You place six jars (left to right: coffee, arsenic, and sugar on the top shelf; snuff, tea, and salt on the bottom shelf) and have somebody else fill them up with these ingredients, making sure each jar contains something other than what the label says.

You are told that the salt is located under the jar containing snuff, and that the sugar is located directly to the right of the jar containing coffee.

Where is the arsenic?

The contents of the jars are (L to R):

Top Shelf: Snuff, Tea, Arsenic

Bottom Shelf: Salt, Coffee, Sugar

As the Jars are Labelled:

Top Shelf: Coffee, Arsenic, Sugar

Bottom Shelf: Snuff, Tea, Salt

then the Arsenic is in the pot labelled Sugar.

Time for a diet???

I imagine taking salt nasally might also bring a tear to the eyes ... and as for the poor Victorian villian that tries to bump off his love rival with tea ...

Posted by cyclothymic on 2008-08-10 14:39:53