Daily Puzzle: The Poisoned Wine (June 17, 2026)

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🧩 Today’s Puzzle: The Poisoned Wine

A king has 1,000 bottles of wine. One bottle is poisoned. The poison takes exactly 24 hours to kill. The king needs to find the poisoned bottle in exactly 24 hours for his party. He has 10 prisoners he’s willing to sacrifice. How can he identify the poisoned bottle?

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💡 Hint

This is a binary problem. With 10 prisoners, how many bottles can you uniquely identify? Think about what each prisoner can represent.

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