Adding Fun to Post-Lunch Slumps: Puzzles to Engage and Energize Your Team

Dear All, I am sharing a presentation given to us by one of my PGDBM professors. It contains a good collection of interesting puzzles that he used to share during the post-lunch session. Although he always hoped not to have post-lunch sessions as he often found his students half asleep. 

I will always appreciate his efforts in making the sessions as interesting as possible. Hope you all will enjoy it and will try to find the correct answers to these puzzles. Feel free to share it with your employees to add a little fun for them.

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Dear All, I currently don't have the answers to all of the puzzles mentioned in the presentation, but I promise I will provide you with the answers to all the puzzles. In the meantime, for those who could figure out the answers to the puzzles, it would be great if you could share with others.

Puzzle Answers

I only know a couple of the answers which you can find below:

1. Raining Night - I will choose my old friend, give him the key to drive the old lady to the hospital, and wait for the bus along with the person whom I find to be a perfect partner.

2. In the painting shown on the 8th slide, you are supposed to count the total number of faces in the painting - I could figure out a total of 8.

3. The answer to the puzzle on the 12th one is - consider the numbers to be the glasses:
1 2 3 4 5 6
f f f e e e
Pick the second glass and pour the content into the 5th glass. So the situation will be:
1 2 3 4 5 6
f e f e f e

4. The answer to the 14th puzzle - both Russians are partners (husband and wife).

5. The answer to the 17th slide puzzle - manhole covers are round so that they are easy to move as they are too heavy to move from one place to another, i.e., you can roll them on the ground.

6. The answer to the puzzle on the 19th slide is in the attachment.

Regards,

Other Answers:

1. Answer to the third slide - True Story Solution: In 1912, President Teddy Roosevelt was shot in the chest. The folded-up manuscript of his speech was in his pocket, which slowed the bullet, saving his life and helping his career.

2. Answer to the 14th slide - There are 7 brothers and sisters, 4 brothers, and 3 sisters.

3. Answer to the 16th slide - Switch the first button on for a minute, then turn it off and turn the second one on. Enter the room and feel the two bulbs that are off. The one which is warm is for switch number 1, the bulb which is on is for switch 2, and the bulb which is off and cold is for the 3rd switch.

4. Answer to the last puzzle, i.e., 20th slide - The reason why, even though all 6 people took an egg from the basket, one egg was left is that the 6th person took the egg along with the basket.

Enjoy!

Hi all, please find below the answers for the remaining puzzles.

Answer for the 1st Question: Once John picks up a coin, he immediately drops it in the sea. Then, he tells Mike that by checking the other coin in the hat, they can determine which coin John might have picked up.

Answer for Cross the Bridge:
- Bono and Edge cross - 2 minutes
- Bono comes back - 1 minute
- Larry and Adam cross - 10 minutes
- Edge comes back - 2 minutes
- Edge and Bono cross - 2 minutes
Total - 17 minutes

Answer for the Stamps: It takes 12 of the 3p stamps to make a dozen.

Thank you.

Answer to Question on Slide No. 4

Only C can answer. The explanation is as follows:

- A & B cannot answer as they are not able to see each other.
- This leaves only C & D to answer.
- If D had seen 2 white hats in front of him, he would have said, "I wear a black hat," or vice versa. If he does not answer, it means he sees 2 persons in front of him wearing one black & one white hat.
- Now C sees which hat B wears. He sees B wearing a white hat, so he says that he wears a black hat.

Answer to Question on Slide No. 2

John picks up the one penny and tells everyone that he got a penny from 2005. He acts overjoyed and in that celebration, he throws the penny into deep water. Now this leaves Mike with a penny from 1975.

If he says that the penny cannot be from 2005 as he had both pennies from 1975, then he will let people know that he cheated and now he has to swim through the ocean.

Answer to Slide No. 14

The answer could be 3 brothers & sisters also: 2 Brothers & 1 Sister.

For each brother, he has an equal number of brothers and sisters, and for each sister, she has twice the number of brothers.