Four Pills
6 Dec 2017
Puzzle

A blind man has four pills: two red and two blue. The pills are identical in tehrms of shape, size, texture, weight, smell and so on. Only the colors are different. So the blind man cannot distinguish between a red pill and a blue pill. Now the blind man must consume exactly 1 red pill and 1 blue pill. If he consumes two red pills or two blue pills, he will immediately die. What strategy will enable the blind man to ensure that he consumes exactly one pill of each color?

Source

Found this puzzle online in Dec 2017.

Solution

This is a lateral thinking puzzle. One idea is to break each pill into two equal halves and consume half of each pill. Another idea is to dissolve all the pills in water and consume exactly half of the solution.

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