Introduction
The following set of 20 verbal reasoning questions is designed to assess students’ deductive reasoning skills. Each question presents a puzzle scenario, requiring logical deductions based on the given clues. These questions are designed for students preparing for the 11+ assessment tests in UK schools.
Scenario Recap
Five friends—Adam, Bella, Charlie, Daisy, and Ethan—participated in a treasure hunt. They each found a different number of treasures, between 1 and 5, and each found their treasures in a different location (beach, forest, cave, garden, or mountain).
- Adam found his treasures in the forest but did not find the most.
- Bella found more treasures than Charlie but fewer than Daisy, and she didn’t go to the garden.
- The person who went to the beach found exactly 3 treasures.
- Daisy found the most treasures.
- Ethan went to the cave and found fewer treasures than the person who went to the garden.
- Charlie went to the mountain.
Questions
Q1: Who found the most treasures?
- A) Adam
- B) Bella
- C) Daisy
- D) Ethan
Q2: Where did Ethan find his treasures?
- A) Beach
- B) Cave
- C) Mountain
- D) Garden
Q3: Who found exactly 3 treasures?
- A) Adam
- B) Bella
- C) Ethan
- D) The person who went to the beach
Q4: How many treasures did Bella find?
- A) 1
- B) 2
- C) 4
- D) 5
Q5: Who went to the mountain?
- A) Charlie
- B) Adam
- C) Ethan
- D) Bella
Q6: Who found fewer treasures than Bella?
- A) Adam
- B) Daisy
- C) The person who went to the beach
- D) Charlie
Q7: Where did the person who found the most treasures go?
- A) Garden
- B) Forest
- C) Beach
- D) Cave
Q8: Which location is associated with finding fewer treasures than the garden?
- A) Beach
- B) Cave
- C) Mountain
- D) Forest
Q9: Who went to the beach?
- A) Adam
- B) Bella
- C) Charlie
- D) The person who found 3 treasures
Q10: If Ethan found fewer treasures than the person who went to the garden, how many treasures did Ethan find?
- A) 1
- B) 2
- C) 3
- D) 4
Q11: How many treasures did the person who went to the garden find?
- A) 1
- B) 2
- C) 4
- D) 5
Q12: Who went to the forest?
- A) Adam
- B) Bella
- C) Charlie
- D) Ethan
Q13: Who found the fewest treasures?
- A) Adam
- B) Bella
- C) Charlie
- D) Ethan
Q14: If Charlie went to the mountain, how many treasures did he find?
- A) 1
- B) 2
- C) 3
- D) 4
Q15: Who found more treasures than Bella but fewer than Daisy?
- A) Adam
- B) Ethan
- C) Charlie
- D) The person who went to the garden
Q16: How many treasures did Daisy find?
- A) 1
- B) 3
- C) 4
- D) 5
Q17: If Adam found fewer treasures than Bella, where did Adam go?
- A) Beach
- B) Cave
- C) Forest
- D) Garden
Q18: Who found exactly 2 treasures?
- A) Adam
- B) Bella
- C) Ethan
- D) Daisy
Q19: Which two friends found fewer treasures than Bella?
- A) Adam and Charlie
- B) Daisy and Ethan
- C) Charlie and Ethan
- D) Adam and Daisy
Q20: Which location is associated with finding exactly 3 treasures?
- A) Garden
- B) Cave
- C) Beach
- D) Mountain
Answers
- C) Daisy
- B) Cave
- D) The person who went to the beach
- C) 4
- A) Charlie
- D) Charlie
- A) Garden
- B) Cave
- D) The person who found 3 treasures
- B) 2
- C) 4
- A) Adam
- D) Ethan
- A) 1
- B) Ethan
- D) 5
- C) Forest
- C) Ethan
- C) Charlie and Ethan
- C) Beach
This set of questions is designed to test logical reasoning and deduction skills, ensuring that students can extract key information from the clues and apply them to solve the puzzle. These types of questions are common in 11+ verbal reasoning assessments in the UK.
