puzzle 1:KING AND WINE BOTTLES
A bad king has 1000 bottles of wine. A neighboring king plots to kill the bad king, and sends a servant to poison the wine. the servant is able to poison only one of them before he is caught. The guards don't know which bottle was poisoned, but they do know that the poison is so potent that even if it was diluted 1,000,000 times, it would still be fatal. Furthermore, the effects of the poison take one month to surface. The king decides he will get some of his prisoners in his vast dungeons to drink the wine. At a minimum how many servants does he need to kill to find out the poisoned bottle of wine and will still be able to drink the rest of the wine in 5 weeks time? As an added note, he does not want to bring in 1000 of his servants as he knows there are a lot lesser number of prisoners he can bring in to begin with.
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