Puzzle challenge: Can you guess the families of three men?

New Delhi: We often encounter tricky situations in our lives, which is what puzzles are all about. Solving puzzles and brain teasers sharpen the brain and make it work quicker in your day-to-day activities. If you like to solve brainstorming puzzles which will allow you to use logical reasoning, here is one for you.

Our family is something we are close to and relate to. We share different relationships with various people, while some are blood relations, some we find in life’s journey. While you think of your family members and relations you hold on to, here is a puzzle based on three families. Read the situation carefully and try to answer a simple but tricky question.

Situation:

Three men, namely, Ahmed, Bharat and Casim have wives Damayanti, Iravati and Jayashree, and one child each, Ganesh, Hari and Vijay, but not necessarily respectively.

Conditions:

Two of the children, Iravati’s and Casim’s, are in the school wrestling team. Ahmed’s son is not Ganesh and Jayashree is not Bharat’s wife.

What do you need to answer?

Now, when you know the situation and the conditions, try to answer the following question-

Who is whose wife and whose child? Think and answer as there is no shortcut method to it. Think and read the puzzle again and again.

Answer:

1. Ahmed, Iravati and Hari
2. Bharat, Damayanti and Vijay
3. Casim, Jayashree and Ganesh