Blood Relations for Punjab Police SI

Answer: 4 — Sister

Unpack the description one clause at a time, always from Stuti's point of view since Stuti is the speaker. 'My father's wife' is Stuti's mother. So the girl is the daughter of Stuti's mother, which makes her Stuti's sister. The clause 'younger sister of two brothers' only tells us the girl has two brothers; it does not change her link to Stuti. Option 3 (Daughter) is the trap — the word 'daughter' appears in the sentence, but it describes the girl's relation to Stuti's mother, not to Stuti. Options 1 and 2 are ruled out at once because the person in question is stated to be a girl.

Answer: 4 — Daughter's husband

Untangle the sentence one link at a time. The relative clause 'who is R's husband' attaches to Q, so Q is R's husband and therefore R is Q's wife. P is the father of Q's wife, so P is R's father. R is T's daughter, and since R's father is already P, T is R's mother. Q is married to R, and R is T's daughter, so Q is the husband of T's daughter, that is T's son-in-law. Among the options that is 'Daughter's husband'. Option 3, daughter-in-law, is the trap: it is the same in-law link but read from the wrong side and with the wrong gender, since Q is male. ```puzzle:family P + = T - P + > R - P + > S R - = Q + ``` (+ marks male, − marks female, = marks a marriage, > marks a child.)

Answer: 2 — Sister's daughter

Sonu's mother's daughter is Sonu's sister. So Rani's mother is Sonu's sister, which makes Rani the daughter of Sonu's sister — a niece (ਭਾਣਜੀ). ```puzzle:family X - Y, parent X - Sonu, parent Y - Rani, parent ``` (X = Sonu's mother, Y = Rani's mother.) Options 1 and 4 are male and Rani is a girl's name in the stem's own wording; option 3 would need Rani and Sonu to share a mother, but they are a generation apart.

Answer: 3 — Father

Resolve the inner phrase first. Ratnesh is male, and 'my father's only son' means his father has exactly one son — which must be Ratnesh himself. So the sentence reads 'Reema's father is Ratnesh'. Therefore Ratnesh is Reema's father. Option 1, 'Father's son', is a restatement of the phrase inside the quotation, not of the relation asked for, and option 2, 'Brother', is the answer you get if you wrongly read the phrase as pointing to a different son.

Answer: 2 — Brother’s daughter

Take the statements in order. B is the mother of both A and F, because A is the son of B and B is the mother of F — so A and F are siblings. A is explicitly a son, that is male, so from F's point of view A is a brother. G is the daughter of A. Therefore G is the daughter of F's brother, i.e. F's brother's daughter. E is B's spouse and D is A's spouse; neither changes the link between G and F, they are only there to make the chain look longer. Option 1 (brother's wife) confuses G's generation — G is a daughter, not a spouse.

Answer: 3 — Father’s sister’s daughter

"The mother of his father" is the boy's paternal grandmother. "The wife of your mother's father" is Rani's mother's mother, i.e. Rani's maternal grandmother. The two are the same woman, so the boy's father and Rani's mother are children of one mother — brother and sister. Rani's mother is therefore the boy's father's sister, which makes Rani the boy's father's sister's daughter. "Sister" (option 4) would need Rani and the boy to share a father, which nothing states; option 1 describes the boy's relation to Rani, not Rani's to the boy.

Answer: 2 — Bua (Father's sister)

Take the links in order. O is P's father, so P belongs to the generation below O. N is O's sister, so N is a woman of O's generation — that is, of P's father's generation. A sister of one's father is the paternal aunt, called bua in Punjabi. M is a decoy: he is N's brother and so P's paternal uncle (chacha/taya), which is what option 1 describes. Options 3 and 4 would need the link to run through P's mother, and no clue connects N to her.

Answer: 4 — Father

C is A's daughter, and E is C's brother, so E is another child of the same parents, that is, A's son. A is called the brother of B, which fixes A as male. A male parent of E is his father. Option 3 (Mother) is the trap for anyone who works out the parent relation but overlooks the word 'brother' that makes A male; D being A's sister is extra information that changes nothing.

