Wednesday, 24 July 2013

The One Where You Think Outside The Box

Section: Think Outside The Box

Interpreting pictures and phrasing it in words is one task but what if you have to transform words into words and phrase it to give a meaning. Here is a group of mystery boxes to test your logic. Best of luck and keep going!!

Guideline to be followed:

  • To discuss about the ith box, your comment should be like: 
"Box-i: Your approach and the final answer". 



    


                              



       


                             




44 comments:

  1. Box 8- all in one is answer as one is written everywhere

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  2. Box 8- all in one is answer as one is written everywhere and in everyway. Box 10- time never waits is answer as time is cut down and is continuously passing

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  3. Box 1: I think it is SUNDAY, as the opposite of moon is sun, and the opposite of night is day, and the day we gave the exam on was a sunday.

    Box 9: It might be NO EXCUSE FOR IT. NO X QQ 4*IT

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    1. Box 4: WHAT GOES UP MUST COME DOWN

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    2. Box 3: HANG ON FOR A MINUTE. if you count the number of 'secs' below the word 'hang', you will see that there are 60 'secs'. 60 secs=1 minute.

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    3. Box 6: BACKWARDS. It's the word WARDS written in reverse.

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    4. answer for box 10 shall be "Night"

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  4. Box 2 : A between W and T makes water . Box 4 : What comes next , Box 10: Time waits for none

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  5. box 3:what goes comes back.
    box 6:backwards.
    box 8:jumbled one
    box 2: to err.
    box 10:timeline or bar time

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  6. box10: more correct is-(bar time).showing the duration or opening time of a bar .

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    1. Eikagra Sharma24 July 2013 at 19:35

      In box 10, three time readings are slashed then how are they showing the opening time of a bar??

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    2. it is to support my answer.i know it is a little awkward answer but still it can be one of the answers.maybe i would have done timeline only.

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  7. Shamika Ganesan24 July 2013 at 17:11

    Box 1: "SUNDAY TODAY"

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  8. Shamika Ganesan24 July 2013 at 17:14

    Box 3: "HANGOVER STILL IN ME" - Since 'Hang' is over the "Still" water, it is "Hangover still" and since these are within the box, it is "in me".

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  9. Shamika Ganesan24 July 2013 at 17:17

    Box 5: "MAKING UP FOR LOSSES" - since "Making" is read upwards it is 'making up' and lost is written 4 times- so "For" and 'lost' is written more than once, so "losses".

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  10. Shamika Ganesan24 July 2013 at 17:25

    Box 9: "FIT FOR IT" - If alphabets are numbered, then NOXQQ adds up to number 6. The corresponding alphabet for 6 is F. so, FIT. IT is written 4 times , so.." FOR IT ".

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  11. Box-2: water
    Box-4: what goes up comes down
    Box-8: ONE
    BOx-9: Time at which agent Vinod goes in, collects key and comes back.

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  12. Shamika Ganesan24 July 2013 at 18:06

    Box 6: "BACKWARDS"

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  13. Shamika Ganesan24 July 2013 at 18:09

    Box 4: "WHAT GOES UP SHOULD COME DOWN"

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  14. Shamika Ganesan24 July 2013 at 18:13

    Box 10: "TIME OUT"

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  15. Box 2:"'O' fell from the 'TOWER'.Since Letter O is missing from the word TOWER.

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  16. Good going!
    Till now our team has added, to its knowledge, quite interesting approaches to decipher these boxes. Keep the discussion lively, as we have a few boxes left even now. Don't hesitate in sharing your solutions even if you feel they are totally silly. Our team will analyse the solutions, and if found logical those will be inccluded in our final Solution draft. As the tables have turned, you never know what could inspire us and earn you a ticket to IIT-G!

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  17. BOX 2 - WATER
    BOX 4 - WHAT GOES COMES BACK
    BOX 6 - DRAWS
    BOX 8 - ONE
    BOX 10 - CUT THE TIME

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  18. when will the answers be declared?

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  19. box1 - sunday
    box3 - hang on a minute
    box4 - wat goes up comes down
    box5 - making up for lost time
    box7 - 3 degrees below zero

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  20. Box 8 - No ONE
    Box 6 - Backwards
    Box 4 - What goes up comes down

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  21. Box 8- Not the only one.

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  22. Shamika Ganesan24 July 2013 at 22:05

    Box 7: "NO UNDERGRADUATES" - all the 3 degrees are undergraduate courses and '0' means 'no'.

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    1. Sorry Shamika!
      Good Approach, but PhD is not an undergraduate degree.
      Keep discussing.

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  23. Box -4:"What goes up,comes back down".
    Box -6:"Backwards without back". As wards is written backwards but without back.
    Box -8:"all in one". As ONE is written everywhere.
    Box -10:"Time waits for none". Because time has been cut which means time is going on.

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  24. Shamika Ganesan24 July 2013 at 22:26

    Box 10: "NO TIME LEFT" - cutting of the times mean 'no time' and since it is towards the left of the box, it is 'no time left'

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  25. Box1 : no-moon-night today
    Box3 : Hangout
    Box4 : what goes away comes back
    Box5 : Making up for lost
    Box6 : Backwards
    Box7 : underdegree
    Box8 : no one
    Box9 : no excuse for it

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    1. approach -
      Box 1 : moon crossed night crossed & today => no-moon-night today
      Box 3 : hang is out => hangout
      Box 4 : goes.. (away arrow) % comes.. (back arrow)=> what goes away comes back
      Box 5 : making (written bottom to up) => making up
      4 lost => for lost
      Box 6 : wards (written right to left.. back)=> backwards
      Box 7 : degrees mentioned under something => under-degree
      Box 8 : permutations of o,n,e but not one => no one
      Box 9 : NO (no).. X QQ (ex Q's => excuse) .. 4 times IT (for it)

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  26. Box 10:'It is striking time'

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    1. ya i think u r surely correct.

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  27. Striking time is correct as it was the last question and striking time means finishing time that's why i feel that it is naturally a correct answer.Moreover the given data i.e.is time were struck off.

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  28. 1. today is the only day
    2. o fell from tower
    3. hang above water
    4. what goes up comes down
    5. making up/back losses
    6. backwards
    7. 3 degrees below 0
    -3 degrees
    8. jumbled one
    9. no excuse for it
    10. time out

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  29. The answer for box no.10 could be "Night"
    Reasoning: All the timings denoting Morning(06.30), after-noon(12.24) and evening(15.46) were scored out. The remaining count for a day is night only.

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  31. box 2:''tower'' it seems that 'o' is removed to decrease the height of tower.
    box 4:''what goes up comes back down''.
    box 6:''backwards without back'' the word backwards is written backward.
    box 8:''all in one'' we see that one has been displayed in many forms.
    box 10:''time waits for none'' as time is cut that means time is running out of one's hand.

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  32. box10: "No time" as time is cut, "left" as written in left so "no time left"

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