A judge gave a condemned prisoner two pills and a glass of water. The prisoner was to pick one pill to take, leaving the judge the other. The prisoner chose a pill, took it and dies. The judge took the other pill and survived.
How could the judge be sure that the condemned prisoner would die?
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Answer to previous riddle: Mr Wilson had the hiccups. He asked for a glass of water to try to get rid of them, but the barkeeper took out the pistol to scare the hiccups away instead.
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