Tonight marks the eve of All Hallows ’ Eve , so to honor the scariest time of the year , we ’re strand you in a ghastly hellscape . Zombies are after your brain , and that ’s exactly what you ’ll need to use to last .
One of these is a classic trouble plume in a Halloween costume . The other is a mephistophelian variant .
Puzzle #17: Poisoning Zombies
zombi have take over the world , and you preside over a fastness with a group of humans trying to build a normal life . You have 1,000 bbl of water to hydrate your multitude , but your main scientist comes to you one morning with some disturbing news : there ’s been a contamination of the water supply , and one of the 1,000 barrels is now poisonous , but he lost track of which one .
The poison water supply looks and tastes like all of the others , but if anyone tope even a drop , then they will suddenly settle dead that midnight . You do n’t desire to risk life , but since Hollywood has universally agreed that zombi have no moral Charles Frederick Worth , you are unforced to enamour and poison them to discover the bad barrel .
Snaring zombi is hard employment . What is the fewest bit of zombies you ’ll want to distinguish the poisoned barrel by tomorrow ?
Image: Graphics: Vicky Leta (Shutterstock)
Puzzle #17b
Here ’s a incentive puzzle : What is the few act of snake god you would need if you had 2,000 barrel and two twenty-four hour period to run test ?
Neither trouble is promiscuous , but the 2d is much tough to conceptualize , and I do n’t commend trying it until you ’ve solved the first one . If you ’d like a small tip for each , I ’ll do you one substantially and just give you the answer . Because ascertain the number of zombies you ’ll need is n’t really the mystifier , but rather how you ’ll use them .
So if it avail , for 1,000 barrels in one day you ’ll needthis manyzombies . For 2,000 barrels in two day , you ’ll needthis manyzombies .
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