Each Friday morning I post a riddle or some sort of brain teaser. Due to some last minute business travel, I didn’t get a chance to try and figure out this week’s riddle, but perhaps you will. As usual, I’ll post or confirm the answer starting in the afternoon, but please do share your thoughts in the comments section.
In a far away land, it was known if you drank poison, the only way to save yourself was to drink a stronger poison to neutralize the weaker poison. The king of this far away land wanted to have the strongest poison possible so he commanded his pharmacist and treasurer to make the strongest poison they could. He gave each a week to concoct their poison then each would drink the other’s poison. The one who survived, he surmised would have made the strongest poison in the land.
The treasurer knew the pharmacist was much more experienced so he made up a plan to survive and ensure the pharmacist would die. On the last day the pharmacist suddenly realized the treasurer would know he had no chance, and after a little thought he realized what the treasurer would do. When the king summoned them to drink the poisons the treasurer died and the pharmacist survived, but the king didn’t get what he wanted.
What exactly happened?
BosGuy 
I would have died.
The pellet with the poison’s in the vessel with the pestle, the chalice from the palace has the brew that is true.
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The Answer
The treasurer planned to drink a weak poison prior to the meeting so the pharmacist’s stronger poison would neutralize what he drank, and he would bring water, which will have no effect on him. However, the pharmacist who would drink the water, and then his poison would surely die. When the pharmacist figured this out, he brought water as well. So the treasurer who drank poison earlier would only drink water at the challenge and would die.
The pharmacist would only end up drinking water so nothing happens to him. Since both parties only brought water the king didn’t get a strong poison like he wanted.
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