Junior : Final Hunt

FINAL HUNT

Without any trouble you are safely travelling towards your desination. It is just then that you come across a cave, in Nepal. The owl says that the cave is a short-cut, but the journey would be diff cult, with many obstacles along the way. Brilliant as you all are, you decide to take the challenge.

The cave is dark. One of you switches a ashlight on, and leads the way. Soon, you encounter a room with many book shelves. A door is on the other end of the room. As you observe the books, you notice that one book is very old, but the others are new. You realize that the old book may have the key for the door! You open the book and look through the pages. In the middle of the book, you see an odd fi gure, like the one below.

You think of a theory, and start solving the puzzle.

The lines originating from the centre, divide each pentagon into 10 equal parts or wedges.

The part between two immediate pentagons is a ring.

Remaining letters must be fi lled in such that:

1. Each ring must contain all the letters of the word “TOUCHLINES”

2. Every two adjacent wedges together must contain all letters of the word “TOUCHLINES”.

The above puzzle has four boxes. Starting from the outermost ring and going inwards, note the letters and compare with the options given below.

Question 19:

Which of the following is the correct answer?

(A)NEST 

(B) SHIN 

(C) ETCH 

(D) SLIT

You say the code word, and the door opens. You walk in, and look around the empty room. It is a dead end, but you see a poem on the wall. It reads:

As you dance each ____ around,

though once, once only,

Me, when you shall have found,

Do not hide your glee!

One of you notices that the code word fits in the blank of the poem. As you think about the poem, you see an arrow which directs your eyes downward. To your amazement, you fi nd the whole floor filled with letters and symbols!

You realize that you need to use the poem to find a solution to the puzzle under them.

The floor looked like this:

Rearrange the clues from the puzzle above, using the poem, to find a question and then answer it to get out of the cave.

Question 20:

What is the answer which can take you out of the cave?

(A) 07

(B) 70 

(C) 18 

(D) 81

You are running out of time but have no idea about the route from Nepal to IIT Guwahati. The various cut-out parts of the map that can help you reach IIT Guwahati are hidden in the houses shown in the fi gure below. You will get the parts of the map only on delivering the right article(one per house) to all the houses.

(i) An ‘X’ coloured ARTICLE should be delivered to an ‘X’ coloured HOUSE only by using an ‘X’ coloured TRUCK.

(ii) A truck can also carry other coloured articles so that it can place them at any of the CHECKPOINTS from where other truck can later carry it to the destination.

(iii) Trucks can carry any number of articles at a time.

(iv) The main objective is to start all the trucks at the same time, with same speed and deliver the

articles without collision of trucks. Also, a truck picks up every article that comes on its way.

(v) Last and the most importantly, the PATHS of the trucks should not overlap at any point other than

junctions. At junctions, the paths can though cross each other (but both trucks should not reach that junction at same time which leads to collision). The trucks can move only forward.

Question 21:

Draw the fi nal path of all the trucks and give the number of turns taken by the blue truck.

(A) 8 

(B) 7 

(C) 6 

(D) None of the above

Question 22:

Give the total number of articles carried by the red truck on it’s way.

(A) 1 

(B) 2 

(C) 3 

(D) 4