An evil king has 1000 bottles of wine. A neighboring queen plots to kill the bad king, and sends a servant to poison the wine. The king's guards catch the servant after he has only poisoned one bottle. The guards don't know which bottle was poisoned, but they do know that the poison is so potent that even if it was diluted 1,000,000 times, it would still be fatal. Furthermore, the effects of the poison take one month to surface. The king decides he will get some of his prisoners in his vast dungeons to drink the wine. Rather than using 1000 prisoners each assigned to a particular bottle, this king knows that he needs to murder no more than 10 prisoners to figure out what bottle is poisoned, and will still be able to drink the rest of the wine in 5 weeks time. How does he pull this off?
2006-11-29 19:19:27 · 9 answers · asked by wayne 1 in Entertainment & Music ➔ Jokes & Riddles
i have absoutly no idea!
2006-11-29 19:23:20 · answer #1 · answered by squashantha 2 · 0⤊ 2⤋
You could number the 1000 bottles (in fact 1024) in binary notation so:
Bottle 1: 0000000001
Bottle 100: 0001100100
Bottle 1000:1111101000
Then label the columns A-J and prisoner A is given wine from every bottle with a 1 in the A column, prisoner B from every bottle with a 1 the B column, etc. Then by matching the dead prisoners to the binary number of the bottle you have the poisoned bottle.
2006-11-29 19:34:02 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
Easy. Have the 1st prison have a sip of wine from 1/2 of the 1000 bottles, if he dies, then you know the poison is in that set of bottles (if not it is in the other set of 500). Have the second prisioner drink 1/2 of the 500 bottles...
Continue in that manner (having each prisoner drink 1/2 of the bottles that you know the poison must be among), and you will be left with 1 bottle (the poionsed one) by the time the 10th prisoner drinks. :)
2006-11-29 19:25:51 · answer #3 · answered by Dolf 2 · 0⤊ 1⤋
You have each prisoner drink sips from 100 bottles of wine. After a month, you have it narrowed down to 100 bottles. Then the king can drink the other 900 after a month, which should hold him off 'til the end of our analysis. From that point you let the remaining nine prisoners drink 11 each and toss one bottle cuz who really cares. At this point you have it narrowed down to 11 bottles when one prisoner dies from drinking the one that is poisened. Then the remaining eight drink one each out of the last 11. Chances are that it's in the remaining eight. And once it's found, you send it the bottle of wine to Paris Hilton as a housewarming gift. The end.
2006-11-29 19:27:38 · answer #4 · answered by jdmack102 2 · 1⤊ 1⤋
ask the servant... to drink the wines...he might get scared and tell them which bottle is it...
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2016-10-13 10:14:01 · answer #6 · answered by ? 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
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2006-11-29 22:29:24 · answer #7 · answered by Forgettable 5 · 0⤊ 2⤋
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2006-11-29 20:08:15 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 2⤋
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2006-11-29 19:25:01 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 2⤋