The blind pill

difficulty 2

Riddle: You are blind, with two blue pills and two red pills. You must take exactly one of each today and tomorrow. How do you do it?
riddle
Published

July 29, 2020

You are blind. You have 2 blue pills and 2 red pills in a box.

You have to take 2 pills today and 2 tomorrow. Each day, exactly one blue and one red. If you don’t, you will die. If you take more, you will die.

How do you do it ?

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One by one, you take the pill, break it in half, eat a half and keep the other half for tomorrow. This way, you will eat exactly 1 blue and 1 red pill per day.