These IQ tests they always confuse me. I thought thrule was, u had 2use only thprisoners as per kings desicion. I never understand th questions correctly. Anyway great answer!
SIMPLE MATH MAKES IT EASIER TO DETERMINE 1000 BOTTLES OF WINE 999 NOT POISONED 1 BOTTLE IS 10 PRISONERS 1000 = TOTAL 999 = OKAY 10 = PRISONERS 1 = POISONED SO 999 CAN BE SPLIT INTO GROUPS LIKE SO 0-999 # 0000000001 # 0000000010 # 0000000101 TILL # 0101010101 10 PRISONERS LABEL A - J IF WE DO MATH FORMAT 0101010101 = 0.256 + 0.064 + 0.016 + 0.004 + 0.001 = 0.341 A&B C&D E&F G&H I&J SO BOTTLE LABELLED #0.341 IS THE POISONED BOTTLE PRETTY CLEVER HUH BECAUSE THERE IS 10 PRISONERS AND 2 STATES DEAD/ALIVE SO 10/²= 1024 DIFFERENT COMBINATIONS TO CHOOSE FROM SCIENTIFICALLY
Also the question says King plans to use the prisoners as taste testers. If that's the case then asking each of the 1000 winemakers to take a test of their own wine is not even an option for an answer
@melanp4698 wdym up to 42 days? It could be up to 1000 days. All you have to do is give one bottle to each prisoner and then only the guy who got the poisoned wine dies, and 999 people live.
@@maxboskeljon6440 Yeah i guess i misread that you said 1 sip per hour. Maybe i was tired haha. But yeah the riddle is actually just ridiculous. There's infinite solutions.
@maxboskeljon6440 There are only 7 prisoners, not 1000, and any surviving gets executed and so you want them all to die wine tasting the minimise the executions.
It should also say that they only have 24 hours until the party, and even a drop of the poisoned bottle is fatal. You need 10 prisoners. Number the prisoners 1 to 10, and the bottles in Binary from 1 to 1000. 1 is 0000000001 2 is 0000000010 and so on. Then prepare 10 cups where if a bottle has a 1, add a drop from that bottle to that number cup. The prisoners drink their cups and in 24 hours, the prisoners that die correspond to the 1s in the number of bottle telling you the exact number. 10 prisoners can check up to 1024 or 2^10 bottles at once.
Is that the original riddle or something you added? Because that makes it significantly more interesting lol :) The riddle in the video is absolutely ridiculous.
It doesn't say he has 10 prison. It says he has several he plans to execute and he is going to use them for the taste testing most people believe that the word several means 4 for example a couple is two and few is 3 and several is 4 and arguably maybe a bit more but several would not mean imo
I assume the answer is to make the prisoners drink a sample at times intervals and when 1 dies just trace it back to which sample was drank exactly 24 hours ago. That said, only 1 bottle is poisoned anyway, so only one prisoner is going to die. Personally, I'd make each wine maker sample their bottle first. Whichever refuses or dies in 24 hours is it.
But any even mildly competent assassin would have taken an antidote just in the case of stuff like this :) The original riddle has way more constraints (time and number of prisoners), so the riddle in the video is just ridiculously simplified.
@@melanp4698 I thought about the antidote thing too, not all poisons have antidotes though. Also if they don't know the King is planning to make them drink their own then they most likely wouldn't consider an antidote to begin with. Lastly, they're being watched after drinking they wouldn't be able to take the antidote without raising suspicion. If this is a cut down version of the original riddle then it makes sense there's so many holes.
@@iamthecheese2737 But like i said, a competent assassin would think about it :) And maybe take the antidote beforehand. But it's just pocket-detective-guessing anyway haha :) I dont remember the original riddle verbatim, but it's something like: The king's daughter is getting maried the next day and 1/1000 bottles of wine is poisoned. A single drop of wine is lethal and it takes exactly 24 hours to kill. He has a dozen prisoners available, how can he find the culprit in 24 hours while killing as few prisoners as possible.
You made me realise something we both missed. The poison takes exactly 24 hours so, pretty much do this but instead record the time they all drank the same bottle of wine and the time they day the next day indicates which bottle contains poison. Only, alcohol is poison and they would all die from alcohol poisoning anyway. And so, you wouldn't be able to do that
You need 10 prisonners, as 1000 < 2¹⁰. The first one gets a mix of wines {1..512}. The second one gets a mix of wines {1..256 and 513..768}, the third one a mix of wines {1..128, 257..384, 513..640 and 769..896}, the 4th one... etc... until the 10th one gets a mix of wines {1, 3, 5, 7...}. Each prisonner is a bit, so you get the poisoned bottle number in binary format on 10 bits.
Why not just divide the wine between 7 so that some drink an extra bottle. The remaining divide wine that contains the poisoned bottle between 6. You wnd up with 5 bottles and 4 prisoners, and so you could deliberately alter it to maximise the number of poisoned prisoners such that 1 or none survive when the poison is identified. No need for a specific number of prisoners.
@@danielgriffiths845 I don't understand how you could check 1000 bottles with this technique. Also, checking a bottle takes 24 hours, so you have to do all operations in parallel to be in time.
@@---ei6bu well, every 24 hours 1 dies. you split the wine from that the dead person drank. I did at first miss the fact that you could have each drink wine at different times and use the time of death. I then thought actually, finding the wine on the first death alone would maximise the survivors and hence the executions. Thinking about it again you could incorporate that into my idea and split each of the seven into ones small enough to drink at different times. You don't want one person to die at a particular time and say, aha, it is this bottle. If everyone drinks all of the wine I am not sure if that would count as not being executed as you would knowing give all of them them poison.
@@---ei6bu The binary approach is good, but it can kill up to 9 prisoners and the riddle calls for killing as few as possible. It's good for the original riddle where there's a time constraint and limited number of prisoners, but the riddle in the video is simplified to the point of uselessness.
I'm surprised so many of you guys try to solve this puzzle in the comments. 1. This video clearly is not about the puzzle. 2. This puzzle is designed stupid. There are no restrictions regarding time (1 prisoner could taste 1 boftle eaach day for 1000 days) or the number of prisoners (1000 prisoners each taste 1 bottle, only 1 does). And the fact that the death happens exactly 24 hours later can be utilized as well (1 prisoner taste 1 wine every minute and then you keep track).
Yes that is related to my comments. It is a fact imo although the question riddle is long it should have added in other details that would limit the scope of what type of answer one would give so yeah I see your point it is a dumb designed riddle.
Each prisoner tastes one wine each hour ,keeping track of which wine was tried ,whoever dies exactly 24 hours later had the poisoned wine and the winemaker who brought it
Won’t work. Intervals have to be 24 hours to see if they work so you can know which bottle did it. By drinking one each one hour when it actually happens there will be 24 possibilities.
@@imeaniguess.6963 Why would there be 24 possibilities? If the poison takes 24 hours to take effect, which is what is specified in the question, then you would just look at which wine was given exactly 24 hours prior. You're only giving one glass per hour, which means there's only one glass administered in a 24 hour period that could have been poisoned.
@@garrettbates2639 There would be 24 possibilities, because they’re tasting one wine each hour. That means that by the 24th hour when it’s supposed to take effect, they’ll have tasted 24 different wines. My way is giving one glass per 24 hours, so give one or as many people as possible a wine, and come back 24 hours. Are they still kicking? Then give them all new wine. Come back in 24 hours, did one not make it? Well which wine did he have? Only one person didn’t make it. His way: Give a person 24 wines in 24 hours and come back. One didn’t make it? Which one did it?
@@garrettbates2639 The other way actually does work, but for some reason it removed the comment saying that. My way is simply a lazy way without keeping track of anything, but he does say that he’s keeping track so it works.
He can use 1 prisoner and have them take a sip from a different bottle every minute. Then note the time each was taken. It is exactly 24 hours when the poison kicks in so when he dies correlates to the wine that is poisoned.
@@melanp4698 Speed was never a factor. This guy is just overly efficient with it lol. However, I wouldn’t risk it because there might not be measures in place for errors, but he’s not only right, but efficient.
Well they never said how many prisoners there are so let’s say they have enough prisoners for each whine, all they have to do is get one prisoner to drink one wine and make sure to mark which one is drank by which prisoner so after 24 hours they know which one is poisoned and since only one wine is poisoned, it doesn’t matter that 1000 prisoners are drinking one type of wine since only one will die.
@@hewiesLiterally the question is about the least number of prisoners "executed". Only one will be out. I think that the quiz has not been described very well on this point.
The King has only "several prisoners he plans on executing" therefore several can mean 4 or so. 2 is a couple & few is 3 in which likely several is approximately 4 possibly a bit more depending on opinions.
Have one prisoner drink from 500 bottles, and if he lives he can eliminate those 500 bottles as safe. If he dies you can identify those 500 bottles of nonsafe. Repeat the process with another prisoner drinking 250 of the non-safe batch. Keep repeating until you've narrowed down the bottles to just one. This process will require 10 prisoners to whittle down from 1,000 bottles to just 1 bottle, And since each prisoner has a 50/50 chance of surviving... That means just five prisoners would die.
Also some of you are focusing on getting the results right away but the question doesn't say there's a requirement of how soon they need to know so you can't use even time as a limiting factor with whatever answer you're trying to give. .
I am not saying this is an answer, just FYI The King has only "several prisoners he plans to execute." therefore several can mean 4 or so. 2 is a couple & few is 3 in which likely several is approximately 4 possibly a bit more depending on opinions.
Lets asume several means less than 50 prisoners 25 good drinking prisoners drink 40 glases, so first prisoner 40 bottles 2. 41-81... If one dies after 24h you have 40 bottles suspected of containing poison, Depending how many prisoners are left lets asume we got another 14, 10 each drinks 4 glases if one dies there are 4 bottles left to test, normal bottle of wine contains 4 full glases of wine first and second glas is gone, 2 are left. Determine which one is posioned with the last 4 prisioners and the king gets at least 1 glas left of the good wine. For the guests it will be 4000-1044=2954 glases left, all drunk but alive
It doesn't matter. Only one bottle is poisoned so only one prisoner will die by poison. The real question is how many bottles of good wine will he have to open before he finds the poison.
10 prisoners, number the bottles and give out samples in a binary counting format. The configuration of dead prisoners tells you which bottle is poisoned
Fyi only folks....Also the question says King plans to use the prisoners as taste testers. If that's the case then asking each of the 1000 winemakers to take a test of their own wine is not even an option for an answer.
The Time which is required to test all bottles is not a factor , it is not mentioned in the task at all , so just 1 prisoner can be taking a sip every 24 hours until one day he dies . King on the other hand can drink the wine that was tested after 24 hrs
Why every 24 hours? It specifically says it takes EXACTLY 24 hours till suddenly dropping dead. So he can take a sip every minute and then track back EXACTLY 24 hours to find which wine was sipped in that minute. It would take tops 1.6 days to find the poison.
