Puzzle Tests — Pick a Level and Start
Tap a level to see every test in it. Level 1 is set at real SSC CGL difficulty — start there the day you finish the concept. Level 2 is pitched above the exam, to push accuracy under pressure.
Level 1 SSC CGL Level Checking… View tests
Same difficulty as the real SSC CGL paper. Five to seven people on the floors of a building, boxes in a stack, a weekly schedule, a height, weight, age or marks chain, and four- or five-person matching. Three to seven clues and one set of names — every puzzle can be solved straight through without trying cases. A steady score here means the chapter is exam-ready.
Level 2 Above SSC CGL Level Checking… View tests
Harder than the exam asks. Every floor or day also carries a colour, city, game, fruit or car; a building with one vacant floor; birth months; two-attribute matching grids and longer comparison chains. Up to ten clues, and some puzzles need a case to be tested and ruled out. Wrong options are the slips students actually make: counting the end people in ‘between’, reading ‘somewhere above’ as ‘immediately above’, and counting the vacant floor as a person.
Every puzzle in this chapter is solved the same way: draw the frame, fix the definite clues, then hang the linked clues on them. The frame is a column of floors or boxes, a row of days or months, a chain from tallest to shortest, or a small grid of names against cities, colours or professions. Once the frame is on paper, each clue either fixes a place or cuts the choices down to two — and two choices are settled by trying one and seeing whether a clue breaks.
Marks are lost in three places. The first is counting “between” wrongly — “two floors between X and Y” means their floor numbers differ by 3, not by 2. The second is reading “somewhere above” as “immediately above”. The third is stopping too early: answering from a half-built arrangement when one more clue would have moved a person.
How Many Puzzle Questions Are Asked in SSC CGL?
Puzzles are a regular part of General Intelligence — usually one or two questions in a Tier I shift, and the same small puzzles appear in CHSL. Each is a short set of clues with a single question. The forms it takes are listed below, most common first.
| Form of the puzzle | How often |
|---|---|
| Floor / flat puzzle — who lives on which floor | The most common form |
| Comparison chain — taller, heavier, older, more marks | Common |
| Weekly schedule — one person per day | Regular |
| Boxes kept one above another | Regular |
| Data arrangement — names matched with city, colour or profession | Regular |
| Birth months, and floors with a second attribute or a vacant floor | Occasional |
People in a row or around a table are practised in the separate Seating Arrangement chapter, and positions counted from the left or right in a row in Time Sequence, Number & Ranking.
What You Will Practice in the Puzzle Chapter
Floors, boxes and days
- Five to eight people on the floors of a building, with “immediately above”, “two floors below”, “floors between”, odd and even floors
- A building with one vacant floor, and floors where each person also likes a colour or comes from a city
- Boxes in a single stack, with positions counted from the top or from the bottom
- One person per day from Monday onward, with “the day immediately after” and “persons between”
Comparisons and months
- Height, weight, age, marks, speed and salary chains — “A is taller than B but shorter than C”
- “Only two persons are taller than X” and “X is heavier than only one person”
- Birthdays in six or seven given months, with 30- and 31-day months and “born between”
Data arrangement (matching grids)
- Four or five names matched with one item each — city, colour, game, fruit, profession or car
- Two items per person in Level 2, with clues such as “the person from Delhi likes Red”
- “Neither A nor B is the doctor” and other elimination clues
Rules worth knowing instantly
| Clue | What it means |
|---|---|
| X lives immediately above Y | X’s floor = Y’s floor + 1 |
| X lives two floors above Y | X’s floor = Y’s floor + 2 |
| Two floors (or persons) between X and Y | The floor numbers differ by 3, in either direction |
| X lives somewhere above Y | Any higher floor — not necessarily the next one |
| k-th box from the top, n boxes in all | (n − k + 1)-th from the bottom |
| Only two persons are taller than X | X is the 3rd tallest |
| X is taller than only one person | X is the 2nd shortest |
| One floor is vacant | It counts as a floor, never as a person |
Write every clue as a number relation (+1, +2, a gap of 3) before placing anyone — most wrong answers come from placing first and translating later.
The three mistakes that cost the most marks
- Counting the end people. “Only one person lives between X and Y” puts them two floors apart, not one.
- Turning “above” into “immediately above”. “Somewhere above” only removes the floors at and below Y.
- Answering from a half-built arrangement. Finish placing everyone before you read the answer — the last clue often moves someone.
Solved Examples — SSC CGL Puzzles
How the Puzzle Tests Work
- 25 questions per test, with a full question palette — answered, skipped, marked for review, not visited.
