Direction: Study the following information carefully and answer the question…
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Direction: Study the following information carefully and answer the question below. (The numbers given in the figure are treated as fixed seat positions.)
Eight persons — Abhay, Isha, Riya, Rahul, Piya, Diya, Sahil and Sanyam — are seated at eight positions of a figure. Four of them face towards the centre and four face away from the centre.
Only two persons sit between Isha and Abhay.
Sahil sits second to the right of Abhay.
Rahul and Sahil are immediate neighbours.
Riya sits third to the left of Rahul.
Both Abhay and Isha face away from the centre.
Rahul faces the direction opposite to Isha.
Piya sits immediately to the right of Sahil, who faces the same direction as Abhay.
Sanyam sits second to the left of Riya.
Both Sanyam and Piya face the same direction.
Now they play a card game. A shuffled pack of cards is used. In serial order — first Isha draws a card and changes her place as per the conditions below, then Abhay draws, and so on for the others — each person draws exactly one card.
Conditions:
If the card drawn is a spade, the first person to draw a spade moves to position 5 and reverses the direction they were facing; the next spade-drawer moves to position 6, the next to 7, then 8.
If the card drawn is a heart, the person stays at the same position facing the same direction.
If the card drawn is a diamond, the first person to draw a diamond moves to corner 1 facing the same direction; the next diamond-drawer moves to corner 2, the next to corner 3, then corner 4.
If the card drawn is a club, the person stays at the same position but reverses the direction they were facing.
Draws (in serial order):
Isha draws the Queen of Clubs.
Abhay draws the Jack of Clubs.
Piya draws the 3 of Spades.
Rahul draws the King of Diamonds.
Diya draws the Ace of Hearts.
Sahil draws the 9 of Hearts.
Sanyam draws the 7 of Diamonds.
Riya draws the 4 of Spades.
After everyone has changed their place based on the above conditions, who is sitting at corner 2?
- A.
Isha
- B.
Diya
- C.
Sahil
- D.
Sanyam
- E.
None of these
Show answer & explanation
Correct answer: D
Concept
In a transformation puzzle the seat changes are driven only by the rules attached to each event — here, the suit of the card each person draws. A 'corner' seat in this puzzle is created by exactly one rule: the diamond rule. By that rule, diamond-drawers are sent to the corners strictly in the order in which they draw — the 1st diamond-drawer to corner 1, the 2nd to corner 2, and so on. So to find who sits at a given corner, you do not need the full initial seating at all — you only need to read off the diamond-drawers in draw order.
Application
Go through the draws in their stated serial order and pick out only the diamonds, because only diamonds create corner placements:
Isha → Queen of Clubs (club, not a diamond).
Abhay → Jack of Clubs (club, not a diamond).
Piya → 3 of Spades (spade, not a diamond).
Rahul → King of Diamonds — this is the FIRST diamond → corner 1.
Diya → Ace of Hearts (heart, not a diamond).
Sahil → 9 of Hearts (heart, not a diamond).
Sanyam → 7 of Diamonds — this is the SECOND diamond → corner 2.
Riya → 4 of Spades (spade, not a diamond).
Only two diamonds are drawn in the whole game: the King of Diamonds (by Rahul) and then the 7 of Diamonds (by Sanyam). The first diamond fills corner 1 and the second fills corner 2. Therefore Sanyam is seated at corner 2.
Cross-check
Confirm by elimination that no other rule can place a person at corner 2: clubs and hearts both keep a player on their original seat (a club only flips the facing, a heart changes nothing), so club- and heart-drawers (Isha, Abhay, Diya, Sahil) can never be at a corner. Spades send players to numbered positions 5, 6, 7, 8 — not to corners — so the spade-drawers (Piya, Riya) are at positions, not corners. That leaves the corners to the diamond-drawers alone, and the second of them in draw order is Sanyam. Note that this conclusion does not depend on the original circle/figure layout, so the ambiguity in the seating description does not change the answer.