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Puzzle Questions Asked in Previous IBPS PO Pre Exams PDF

Puzzles Questions for IBPS PO : Hello Aspirants, as we know that IBPS is going to conduct IBPS Prelims exam soon. So you must be looking forward to see the previous year Puzzle questions that are asked in IBPS prelims exams. Below we are providing all the Puzzle questions with solutions that are asked in IBPS PO Pre exams previously.

Puzzle Questions Asked in (1st Slot) IBPS PO Prelims Held on 8th Oct 2017:

There are eight people T S U V W X Y Z live on different floor of a building. Living in different states.

• Z live on a odd no floor above floor no 3.the one from Gujarat live immediately below Z.
• Three persons live between Z and the one who is from Rajasthan.
• As many people live above z as below X. V live immediately below Y.
• Y live on an odd no floor above X.
• One person live between who is from Maharashtra and Y.
• U live on an odd no floor. One from Kerala live immediately above U.
• As many persons live between U & Z as between s and Goa.
• More than two persons live Y and one from Bihar.
• T is neither from Bihar nor from Odisha.

Puzzle Questions Asked in (1st Slot) IBPS PO Prelims Held on 7th Oct 2017:

Puzzles Set-1:

Seven person A, B, C, D, E, F G likes seven colours. Yellow White Red Orange Blue Gray Black. They visit in different days starting from Monday to Sunday
1) A visits one day after Thursday.
2) Only 4 people are in between A and B
3) The one who likes Red colour visits immediately after B.
4) Only one person visit between Red and Blue
5) The one who like white colour visit before one of days on which day C visits
6) The one who like white colour does not visit on Monday.
7) Only 1 person is in between D and E. D like Yellow.
8) There are same as many person in between A and Blue colour which are one less in between B and C.
9) Neither G nor F likes Black.
10) G does not visit on Saturday and not like grey colour .

Monday	D	Yellow
Tuesday	B	White
Wednesday	E	Red
Thursday	G	Orange
Friday	C	Blue
Saturday	F	Grey
Sunday	A	Black

 

Puzzle Set-2:

J, K, L, M, N, O and P are seven different boxes of different colours i.e. Brown, Orange, Silver, Pink, Yellow, White and Green but not necessarily in the same order.
Box which is of Brown colour is immediately above J. There are only two box between M and the box which is of Brown colour. Box which is of Silver colour is above M but not immediately above M. Only three box are between L and the box which is of Silver colour.
The box which is of Green colour is immediately above L. The box which is of Pink colour is immediately above the box P. Only one box is there between K and N. Box K is above N. Neither box K nor J is of Yellow colour. J is not of orange colour.

O- Silver
K- Orange
M- Yellow
N- Green
L- Pink
P- Brown
J- White

Puzzle Asked in IBPS PO Prelims Held on October 2017 

Puzzles Set-1:
P, Q, R, S, T, U, V and W are eight friends likes different subjects Physics, Chemistry, History, Biology, English, Social science, Maths and Geography and sitting in a straight line facing north.

• P sits at third from the left end.
• One person sits between P and the one who likes English.
• Three persons are seated between the one who likes English and R.
• Same no.of people sitting to the right of R as no.of people sitting to the left of the one who likes Social science.
• Three persons between the one who likes Social science and W.
• W is an immediate neighbour of the one who likes History.
• The one who likes Maths sits immediate right of the one who likes Physics.
• V is an immediate neighbour of the one who likes Maths.
• One person sits between T and V.
• One person sits between Q and the one who likes Maths.
• More than 4 seats between Q and the one who likes Chemistry.
• U sits immediate left of S.
• As many people sit to the left of history as the right of T.
• U didn’t like geography.

Puzzles Set-2:

There are eight people T, S, U, V, W, X, Y and Z are living on eight different floors of a building. They all from different states in India. The lowermost floor of the building is numbered one and the above one is numbered two and so on till the topmost floor is numbered eight.

• Z lives on an odd numbered floor above the floor number 3. The one who is from Gujarat lives immediately below Z.
• Three persons live between Z and the one who is from Rajasthan.
• As many people live above Z as below X. V lives immediately below Y.
• Y lives on an odd numbered floor above X.
• One person lives between who is from Maharashtra and Y.
• U lives on an odd numbered floor. The one who is from Kerala lives immediately above U.
• As many persons live between U & Z as between S and the one who is from Goa.
• More than two persons live between Y and the one who is from Bihar.
• T is neither from Bihar nor from Odisha.
• Y is not from Goa and lives below one of the floors Z lives.
• The one who is from Karnataka lives one of the even numbered floors.

Puzzle Set-3

There are seven teachers A, B, C, D, E, F and G are teaching seven different subjects Physics, Economics, Geography, Biology, Chemistry, Maths and History. The salary is divided into three salary slabs 3-5 Lpa, 6-8 Lpa & 10-13 Lpa.

F receives 12 lakh. There are three persons in the salary slab of 10-13 lakhs. B and G earn lower salary slab than F’s salary slab but not the lowest slab. D earns more than the one who teaches economics but are in the same slab. C and E doesn’t teach economics. The person who teaches physics and Economics is in the same slab. The person who teaches geography and maths earn lower than E. b doesn’t teach geography. F does not teach chemistry or Biology. E does not teach chemistry.

 

Puzzle Set-4

Eight persons F, G, H, I, J, K, L and M attend seminar on four different months January, April, November and December of the same year. Seminar was conducted on either 15th or 25th of the month. G attends the seminar 15th of the month which has only 30 days. M and J attends the seminar on the same month before G, but not in April. M attends the seminar after J. No one attends the seminar after F. Only one person attends the seminar between M and K. Both H and L attend the seminar on the 15 th of different months. L does not attend the seminar on December. L and I attend the seminar on the same month.

