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Poisonous Wine

ReasoningHard~30 min· Algorithms
Problem

You have bottles of wine. Exactly one is poisoned. The poison takes hours to kill anyone who drinks even a drop, and you have hours to identify the poisoned bottle. You also have prisoners available as taste-testers.

How do you find the poisoned bottle in the allotted time?