Worksheet: Puzzles | Know Your Aptitude Class 3 To 5 - Class 5 PDF Download

Q1: You are walking in an enchanted forest and there is a tree with 2 apples (one good apple and one poisonous).

There are 2 identical forest dwellers, one of them always lies and another always tells the truth, and you cannot differentiate between them.
When somebody asked them which apple is safe to eat, they answered as follows:-
Dweller 1: “I would say, the one on the top”.
Dweller 2: “I would say, the one on the bottom”.

Q: Which apple is safe?
(a) Cannot be determined
(b) The one on the top
(c) The one on the bottom
(d) Both are unsafe

Q2: There are five children, among which 4 are boys and 1 girl.

Only one child among them lies and rest speak the truth.
The 1st child says, “ I am a boy”.
The 2nd child says, “I am a girl”.
The 3rd child says, “First child is lying and the second child is truthful”.
The 4th child says, “One of us is not a boy”.
The 5th child days, “ The first child is a boy”.

Q: Who is the liar?
(a) 2nd child
(b) 5th child
(c) 3rd child
(d) 1st child

Q3:

In a 400 meters race run between Neel and David, Neel beats David by 20 meters.
When David and Sharon run the same lap, David beats Sharon by 40 meters.
What happens when runners Neel and Sharon run the lap?
Assume that each runner maintained constant speed during their sprint.
(a) Neel beats Sharon by less than 60 meters
(b) Neel beats Sharon by exactly 60 meters
(c) Neel beats Sharon by more than 60 meters
(d) Can’t say

Q4: Surya’s uncle is a football referee who refs a game seven days a week during the season.
Because of his schedule, he can take his striped shirts to the cleaners only one day a week.
He takes them in on Monday and picks them up on Tuesday.
If he wears only washed striped shirt every day of the week, what is the fewest number of shirts he would need to make it through the season?

Q5:
Is the yellow area is larger than the grey area?
(a) True
(b) False

Q6: The secret agency Tycoon emailed some code to its agent 006. They are "RACECAR, MURDRUM, SAGAS, ATTACK, and REPAPER". Leaving one which is fake, all other words have something in common. Can you help in finding the fake word?

Q7: A man builds a house with all 4 sides facing south. A bear walks past the house. What color is the bear?

Q8: A man drove his Innova car all the way from Shimla to Delhi only to discover at the end of the trip that he had a punctured tyre from the very start. Yet his Innova car was not at all affected by it? How is this possible?

Q9: A girl found that she had a 56 cms strip of ribbon. She could cut a cm off every second. How long would it take for her to cut 56 pieces? She can not fold the strip and also, can not stack two or more strips and cut them together.

Q10: A woman had two girls who were born on the same hour of the same day of the same year. But they were not twins. How could this be so?