[Q] Iq Puzzle

[attoni]

hi everybody...

plz help me with with this puzzle.

a blind man has to take his medicine.He has four pills 2 blue and 2 red pills where every pill has the same shape the same smell and cannot be recognised by touch.

The man must take 1 blue pill and 1 red pill in the morning and the same in the evening

how will he do

[Tormod]

He asks someone.

[modest]

If the pills are segregated then he would just take one from each bottle every 12 hours. If the pills are all mixed up then the only solution I can think of is to put all the pills in the blender and measure out the mixed dose every 12 hours. So, if each pill is 20 mg, he would crush and mix them all up and take 40 mg of the mix every 12 hours.

 

Then again, I think Tormod might have found the easiest solution :)

 

~modest

[modest]

I thought of a better solution (better because it's more nerdy).

 

Rip a pair of 3D glasses in half (just for the drama of the act). Keep half and discard the other half (it doesn't matter which half you keep). Put all pills in the fridge then take them one at a time outside on what we'll assume is a sunny day. Put each pill under the lens. Half the pills will warm up quicker than the other half. You've then segregated the pills... in theory :)

 

~modest

[attoni]

well i like the nerdy solution better:hihi:

10x anyway....

[Pyrotex]

Oh ye of little imagination. I'd do somewhat the same thing, but I would use a 500 milliWatt output red laser instead of the kindigarten 3D glasses.

[freeztar]

Oh ye of little imagination. I'd do somewhat the same thing, but I would use a 500 milliWatt output red laser instead of the kindigarten 3D glasses.

 

If the pharmacist screwed up so much, what makes you think the 500mw laser salesman will not do the same. :shrug:

[belovelife]

you could use a solar pannel and a led

measure the voltage for each color

then add voice on the computer

then each time you need to take a pill

to make sure

you scan the pill

the measured voltage defines the color

then you get a definate color

by voltage of the reflected light

 

after being tare

the scanner would work

[Theory5]

you could use a solar pannel and a led

measure the voltage for each color

then add voice on the computer

then each time you need to take a pill

to make sure

you scan the pill

the measured voltage defines the color

then you get a definate color

by voltage of the reflected light

 

after being tare

the scanner would work

 

So the blind man can do all this? lol I think you guys are overthinking it a little. ;)

Very creative though.

[Karnuvap]

I think Modest has the best answer. Though the filtered sunlight question still requires the poor blind guy to have the foresight (sorry) to have obtained the 3-D glasses beforehand.

Wouldn't it work without the filter. The blue pills absorb all light except Blue (which they reflect) and the red ones absorb all light except red (which they reflect).

I am guessing that they will warm at different rates under white light and so no need for the filter or the lasers.

 

Personally I think he should just take one pill and if he wakes up in Zion with Morpheus and Trinity he took the red one.

[modest]

I think Modest has the best answer. Though the filtered sunlight question still requires the poor blind guy to have the foresight (sorry) to have obtained the 3-D glasses beforehand.

Wouldn't it work without the filter. The blue pills absorb all light except Blue (which they reflect) and the red ones absorb all light except red (which they reflect).

I am guessing that they will warm at different rates under white light and so no need for the filter or the lasers.

 

Personally I think he should just take one pill and if he wakes up in Zion with Morpheus and Trinity he took the red one.

 

Without the filter it would doubtfully be a perceptible difference in temp, but the filter is only for scientific flair. The best solution that would be easiest for a blind fella would be to crush up all four pills into a homogeneous mix. Divide the mix into 4 equal amounts and take one each 12 hours.

 

~modest

[Boerseun]

Leave the pills in the sun for a bit. There should be a temperature difference. Grinding them up will work, too, but some pills are time-release and grinding them up will make them absorb too quickly (medical nerd moment - thank you, thank you) and may pose some hazards - not knowing what medication it is, I will not recommend that.

 

The only issue here, is whether a blind man can read a thermometer?

 

Doesn't matter! Blind people have excessively fine-tuned fingers - what with reading braille an' all. I'm sure if he leaves the pills in the sun for a bit, he'll be able to feel the temperature difference with the awesome powers of his fingers alone...

[Tormod]

I still think he should just ask someone. :singer: