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(Message started by: Johan_Gunardi on May 20^th, 2007, 6:26pm)

Title: Another Solution to Criminal Cupbearers
Post by Johan_Gunardi on May 20^th, 2007, 6:26pm

I think the King only need to murder one prisoner. The prisoner drinks 1000 wine bottles in a week. He drinks one bottle per ten minutes. The poison will take effect after a month. So the King can conclude which wine bottle contains the poison.
Tell me what do you think.

Title: Re: Another Solution to Criminal Cupbearers
Post by Icarus on May 20^th, 2007, 8:07pm

I think that is one amazing poison - to take a month to kill, but to do so with less than 10 minutes of variation in the amount of time needed.

Title: Re: Another Solution to Criminal Cupbearers
Post by rmsgrey on May 21^st, 2007, 8:49am

I think, were I the King, I would be disinclined to risk drinking any of the bottles "near" the one implicated - I'd hate to die because the poison was half an hour faster or slower than predicted...