Answer: 3 — Father’s sister

Rupa is Kishore's mother and Gaurav's wife, so Gaurav is Kishore's father. Manisha is Gaurav's only daughter, so Manisha is Kishore's sister. Kishore is Raman's father, so Manisha is Raman's father's sister — his paternal aunt (bua). ```puzzle:family Gaurav +, Rupa -, married Gaurav + Kishore +, parent Gaurav + Manisha -, parent Kishore + Raman +, parent ``` 'Sister' is the trap: Manisha is one generation above Raman, a sister to his father and not to him.

Answer: 3 — Mother

Take the chain one link at a time. My mother-in-law is my wife's mother, so her only daughter is my wife. My wife's mother-in-law is my own mother. So the person is my mother. Option 2 (mother's sister) would need an extra generation-sideways link that the chain does not contain.

Answer: 1 — Sister

Shefali's grandfather has only one child, and that child must be Shefali's own parent (otherwise Shefali could not be the grandfather's grandchild). The boy is the son of that same parent, so the boy is Shefali's brother — which makes Shefali his sister. Option 4 (mother) tempts if you read 'only child' as Shefali herself, but then she would be speaking of her own father as her grandfather.

Answer: 1 — O $ M @ N

Read each expression left to right, one symbol at a time. (A) O $ M @ N — "O is son of M" and "M is wife of N". So M is O's mother and N is M's husband, that is, O's father. Hence O is the son of N. This is what is asked. (B) N $ O > M — "N is son of O" and "O is brother of M". This makes N the son of O, the reverse of what is wanted. (C) M > O @ N — "M is brother of O" and "O is wife of N". Here O is a wife, so O is female and cannot be anyone's son. (D) N > O @ M — "N is brother of O" and "O is wife of M". Again O is female, and N is only O's brother. The usual slip is to read the symbols right to left, or to forget that @ fixes the gender of the person on its left. Once you note that O appears on the left of @ in both (C) and (D), those two are dead immediately.

Answer: 2 — Mother-in-law (Wife's mother)

Read the chain symbol by symbol, but only the first three links matter. R@T: R is the daughter of T. T & S: T is the husband of S, so S is T's wife. S @ M: S is the daughter of M, so M is S's parent. Since the answer options name a woman's role for M's side only through 'Wife's mother', M is the mother of T's wife, that is T's mother-in-law (ਸੱਸ). Option 4 (Wife's father) fails because M is marked female by 'M % K' — M is the wife of K.

Answer: 4 — Father's sister

Decode the chain left to right: L & K — L is K's husband. K @ P — K is P's daughter, so P is K's father or mother. P # Q — P is Q's brother, so P is male; P is therefore K's father. Q @ R — Q is R's daughter, so Q is female. R & M — R is M's husband (R and M are Q's parents, and so P's parents too). Q is a female sibling of P, and P is K's father. So Q is K's father's sister — K's paternal aunt (bua). Option 3 (Mother) is wrong because K's mother is R's wife M, not Q; option 1 fails because Q is P's sister, not his wife.

Answer: 4 — Daughter

Read the expression in pieces from the right, since that is where Z sits. R ÷ Z: R is the son of Z, so Z is a parent of R. T − R: T is the sister of R, so T and R share the same parents; therefore Z is also a parent of T. T is female because she is called a sister, so T is the daughter of Z. The earlier links K ÷ Q (K is the son of Q) and Q * T (Q is the mother of T) fix Q as T's mother, and they are only there to tempt you towards 'Mother' or 'Mother's mother'; neither describes T's relation to Z.

Answer: 2 — Father’s father

Break the chain into pairs and read each symbol. - E ÷ G — E is the son of G. - G × H — G is the wife of H, so H is E's father and G is E's mother. - H – D — H is the brother of D. - D ÷ F — D is the son of F, so F is D's parent. - F + J — F is the father of J, which fixes F as male. F is the father of D, and D and H are brothers, so F is also the father of H. H is the father of E. Therefore F is E's father's father, i.e. E's grandfather. ```puzzle:family F+, H+, D+, G-, E+, J F - H, parent F - D, parent F - J, parent H = G H - E, parent ``` The tempting wrong choice is option 4 (Father): F is a father, but of D, H and J — not of E, who is one generation lower.

