How to play Deduce

Every day you get one reasoning puzzle. The format rotates across 27 exam topics — some days it's an arrangement board (floor, row, circular or square seating, ranking, scheduling, boxes), other days it's an exam MCQ (syllogism, data sufficiency, coding-decoding, blood relations, number series and more). Same daily habit, the full reasoning syllabus.

The goal

Board days: place every person (or box) in the correct position so that every clue is satisfied at once. There is always exactly one arrangement that works — every puzzle is checked for a unique solution before it's served.

MCQ days: read the question stem and pick the one option that's correct — one attempt, like the real exam.

Playing a board day, step by step

Read every clue first. Each clue narrows down where people can go. Get the full picture before you place anyone.
Start from the strongest clue. A clue like "lives on the topmost floor" or "sits at the far left" pins a person exactly — place them first to anchor the rest.
Tap a name, then a position. Select a person from the name tray, then tap the floor, seat, rank or day to place them. Tap a filled position again to clear it and try another.
Cross off clues as you use them. Tap a clue to strike it through, so you can track which constraints you've already applied and which remain.
Submit when the board is full. The Submit button turns on once every position is filled. You get three attempts — if a guess is wrong, you'll be told how many clues it violated.

Playing an MCQ day

MCQ days work like the actual exam: read the stem carefully, work it out on paper if you need to, then tap the one option you believe is correct. You can change your pick freely before submitting, but you get a single attempt once you submit. Faster correct answers score and rank higher.

A worked example (floor-puzzle day)

Suppose three people — Arjun, Bhavna and Chetan — live on floors 1–3, and the clues are:

1. Chetan lives on the topmost floor.
2. Arjun lives somewhere above Bhavna.

Clue 1 puts Chetan on floor 3. That leaves floors 1 and 2 for Arjun and Bhavna. Clue 2 says Arjun is above Bhavna, so Arjun is on floor 2 and Bhavna on floor 1. Done — one unique answer: Bhavna · Arjun · Chetan.

Tips for a faster solve

On board days, look for "anchor" clues (top, bottom, far left, immediately above) before relative ones.
Use "even / odd position" and "exactly N places between" clues to eliminate whole positions.
After a wrong board attempt, the count of violated clues tells you how close you are.
On MCQ days, eliminate options that contradict the stem before deciding between the survivors.

Whatever today's format, it's the same deductive technique tested in IBPS, SBI and SSC reasoning sections — practising it daily makes it fast and automatic. New here? Read what Deduce is or check the FAQ.

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