Unless the king is an alcoholic, I'm guessing he's only going to drink a bottle a day? In which case, you only need one prisoner. The day he drops dead, yesterday's wine tasted is the poison bottle.
Easy one: King will have to employ an binary search strategy. 1st - He needs to number each bottle from 1 to 1000 2nd - He have to divides 1000 bottle into groups of 500 and assigning each group to a different prisoner. 3rd - The King have to test first group by selecting one of the prisoners and give him a sip from each bottle in that group, then repeats the process for all prisoners in the first group. 4th - Wait 24hrs 5th - Observe, If someone dies after 24 hours than the poisoned bottle is in the 1st group of 500, if no one dies than poisoned bottle is in the second group. 6th - If no one dies King have to repeat the test with the second group *Go form 3rd step till 5th* 7th - After second test, or 1st depend when he finds which of 500 bottles is poisoned than next King will have to test again with even smaller groups of bottles and continue the process until one bottle remains and that bottle is poisoned one. This strategy allows the King to identify a poisoned bottle by executing the fewest number of prisoners, as he's effectively halving the number of bottles to test with each round. In total, he will need to execute only a few prisoners to find the poisoned bottle. Hope it clarify the problem ;P
@@miczoolHave the prisoner drink from one different bottle every hour. Since it takes exactly 24 hours to die, monitor which bottle the prisoner drank from exactly 24 hours prior to their death.
you DO use a binary search, but you can do it much quicker. Number the bottles 0 to 999. Bring out 10 prisoners. Have prisoner 1 take a sip from every other bottle (0, 2, 4,...998) Have prisoner 2 take a sip from two bottles and then skip two bottles (0,1,4,5,8,9...) Have prisoner 3 take a sip from four bottles and skip four bottles (0,1,2,3,8,9,10,11,...) Keep doubling until we get to prisoner 10 who sips from the first 512 bottles. Wait 24 hours. We will now take each of the 10 prisoners and assign them a binary digit, with prisoner 1 being the far right digit and prisoner 10 being the far left digit. If the prisoner dies, we assign them a 0. If the prisoner lives, we assign them a 1. Whatever number the 10 digit binary converts to, is the poisoned bottle. For example, if all of the prisoners are dead, we end up with 0000000000. This translates to bottle 0, which is the only bottle they all drank from. If prisoner 2 is the only one who lives, we end up with 0000000010, which converts to 2. Prisoner 2 is the only person who did not drink from bottle 2.
1000 bottles. How many prisoners? Divide the number of bottles equally among the prisoners. The one that dies will have had one of those bottles be poisoned.
In the original riddle there's a time constraint (the wedding is the next day, the assassin must be found before then). The riddle in the video is ridiculous, it has infinite solutions.
Um... Only one bottle is poisonous so only one would poison a prisoner so it really doesn't matter. If he is letting each prisoner have a taste from a single bottle at a time he is only going to kill one.
My first thought was to take 10 people to try 100, 1 dies, take the 9 people have them try 11-12, another dies, then 8 people try 2 each then, 1 more dies, 2 people try 1- not sure how optimal that is but only 4 people die
Easy! Refuse accepting all the wines and just drink the own wine the kingdom has manufactured. Or just drink beer instead 😂 and tighten the security for the next annual party.
Get 1,000 prisoners and give each one a separate drink of the 1,000 different bottles. 24 hours later 1 prisoner dies, then he know which bottle was poisoned.
Each bottle must have a label to easily identify it. He can give each prisonet a different wime. The one who dies the next day is the one who drank the poison, so it's easy to know which bottle had it and which winemaker tried to kill the king.
There's only one bottle of poisoned wine, so obviously only one prisoner will be killed no matter how you go about it. So really the question should be on efficiency or on how to save the most bottles of wine(which would rely both on technique and probability).
In the original riddle that this is stolen from, the assassin must be found before the wedding the next day + only a dozen prisoners are available. The rirddle in the video is ridiculous and simplified to the point that it has infinite solutions.
@@melanp4698 Then easy. All 12 prisoners take a sip of a different wine every minute. Each prisoner would sip 83.3 wines and be finshed in 1.38 hours. The poison would be found at the latest 25.38 hours later.
@@yoshiperspectives4880 Could be one way to do it sure :) I dont remember the original riddle varbatim, but it had a number of constraints that made it a little bit complex.
Only one⚜️ By the way, this riddle is a bit of strange for me, 'cause in my country's culture, prisoners never allowed to drink, taste, or just see a cup of wine, because of it's sacredity. Wine is a bless of nature. But a disarmed, catched enemy is still an enemy, and nobody wants it to give a bless for an enemy. Kings are never trusted of foreign, or unknowned origin of wines just blindly. The most loyal partner of the king was always the "tester", and not because of order, its just by nature. That's what we called seer-steed, "táltos", which is something like you know as shaman. But wine has way more content like this short story...Cheers!🇭🇺🍷
Use 10 prisoners, order them from 1 to 10. Order the bottles from 1 to 1000 (or 0 to 999 if you prefer). The i-th prisoner only drinks wine from bottles whose i-th digit in binary is 1. This strategy works for up to 1024 wines.
That's 500 bottles for prisoner 1, i think he will die of alcohol poisoning before the poison lol. But the binary approach is good as in the original riddle, a single drop of wine is lethal. So collect wine in binary marked cups and have the prisoners drink a cup each.
