Logic Puzzles: Break Out Session and Resources
Logic Puzzles: Break Out Session and Resources
Logic Puzzles: Break Out Session and Resources
Agenda
Four Logic Puzzles Resources
Ground Rules
If you know the solution already dont say it instead try to
wrong)
If you were perfect in your thought process these exercises
would be pointless
Keep some notes on each problem so we can compile them
and share
camp at night.
One flashlight and it only has enough light left for seventeen
minutes.
The bridge is too dangerous to cross without a flashlight, and its
1. (w) & (x) Cross with Torch (2 min) 2. (w) Returns with Torch (1 min) 3. (y) & (z) Cross with Torch (10 min) 4. (x) Returns with Torch (2 min) 5. (w) & (x) Cross with Torch (2 min) Total 17 min
Problem 2 (Precision)
Lay 2 quarters on a flat surface so that their edges are in
contact. Hold one still and roll the other one around it. How many rotations does the moving quarter make?
Solutions
One of many solutions: Assume Bus is
50 balls tall 50 balls wide 200 balls long
The correct answer (due to the rotation around the original quarter)
is 2
Association
Seen in interviews, LSAT, MCAT tests etc.
There are 5 houses in 5 different colors. In each house lives a person of a different nationality. The 5 owners drink a certain type of beverage, smoke a certain brand of cigar, and keep a certain pet. Using the clues below can you determine who owns the fish?
The Brit lives in a red house. The Swede keeps dogs as pets. The Dane drinks tea. The green house is on the immediate left of the white house. The green house owner drinks coffee. The person who smokes Pall Mall rears birds. The owner of the yellow house smokes Dunhill. The man living in the house right in the middle drinks milk. The Norwegian lives in the first house. The man who smokes Blend lives next door to the one who keeps cats. The man who keeps horses lives next door to the man who smokes Dunhill. The owner who smokes Blue Master drinks beer. The German smokes Prince. The Norwegian lives next to the blue house. The man who smokes Blend has a neighbor who drinks water.
Beverage
Smokes
Water
Dunhill
Tea
Blend
Milk
Pall Mall
Coffee
Prince
Beer
Blue Master
Pet
Cats
Horses
Birds
Fish
Dogs
MISC
Change the position of just one of the words below so that all
ladder with rungs a foot apart. The tide rises at a rate of 9 inches per hour. At the end of six hours, how much of the rope ladder will still remain above water, assuming that 9 feet were above the water when the tide began to rise?
Resources
Online Resources
http://www.techinterview.org/ http://tiny.cc/BNao2
http://tiny.cc/EM2vw
Audience
What brainteasers have you heard are common?