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Welcome to the very first edition of Brain Teasers With Ease — a newsletter designed to sharpen your logical thinking while keeping the experience fun and engaging.
This newsletter is split into:
4 Exam-Focused Sections → NMAT, SNAP & CMAT style Logical Reasoning
4 Fun Brain Sections → Riddles, lateral thinking, visual logic & everyday IQ challenges
Let’s begin 🚀
SECTION 1 — 🔍 Statement & Assumption (NMAT/SNAP)
Question 1
Statement:
“More students are now choosing online MBA programs than traditional classroom courses.”
Assumptions:
Online MBA programs are more flexible.
Traditional classroom courses are becoming irrelevant.
A) Only 1 follows
B) Only 2 follows
C) Both follow
D) Neither follows
Question 2
Statement:
“The company has decided to reduce meetings to improve productivity.”
Assumptions:
Meetings consume employee time.
Employees dislike meetings.
A) Only 1
B) Only 2
C) Both
D) Neither
Answers & Explanations
1️⃣ A) Only 1 follows
Flexibility can reasonably be assumed. But saying traditional classrooms are irrelevant is too extreme.
2️⃣ A) Only 1
Reducing meetings implies they take time. Employee dislike is not necessarily assumed.
SECTION 2 — 🔢 Number & Pattern Logic (NMAT/CMAT)
Q1 Find the next number:
2, 6, 12, 20, 30, ?
A) 36
B) 40
C) 42
D) 44
Q2 Find the next number:
5, 11, 23, 47, ?
A) 91
B) 95
C) 87
D) 99
Q3 What should come in place of question mark(?) in the following number series.
5, 8, 10, 16, 20, 32, ?
A) 38
B) 36
C) 44
D) 40
Q4 Select the odd word/letters/number/number pair from the given alternatives.
A) 1
B) 243
C) 256
D) 32
Answers
1️⃣ C) 42
Pattern:
+4, +6, +8, +10, +12
2️⃣ B) 95
Pattern:
×2 +1 repeatedly
5→11
11→23
23→47
47→95
3️⃣D)40
The given series is a combination of two series – 5, 10, 20... and 8, 16, 32...
In both the sequences, the next number is twice the previous number. The ‘?’ is part of the first series and is 20 × 2 = 40.
4️⃣C)256
1⁵ = 1
2⁵ = 32
3⁵ = 243
256 cannot be represented as the power of 5 of a natural number.
Hence, option C is the right choice.
SECTION 3 — 🧩 Arrangement Puzzle (SNAP Style)
Five friends — Arun, Bala, Charan, Deepak and Esha — sit in a row facing north.
Arun sits second from left.
Esha sits immediate right of Bala.
Charan sits at one of the ends.
Deepak is not near Arun.
Who sits in the middle?
A) Bala
B) Esha
C) Charan
D) Deepak
Solution
Arrangement:
Charan | Arun | Bala | Esha | Deepak
✅ Middle person = Bala
Answer: A
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SECTION 4 — 🧠 Coding-Decoding (NMAT Style)
If:
CAT = 24
DOG = 26
Then:
FISH = ?
A) 34
B) 42
C) 46
D) 50
If 'DANGER' is written as 'RDEAGN' in a certain code, then how would 'PARALLEL' be written in that code?
A) LAPAEILR
B) LPALEALR
C) LPEALRLA
D) LPLEARAL
Solution
Add alphabetical positions:
F = 6
I = 9
S = 19
H = 8
Total = 42
✅ Answer: B
'DANGER' is written as 'RDEAGN'.
The first half of word is written in the even numbered places - 2, 4 and 6 - and the next half of the word is written in the odd numbered places in the reverse order - 5, 3 and 1.
Similarly, 'PARA' is the first half of the word. P, A, R and A will be the 2nd, 4th, 6th and 8th letters in the code language.
'LLEL' is the second half of the word. L, E, L and L will be the 7th, 5th, 3rd and 1st letters respectively in the code language.
'LPEALRLA' is the coded word for 'PARALLEL'.
✅ Answer: C
SECTION 5 — 🎭 Lateral Thinking Challenge
A man pushed his car to a hotel and immediately knew he was bankrupt. Why?
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Answer
He was playing Monopoly.
SECTION 6 — 🤔 Everyday Riddles
Riddle 1
What has keys but cannot open locks?
A) Piano
B) Keyboard
C) Map
D) Treasure box
✅ Answer: A & B (both work depending on interpretation)
Riddle 2
What comes once in a minute, twice in a moment, but never in a thousand years?
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✅ Answer: The letter M
Minute has M once.
Moment has M twice.
Thousand years has no M.
SECTION 7 — 👀 Observation IQ Test
Spot the Logic
If:
All roses are flowers
Some flowers fade quickly
Can we conclude:
“Some roses fade quickly”?
A) Definitely
B) Possibly
C) Impossible
D) None
✅ Answer: B) Possibly
Explanation: Roses are flowers, and some flowers fade quickly. Roses may or may not be among them.
SECTION 8 — ⚡ Rapid Fire Brain Boosters
1.
Which weighs more?
1 kg cotton
1 kg iron
✅ Same weight
2.
A farmer has 17 sheep. All but 9 die. How many remain?
✅ 9
3.
What gets wetter the more it dries?
✅ Towel
That’s a wrap for today’s edition of Brain Teasers With Ease! 🧠✨
Keep challenging your mind, because every puzzle sharpens your thinking a little more. Whether you solved them all or got stuck halfway, what matters most is that you tried.
See you in the next edition with more riddles, logical twists, and brain-bending challenges!
Until then — stay curious, stay sharp. 🚀