The Poisoned Wine-Brain teaser Riddle You have 1,000 bottles of wine, one of which is poisoned. You have 10 prisoners, and the poison will kill someone exactly 24 hours after they consume it. You need to find the poisoned bottle within 24 hours. How do you do it? Show Answer Label the bottles from 1 to 1,000 and convert each number to binary. Assign each bit to a prisoner (10 bits total). Have each prisoner drink from the bottles where their corresponding bit is a 1. After 24 hours, the prisoners who die reveal which bits are 1 in the binary number of the poisoned bottle. 1 likes 1 Dislikes Riddles Categories Animal Riddles 100 Brainteasers 76 Tough Riddles 40 Funny riddles 54 Hard riddles 50 Riddles For Adults 25 Riddles for kids 52 Riddles with answers 218 Science riddles 97 What am I 60 Who am i 89 Join Our 20 Million Family Mindyourlogic Hindi follow Mindyourlogic follow Mindyourlogic Hindi follow Mindyourlogic English follow Pinterest follow