Top 5 Puzzles to Practice for RRB PO 2025 Exam, Check Strategies to Solve Question

The IBPS RRB 2025 exam is one of the most competitive banking exams in India, conducted to recruit candidates for the Officer Scale I exam. The IBSP RRB PO selection process consists of three stages: Prelims, Mains Exam and Interview. The RRB PO exam is competitive, and the reasoning section is an important section to boost your overall score. Among reasoning questions, puzzles hold significant importance, usually contributing 15-20 marks in both prelims and mains. Practising different types of puzzles not only sharpens your logical thinking but also increases your speed and accuracy under timed conditions. In this article, we are providing the top 5 puzzles to practice for the RRB PO 2025 exam, along with effective strategies to boost your preparation.

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Free Tests For IBSP RRB PO Reasoning Section Based On Latest Exam Pattern & Syllabus

This free topic test is designed as per the latest IBPS RRB PO exam pattern and syllabus. It covers important reasoning topics like Puzzles, Seating arrangements, Syllogism, Blood Relation, and Direction Sense. Practising these high-weightage questions will boost your speed, accuracy, and confidence for the upcoming exam.

Smart Strategies During the Exam

Before preparing for any exam, an aspirant should be aware of the exam patterns and previous year questions of that exam. After determining the pattern, one should build s strategy to score the minimum marks required to qualify for the exam, yet aim for scoring the maximum marks.

RRB PO prelims reasoning section consists of 40 questions, each question carrying 1 mark. The time allotted is 25 minutes, giving you roughly 37 seconds per question, which means for puzzle and arrangement, which usually have a set of 4-5 questions, you should not invest more than 2-3 minutes. And, for a single question, you should strictly follow the 30 seconds per question rule.

To qualify Preliminary examination, you must score at least 30 marks in this section, if you score around the same marks in the quant section.

1. Follow a 3-Round Attempt Strategy:

• Round 1: Attempt easy questions first – Inequality, Syllogism, Blood Relations
• Round 2: Moderate puzzles or seating if comfortable
• Round 3: Tough puzzles – only if time permits

2. Skip Trap Questions

• If a puzzle seems too time-consuming or confusing, skip and return later
• Avoid investing more than 3 minutes on any one question

3. Better Accuracy > High Attempts

Tools You Can Use

• Apps: Practicemock
• YouTube Channels: For free puzzle-solving tricks and concept videos

General Strategies for Solving Puzzles

Read carefully: Give the entire puzzle a cursory read to understand its structure and variables. Underline direct clues (for example, “P lives on the first floor”).

Organise data: Use tables, diagrams, or grids to look for relationships. For example, a floor-based puzzle requires a floor-number table; a circular arrangement requires a labeled circle.

Prioritise direct clues: Start with clues that definitely determine the situation or characteristics, then build on relative clues.

Avoid assumptions: Draw conclusions based only on the information given. For example, don’t assume that two people are adjacent unless told to.

Time management: Allocate 2-3 minutes for prelims and 5-7 minutes for mains. If stuck, move on and revisit later.

Practice mock tests: Simulate exam conditions with timed mock tests to improve speed and accuracy.

Analyse mistakes: Review wrong attempts and identify where you misread clues or made logical mistakes.

Puzzles Important Questions PDF Link for RRB PO

Directions: Answer the questions based on the information given below.

There are 8 boxes which have different colors among Black, Grey, Red, Orange, Pink, Yellow, Green and Blue but not necessarily in the same order. These boxes have different weight and none of them has the same weight. The bottommost box is considered as 1^st box and the box above is considered as 2^nd box.

Yellow box has the maximum weight and is an odd numbered box. The 3^rd lightest box is an even numbered box below the yellow box and at least 2 boxes are between them. Black box is immediately above the box, which is the 3^rd lightest and is heavier than the black box. The box at the top has the lowest weight. There are 3 boxes between the lightest box and blue box, which is not the 3^rd lightest. Orange box is immediately above the red box, which is the 3^rd heaviest. Red box is neither the bottommost box nor the 7^th box. More than 3 boxes have less weight than the Grey box. Green box is not the topmost box. At least 2 boxes are between Pink box and Yellow box. Orange box is neither 2^nd heaviest nor 5^th heaviest.

Common Solution:

As Yellow box has the heaviest and is an odd numbered box and the 3^rd lightest box is an even numbered box below the yellow box and at least 2 boxes are between them, so yellow box and the 3^rd lightest box is either (7,4) or (5,2) or (7,2). As Black box is immediately above the box, which has the 3^rd lightest and has less weight than it, also the box at the top has the lowest weight, so black box is either box 5 or box 3 and has the 2^nd lightest while the lightest box is box 8.As there are 3 boxes between the lightest box and blue box, which doesn’t have the 3^rd lightest, so blue box is box 4.

Again as Orange box is immediately above the red box, which has the 3^rd heaviest and red box is neither the bottommost box nor the 7^th box, so orange box and red box are either box (7,6) or (6,5). As more the 3 boxes have less weight than the Grey box, so Grey box must be the bottommost box and has either 2^nd heaviest or 4^th heaviest. As Green box is not the topmost box, so Green box is box 2 and it has 3^rd lightest. Thus, Pink box is at the top and has the lightest. As at least 2 boxes are between Pink box and Yellow box, yellow box must be box 5. As Orange box doesn’t have either 2^nd highest or 5^th heaviest, so it must have 4^th heaviest and thus, Grey box has 2^nd heaviest and blue box has 5^th heaviest. The final ranking of these boxes as per their decreasing weight is given below:

Yellow > Grey > Red > Orange > Blue > Green > Black > Pink

(Heaviest) (Lightest)

The final table is given below:

Question 1: ____ box is the 4^th lightest.

A) Blue

B) Green

C) Pink

D) Orange

E) None of these

Solution:

Blue box is the 4^th lightest.

Hence, option a.

Question 2: How many boxes are above the box which has 2^nd heaviest?

A) 3

B) 6

C) 4

D) 7

E) None of these

Solution:

There are 7 boxes above the box, which is 2^nd heaviest.

Hence, option d.

Question 3: Number of boxes above the box, which is 4^th heaviest, is ____ lesser than the number of boxes above the box, which is the heaviest?

A) 1

B) 2

C) 3

D) 4

E) None of these

Solution:

As Yellow box has the heaviest and is an odd numbered box and the 3^rd lightest box is an even numbered Number of boxes above the box, which is 4^th heaviest is 2 lesser than the number of boxes above the box, which is the heaviest.

Hence, option b.

Question 4: Which among the following boxes are above blue box?

I. Orange

II. Yellow

III. Pink

A) Both II and III

B) Only I

C) Both I and III

D) All I, II and III

E) Only II

Solution:

All the given boxes are above blue box.

Hence, option d.

Question 5: How many boxes have lesser weight than the box, which is 3^rd from the top?

A) 3

B) 2

C) 6

D) 5

E) None of these

Solution:

As Yellow box has the heaviest and is an odd numbered box and the 3^rd lightest box is an even numbered 5 boxes have lesser weight than the box, which is 3^rd from the top, i.e. orange box.

Hence, option d.

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