The question usually is how much time does it get to find x. But the data given is very generous (infinite prisoners) so 1 wine sip from each bottle to only 1 prisoner. So that bottle is tied to the prisoner that will die. The others will survive. Is this a question for americans?
To be fair it says "several" which is moree than two, but not many :) But yeah the riddle in the video is ridiculous. In the original riddle, the assassin must be found before the party the next day and there's only a dozen prisoners available.
she the cutest thing ever... almost forgot the exercise just because shes so distractingly pleasing to look at and listen to 😅 ESIT: right the exercise 😂 the King just gives a sip of wine from each bottle to a prisoner, since only one is poisoned only 1 prisoner will die regardless? but the "riddle" is a game of deception, feeding us with lots of details not needed to answer the question lol 😅
Why not see which of the winemakers fight over the same bottle and which one is left unclaimed? 2 prisoners drink, one dies, one will then claim the other bottle.
Get 100 prisoners and each one drinks from 10 different bottles of wine over 10 hours at 1 hour intervals. Note the time each prisoner drinks from each marked bottle then observe all the prisoners over the next 24 hours. The one who drops dead has drunk from the poisoned bottle and you will easily identify the bottle according to the time the prisoner dies by counting backward 24 hours to identify which hour and which bottle he drank from.
Probably only 1. And if they dont want to spend 1000 days tasting wine they could do one sip of wine per minute. Since it takes exactly 24 hours. Assuming they have an accurate clock. They only need to remember which wine was consumed when. They will be done in around 17 hours. In the worst case
6 prisoners over 5-6 days would give you an answer. 1000/6 = each testing about 167 bottles, 1 day. 167/5 = each testing about 34 bottles, 1 day 34/4 = about 9 each, 1 day 9/3 = 3 each, 1 day 3/2 = 1 tests 1 bottle, one tests 2, 1 day If the one that tested one dies, you now know, otherwise: 2/1 = test one, would know in 1 day which bottle.
But we dont know the lethal dose. It might be one sip, it might be an entire glass or an entire bottle. Your solution is elegant, but the riddle is absolutely ridiculous. There is not enough information to give any kind of usable answer.
There is not enough information given to create an equation to determine the answer. You would need to know the number of prisoners he has to serve as taste testers to calculate the answer.
Yeah the riddle is ridiculous :) There's infinite answers. In the original riddle, the assassin must be found before the party the next day and there's only a dozen prisoners available.
The king collects one bottle of wine from each of the winemakers, and then hands one bottle to each of the prisoners he plans on executing, making sure that he has a recorded history of which winemaker's bottle went to which prisoner. When the prisoner dies, the king will know which winemaker was attempting to poison him
I mean, he could just ask each individual winemaker to take a swig of the wine they brought. If any of them refuse, it is probably that one.
they'd probably have an antidote, which they can use within the 24 hour period after drinking the wine
That's exactly what I thought !
These IQ tests they always confuse me. I thought thrule was, u had 2use only thprisoners as per kings desicion. I never understand th questions correctly.
Anyway great answer!
Not if he is willing to give his life for it
SIMPLE MATH MAKES IT EASIER TO DETERMINE
1000 BOTTLES OF WINE
999 NOT POISONED
1 BOTTLE IS
10 PRISONERS
1000 = TOTAL
999 = OKAY
10 = PRISONERS
1 = POISONED
SO 999 CAN BE SPLIT INTO GROUPS
LIKE SO
0-999 # 0000000001
# 0000000010
# 0000000101
TILL # 0101010101
10 PRISONERS LABEL A - J
IF WE DO MATH FORMAT
0101010101 =
0.256 + 0.064 + 0.016 + 0.004 + 0.001 = 0.341
A&B C&D E&F G&H I&J
SO BOTTLE LABELLED #0.341 IS THE POISONED BOTTLE PRETTY CLEVER HUH
BECAUSE THERE IS 10 PRISONERS AND 2 STATES DEAD/ALIVE SO
10/²= 1024 DIFFERENT COMBINATIONS TO CHOOSE FROM SCIENTIFICALLY
Only 1 prisoner would die the rest wouldn't.
1 bottle.1poison...the rest are good .1 Glass each .out of each bottle.wine will keep a day.x
@user-jh6cg2rx6n but it might take them 142 days to wait for a result
Does “several prisoners” = 1000 prisoners?
@@mynameishades2113 is there a time limit in the scenario?
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why not ask the winemakers to drink their own wine?
And then hold them captive for 24 hours?
@@MichaelB769 yeah there has to be something more intelligent. it would be too simple for them to just drink their own wine
Yeah you couldn't allow them to leave because then the poisoned winemaker would have time to find and take an antidote.
Also the question says King plans to use the prisoners as taste testers. If that's the case then asking each of the 1000 winemakers to take a test of their own wine is not even an option for an answer
1 sip per bottle on timed intervals. When the convict dies, check which sample was 24 hours ago.
But that can take up to 42 days to figure out.
@melanp4698 wdym up to 42 days? It could be up to 1000 days. All you have to do is give one bottle to each prisoner and then only the guy who got the poisoned wine dies, and 999 people live.
@@maxboskeljon6440 Yeah i guess i misread that you said 1 sip per hour. Maybe i was tired haha.
But yeah the riddle is actually just ridiculous. There's infinite solutions.
@@melanp4698 It is such a stupid riddle lol
@maxboskeljon6440 There are only 7 prisoners, not 1000, and any surviving gets executed and so you want them all to die wine tasting the minimise the executions.