Answer: 1 — Mother-in-law's brother's wife

Read the chain link by link: - A % B — A is B's wife. - B $ C — B is C's son, so C is B's parent; C is female because the next link makes C someone's sister, so C is B's mother. - C @ D — C is D's sister, so D is B's maternal uncle. - D # E — D is E's husband, so E is D's wife. ```puzzle:family A -, B +, married C - B, parent C D, sibling D +, E -, married ``` A's husband is B, so A's mother-in-law is C, and E is the wife of C's brother D. E is therefore A's mother-in-law's brother's wife (in Punjabi, A's husband's ਮਾਮੀ). Option 4 would need E to be male, and options 2 and 3 run the chain in the wrong direction.

Answer: 3 — Grandfather

Read the chain one link at a time. R @ S makes R the daughter of S. S # T makes S the daughter-in-law of T, so S is married to a child of T. T $ U makes T the mother of U, and since T has only one child that child is U — so S is married to U, and R is the daughter of U. Finally U % V makes U the son of V, so V is a parent of U. T is already U's mother, and the letters name different people, so V is U's father. V is therefore the father of R's father, which makes him R's grandfather.

Answer: 1 — Mother’s father

Unpack the expression one symbol at a time. 'E * F' means F is the wife of E, so E is male. 'F ~ G' means G is the granddaughter of F; since F is E's wife, G is E's granddaughter too. 'G @ H' means H is the mother of G. 'H # I' means I is the husband of H, so I is G's father. Now use the clue that E has only one child. G is E's grandchild through one of her parents, H or I, and that parent is E's single child. Since E is male, he could only be G's mother's father or G's father's father, and 'Father's father' is not offered; the option list offers 'Mother's father', which is consistent with H being E's only child. Option 4, 'Father's mother', is ruled out because E is male.

Answer: 4 — Daughter’s daughter

Decode the chain link by link; only its left end is needed. Q @ H → Q is the daughter of H, so Q is female. H & S → H is the husband of S, so S is Q's mother. S @ M → S is the daughter of M. M % K → M is the wife of K, so M is female, i.e. M is S's mother. Putting it together: M is Q's mother's mother, so Q is M's daughter's daughter. "Son's daughter" (option 3) would need S to be male, but M % K has already fixed M as female and S as her daughter; "Mother's father" reverses the direction of the question. The tail K # L % J is padding.

Answer: 1 — Maternal grandfather (mother's father)

Expand the chain one link at a time. P # Q: P is the brother of Q — this only tells us Q's sibling and is not needed. Q @ R: Q is the daughter of R. R & M: R is the husband of M, so M is Q's mother and R is Q's father. M @ L: M is the daughter of L. L & K: L is the husband of K, so L is male and K is M's mother. So L is the father of M, and M is Q's mother — L is Q's mother's father, that is Q's maternal grandfather (ਨਾਨਾ). Option 2 (maternal grandmother) is the trap: that role belongs to K, not L, because 'L & K' fixes L as the husband and therefore male.

Answer: 1 — Mother-in-law

Take the expression one link at a time. 'G − L' makes G the wife of L. 'L ÷ M' makes L the son of M, and since M has only one child, L is M's only child. 'M * O' makes M the grandfather of O, so O must be a child of M's only child L. 'O + P' makes O the husband of P, so O is male, that is L's son. G, being L's wife, is therefore O's mother, and P is O's wife — which makes G the mother-in-law of P. Option 4 (Daughter-in-law) reverses the direction of the relation, and option 2 would need G and P to be married into the same family as siblings-in-law, which the chain does not support.

