Tricks To Solve Puzzle And Seating Arrangement

Puzzles, as well as Seating arrangements, are one of the concepts that students have been fearful of in all age groups. Puzzles go by their puzzling students with intense complex statements carrying down unique conditions, and similar is the case with Seating arrangements problems. Don’t panic because in this article we’ve comprised good tricks to solve seating arrangement questions, some circular seating arrangement tricks as well. You’ll learn how to solve seating arrangement with directions?

What Is Seating Arrangement?

Seating arrangements examples usually have questions that test the candidate’s ability to think and imagine certain situations like puzzles in the brain and answer them in the least time possible.

Seating arrangements questions can help an individual to improve their mental skill to think of numerous ways to arrange objects such as boxes, persons, balls, etc in different manners and order such that some provided conditions from the problems can be plotted in the most efficient way.

What Are Puzzles?

The term “Puzzle” has a definition that matches the meaning of its name already. A puzzle can be defined as a study in which the solver has no idea about a problem that has been given to him and to solve that problem, the solver has to try multiple methods such as hit and trail to finally get to the solution. 

Puzzles have been treated as the toughest section out of all other chapters under the umbrella of logical reasoning. Because of this same reason, this topic is also the favorite of the examiners of many competitive exams.

Solving puzzle problems is a daunting challenge especially if you haven’t practiced much by solving mock tests to improve the time it takes for you to solve the problem. Below are some examples to understand what puzzles are.

Category 1. Based On The Classification

In this category, the classification of objects or items is done on the basis of characteristic qualities possessed by the objects. Along with that, there are some hints and clues provided and we have to make use of the hints and group the objects with similar features and characteristics together while grouping another object with others. According to experts, using tables can ease the complications involved in the misunderstanding of statements.

Example 1. Arav and Aryan are good at Kabaddi and Hide and Seek. Ajeet and Arav are good at Kabaddi and Carrom board. Aman and Aryan are good in Ludo. Ajeet, Aman, and Adarsh are good at playing Skate boarding.

Illustration 1. Who is good at Kabaddi, Ludo, and Hide and Seek?

Option1. Ajeet

Option2. Aryan

Option3. Arav

Option4. Aman

Illustration 2. Who is good at Carrom board, Ludo, Hide and Seek, and skateboarding?

Option1. Ajeet

Option2. Aryan

Option3. Aman

Option4. Arav

Illustration 3. Who is good on Carrom board, Hide and seek, and Kabaddi?

Option1. Ajeet

Option2. Aryan

Option3. Arav

Option4. Aman

Solution: – The best way to solve this problem as told above is by applying tables.

Hence, 

1. (b) Aryan is good at Kabaddi, Ludo, and Hide and seek.
2. (c) Aman is good at Carrom Board, Ludo, and Skateboarding.
3. (c) Arav is good in Carrom Board, Hide and Seek, and Kabaddi.

Category 2. Based On Seating Arrangement With Directions

In this category, there will be puzzle questions that are related to seating arrangements which can be circular seating arrangement tricks or linear seating arrangements depending on the conditions given in the problem statements. Some kinds of clues like the color or profession or wearing accessories can be provided in the problem. 

Example 2. Five friends are sitting at a desk and wearing different color shirts, black, gray, brown, pink, and purple ( that is not necessarily in the same exact order as mentioned here).

1. E is sitting next to F and wearing a gray colored shirt.
2. G is sitting next to H and not wearing either a black or a purple shirt.
3. H is not sitting with me and I am wearing a black shirt.
4. I is on the left end of the desk.
5. G is in the second position from the right.
6. E is on the right of F and I.
7. F is wearing a purple shirt.
8. E and G are sitting together.
9. H is not wearing the pink shirt

Illustration1. Where is E sitting?

Option 1. Between F and H 

Option 2. Between H and G

Option 3. Between I and H

Option 4. Between F and G

Illustration 2. What is the color of G’s shirt?

Pink

Illustration 3. C is sitting in between 

Option 1. E

Option 2. F

Option 3. G

Option 4. H

Illustration 8. Who is wearing the brown shirt?

Option 1. H

Option 2. G

Option 3. A

Option 4. I

Conclusion

Puzzles and Seating arrangement questions are very necessary from the point of preparation for competitive examinations or school mental ability olympiads as well. Both of these carry a decent amount of weightage or marks that if you’re able to solve with good accuracy, you’ll definitely get more marks because you’ll be able to score more marks in less time consumption.