Clock time problem

A girl buys a clock 2 weeks back. This clock loses 24 mins
in every one hour time. You set the time at 12 midnight
and the clock now displays 3.00 am and it was stopped one
hour back from now. So,what is the actual time now?

Train & tickets

Every station in a rail road issue every other station's ticket.
Some stations are added. Now they have to issue 46 more tickets.
The number of stations before and after addition is ?

Man and dog problem

A man is taking his dog for a walk. They set off together for a
waterfall 10 miles away. They set off exactly together and the
man walks at a steady 4 miles an hour. The dog runs off at 8 miles
an hour and when it reaches the waterfall it turns round and
runs back to the man. When it reaches the man it turns round and
runs back to the waterfall and so on until the man and dog arrive
at the waterfall. when they both arrive at waterfall ?

Critical Thinking Puzzles

Figure out how many gold medals Canada, Austria, Norway,
the Netherlands, Japan, Italy, Russia, and the United
States received.


1. Norway won five times as many gold medals as Russia.

2. The eight countries won a total of fifty-nine gold medals.

3. Russia has one more gold medal than Italy.

4. If Japan won four more gold medals, they would have won the
same number of gold medals as Canada.

5. The Netherlands won eight more gold medals than one-third
the number of gold medals won by Austria.

6. If Canada had won one more than three times the number
of gold medals, they would have won thirteen more gold
medals than the United States.

Funny riddle

If the puzzle you solved before you solved the puzzle you solved
after you solved the puzzle you solved before you solved this one,
was harder than the puzzle you solved after you solved the puzzle
you solved before you solved this one, was the puzzle you solved
before you solved this one harder than this one ?
Explain your reasoning.

Shadow length

A pillar 6 feet tall casts a shadow 3 feet long on the ground.
If the pillar was 12 feet tall, how many feet in length
would the shadow be ?

Faulty coin problem

You are given twelve coins, of which eleven are genuine
and one is fake. All eleven genuine coins have the same weight
and the fake coin has a different weight. Find the fake in
three weighings.