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A riddle. You’re a crusader on your way to the Holy Land when a storm wrecks your ship. You get stranded on an island with nothing but a tunic. No armor. No sword. Nothing. As you’re walking around the island you meet a dragon.
The dragon says to you, “Normally I would smite thee with my firey breath. But it has been long since a knight came so I shall giveth thee a chance for thy life. On this island there art ten wells numbered 1 to 10. Each is poisoned. But if thou drinkest water from a well of a higher number after drinking water from one of the wells, it acts as an antidote. So if thou doth drinketh water from well 2 for example, thou mayest drink water from wells 3-10 as an antidote. (But only one.)”
You, being a knight, ask, “But how does this become a contest?”
“Verily I say to you,” replies the dragon, “tomorrow we shall each offer each other a cup of water. And we shall drinketh the water from each other. Being a mighty dragon, I control well 10. The well with no antidote. I shall giveth thee water from well 10 during the contest and afterwards I shall drinketh water from well 10 to cure myself from whatever poisoned water thou doth giveth me.”

So now, being a knight who must kill the dragon in the contest tomorrow and somehow survive it, you must figure out how to do so.
 
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My apologies. I shouldn’t have been so suttle. So I will clarify and say that yes, this is a test.
 
Perhaps you can drink some water from one of the lower numbered wells beforehand and give the dragon a cup of water from well number ten.
 
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Is there a liquor store on the island I could go to before meeting the dragon?:roll_eyes:
 
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Having the drink from 10 act as an antidote to one of the lower numbered wells is good. I don’t think you’ll be able to give the dragon water from well 10 though.
 
Maybe you can give him regular water and he will poison himself when he drinks from the tenth well.
 
So I’m wondering if the knight, after drinking the cup from well 10, would then drink two cups from say well 9, would that be an antidote to the drinking of the cup from well 10?
 
The knight simply needs to drink from any well other than well number 9 beforehand.
 
I switch the cups when his back is turned.

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That will allow the knight to survive, but how does he kill the dragon?
 
Logic.
Noticed I didn’t say that’s THE correct answer that the OP is looking for.
I’m just saying my answer is correct. Purely from logical deduction.
 
Dragon cannot be killed.
Again logic.
Dragon can always drink cup 1 afterwards and then proceed to drink cup 10.
 
I assume no is the answer.
From the question you only get an antidote if you drink from a higher number.
 
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