- Every form in every level — floors, boxes, days, comparisons and matching grids are mixed in each Level 1 test; Level 2 adds attributes, vacant floors, birth months and two-item grids.
- One arrangement only — every puzzle was checked by trying every possible arrangement: exactly one fits all the clues, and no clue is spare.
- Optional 15-minute timer — with the clock to build exam speed, without it while you are still learning the chapter.
- Marking: +2 correct, −0.5 wrong, 0 unattempted — the same scheme as the real paper.
- Step-by-step solutions open after you submit — each placement cites the clue that fixes it, any case that has to be ruled out is shown, and the full final arrangement is drawn.
- English and हिंदी, chosen at the start of every test.
- Free with a TrickySSC account — sign in once with Google or your mobile number, and every test is open to you.
How to Prepare Puzzles for SSC CGL
- Draw the frame before reading the clues twice. Floors bottom to top, days left to right, a chain for comparisons, a grid for matching.
- Place the definite clues first. An exact floor, the top or bottom, a named day — then attach everything linked to those people.
- Translate each clue into numbers. “Immediately above” is +1, “two floors above” is +2, “two between” is a gap of 3.
- When two places remain, test one. Put the person there and follow the clues; if one breaks, the other place is the answer.
- In matching grids, cross out first. Every “not” clue is a cross; a row or column with one blank left is solved.
- Do Level 1 untimed first, then with the 15-minute clock. Move to Level 2 once Level 1 is steady, and then check yourself on a previous year paper.
All SSC CGL Chapter Wise Tests
Every chapter below has its own free Level 1 and Level 2 tests with full solutions.
Browse all 57 chapter tests — Maths (35) · Reasoning (22)
- Word Analogy
- Letter Analogy
- Number Analogy
- Number-Set & Triad Analogy
- Mixed Analogy
- Word Classification
- Letter Classification
- Number Classification
- Number-Pair & Triad Classification
- Word-Pair & Mixed Classification
- Series (Number, Letter & Alphanumeric)
- Alphabet Test
- Coding-Decoding
- Blood Relations
- Direction & Distance
- Time Sequence, Number & Ranking
- Seating Arrangement
- Syllogism
- Statement & Conclusion
- Venn Diagram
- Mathematical Operations
- Puzzle / Data Arrangement
- All Reasoning chapters →
- Number System
- Rule of Divisibility
- Remainder Theorem
- Decimal & Fraction
- LCM & HCF
- Square & Cube Root
- Number Series (AP & GP)
- Power, Indices & Surds
- Algebraic Formula
- Algebraic Result
- Algebraic Expression & Identities
- Percentage
- Profit & Loss
- Discount & Marked Price
- Simple Interest
- Compound Interest
- Ratio & Proportion
- Partnership
- Average
- Problems on Ages
- Mixture & Alligation
- Time & Work
- Pipe and Cistern
- Time, Speed and Distance
- Quadratic Equation
- Boat and Stream
- Races
- Trigonometry
- Heights & Distances
- Geometry
- Mensuration
- Coordinate Geometry
- Probability
- Statistics
- Data Interpretation
- All Maths chapters →
SSC CGL पहेली (Puzzle / Data Arrangement) चैप्टर टेस्ट — हिंदी में
इस अध्याय में मंज़िलों वाली पहेलियाँ, एक के ऊपर एक रखे बॉक्स, सप्ताह के दिनों का क्रम, जन्म के महीने, “से लंबा / से भारी” वाली तुलनाएँ और नाम–शहर–रंग मिलान (डेटा व्यवस्था) आते हैं। मूल नियम: पहले ढाँचा बनाएँ (मंज़िलें नीचे से ऊपर, दिन बाएँ से दाएँ), फिर निश्चित सूचनाएँ लगाएँ, और उसके बाद जुड़ी हुई सूचनाएँ।
सबसे आम गलतियाँ: ‘बीच में’ की गिनती (X और Y के बीच दो मंज़िलें हों तो मंज़िल संख्याओं में 3 का अंतर होता है), ‘ऊपर कहीं’ को ‘ठीक ऊपर’ समझ लेना, और व्यवस्था पूरी किए बिना उत्तर दे देना।
TrickySSC पर इस अध्याय के सभी टेस्ट हिंदी में उपलब्ध हैं — प्रश्न, विकल्प, विस्तृत हल और शॉर्टकट ट्रिक सब हिंदी में। दो स्तर हैं: लेवल 1 (SSC CGL के स्तर का) और लेवल 2 (SSC CGL से कठिन)। प्रत्येक टेस्ट में 25 प्रश्न, वैकल्पिक 15 मिनट का टाइमर और +2 / −0.5 की वही मार्किंग जो असली परीक्षा में होती है।