Puzzles Last Updated : 20 Mar, 2024 Improve Improve Like Article Like Save Share Report What is a Puzzle? A puzzle is a game, problem, or piece of information about any facts, clues, etc., that tests a person’s ingenuity or knowledge. A person is required to put pieces or the given information together in a logical way to arrive at the answer. Puzzles check the intellect, common sense, knowledge, awareness, logic and reasoning ability of a person. Crossword puzzles, word-search puzzles, number puzzles, relational puzzles, and logic puzzles are different genres of puzzles. The academic study of puzzles is enigmatology. We at GeeksforGeeks have tried to cover all the reasoning questions, which are asked in competitive exams. We have provided tips and tricks to solve maximum questions in less time. By solving puzzles regularly at GeeksforGeeks, you would be able to master your reasoning and crack your desired examination. Types of Puzzles Reasoning or Puzzles can be divided into four parts as per a common examination pattern: Analytical Logical Shape and Arrangement Mechanical Topics : Analytical / Mathematical Puzzles Logical Puzzles Arrangement Puzzles Shape based Puzzles Mechanical Puzzles Quick Links Analytical / Mathematical Puzzles: S.No. Puzzle Title Asked in Company 1 Find ages of daughters Google, Microsoft 2 Calculate total distance travelled by bee Yahoo 3 Puzzle – 6×6 Grid: How Many Ways? Amazon, Zoho 4 Monty Hall problem VMWare 5 Torch and Bridge Google, Microsoft 6 2 Eggs and 100 Floors VMWare 7 Maximize the probability of White Ball Amazon 8 Poison and Rat Amazon 9 Hourglasses Puzzle Bank of America, Yahoo 10 The ratio of Boys and Girls in a Country where people want only boys Google, Goldman Sachs 11 Car Wheel Puzzle MakeMytrip 12 Maximum Chocolates Infosys, MakeMytrip 13 Puzzle | Splitting a Cake with a Missing Piece in two equal portion Alcatel-Lucent, Cognizant 14 Rs 500 Note Puzzle CAT, UPSC 15 Girl or Boy Amazon 16 Know Average Salary without Disclosing Individual Salaries Infosys, Bloomberg. 17 Maximum run in cricket FAANG 18 Completion of Task Reflexis Systems 19 Find missing Row in Excel philips 20 Four People on a Rickety Bridge Jumbotail, SAP 21 Man fell in well Puzzle American Express 22 50 red marbles and 50 blue marbles Google, Microsoft, JP morgan chase 23 Puzzle | Form Three Equilateral Triangles Google 24 10 identical bottles of pills ZS Associate 25 Puzzle | Maximum pieces that can be cut from a Circle using 6 straight lines TCS 26 Chain Link Puzzle cognizant 27 The shopkeeper and the lady who made a purchase of Rs 200 with fake note Persistent Systems 28 Egg Dropping Puzzle with 2 Eggs and K Floors Google, Microsoft 29 Minimum number of Apples to be collected from trees to guarantee M red apples Leetcode 30 Snail and Wall TCS 31 1000 light bulbs switched on/off by 1000 people passing by UK university interview 32 Puzzle | Four Alternating Knights Amazon, Google 33 TCS DIGITAL PUZZLE | Lateral Thinking 2 TCS 34 Puzzle | 100 Cows And Milk ZS 35 Puzzle | One Mile on the Globe Microsoft 36 TCS DIGITAL PUZZLE | Lateral Thinking TCS 37 Puzzle | The Counters and Board JP-morgan 38 Camel and Banana Puzzle Amazon, Yahoo 39 Puzzle | (Six Matches , Right Foot Forward) TCS 40 How much he had initially? IAS interview question 