Question 1
Seven boxes of different colors are stacked on 7 different floors (Floor 7 is top, Floor 1 is bottom).
Each box belongs to a different city and contains a different item.
Clues:
1. The box on the top floor (7th floor) is Yellow in color.
2. The box on the bottom floor (1st floor) is from Pune.
3. There are exactly 1 boxes between the Black box and the White box.
4. The Black box is kept immediately above the box from Kolkata.
5. The Red box is kept on an even-numbered floor but not on the 2nd floor.
6. The box containing Pen is not kept on the topmost or bottommost floor.
Question: What item does the Purple box contain?
Multi-attribute Box Puzzle Strategy
Create a 7x4 table with Floors (7 top to 1 bottom) as rows.
Apply definite clues first (top floor color, bottom floor city).
Use spacing and adjacency clues to fix relative positions.
Use even/odd constraints to narrow down possibilities.
Final deduced arrangement (Top to Bottom):
Floor | Color | City | Item
--- | --- | --- | ---
7 | Yellow | Delhi | Charger
6 | White | Chennai | Watch
5 | Brown | Hyderabad | Pen
4 | Black | Mumbai | Book
3 | Purple | Kolkata | Phone
2 | Red | Bengaluru | Laptop
1 | Orange | Pune | Bottle
Create a 7x4 table with Floors (7 top to 1 bottom) as rows.
Apply definite clues first (top floor color, bottom floor city).
Use spacing and adjacency clues to fix relative positions.
Use even/odd constraints to narrow down possibilities.
Final deduced arrangement (Top to Bottom):
Floor | Color | City | Item
--- | --- | --- | ---
7 | Yellow | Delhi | Charger
6 | White | Chennai | Watch
5 | Brown | Hyderabad | Pen
4 | Black | Mumbai | Book
3 | Purple | Kolkata | Phone
2 | Red | Bengaluru | Laptop
1 | Orange | Pune | Bottle