Games & Tournaments

Directions for questions 1 to 3: Answer the (a) 70 (b) 60 (c) 80 (d) 140
questions based on the following information.
Directions for questions 6 to 9: Read the given
A, B, C and D are four children playing a game of information and answer the following questions
passing a ball to one another, the child receiving based on it.
the ball does not pass it immediately to the one
At the end of the soccer season, every player had
from whom he gets it. If during the game A, B and
scored a prime number of goals and the average
C held the ball 3,5 and 7 times respectively, if C
of the 11 players was also a prime number. No
started the game and the first/last holding of the
player’s individual tally was the same as anyone
ball also counts, then answer the questions given
else’s or as the average. Nobody had scored
below.
more than 45 goals.
1. Minimum number of times D held the ball
6. What was the average of their goals scored?
would have been
(a) 27 (b) 23 (c) 29 (d) 31
(a) 1 (b) 2 (c) 3 (d) 4
7. What was the maximum number of goals
2. The minimum number of times D held the
scored by a single player?
ball, given that he held the ball in the last,
would have been (a) 43 (b) 41 (c) 37 (d) 29
(a) 3 (b) 4 (c) 5 (d) 6 8. What was the minimum number of goals
scored by a single player?
3. The maximum number of times D held the ball
would have been (a) 5 (b) 7 (c) 11 (d) 13
(a) 6 (b) 7 (c) 8 (d) 9 9. How many players had scored above 20 goals
individually?
Directions for questions 4 & 5: Ashwin, Nirmal,
Srinidhi and Vijay are gambling. In this, different (a) 5 (b) 6 (c) 7 (d) None of these
people lose in different games- in reverse
10. Four football teams- Arsenal, Milan,
alphabetical order. The rule is that if one loses he
should double the amount of others (From what Barcelona Lyon-played in the Emirates Cup.
they had at the beginning of that game). At the Each team played all the other teams
end of the 4th game each one of them have the exactly once during the tournament. A win
same amount of money (Rs.32). earns a team 3 points, a draw earns 1 and a
loss earns no points. Each team scored 3
4. Which one of them started with the largest goals in the Emirates Cup. Arsenal won the
amount of money? Cup with maximum points followed by
Milan and Barcelona. If no game ended in a
(a) Ashwin (b) Nirmal
draw, then how many goals were scored in
(c) Srinidhi (d) Vijay the game between Barcelona and Lyon?

5. What is the sum total of money with Vijay at (a) 1 (b) 2 (c) 3 (d) 4
the end of 1st game, Srinidhi at the end of the
Directions for questions 11 or 12: Three
2nd game, Nirmal at the end of the 3rd game
couples Mr. and Mrs. Kalra, Mr. and Mrs.
and Ashwin at the end of 4th game?

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 Gupta and Mr. and Tyagi, at a party, play a a) 2 b) 3 c) 4 d) Either 2 or 3
game which requires only two persons at a
Directions for questions 14 to 16: Answer the
time. Mr. Kalra plays against Mrs. Tyagi, Mr.
questions on the basis of the information given
Gupta plays against Mrs. Kalra and the
below.
remaining two players played the third
game. The final score table of each match In the Wimbeldon Tennis tournaments 2014,
reads ‘a-b’, where a and b represents the top 64 ranked, from 1 to 64, players participated.
points scored by the winner and the loser In the first round, the first match was played
respectively (a and b may vary for different between the top ranked i.e. 1st ranked and the
matches). When all the matches were lowest ranked i.e. 64th ranked players, the
finished, Mrs Kalra left the room. Further second match was played between 2nd ranked
information is given below. and 63 ranked players and so on. In the next
(a) Mr. Kalra noticed that all the people round, the winner of match 1 played with winner
present in the room had scored a distinct of match 32, winner of match 2 played with
number of points, whereas his wife scored winner of match 31 and so on. This pattern
the same number of points as he did. continued in the subsequent rounds as well, till
(b) Each of the ladies present in the room the final. When a lower ranked player beats a
scored exactly 2 points more than her higher ranked player it’s called an upset.
husband.
(c) Nobody scored more than five or less 14. If there was no upset in the 1st and 3rd rounds
and all matches in second round were
than one point, Mrs. Kalra won by a prime
upsets, the highest ranked player who could
number of points.
11. What is the total number of points scored win the final was
by the Gupta couple? (1) 16 (2) 24 (3) 32 (4)None of these
(1) 4 (2) 6 (3) 8 (4) 9 15 If the player ranked 54 reached the
12. Who scored the minimum number of points? semifinals, which of the following ranked
player could have won the tournaments?
(1) Mr. Tyagi
(1) 22 (2) 59 (3) 38 (4) None of these
(2) Mr. Gupta
16. If the player ranked 16 reached the
(3) Mr. Kaira semifinals, what was the minimum number
of upsets in the tournaments?
(4) Cannot be determined
(1) 2 (2) 3 (3) 4 (4) More than 4
13. Anil and Sunil were playing a game which
involved picking up coins from a table. Each
player in his turn was to pick a minimum of
two & a maximum of six coins, except when
there is only one coin left, in which case he
has to pick up that coin. The game continues
till all the coins are removed from the table.
Assume that both players play intelligently
so as to win the game. Assume that the
player who picks the last coin loses the
game.

If the game starts with 52 coins and it is

Anil’s turn to play, then how many coins
should he pick up so as to ensure his win?