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There is a dressing drawer which contains the following coloured socks in pairs: Purple, Magenta, Crimson, White, Yellow and Turquoise. Now, the socks are paired and each pair is together in the matching set. There is no light in the room and you open the drawer and pick up a pair. Then, without noticing any colour, you keep them back and pick them up again.

Can you calculate the probability that the pair of socks was Yellow both times?

Asked by Sameer on 18 Jul 2026


At Delhi Cricket Clubhouse, there were four kids(Kohli, Yuvraj, Pant, and Dhoni) ages 1,2,3 and 4 and have 1,2,3 and 4 cricket balls in different orders.

We know the following facts:

Kohli has more cricket balls than his age.
Dhoni is older than Yuvraj.
One child has the same number of cricket balls as his age.
Pant has fewer cricket balls than Dhoni.
A child aged 3 has two cricket-balls.

Pant is the youngest.

Can you determine the age of the children and the number of cricket balls they have?

Asked by Sachin on 17 Jul 2026

How many squares, of any size, can you find on this chessboard which do not contain a Rook?

Chessboard Riddle

Asked by Vinod on 16 Jul 2026


John decided to give his bike 3 coats of paint. Which coat would go on the first?

Asked by Parth on 15 Jul 2026

My thunder comes before lightning.
My lightning comes before my rain.
My rain dries up all the land it touches.

Who am I?

Asked by Sachin on 14 Jul 2026

By adding four matchsticks, can you divide the square shown in the picture into two equal parts?

Divide by Matchstick Riddle

Asked by Sachin on 13 Jul 2026


Three logicians went to bar for having a drink. The bar person asks the logicians "Do they all want to have the drink?". The first logician replied, " I don't know". The second logician replied, " I don't know". What is the reply of the last logician?

Asked by Naresh on 12 Jul 2026

Four friends are sitting on a tree. Each one of them is wearing a hat. They don't know which coloured hat are they wearing but they do know that two of them have green hats and two of them have orange hats.

Adam is sitting on the top branch and he can see the hats of Billy and Cyrus. Billy is sitting on a branch above Cyrus and he can see Cyrus hat. Duke is sitting at the base of the tree. Branches are covering him fully and no one can see his hat.

Now they are not allowed to look upwards. Who do you think will shout the colour of his hat first?

Asked by Sachin on 11 Jul 2026

Find the missing number in the series below

13 -21 34 -55 ? -144

Asked by Andrew on 10 Jul 2026


How many triangles do you see in the picture puzzle below?

Count the triangles Puzzle

Asked by Andrew on 08 Jul 2026

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