]
You are standing before two doors. One of the path leads to heaven and the other one leads to hell. There are two guardians, one by each door. You know one of them always tells the truth and the other ...
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Best way to pay for college puzzle
In a society, everyone goes to college and everyone has 3 children(one parent family). College is also very expensive. There are two ways that this society could pay for college. Let's say college ...
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Keeping a ball lost forever
Suppose you can make a rectangular maze, where each cell (apart from the bottom-right) can contain an arrow in one of the four directions (up, down, left or right) of your choosing, except for those ...
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Fair way to split coins [duplicate]
Alice and Bob went walking in the desert.
Alice had two gallons of water and Bob had three gallons.
They met Charlie who had no water at all and they all (Alice, Bob, and Charlie) shared the five ...
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Creatures from the Deep saw the heroes on a bridge
It was dark and cold in the land of Nemeria. A fellowship of heroes traversed a bridge in a straight line, one after another. Below them, only an abyss. They could hear the howling of strange ...
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What will the Frenchman say?
An Englishman, a Frenchman and a German are speaking.
First the Englishman says : "M".
Then the Frenchman says : "M" as well.
And the German also says : "M".
They all agree and decide to ...
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An Accountant Seeks the Help of a Mathematician
The accountant complaints to the mathematician:
“I lent money to five other faculty members and still haven’t been paid back. You are one of them; the other four owe me 12 dollars altogether, but ...
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Electric switch [duplicate]
There are 3 switches in a room and a bulb in another room far away.
One of the switches turns the bulb on.
How can you find the switch which turns the bulb on by going to the room only once?
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What's the combination for the safe?
The CFO sat back in his leather chair, which creaked and squeaked. "It's actually pleather," he said to the intern sitting nervously opposite him, a notepad resting on his knees. "We're very cost-...
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What's the problem with the prisoner to be hanged logic puzzle
A criminal is imprisoned on Monday, and told "you will have been hanged by the weekend, but you won't know which day we'll hang you."
If it gets to Thursday midnight and he's not been hanged yet, he ...
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Possible answer to the Heaven Hell Door riddle
There is a fairly common riddle
You're standing between the door to heaven and the door to hell. A guard stands by each door. One guard always tells the truth, and the other always lies. You don't ...
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The Pebbles Quiz
We are in a TV game. We have 8 same looking boxes, each of which has 2 pebbles. Each pebble could be either precious or not precious. We choose a box and the host, without looking inside the box, ...
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Binary Bob's Programming Language Puzzle
Binary Bob Needs Your Assistance
Bob's Dilemma
Binary Bob is considering going back to school to learn computer programming, however, Bob has been given some jumbled course information.
Bob needs ...
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Only one option is correct [closed]
$a \in \mathbb{C}$
Which is the correct option:
1) $a = 1$
2) $a = 42$
3) $a = i =\sqrt{-1}$
4) $0^a \in \mathbb{C}$
5) $a^3 = 1$
Hint 1:
Hint 2:
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Poisoned Glasses on a Platter
Three identical, mute triplets, $F$, $S$, and $T$, each of whom is a perfect logician, have been kidnapped. Their captor begins by instructing them that in a room that they will shortly enter, are six ...
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$n$ buttons on a table
A generalization of Four buttons on a table:
In a certain room there is a rotating round table, with 4 symmetrically located indistinguishable buttons. Each button can be either ”on” or ”off”, ...
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Four buttons on a table
I was asked lately (in an interview) to solve this puzzle, which is similar to the 4 cups on table puzzle.
In a certain room there is a rotating round table, with 4 symmetrically located ...
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Pattern recognition problem: if $2 \star 8 \star 8 = 161642\dots$ then M=?
The following sequence was given to me by one of my friend:
$$\color{red}{2 \star 8 \star 8 = 161642}$$
$$\color{blue}{4 \star 9 \star 7 = 362843}$$
$$\color{red}{7 \star 5 \star 9 = 356344}$$
...
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Who attempted to betray the Boston King?
The Castle of Weshire recently declared war on the Castle of Boston. The two armies soon met, the Boston King and Weshire King giving out orders from behind their lines of soldiers, surround by their ...
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Tokyo Metro puzzle special #2: The tour of the Metro
This is a simpler puzzle: How many stations do you have to pass by to pass by every station of the Metro? map
Please either 1) explain your solution or 2) make an image of the route. Once consensus ...
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Pattern recognition puzzle, …$5$ , M , $6,5040,$ … ; then M=?
The following pattern puzzle problem was given to me by one of my friend:
$$\color{red}{5}$$
$$\color{blue}{24 \quad \quad \quad \text{M}}$$
$$\color{red}{4 \quad \quad \quad \quad \quad 6}$$
$...
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Tokyo Metro puzzle special: Oops, the lines are coming down
Here is my first Special Edition puzzle, and it is a little harder.
The map is also available as a PDF.
So you, being a Tokyo straphanger, was in between Hikawadai (Y05 F05) and Kotake-mukaihara (...
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Minesweeper challenge #5
Coming back to another Minesweeper challenge...
I've run into another "unsolvable corner" (corner of a puzzle where there isn't enough information to be 100% certain that any particular square that ...
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Treasure Hunt Riddle
John and Peter participate in a treasure hunting competition. The organizer places a gold medal in one of the lockers. The locker rack contains 49 lockers, each of which has a name indicating its row ...
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The No-Straight Maze
Consider the following maze.
You can walk on the black lines, and your aim is to go from the green at the maze's bottom to the red on the left side. However, each time you reach an intersection of ...
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How many trees and birds are there? [closed]
There are 'X' number of Trees and 'Y' number Birds.
If 1 bird sits on each tree then 1 BIRD will be left.
If 2 birds sits on each tree then 1 TREE will be left.
What is number of trees(X) and ...