 

Puzzle Asked in IBPS PO Prelims Held on 2016 

Puzzle 1

A B C D E F G And H sitting in linear straight line some facing north and other south, E is to the fourth G. G is sitting immediate to the person sitting at one of the extreme ends.C is facing south. Two persons are sitting Between E and D. B is to the immediate left of D. Persons sitting at the end are facing the same direction. C and F are sitting at the end. Both the neighbour of B faces opposite direction. A is sitting 2nd left of H. H is immediate right of F. E and B are facing the same direction as F.

 

Puzzle 2

Study the given information carefully to answer the given question.

M, N, O, P, Q, R and Sare seven people live on seven different floors of a building but not necessarily in the same order. The lower most floor of the building is numbered 1, the one above that is numbered 2 and so on till the topmost floor is numbered 7. Each one of them have different income i.e. 3500, 15000, 7500, 9000,11000, 13500 and 5000. (But not necessarily in the same order.) M lives on an odd numbered floor but not on the floor numbered 3. The one who has income of 11000 lives immediately above M. Only two people live between M and the one who has income of 7500. The one who has income of 15000 lives on one of the odd numbered floors above P. Only three people live between O and the one who has income of 15000. The one who has income of 7500 lives immediately above O. R earns 4000 more than Q. The one who has income of 3500 lives immediately above the one who has income of 5000.Only one person lives between N and Q. N lives on one of the floors above Q. Neither O nor M has income of 9000. Q does not has income of 7500.

1. How much income M has?

(a) 13500 (b) 5000 (c) 7500 (d) 15000 (e) 3500

2. Which of the following combinations is true with respect to the given arrangement?

(a) 13500 – O (b) 15000 – R (c) 5000 – S (d) 11000 – P (e) 9000 – N

3. If all the people are made to sit in alphabetical order from top to bottom, the positions of how many people will remain unchanged?

(a) Four (b) None (c) Two (d) One (e) Three

4. Which of the following statements is true with respect to the given arrangement ?

(a) The one who has income of 5000 lives immediately below M.

(b) Rhas income of 15000.

(c) None of the given options is true.

(d) Only four people live between P and S.

(e) S lives immediately below Q.

5. Who amongst the following lives on the floor numbered 2?

(a) N

(b) The one who has income of 3500

(c) The one who has income of 5000

(d) P

(e) R

6. How much income R has?

(a) 13500 (b) 5000 (c) 7500 (d) 15000 (e) 3500

 

Puzzle 3

Study the given information carefully to answer the given question.

S, T, U, V, W, X, Y and Z are sitting in a straight line equidistant from each other (but not necessarily in the same order). Some of them are facing south while some are facing north. (Note : Facing the same direction means, if one is facing north then the other also faces north and vice-versa. Facing the opposite directions means, if one is facing north then the other faces south and vice-versa) S faces north. Only two people sit to the right of S. T sits third to the left of S. Only one person sits between T and X. X sits to the immediate right of W. Only one person sits between W and Z. Both the immediate neighbors of T face the same direction. U sits third to the left of X. T faces the opposite direction as S. Y does not sit at any of the extremes ends of the line. V faces the same direction as W. Both Y and U face the opposite direction of Z.

1. How many persons in the given arrangement are facing North?

(a) More than four (b) Four (c) One (d) Three (e) Two

2. Four of the following five are alike in a certain way, and so form a group. Which of the following does not belong to the group?

(a) W, X (b) Z, Y (c) T, S (d) T, Y (e) V, U

3. What is the position of X with respect to Z?

(a) Second to the left (b) Third to the right (c) Third to the left (d) Fifth to the right (e) Second to the right

4. Who amongst the following sits exactly between Z and W?

(a) T (b) Y (c) X (d) W (e) U

5. Who is sitting 2nd to the right of T?

(a) Z (b)V (c)X (d)W (e)None of these.

 

Puzzle 4

Eight people- A, B, C, D, W, X, Y and Z are sitting in a circle facing the centre. All eight people are from different place i.e. Okhla, Dwarka, Lajpat Nagar, Chanakyapuri, Saket, Mehrauli, Rohini and Karol Bagh but not necessarily in the same order. W is sitting third to the left of Y. The person who is from Dwarka is to the immediate right of W and W is not from Okhla. B is sitting fourth to the right of Z. Z is not the neighbor of Y. Neither B nor Z is an immediate neighbor of W. X is from Chanakyapuriand is sitting third to the right of the person from Dwarka.The person from Mehrauli is sitting second to the left of person from Chanakyapuri. The person from Rohini is sitting second to the left of W. A who is Lajpat Nagar is sitting exactly between X and Z. The person from Saket is sitting second to the right of the person from Lajpat Nagar. C is sitting third to the left of X.

 

1. Who amongst the following persons belongs to Okhla?

(a) Y (b) D (c) C (d) B (e) None of these

2. What is A’s position with respect to B?

(a) Third to the right (b) Second to the right (c) Third to the left (d) Second to the left (e) Fourth to the right

3. How many people are sitting between Z and C when counted in an anticlockwise direction From C?

(a) One (b) Two (c) Three (d) Four (e) None

4. Four of the following five pairs are alike in a certain way based on their positions in the above arrangement and so from a group. Which of the following does not to the group?

(a) B-Rohini (b) Z – Mehrauli (c) D – Okhla (d) Y – Saket (e) X – Dwarka

5. Which of the following statements is false according to the above mentioned arrangement?

(a) C is to the immediate right of the Karol Bagh

(b) The person from Lajpat Nagar is third to the right of the person from Mehrauli.

(c) The person from Dwarka is sitting exactly between the Karol Bagh and the Saket.

(d) D is neither from Chanakyapuri nor from Karol Bagh.

(e) There are only three people between A and C.