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A puzzle set is the cheapest bundle of marks in any reasoning paper — four or five questions built on a single arrangement. Solve the arrangement once and you bank every mark in the set; misread one line and you lose the whole block.
Students lose puzzle sets for a reason that has nothing to do with intelligence. They read the clues as a story, hold them in their head, and try to answer directly. A puzzle is not a story. It is a grid with empty slots, and your only job is to fill those slots in the right order.
Puzzle test is also not the same chapter as sitting arrangement. Sitting arrangement asks who faces whom around a table. Puzzle test stacks things vertically — floors, boxes, shelves — or lines them up along an attribute such as age, height or day of the week.
SSC CGL Tier-1, RRB NTPC and Group D, BPSC TRE-4 mental ability and the classroom-framed reasoning items in CTET all carry at least one such set.
1. P, Q, R, S and T live on floors 1 (bottom) to 5 (top). R lives on an even-numbered floor, exactly two people live between R and P, S lives immediately above P, and T does not live on the topmost floor. Who lives on the topmost floor?
2. In the same arrangement, how many people live between S and R?
3. In a group of five people of different ages, only two people are older than M. M's position from the youngest end is:
4. A is taller than B but shorter than C. D is taller than C. E is the shortest. Who is the third tallest?
5. In a floor puzzle, which of these clues fixes an exact gap between two people?
6. Seven boxes are stacked. Box M is third from the top and box N is second from the bottom. How many boxes lie between M and N?
7. One exam is held on each day from Monday to Friday. Science is on Wednesday. Maths is immediately after Science. English is before Science but not on Monday. Hindi is on Friday. Which exam is on Monday?
8. While solving a puzzle set, which is the safest first move after drawing the frame?