Answer: 2 — Father

Read the chain one symbol at a time, left to right. D * E: D is the daughter of E. E ÷ A: E is the sister of A — so A is E's brother, a male. A + B: A is the husband of B. B − F: B is the mother of F. A is the husband of B and B is the mother of F, so A is F's father. Option 3 (mother's brother) is the trap: A is indeed the brother of E, but E is D's mother, not F's, so 'mother's brother' describes A's link to D, not to F.

Answer: 2 — Grandson

Build the tree from Kavya outwards. Kavya is Nirav's only child, and Purvi is Kavya's mother, so Nirav and Purvi are Kavya's parents — Nirav the father, Purvi the mother. Kavya is the mother of Karthik's children, so Karthik is her husband. Meer, being Karthik's son, is therefore Kavya's son as well, and Misha (Purvi's granddaughter) is Kavya's daughter. That fills the family exactly: Nirav, Karthik and Meer are the three males, Purvi, Kavya and Misha the three females. ```puzzle:family Nirav + Purvi - Nirav, Purvi, married Nirav - Kavya -, parent Purvi - Kavya, parent Kavya, Karthik +, married Kavya - Meer +, parent Kavya - Misha -, parent ``` Meer is the son of Nirav's daughter, so he is Nirav's grandson. Option 1 (Grandfather) reverses the direction of the relationship; option 3 (Granddaughter) has the right generation but the wrong gender, since Meer is stated to be a son; option 4 (Son) skips a generation — Nirav's only child is Kavya.

Answer: 3 — Sister

Build the tree. Aman is the father of both Ayur and Avni, so they are his two children. 'Aashi is the wife of Avni's father' names Aashi as Aman's wife and therefore the mother of Ayur and Avni. On the other side, Atharv is the father of Arav and Arav is the son of Arti, so Atharv and Arti are a couple. Avni is the wife of Arav, which fixes Avni as female. Since Avni and Ayur are children of the same parents and Avni is female, Avni is Ayur's sister. Option 2 (Wife) is the trap fed by the Avni-Arav marriage, which relates Avni to Arav, not to Ayur. ```puzzle:family Atharv+, Arti-, Aman+, Aashi- Arav+, Avni-, Ayur+ Atharv = Arti Aman = Aashi Atharv - Arav, parent Arti - Arav, parent Aman - Avni, parent Aman - Ayur, parent Aashi - Avni, parent Aashi - Ayur, parent Arav = Avni Avni Ayur, sibling ```

Answer: 3 — Father

Take the clauses one at a time, remembering that each 'who' refers to the person named immediately before it. H is the husband of I, so H is male. I is the mother of S, and S is the brother of K, so S and K are both children of H and I. K is the father of G and J is K's wife, which puts G in the third generation and matches the opening clause that G is H's grandson. ```puzzle:family H + I - H, I, married H - S +, parent I - S, parent H - K +, parent I - K, parent K, J -, married K - G +, parent ``` S is a child of the couple H and I, and H is the male of that couple, so H is the father of S. Options 1 and 2 are ruled out by H being a husband, and option 4 confuses S's own generation with the one above it.

Answer: 1 — D is the grandfather of C.

Build the tree from the five facts. M and N are sisters, so they are both female and stand in the same generation. B is M's son and A is N's child, so B and A are cousins, one generation below. D is A's father, which places D in N's generation. C is A's son, one generation below A again. ```puzzle:family M - N - M N, sibling D + M - B +, parent N - A, parent D - A, parent A - C +, parent ``` Now test the options. D is A's father and C is A's son, so D is two generations above C on the direct line: D is C's grandfather, and option 1 is correct. Option 2 is wrong because A is the child of N alone, not of both sisters. Option 3 is the common trap — B and A are children of two sisters, which makes them cousins, not brothers. Option 4 is wrong on gender: M is a sister, so she is B's mother, not his father.

Answer: 4 — D

B is the mother of A's children, so A and B are the married couple of the older generation. Their three children include the daughters Q and C, so the third child — the son — must be one of the two people still unplaced, G or D. G is the person that son marries, so G is an in-law and cannot be the child. That leaves D as B's son. ```puzzle:family A + B - A, B, married A - Q -, parent A - C -, parent A - D +, parent B - Q, parent B - C, parent B - D, parent D, G -, married ``` Option 1 (A) is G's father-in-law, not her husband — this is the tempting answer if one reads 'B's son' as the head of the family. Options 2 and 3 (Q and C) are stated to be daughters.

