While working out and sweating out in gym have become the order of the day, there is little we generally do about mental fitness. The result is that our mind begins to age prematurely resulting in sluggish thinking and blocks in problem-solving.

The book Brain Gym is specially written to restore our lost mental health. The puzzles and brain-teasers given in the book ensure flexing of your brain muscles, thus making them adept at quick thinking and analysis of problems. Packed with a host of puzzles, the book will boost up lateral thinking ability among the readers, which is very important in solving the day-to-day problems.

Absolutely mind-blowing! Puzzles will keep your mind blowing until you crack them.
Puzzles are challenging, that challenge you “crack me if you can”.
If you want to shape up your brain, come to Brain Gym and give some jerk to your grey cells.


PUZZLES

115. MERCHANT VESSEL
Captain of the merchant vessel M.V. Cougar Ace asked the duty officer Manpreet Singh Luthara, ‘What is the date today?’ The officer replied ‘Sir, it is 21st March’. After 10 minutes, captain asked again ‘What is the date today, Manpreet?’ The officer replied, ‘Sir, it is 23rd March’. How is this possible?

116. TWO COINS
Two five rupee coins were placed on the top of a frictionless slope and left to go down by gravitational force. One of them was kept with the curved surface (edge wise) touching the slope while the other one with face of the coin (flat wise) touching the slope. Which coin would reach the bottom of the slope first?

117. SWIMMING AND DANCING
When the number of students in Modern High School has increased, the school administration made two sections in class VIII, because there could not be more than 100 students in a section. If 1/11th of section A, and 1/7th of section B know swimming and 1/9th of section A and 1/13th of section B know dancing, can you say total how many students of class VIII know dancing? What is the total strength of class VIII students?

118. DIRECTION DILEMMA
Yashwant Kumar was a pilot on a fighter jet. He started moving in north direction when after sometime he took two turns, first towards left followed by right. Now he found his compass showing him moving in south direction. Control Room confirmed his direction as south-ward. Try and Explain.

119. TRUCK ON A BRIDGE
An empty truck was moving on a country road that had a bridge covered from top. The height of the bridge was just about 0.5 cm. less than that of the truck roof. Buddhadeb, an intelligent driver, thought of removing some air from each tyre of the truck thinking that its height would reduce but unfortunately he could not do it as the valve was too tight to rotate. Can you help him to cross the road?

120. ARMY PARADE
During an army parade, the camp Captain told the instructor to arrange 12 cadets in such a way that there should be six rows with each row containing four cadets and the arrangement should be symmetrical from all the sides. How will the instructor do?

ANSWERS

115. MERCHANT VESSEL
Welcome to the world of marine, where we have some different and amusing rules. Every time when a ship travels from one country to another, it has to set its clock to match with the local time. But when it crosses the International Date Line, a complete change of date occurs. Captain asked the officer around 23.50 hrs when the ship was just to the east of the Date line. That imaginary line goes across the middle of the Pacific Ocean. They sailed in the western direction and p