1.

	You need to move 2 adjacent pieces at one time. In the problem, you need to move 2 times to make it comingled.. You can not have any gap between pieces when you finish. You are not limited to move in one direction only.

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2.

Take a rope to tie the handle of a cup as shown in the figure. Then tie the vertical end to a fixed nail. How can you untie the rope from the cup handle without cutting the rope, breaking the cup, or releasing it from the other end of the rope? Assume the rope can be as long as you can think of.

Ans:

Lose the tie and make the tie become a big hole and let the cup go though the hole.

creative puzzle

1. 

	12 matches made 4 squares as shown in the figure. 1. Move 3 matches to make 3 squares. 2. Move 4 matches to make 3 squares.

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2. When the Titanic sank in the ocean, four gentlemen and four young ladies floated on to an island. After a while, all of them fell in love with each other. Each person loved one and only one. 

The girl that John loved fell in love with Jim. The girl that Allan loved fell in love with Bill. The gentleman that Rose loved fell in love with Mary. Gloria loved the gentleman who loved rose. Gloria did not like Jim and John. Bill did not like Mary. Jill did not like the gentleman who loved her.

The question is: Whom did Allan love?

Ans :
 1. John loved girl-1 who loved Jim.
 2. Allan loved girl-2 who loved Bill.
 3. Rose loved gentleman-1 who loved Mary.
 4. Gloria loved gentleman-2 who loved Rose.
 5. Gloria did not like Jim and John.
 6. Bill did not like Mary.
Reasoning:
7. Item 3 and 4 can be conbined into 1 chain.
8. Gloria can not be the girl-1 because 1 and 5.
9. Since Bill does not like Mary, Bill can not be gentleman 1.
10. Bill can not love Gloria, because that will end up combining item 2 and 7. The resulting chain will have 5 girls. It meant Bill was gentleman 2 and loved Rose.
12. According to item 2, the answer was Allan loved Gloria.

Todays puzzle

1.  72  ->  53  ->  34  ->  25
What are the next two numbers in the sequence?
Ans :
7*7+2*2=53
5*5+3*3=34
3*3+4*4=25
2*2+5*5=29
2*2+9*9=85    29 and 85 are the numbers.


2.  I have a horse. Do you know what color it is

Allan said, "I guess it is not black". 
Brian said, "It is either brown, or gray".
Charlie said "I know it is brown".

I said, "At least one of you is right and at least one of you is wrong." What is the color of my horse if the color is one of the above?

Ans:It is gray

Tricky maths

1. Replace The Question Mark Below With Correct Number ?

2 {38} 3
4 {1524} 5
6 {3548} 7
8 {????} 9
Ans:
6380

1st num:8*8-1=63
9*9-1=90



2. I have a role of cloth 1km long.
I have a machine which cuts this role into pieces of 10 meter long cloth.

How long would it take for the machine to cut the roll if each cut took 4 secs ?
Ans:
396 seconds

1000m would only take 99 cuts not 100.
so 4*99 => 396

Types of puzzles

1. DOUBLET is a puzzle which tranfer one meaningful word to another meaningful word by changing one letter in each step.

Condition : word in each step should be meaningful & transfer within minimum steps

Example : HEAD to TAIL

               HEAD

               HEAL

               TEAL

               TELL

               TALL

               TAIL

2. TANGRAM is a puzzle set consisting of 7 rearrangable pieces. The aim of the puzzle is to form a figure using those 7 tangram pieces. The figure may be a mathematical shape or animal and so on with definite shape.