Answer: 4 — Ali

The stem states outright that Ali and Zeenat are the elder couple of the family, so Zeenat's husband is Ali; the rest of the data only has to be checked for consistency. Their three sons are Zeeshan, Fazal and Aamir; Zeeshan alone is married, to Sara, and their son Aadil is the only member of the third generation. That accounts for all seven people. ```puzzle:family Ali + Zeenat - Ali, Zeenat, married Ali - Zeeshan +, parent Ali - Fazal +, parent Ali - Aamir +, parent Zeenat - Zeeshan, parent Zeenat - Fazal, parent Zeenat - Aamir, parent Zeeshan, Sara -, married Zeeshan - Aadil +, parent Sara - Aadil, parent ``` Option 3 (Zeeshan) is Zeenat's son and Sara's husband — the trap for anyone who latches on to the only marriage described in detail. Options 1 and 2 are her son and her grandson.

Answer: 1 — Daughter

Lay out only the facts that touch H and C: Fact  ·  What it gives H is daughter of A  ·  H is female; A is H's parent K is brother of H  ·  K and H are siblings, so they share parents C is mother of K  ·  C is the mother of K, hence also of H Since K and H are brother and sister, K's mother is H's mother. C is K's mother, so C is H's mother, and H — stated to be a daughter — is C's daughter. M, R and S are decoys: M is A's sister (H's aunt) and R and S are her children, H's cousins. They never enter the H-C link. Why the others fail: "Sister" would need H and C to share a parent, which nothing says; "Brother" is ruled out because H is explicitly a daughter, so H is female; "Mother" reverses the generation — C is the parent, not the child.

Answer: 2 — Daughter

Fix the couple first. - "D is son of P" but "P is not mother of D" — so P is D's father: P is male. - "C is married to P" — so C is female, P's wife, and she is D's mother. - "R is daughter of C" — R is C's daughter; since C's husband is P, R is the daughter of P as well. R is therefore P's daughter. The rest of the cast is padding: E is P's brother (R's uncle), G is E's wife (R's aunt) and F is D's brother, that is, another son of C and P. Why the others fail: "Father" and "Mother" put R a generation above P, but R is a child of P's wife; "Sister" would need R and P to share parents, which nothing states — R shares parents with D and F, not with P.

Answer: 2 — Father (ਪਿਤਾ)

Build the family from the statements. - A is the son of C, and A, B and D are siblings, so C is the mother of all three (the statement 'C is the mother of D' confirms C is female). - D is also the daughter of E. Since D's mother is already C, the other parent E must be D's father. - E is therefore the father of all of C's children, including A. So E is A's father. Option 4 (Husband) is the trap: E is indeed C's husband, but the question asks about E's relation to A, not to C. Option 1 (Son) reverses the generation.

Answer: 4 — Father’s brother

Rama and Sikha are sisters, so whoever is Sikha's father is Rama's father too. Sikha is the daughter of Atul, therefore Atul is Rama's father. Atul is the brother of Deepak, so Deepak is the brother of Rama's father — her paternal uncle, i.e. father's brother. 'Father' is the tempting wrong choice, but Rama's father is Atul, not Deepak; 'Father's father' would require Deepak to be Atul's father, whereas the two are stated to be brothers. Bharat being Deepak's son is extra data that never enters the chain.

Answer: 3 — Father’s father

Work the chain one link at a time and note each person's gender. A is the father of B, so A is male and one generation above B. B is the sister of C, so B and C are siblings, which means A is the father of C as well. C is the father of D, so C is male and D is one generation below C. Therefore A is the father of D's father, that is, D's father's father (paternal grandfather). The traps are options 1 and 4, which would require the link through D to be D's mother — but the statement says C is D's father, and C is male because 'B is the sister of C' does not make C female. Option 2 fails because A is male.