1000 prisoners, 1000 wines.
Only 1 dies.
Then 999 prisoners get executed
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That's not helping answer the question....but yes she definitely is
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Only 1 prisoner will die
And she still has no clue.
It should also say that they only have 24 hours until the party, and even a drop of the poisoned bottle is fatal. You need 10 prisoners. Number the prisoners 1 to 10, and the bottles in Binary from 1 to 1000. 1 is 0000000001 2 is 0000000010 and so on. Then prepare 10 cups where if a bottle has a 1, add a drop from that bottle to that number cup. The prisoners drink their cups and in 24 hours, the prisoners that die correspond to the 1s in the number of bottle telling you the exact number. 10 prisoners can check up to 1024 or 2^10 bottles at once.
Is that the original riddle or something you added? Because that makes it significantly more interesting lol :) The riddle in the video is absolutely ridiculous.
Yes ultimately the question / riddle is flawed
It doesn't say he has 10 prison. It says he has several he plans to execute and he is going to use them for the taste testing most people believe that the word several means 4 for example a couple is two and few is 3 and several is 4 and arguably maybe a bit more but several would not mean imo
I assume the answer is to make the prisoners drink a sample at times intervals and when 1 dies just trace it back to which sample was drank exactly 24 hours ago. That said, only 1 bottle is poisoned anyway, so only one prisoner is going to die. Personally, I'd make each wine maker sample their bottle first. Whichever refuses or dies in 24 hours is it.
But any even mildly competent assassin would have taken an antidote just in the case of stuff like this :)
The original riddle has way more constraints (time and number of prisoners), so the riddle in the video is just ridiculously simplified.
@@melanp4698 I thought about the antidote thing too, not all poisons have antidotes though. Also if they don't know the King is planning to make them drink their own then they most likely wouldn't consider an antidote to begin with. Lastly, they're being watched after drinking they wouldn't be able to take the antidote without raising suspicion. If this is a cut down version of the original riddle then it makes sense there's so many holes.
@@iamthecheese2737 But like i said, a competent assassin would think about it :) And maybe take the antidote beforehand. But it's just pocket-detective-guessing anyway haha :)
I dont remember the original riddle verbatim, but it's something like: The king's daughter is getting maried the next day and 1/1000 bottles of wine is poisoned. A single drop of wine is lethal and it takes exactly 24 hours to kill. He has a dozen prisoners available, how can he find the culprit in 24 hours while killing as few prisoners as possible.
if only one prisoner is poisoned the remaining 6 are executed. I believe the question was to minimise the executions.
@@danielgriffiths845 Where are you getting 7 prisoners from?
Alternatively, give one prisoner a glass of wine a day for 1000 days
You made me realise something we both missed. The poison takes exactly 24 hours so, pretty much do this but instead record the time they all drank the same bottle of wine and the time they day the next day indicates which bottle contains poison.
Only, alcohol is poison and they would all die from alcohol poisoning anyway.
And so, you wouldn't be able to do that
What the king doesn’t know is the the prisoner has built up an immunity to iocaine powder
Realistically 10 prisoners are required to accurately calculate the poisoned vine
You need 10 prisonners, as 1000 < 2¹⁰. The first one gets a mix of wines {1..512}. The second one gets a mix of wines {1..256 and 513..768}, the third one a mix of wines {1..128, 257..384, 513..640 and 769..896}, the 4th one... etc... until the 10th one gets a mix of wines {1, 3, 5, 7...}. Each prisonner is a bit, so you get the poisoned bottle number in binary format on 10 bits.
Why not just divide the wine between 7 so that some drink an extra bottle.
The remaining divide wine that contains the poisoned bottle between 6.
You wnd up with 5 bottles and 4 prisoners, and so you could deliberately alter it to maximise the number of poisoned prisoners such that 1 or none survive when the poison is identified.
No need for a specific number of prisoners.
@@danielgriffiths845 I don't understand how you could check 1000 bottles with this technique. Also, checking a bottle takes 24 hours, so you have to do all operations in parallel to be in time.
@@---ei6bu well, every 24 hours 1 dies. you split the wine from that the dead person drank.
I did at first miss the fact that you could have each drink wine at different times and use the time of death.
I then thought actually, finding the wine on the first death alone would maximise the survivors and hence the executions.
Thinking about it again you could incorporate that into my idea and split each of the seven into ones small enough to drink at different times.
You don't want one person to die at a particular time and say, aha, it is this bottle.
If everyone drinks all of the wine I am not sure if that would count as not being executed as you would knowing give all of them them poison.
@@---ei6bu The binary approach is good, but it can kill up to 9 prisoners and the riddle calls for killing as few as possible.
It's good for the original riddle where there's a time constraint and limited number of prisoners, but the riddle in the video is simplified to the point of uselessness.
This is the right answer.
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I'm surprised so many of you guys try to solve this puzzle in the comments.
1. This video clearly is not about the puzzle.
2. This puzzle is designed stupid. There are no restrictions regarding time (1 prisoner could taste 1 boftle eaach day for 1000 days) or the number of prisoners (1000 prisoners each taste 1 bottle, only 1 does). And the fact that the death happens exactly 24 hours later can be utilized as well (1 prisoner taste 1 wine every minute and then you keep track).
Yeah, it's one of the dumbest riddles i've ever heard.
Yes that is related to my comments. It is a fact imo although the question riddle is long it should have added in other details that would limit the scope of what type of answer one would give so yeah I see your point it is a dumb designed riddle.