41 Puzzle | 3 cuts to cut round cake into 8 equal pieces Adobe, Citius Tech, Cognizant, blackrock 42 Two Creepers Climbing a Tree Adobe, Google, Microsoft Recent articles on Analytical/mathematical puzzles Logical Puzzles: S.No. Puzzle Title Asked in Company 1 Pay an employee using a gold rod of 7 units ? FAANG, Ola cabs 2 Find the fastest 3 horses Accolite, Goldman Sachs, MakeMyTrip 3 Finding the injection for Anesthesia Google, Yahoo 4 3 Bulbs and 3 Switches MakeMyTrip, Qualcomm 5 Camel and Banana Puzzle Amazon, Yahoo 6 Find the Jar with contaminated pills MakeMyTrip 7 100 Prisoners with Red/Black Hats Google, Microsoft 8 10 Coins Puzzle Google, Yahoo 9 Strategy for a 2-Player Coin Game TCS 10 5 Pirates and 100 Gold Coins Microsoft 11 Minimum cut Puzzle Amazon 12 Prisoner and Policeman Puzzle Microsoft 13 Puzzle – Cheating Husband Microsoft, Google 14 Puzzle – Blind Games Bloomberg L.P. 15 Puzzle – Chameleons go on a date Amazon 16 Heaven and Hell Amazon, Infosys 17 Mislabeled Jars Google, Microsoft 18 8 balls problem Microsoft, Simence 19 Cheryl’s Birthday Puzzle and Solution Facebook, Whatsapp, Singapore math Olympic 20 Puzzle – The Lion and the Unicorn The Access Group (UK), TCS 21 Farmer, Goat, Wolf, and Cabbage Infosys 22 Water Jug Problem Wells Fargo 23 Blind man and Pills Mentor Graphics 24 The Burning Candles Wipro 25 Puzzle | The Burning Candles Wipro, IBM, TCS 26 Rat and Poisonous Milk Bottles Google 27 Measuring 6L water from 4L and 9L buckets Microsoft 28 Six Houses P, Q, R, S, T, and U CAT Quiz 29 Melting Candles Faang 30 Red Hat vs Blue Hat Microsoft 31 Puzzle | Joint family of seven persons (L, M, N, O, P, Q, and R) TCS 32 Puzzle | The Circle of Lights Microsoft, Bloomberg 33 Puzzle | 9 Students and Red Black Hats Google 34 Light all the bulbs Microsoft, Bloomberg 35 Distribute the Water Microsoft 36 Puzzle | Can 2 persons be with same number of hairs on their heads? oppo, inflame 37 Weight of Heavy Ball IBM Recent articles on Logical puzzles Arrangement Puzzles: S.No. Puzzle Title Asked in Company 1 10 Coins Puzzle Google, Yahoo 2 Days of the month using 2 dice Microsoft 3 Tic Tac Toe Puzzle Amazon 4 Matchstick Puzzle Kirloskar Brothers, SLB 5 Last Palindrome Date Before 10/02/2001 Amazon 6 10 identical bottles of pills ZS Associate 7 10 Balls in 5 Lines Publicis Sapient 8 Round table coin game ElectrifAi 9 Puzzle | The Circle of Lights Microsoft, Bloomberg Recent articles on Arrangement puzzles Shape based Puzzles: S.No. Puzzle Title Asked in Company 1 3 cuts to cut the round cake into 8 equal pieces Adobe, Citius Tech, Cognizant 2 Chessboard and dominos Google 3 Puzzle 36 | (Matchstick Puzzle) SLB 4 Maximum pieces that can be cut from a Circle using 6 straight lines TCS 5 Splitting a Cake with a Missing Piece in two equal portion SAP 6 3 Ants and Triangle Intuit, ZS Associate, EXL Recent articles on Shape based puzzles Mechanical Puzzles: Algorithm to solve Rubik’s Cube Crossword Puzzle Of The Week #1 (for DSA) Crossword Puzzle Of The Week #2 (for Computer Science and Applications) Crossword Puzzle Of The Week #3 (for Database and Queries) Crossword Puzzle Of The Week #4 (for Object Oriented Programming) Quick Links : ‘Practice Problems’ on Puzzles Recent Puzzles! 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