You are confined in a room and given two metal rods. Out of these two rods, one is magnet and the other is the iron rod. They look starkly similar. You don't have any other metal object in the room.
Tarang football website was hacked by one of the players. Jack, the coach of Tarang has pointed out five players as the possible hacker.
Each suspected player made three statements from each suspected player and out of which two are true and one is false.
Joseph
A) I have not hacked the website.
B) I know nothing about hacking.
C) John did it.
Hazard
A) I have not hacked the website.
B) The website was attacked by one of the players.
C) I hate Shelly
Remy
A) I have not hacked the website.
B) I have never seen Oscar in my entire life.
C) I am sure John did it.
John
A) I have not hacked the website.
B) I am sure Oscar did it.
C) Joseph was lying when he said he did it.
Oscar
A) I have not hacked the website.
B) I am sure Hazard did it.
C) I used to be friend with Remy.
At the local model boat club, four friends were talking about their boats.
There were a total of eight boats, two in each colour, red, green, blue and yellow. Each friend owned two boats. No friend had two boats of the same colour.
Alan didn't have a yellow boat. Brian didn't have a red boat but did have a green one. One of the friends had a yellow boat and a blue boat and another friend had a green boat and a blue boat. Charles had a yellow boat. Darren had a blue boat, but didn't have a green one.
Can you work out which friend had which coloured boats?
You have 10 balls with you. A friend of yours out of nowhere asks you to place those ten balls in five lines such that each of the lines has exactly 4 balls on them. He needs to check your intelligence. Prove him by doing the task.
In 2011, people playing Foldit, an online puzzle game about protein folding, resolved the structure of an enzyme that causes an Aids-like disease in monkeys. Researchers had been working on the problem for 13 years. The gamers solved it in three weeks.