Each prisoner tastes one wine each hour ,keeping track of which wine was tried ,whoever dies exactly 24 hours later had the poisoned wine and the winemaker who brought it
Won’t work. Intervals have to be 24 hours to see if they work so you can know which bottle did it. By drinking one each one hour when it actually happens there will be 24 possibilities.
@@imeaniguess.6963
Why would there be 24 possibilities?
If the poison takes 24 hours to take effect, which is what is specified in the question, then you would just look at which wine was given exactly 24 hours prior. You're only giving one glass per hour, which means there's only one glass administered in a 24 hour period that could have been poisoned.
@@garrettbates2639 There would be 24 possibilities, because they’re tasting one wine each hour. That means that by the 24th hour when it’s supposed to take effect, they’ll have tasted 24 different wines.
My way is giving one glass per 24 hours, so give one or as many people as possible a wine, and come back 24 hours. Are they still kicking? Then give them all new wine. Come back in 24 hours, did one not make it? Well which wine did he have? Only one person didn’t make it.
His way: Give a person 24 wines in 24 hours and come back. One didn’t make it? Which one did it?
@@garrettbates2639 Actually this way does work too.
@@garrettbates2639 The other way actually does work, but for some reason it removed the comment saying that. My way is simply a lazy way without keeping track of anything, but he does say that he’s keeping track so it works.
He can use 1 prisoner and have them take a sip from a different bottle every minute. Then note the time each was taken. It is exactly 24 hours when the poison kicks in so when he dies correlates to the wine that is poisoned.
But with 1000 hours, it could potentially take 42 days.
Every minute, not every hour. 1000 minutes is not even 17 hours.
@@melanp4698 Speed was never a factor. This guy is just overly efficient with it lol. However, I wouldn’t risk it because there might not be measures in place for errors, but he’s not only right, but efficient.
First the 1 prisoner would die from wine poisoning.
Second, ignoring the above, the 6 remaining prisoners get executed
Well they never said how many prisoners there are so let’s say they have enough prisoners for each whine, all they have to do is get one prisoner to drink one wine and make sure to mark which one is drank by which prisoner so after 24 hours they know which one is poisoned and since only one wine is poisoned, it doesn’t matter that 1000 prisoners are drinking one type of wine since only one will die.
Exactly
Except the question wasn't how many prisoners, it was what is the least number of prisoners. Ive seen a workable answer using only 10 prisoners
@@hewiesLiterally the question is about the least number of prisoners "executed". Only one will be out. I think that the quiz has not been described very well on this point.
The King has only "several prisoners he plans on executing" therefore several can mean 4 or so. 2 is a couple & few is 3 in which likely several is approximately 4 possibly a bit more depending on opinions.
Have one prisoner drink from 500 bottles, and if he lives he can eliminate those 500 bottles as safe. If he dies you can identify those 500 bottles of nonsafe. Repeat the process with another prisoner drinking 250 of the non-safe batch. Keep repeating until you've narrowed down the bottles to just one. This process will require 10 prisoners to whittle down from 1,000 bottles to just 1 bottle, And since each prisoner has a 50/50 chance of surviving... That means just five prisoners would die.
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queen has the winemaker
Also some of you are focusing on getting the results right away but the question doesn't say there's a requirement of how soon they need to know so you can't use even time as a limiting factor with whatever answer you're trying to give.
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I am not saying this is an answer, just FYI The King has only "several prisoners he plans to execute." therefore several can mean 4 or so. 2 is a couple & few is 3 in which likely several is approximately 4 possibly a bit more depending on opinions.
Lets asume several means less than 50 prisoners
25 good drinking prisoners drink 40 glases, so first prisoner 40 bottles 2. 41-81...
If one dies after 24h you have 40 bottles suspected of containing poison,
Depending how many prisoners are left lets asume we got another 14, 10 each drinks 4 glases if one dies there are 4 bottles left to test, normal bottle of wine contains 4 full glases of wine first and second glas is gone, 2 are left.
Determine which one is posioned with the last 4 prisioners and the king gets at least 1 glas left of the good wine.
For the guests it will be 4000-1044=2954 glases left, all drunk but alive
It doesn't matter. Only one bottle is poisoned so only one prisoner will die by poison.
The real question is how many bottles of good wine will he have to open before he finds the poison.
10 prisoners, number the bottles and give out samples in a binary counting format.
The configuration of dead prisoners tells you which bottle is poisoned
Fyi only folks....Also the question says King plans to use the prisoners as taste testers. If that's the case then asking each of the 1000 winemakers to take a test of their own wine is not even an option for an answer.
The Time which is required to test all bottles is not a factor , it is not mentioned in the task at all , so just 1 prisoner can be taking a sip every 24 hours until one day he dies . King on the other hand can drink the wine that was tested after 24 hrs
Why every 24 hours? It specifically says it takes EXACTLY 24 hours till suddenly dropping dead. So he can take a sip every minute and then track back EXACTLY 24 hours to find which wine was sipped in that minute. It would take tops 1.6 days to find the poison.
Actually Lydia Violet is is right about her statement, as to why does it really matter!
Have the queen be the only taste tester😂
It depends how small the country is, and whether it has hills and forests and caves... Oh my, sorry, I'm just being distracted by Lydia
She makes a valid point.
have each winemaker taste test their own bottle.
Ask the winemakers to try randomly selected wines. The one that refuses is the bad guy. He might get his own.
