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Re: Excellent Puzzles !!!

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Jun 13th, 2005
Originally Posted by gpta_varun
one bottle out of 32 wine bottles is posioned with such poison that even
one drop
of it can kill a person.but any quantity of this poison kills exactly in
32 days.how will you find out the
bottle with poisoned wine using min number of taste testers in 32 days.
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Alright, I came up with two solutions:

First, you could only have 1 person testing the wine, and that would be the person whom poisoned it. The one he didn't drink is the poisoned bottle.

Second, you would use 31 testers. If any of them died, you would know what bottle was poisoned. If no one died then you would know that it's the 32nd bottle.
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