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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:
“The government has increased taxes on cigarettes.”
Conclusions:
The government wants to reduce smoking.
Cigarette companies will shut down.
A) Only 1 follows
B) Only 2 follows
C) Both follow
D) Neither follows
Question 2
Statement:
“Online food delivery apps are becoming more popular in metro cities.”
Conclusions:
People prefer convenience.
Nobody cooks at home anymore.
A) Only 1
B) Only 2
C) Both
D) Neither
✅ Answers & Explanations
1️⃣ A) Only 1 follows
Increasing taxes on cigarettes generally aims to discourage smoking. Company shutdowns are not implied.
2️⃣ A) Only 1
Popularity suggests convenience matters. But saying nobody cooks at home is too extreme.
SECTION 2 — 🔢 Number & Pattern Logic
Q1 Find the next number:
1, 4, 9, 16, 25, ?
A) 30
B) 35
C) 36
D) 49
Q2 Find the next number:
2,6,18,54,…?
A) 108
B) 148
C) 162
D) 216
Q3 What should come in place of question mark (?)
81, 27, 9, 3, ?
A) 0
B) 1
C) 2
D) 4
Q4 Select the odd one out.
A) Triangle
B) Square
C) Circle
D) Cube
✅ Answers
1️⃣ C) 36
Pattern: Perfect squares
1², 2², 3², 4², 5², 6²
2️⃣ C) 162
Pattern:
×3 repeatedly
3️⃣ B) 1
Pattern: ÷3
81 → 27 → 9 → 3 → 1
4️⃣ D) Cube
The others are 2D shapes, while cube is a 3D shape.
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SECTION 3 — 🧩 Arrangement Puzzle
Seven friends — Aman, Bhavna, Chetan, Deepa, Esha, Farhan and Gokul — sit in a row facing north.
Aman sits third from the left.
Bhavna sits immediate right of Aman.
Deepa sits at one of the ends.
Esha sits between Farhan and Gokul.
Chetan sits second from the right.
Who sits at the extreme right?
A) Deepa
B) Gokul
C) Farhan
D) Esha
✅ Solution
Arrangement:
Deepa | Farhan | Esha | Gokul | Aman | Bhavna | Chetan
✅ Extreme right = Chetan
(Closest logical corrected answer option should be Chetan.)
SECTION 4 — 🧠 Coding-Decoding
1️⃣ If:
APPLE = 50
BALL = 27
Then:
FROG = ?
A) 44
B) 46
C) 48
D) 50
2️⃣ If “TRAIN” is written as “NIART”, then how would “SCHOOL” be written?
A) LOOHCS
B) LOOCSH
C) LOOHSC
D) LOOHSC
✅ Solution
1️⃣
Alphabet positions:
F = 6
R = 18
O = 15
G = 7
Total = 46
✅ Answer: B)
2️⃣
“TRAIN” becomes reverse spelling “NIART”.
Similarly:
“SCHOOL” → “LOOHCS”
✅ Answer: A)
SECTION 5 — 🎭 Lateral Thinking Challenge
A boy fell off a 20-foot ladder but did not get hurt. Why?
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✅ Answer
He fell from the bottom step.
SECTION 6 — 🤔 Everyday Riddles
Riddle 1
What has a face and two hands but no arms or legs?
A) Robot
B) Clock
C) Doll
D) Mirror
✅ Answer: B) Clock
Riddle 2
What can fill a room but takes up no space?
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✅ Answer: Light
SECTION 7 — 👀 Observation IQ Test
If:
All engineers are graduates
Some graduates are entrepreneurs
Can we conclude:
“Some engineers are entrepreneurs”?
A) Definitely
B) Possibly
C) Impossible
D) None
✅ Answer: B) Possibly
Explanation:
Engineers are graduates, and some graduates are entrepreneurs. Engineers may or may not belong to that category.
SECTION 8 — ⚡ Rapid Fire Brain Boosters
1.
What has cities, rivers and mountains but no water?
✅ A map
2.
What has one eye but cannot wink?
✅ A needle
3.
The more you remove from me, the bigger I become. What am I?
✅ A hole
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. 🚀