Shes so precious.
Unless the king is an alcoholic, I'm guessing he's only going to drink a bottle a day? In which case, you only need one prisoner. The day he drops dead, yesterday's wine tasted is the poison bottle.
Put ice in it and if it floats it’s safe and if it sinks it’s poisoned
Easy one: King will have to employ an binary search strategy.
1st - He needs to number each bottle from 1 to 1000
2nd - He have to divides 1000 bottle into groups of 500 and assigning each group to a different prisoner.
3rd - The King have to test first group by selecting one of the prisoners and give him a sip from each bottle in that group, then repeats the process for all prisoners in the first group.
4th - Wait 24hrs
5th - Observe, If someone dies after 24 hours than the poisoned bottle is in the 1st group of 500, if no one dies than poisoned bottle is in the second group.
6th - If no one dies King have to repeat the test with the second group *Go form 3rd step till 5th*
7th - After second test, or 1st depend when he finds which of 500 bottles is poisoned than next King will have to test again with even smaller groups of bottles and continue the process until one bottle remains and that bottle is poisoned one.
This strategy allows the King to identify a poisoned bottle by executing the fewest number of prisoners, as he's effectively halving the number of bottles to test with each round. In total, he will need to execute only a few prisoners to find the poisoned bottle.
Hope it clarify the problem ;P
Or just have one prisoner try every bottle and keep track of which bottle kills him in 24 hours?
@@MrTonper and how would you know which bottle killed the prisoner if the prisoner drank a lot of them?
@@miczoolHave the prisoner drink from one different bottle every hour. Since it takes exactly 24 hours to die, monitor which bottle the prisoner drank from exactly 24 hours prior to their death.
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you DO use a binary search, but you can do it much quicker. Number the bottles 0 to 999.
Bring out 10 prisoners.
Have prisoner 1 take a sip from every other bottle (0, 2, 4,...998)
Have prisoner 2 take a sip from two bottles and then skip two bottles (0,1,4,5,8,9...)
Have prisoner 3 take a sip from four bottles and skip four bottles (0,1,2,3,8,9,10,11,...)
Keep doubling until we get to prisoner 10 who sips from the first 512 bottles.
Wait 24 hours.
We will now take each of the 10 prisoners and assign them a binary digit, with prisoner 1 being the far right digit and prisoner 10 being the far left digit. If the prisoner dies, we assign them a 0. If the prisoner lives, we assign them a 1. Whatever number the 10 digit binary converts to, is the poisoned bottle.
For example, if all of the prisoners are dead, we end up with 0000000000. This translates to bottle 0, which is the only bottle they all drank from. If prisoner 2 is the only one who lives, we end up with 0000000010, which converts to 2. Prisoner 2 is the only person who did not drink from bottle 2.
1000 bottles. How many prisoners? Divide the number of bottles equally among the prisoners. The one that dies will have had one of those bottles be poisoned.
In the original riddle there's a time constraint (the wedding is the next day, the assassin must be found before then). The riddle in the video is ridiculous, it has infinite solutions.
Um... Only one bottle is poisonous so only one would poison a prisoner so it really doesn't matter. If he is letting each prisoner have a taste from a single bottle at a time he is only going to kill one.
My first thought was to take 10 people to try 100, 1 dies, take the 9 people have them try 11-12, another dies, then 8 people try 2 each then, 1 more dies, 2 people try 1- not sure how optimal that is but only 4 people die
But why 100 specifically? Why not just use 1000 and give them one each?
How toxic is the poison... is 1 small glass shared by 500 enough?
Easy! Refuse accepting all the wines and just drink the own wine the kingdom has manufactured. Or just drink beer instead 😂 and tighten the security for the next annual party.
By forgiving the prisoners that did not die from the taste test.
Get 1,000 prisoners and give each one a separate drink of the 1,000 different bottles. 24 hours later 1 prisoner dies, then he know which bottle was poisoned.
Each bottle must have a label to easily identify it. He can give each prisonet a different wime. The one who dies the next day is the one who drank the poison, so it's easy to know which bottle had it and which winemaker tried to kill the king.
The king can declare whatever he wants. This is the wrong answer but it's also an answer
There's only one bottle of poisoned wine, so obviously only one prisoner will be killed no matter how you go about it. So really the question should be on efficiency or on how to save the most bottles of wine(which would rely both on technique and probability).
In the original riddle that this is stolen from, the assassin must be found before the wedding the next day + only a dozen prisoners are available.
The rirddle in the video is ridiculous and simplified to the point that it has infinite solutions.
@@melanp4698 Then easy. All 12 prisoners take a sip of a different wine every minute. Each prisoner would sip 83.3 wines and be finshed in 1.38 hours. The poison would be found at the latest 25.38 hours later.
@@yoshiperspectives4880 Could be one way to do it sure :)
I dont remember the original riddle varbatim, but it had a number of constraints that made it a little bit complex.
Easy invite them to the party early and let them drink the wine first . 😲😲
By having the winemakers taste their own wine before handing it to the king the one that poisoned it would refuse
Anybody else have a really hard time focusing during this whole video?
