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Puzzle-10
Maninder: Kaval, do you have any children? Kaval: Yes, I am blessed with three demons. Maninder: How old are these blessed demons? Kaval: Well, Maninder, the product of their ages is 36, Maninder: Now that doesn’t help much. Any more clues? Kaval: Two of them are the...
Puzzle-9
Tez Singh recently joined a new school. On the first day, his class teacher asked his age. Tez, being a cheeky boy, replied: “Ma’am, when I was born, my sister Ananti was one-quarter the age of our mother, and presently she is one-third the age of my father”. The...
Puzzle-8
The Singhs recently were visited by their favourite uncle, who had landed from America. The parents displayed all the five kids. First in line was Bunny and then can Geet. When the uncle asked how old they were, Mr. Singh said that the boy was exactly twice as old as...
Dogwatch
Why this section? Dogwatch: A dog’s watch or should we say, watched by dogs! I discovered the word 'dogwatch' while reading a piece somewhere. Intrigued by the portmanteau combining dog and watch, I set about exploring, or rather I should say, sniffing out its...
Types of economic markets
Why this section? Well, I have not posted in this section for some time but it is never too late to revive a section, is it? The post for today focuses on 4 types of markets and how they operate. It is a cliché but at the risk of quoting something banal, I would like...
Puzzle-7
Mr. and Mrs. Singh have fifteen children, all born at intervals of one year and a half. Miss Simran Singh, the eldest, had an objection to state her age to the census man, but she admitted that she was just seven times older than little Maninder, the youngest of all....
Puzzle-6
Maninder: "Do you know, dear, that in seven years' time our combined ages will be sixty-three years?" Megha: "Is that really so? And yet it is a fact that when you were my present age you were twice as old as I was then. I worked it out last night." Now, what are the...
Puzzle-5
Three boys were given a bag of candies as a Diwali present, and it was agreed that they should be divided in proportion to their ages, which together amounted to 17½ years. Now the bag contained 770 candies, and as often as Atish took four Pranav took three, and as...
Puzzle-4
Pranav: "Do you know, when the Singhs married eighteen years ago Mr. Singh was three times as old as his wife, and to-day he is just twice as old as she?" Priyanka: "Then how old was Mrs. Singh on the wedding day?" Can you answer Priyanka's question? [learn_more...
Puzzle-3
"Now, then, Mahesh, how old is Migo?" Anupama’s young man asked her brother. "Well, five years ago," was the youngster's reply, "sister was four times older than the dog, but now she is only three times as old." Can you tell Migo's age? [learn_more...
Puzzle-2
Lady 1: "And was he related to you, dear?" Lady 2: "Oh, yes. You see, that man's mother was my mother's mother-in-law, but he is not on speaking terms with my papa." Lady 1: "Oh, indeed!". What is the relationship of the man to lady 2? The...
Puzzle-1
The Sharma family consists of the following in terms of relationships: 1 grandfather, 1 grandmother, 2 fathers, 2 mothers, 4 children, 3 grandchildren, 1 brother, 2 sisters, 2 sons, 2 daughters, 1 father-in-law, 1 mother-in-law, and 1 daughter-in-law. If we bring a...
