Top 100 Puzzles Asked In Interviews Last Updated : 16 Nov, 2023 Improve Improve Like Article Like Save Share Report Puzzles are asked in Interviews to check our problem-solving skills. Here we are providing you with the top 100 puzzles that are asked in Interviews. The main aim of puzzles is entertainment. Puzzles can be of many types:- picture puzzles, logical puzzles, mathematical puzzles, etc. It is very helpful for the development of young minds and growth. The solver of a puzzle must arrive at the correct answer, or answers, by thinking or putting pieces together in a logical way. Below is the list of the top 100 puzzles that are asked in Interviews: Logical Puzzles: S.No. Puzzle Title Asked in 1 Pay an employee using a gold rod of 7 units ? FAANG, Ola cabs 2 Find the fastest 3 horses Accolite, Goldman Sachs, MakeMyTrip 3 Finding the injection for Anesthesia Google, Yahoo 4 3 Bulbs and 3 Switches MakeMyTrip, Qualcomm 5 Camel and Banana Puzzle Amazon, Yahoo 6 Find the Jar with contaminated pills MakeMyTrip 7 100 Prisoners with Red/Black Hats Google, Microsoft 8 10 Coins Puzzle Google, Yahoo 9 Strategy for a 2-Player Coin Game TCS 10 5 Pirates and 100 Gold Coins Microsoft 11 Minimum cut Puzzle Amazon 12 Prisoner and Policeman Puzzle Microsoft 13 Puzzle – Cheating Husband Microsoft, Google 14 Puzzle – Blind Games Bloomberg L.P. 15 Puzzle – Chameleons go on a date Amazon 16 Heaven and Hell Amazon, Infosys 17 Mislabeled Jars Google, Microsoft 18 8 balls problem Microsoft, Simence 19 Cheryl’s Birthday Puzzle and Solution Facebook, Whatsapp, Singapore math Olympic 20 Puzzle – The Lion and the Unicorn The Access Group (UK), TCS 21 Farmer, Goat, Wolf, and Cabbage Infosys 22 Water Jug Problem Wells Fargo 23 Blind man and Pills Mentor Graphics 24 The Burning Candles Wipro 25 Puzzle | The Burning Candles Wipro, IBM, TCS 26 Rat and Poisonous Milk Bottles Google 27 Measuring 6L water from 4L and 9L buckets Microsoft 28 Six Houses P, Q, R, S, T, and U CAT Quiz 29 Melting Candles Faang 30 Red Hat vs Blue Hat Microsoft 31 Puzzle | Joint family of seven persons (L, M, N, O, P, Q, and R) TCS 32 Puzzle | The Circle of Lights Microsoft, Bloomberg 33 Puzzle | 9 Students and Red Black Hats Google 34 Light all the bulbs Microsoft, Bloomberg 35 Distribute the Water Microsoft 36 Puzzle | Can 2 persons be with same number of hairs on their heads? oppo, inflame 37 Weight of Heavy Ball IBM Mathematical And Analytical Puzzles: S.No. Puzzle Title Asked in 1 Find ages of daughters Google, Microsoft 2 Calculate total distance travelled by bee Yahoo 3 Puzzle – 6×6 Grid: How Many Ways? Amazon, Zoho 4 Monty Hall problem VMWare 5 Torch and Bridge Google, Microsoft 6 2 Eggs and 100 Floors VMWare 7 Maximize the probability of White Ball Amazon 8 Poison and Rat Amazon 9 Hourglasses Puzzle Bank of America, Yahoo 10 The ratio of Boys and Girls in a Country where people want only boys Google, Goldman Sachs 11 Car Wheel Puzzle MakeMytrip 12 Maximum Chocolates Infosys, MakeMytrip 13 Puzzle | Splitting a Cake with a Missing Piece in two equal portion Alcatel-Lucent, Cognizant 14 Rs 500 Note Puzzle CAT, UPSC 15 Girl or Boy Amazon 16 Know Average Salary without Disclosing Individual Salaries Infosys, Bloomberg. 17 Maximum run in cricket FAANG 18 Completion of Task Reflexis Systems 19 Find missing Row in Excel philips 20 Four People on a Rickety Bridge Jumbotail, SAP 21 Man fell in well Puzzle American Express 22 50 red marbles and 50 blue marbles Google, Microsoft, JP morgan chase 23 Puzzle | Form Three Equilateral Triangles Google 24 10 identical bottles of pills ZS Associate 25 Puzzle | Maximum pieces that can be cut from a Circle using 6 straight lines TCS 26 Chain Link Puzzle cognizant 27 The shopkeeper and the lady who made a purchase of Rs 200 with fake note Persistent Systems 28 Egg Dropping Puzzle with 2 Eggs and K Floors Google, Microsoft 29 Minimum number of Apples to be collected from trees to guarantee M red apples Leetcode 30 Snail and Wall TCS 31 1000 light bulbs switched on/off by 1000 people passing by UK university interview 32 Puzzle | Four Alternating Knights Amazon, Google 33 TCS DIGITAL PUZZLE | Lateral Thinking 2 TCS 34 Puzzle | 100 Cows And Milk ZS 35 Puzzle | One Mile on the Globe Microsoft 36 TCS DIGITAL PUZZLE | Lateral Thinking TCS 37 Puzzle | The Counters and Board JP-morgan 38 Camel and Banana Puzzle Amazon, Yahoo 39 Puzzle | (Six Matches , Right Foot Forward) TCS 40 How much he had initially? IAS interview question 41 Puzzle | 3 cuts to cut round cake into 8 equal pieces Adobe, Citius Tech, Cognizant, blackrock 42 Two Creepers Climbing a Tree Adobe, Google, Microsoft Arrangement Puzzles: S.No. Puzzle Title Asked in 1 10 Coins Puzzle Google, Yahoo 2 Days of the month using 2 dice Microsoft 3 Tic Tac Toe Puzzle Amazon 4 Matchstick Puzzle Kirloskar Brothers, SLB 5 Last Palindrome Date Before 10/02/2001 Amazon 6 10 identical bottles of pills ZS Associate 7 10 Balls in 5 Lines Publicis Sapient 8 Round table coin game ElectrifAi 9 Puzzle | The Circle of Lights Microsoft, Bloomberg Shape Puzzles: S.No. Puzzle Title Asked in 1. 3 cuts to cut the round cake into 8 equal pieces Adobe, Citius Tech, Cognizant 2 Chessboard and dominos Google 3 Maximum pieces that can be cut from a Circle using 6 straight lines TCS 4 Splitting a Cake with a Missing Piece in two equal portion SAP 5 3 Ants and Triangle Intuit, ZS Associate, EXL Other Puzzles: S.No. Puzzle Title Asked in 1. How to Measure 45 minutes using two identical wires? MakeMyTrip 2 Elevator Puzzle FAANG 3 Find the last ball to remain after the entire process Times Internet, EXL Service 4 100 people in a circle with a gun puzzle IgniWorld 5 Find the total guests that are present at the party Google Conclusion: Puzzles are very helpful to improve logical thinking day by day. Start practicing puzzles to crack interviews. These days puzzles are asked too frequently in top product-based companies. By solving the above puzzles you are enough prepared to solve the similar type of puzzles asked in your upcoming interviews. Like Article Suggest improvement Previous Crossword Puzzle Of The Week #5 (for Operating System) Share your thoughts in the comments Add Your Comment Please Login to comment...