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If it takes 1 hour for the poison to work you need only one tester having a sip every six minutes .....see when the taster falls sick
 
Thomo said:
If it takes 1 hour for the poison to work you need only one tester having a sip every six minutes .....see when the taster falls sick


Good thinking but not the sollution to the riddle: we cannot risk Geroge's life like that. What's more the CIA upgraded their warnig: the poison will kill the tester in maximally 90 minutes after his lips touched the wine, but unfortunately he could be dead earlier possibly after 60 minutes. The working of the poison can differ about 30 minutes per person.
 
4 testers
Bottle 10 remains untested
Tester A sips bottles 1,2,3,6,9
Tester B sips bottles 4,5,6,2
Tester C sips bottles 3,5,6,7,8,9
Tester D sips bottles 8,9

bottle 1 is tester A sick
bottle 2 is tester AB sick
bottle 3 is tester AC sick
bottle 4 is tester B sick
bottle 5 is tester BC sick
bottle 6 is tester ABC sick
bottle 7 is tester C sick
bottle 8 is tester CD sick
bottle 9 is tester ACD sick
bottle 10 is no sick
 
why would one want to test 10 bottles? How much is he going to be drinking in France?

1 bottle - either it is p o i s o n e d or it is not, either you pick another one, or you drink that one. That is my answer, unless George was planning on drinking 9 bottles of wine.
 
Very good Thomo,
with four testers you can easily test the 10th bottle too, but your answer is corect (and that's something because the puzzle belongs to the cathegory "very difficult")

Dilbert, the riddle <i>requires</i> the ******** bottle to be found.
 
____ + ____ = ____

The formulae above must be filled with digits 1 2 3 4 5 6. Every digit must (and can) only be used once.
 
Thomo very good again!!!


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A police officer hears 'No Danny! Don't shoot!!!'. He runs in the home finding a priest, an enginier, and a doctor standing over the body. Without talking to any one he assertains the guilty party and arrests him. How come?
 
He arrests the engineer, because otherwise, the voice would have used either father or doctor when pleading for them not to shoot.
 
@tablariddim there is a definite clue about the quilt of the arrested person, it shoudn't be a speculative...but a definitive why
 
ProCop said:
Thomo very good again!!!


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A police officer hears 'No Danny! Don't shoot!!!'. He runs in the home finding a priest, an enginier, and a doctor standing over the body. Without talking to any one he assertains the guilty party and arrests him. How come?
The priest is the only one who must be male?
 
Because Danny is the person lying on the floor. Either missed the shot or failed to commit suecide or something like that.

It doesn't say that the body is dead.
 
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