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Most frequently asked puzzles in Interviews Part-2

In this post, I will share some common and interesting puzzles asked in interviews by companies. You will be able to solve such types of puzzles if you had solved those puzzles or similar types of puzzles before going to interviews.

1) If you are entering a room and your head strikes the bulb which is hanging from the ceiling of the room. What will be the height of the room?

2) There is a vending machine which has 3 buttons for Milk, Coffee, and Tea but each of them is labeled differently and you don't know which button gives what and you need to put 5 Rupees if you want to drink anything. So how much minimum money you will have to spend to determine which button gives what?

3) You are riding a horse and to the right of you is a bear running at your same speed, to your front one elephant is running with the speed more than you and you cannot overtake it, and to your left one hippo is running at the same speed. A lion is chasing you very fast. How will you save yourself?

4) How many Bricks do you need to complete 100 Buildings made up of Bricks?

5) Jamie lives in a house that has 4 windows on each wall and each window has a southern View. One day he saw a bear coming towards his home. What is the color of Bear?

6) Once lived a king who made a bridge from his kingdom to the neighboring Kingdom only for his travel to meet other kings. He ordered one guard that if he sees anyone from his kingdom escaping through bridge then Shoot him/her and if somebody coming from another kingdom then sent him/her back. The guard was staying inside his small hut near the bridge. He watches out the bridge in the night for 20 minutes and goes back to his hut for 5 minutes to take a rest. The total time takes to cross the bridge is 8 minutes. Despite this one man manage to cross the bridge without getting killed and harming the guard. How is this possible?

7) You Stay in DELHI. PUNJAB is 400 KM far away from DELHI. INDORE is 900 KM away from DELHI. How Far is JAMMU from DELHI?

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