Given 1000 bottles of juice, one of them contains poison and tastes bitter. How do you find it in the smallest number of sips? Adding a single drop of poison to the juice will make it taste bitter. You can assume that you have the antidote for the poison.
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Matchstick Maths
Below is a little math equation, made of matchsticks, that does not add up. Can you move just one match stick and fix the equation?
Hotel Room
A woman was in her hotel room when suddenly there’s a knock on the door.
She opened the door to see a man whom she had never seen before. He said, “I’m sorry, I have made a mistake, I thought this was my room.” He then went down the corridor and in the elevator. The woman went back into her room and phoned security.
Why was the woman so suspicious?
Riddle AnswerPoisoned Apple
Lucretia Borgia invited a prospective victim to lunch. They ate a hearty meal of roast venison, with a selection of fresh vegetables, all washed down with the finest wine imported from Bordeaux in France.
After the meal they finished off with figs and grapes freshly picked.
“Just one apple left”, said Lucretia, “I insist you have that. “No”, said the guest, “I couldn’t”. “Tell you what”, said Lucretia, “we will share it”, and promptly sliced it neatly in two with her sharpest knife. The guest and Lucretia started to eat their respective halves when suddenly the guest’s eyes rolled towards the ceiling and he keeled over backwards stone dead.
“Another victim successfully despatched,” thought Lucretia.
Why was Lucretia not poisoned after eating the apple?
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