Only one⚜️ By the way, this riddle is a bit of strange for me, 'cause in my country's culture, prisoners never allowed to drink, taste, or just see a cup of wine, because of it's sacredity. Wine is a bless of nature. But a disarmed, catched enemy is still an enemy, and nobody wants it to give a bless for an enemy. Kings are never trusted of foreign, or unknowned origin of wines just blindly. The most loyal partner of the king was always the "tester", and not because of order, its just by nature. That's what we called seer-steed, "táltos", which is something like you know as shaman. But wine has way more content like this short story...Cheers!🇭🇺🍷
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Use 10 prisoners, order them from 1 to 10. Order the bottles from 1 to 1000 (or 0 to 999 if you prefer). The i-th prisoner only drinks wine from bottles whose i-th digit in binary is 1. This strategy works for up to 1024 wines.
That's 500 bottles for prisoner 1, i think he will die of alcohol poisoning before the poison lol.
But the binary approach is good as in the original riddle, a single drop of wine is lethal. So collect wine in binary marked cups and have the prisoners drink a cup each.
1 but it would take 1000 days
The question usually is how much time does it get to find x. But the data given is very generous (infinite prisoners) so 1 wine sip from each bottle to only 1 prisoner. So that bottle is tied to the prisoner that will die. The others will survive. Is this a question for americans?
To be fair it says "several" which is moree than two, but not many :) But yeah the riddle in the video is ridiculous.
In the original riddle, the assassin must be found before the party the next day and there's only a dozen prisoners available.
I don't get it. There's only 1 bad bottle of wine ... If all 100 drank. 1 dies.
Ngl I had to listen to it twice to figure it out
There is only one way but it is slow, you take one prisoner and every 24 hours if he is alive you give him a swig from a different bottle of wine
Each prisoner tries 1 wine. Duh.
That said, don't have the winemaker try it, he might know the antidote
I like your philosophy, Lidia. Who cares how many die. But, he still wouldn't know which wine maker or wine was poisoned.
Ask 1 person to drink 1 bottle of wine each day.
Invite less wine makers next time or keep a record of the name of the person and make sure it's visibility marked on the bottle who brought the wine
Tell the wine makers they taste each others wine bottle taste and you let each wine taster drink their own wine.
Have each wine maker drink some of their own wine
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Make the wine makers drink from their own wine, which they have made.
Fuck, I forget everything and I‘m to lazy to watch it again.
You just mix all the wines together so in that proportions poision is not going to be effective no more
If they dont share wine only one dies
she the cutest thing ever... almost forgot the exercise just because shes so distractingly pleasing to look at and listen to 😅
ESIT: right the exercise 😂 the King just gives a sip of wine from each bottle to a prisoner, since only one is poisoned only 1 prisoner will die regardless?
but the "riddle" is a game of deception, feeding us with lots of details not needed to answer the question lol 😅
By putting the time on each bottle
Just ask each Winemaker to try the wine before he tries it. Severla prisoners does not equates 1000
Why not see which of the winemakers fight over the same bottle and which one is left unclaimed? 2 prisoners drink, one dies, one will then claim the other bottle.
1000 prisoners all 1 glas of wine from a different bottle and check in over 24 hours 😂
1 prisoner sips a new bottle every hour until she dies. The bottle she drank from 24 hours prior is the weapon.
Eh, just offer all the winemakers money to make poisoned wine.
Hers is a valid answer tho
Man has 1000 prisoners
Get 100 prisoners and each one drinks from 10 different bottles of wine over 10 hours at 1 hour intervals.
Note the time each prisoner drinks from each marked bottle then observe all the prisoners over the next 24 hours.
The one who drops dead has drunk from the poisoned bottle and you will easily identify the bottle according to the time the prisoner dies by counting backward 24 hours to identify which hour and which bottle he drank from.
why you need 10 though? just use 1 and let him drink 1000 bottles
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only one tester would die any way.
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It would take 4 years but if you just use one tester he'd be unlucky to get it on the first try
Only several prisoners, means 3or 4, but you only need 1 for a 1000 days, lucky prisoner at least getting sauced in his last 3 years on the planet
Probably only 1. And if they dont want to spend 1000 days tasting wine they could do one sip of wine per minute. Since it takes exactly 24 hours. Assuming they have an accurate clock. They only need to remember which wine was consumed when.
They will be done in around 17 hours. In the worst case
6 prisoners over 5-6 days would give you an answer.
1000/6 = each testing about 167 bottles, 1 day.
167/5 = each testing about 34 bottles, 1 day
34/4 = about 9 each, 1 day
9/3 = 3 each, 1 day
3/2 = 1 tests 1 bottle, one tests 2, 1 day
If the one that tested one dies, you now know, otherwise:
2/1 = test one, would know in 1 day which bottle.
But we dont know the lethal dose. It might be one sip, it might be an entire glass or an entire bottle.
Your solution is elegant, but the riddle is absolutely ridiculous. There is not enough information to give any kind of usable answer.
each wine is tested by the master first 😊
Just dump the wine and buy some kegs. No one dies.
This happened on Game of Thrones
yes and they caught the wrong guy
One prisoner one drink,per day minimum loss of life 3 years to finish but a bottle a day to drink
Lydia is far more genius
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There is not enough information given to create an equation to determine the answer. You would need to know the number of prisoners he has to serve as taste testers to calculate the answer.
Yeah the riddle is ridiculous :) There's infinite answers.
In the original riddle, the assassin must be found before the party the next day and there's only a dozen prisoners available.
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10. 2^10=1024.
Let every wine make drink the wine they brought
The king collects one bottle of wine from each of the winemakers, and then hands one bottle to each of the prisoners he plans on executing, making sure that he has a recorded history of which winemaker's bottle went to which prisoner. When the prisoner dies, the king will know which winemaker was attempting to poison him
don't open any bottles and destroy all the bottles
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