New Puzzler 1/13/97: New Year's Eve Party
Ray:
New Year's Eve a bunch of people attend a party;, which is often the case. One neighbor
invites a bunch of other neighbors and before you now it there are 60 or 70
people at your house.
Tom:
Oh. A big party.
Ray:
Did I ever tell you the joke about the tuba? Anyway, at this new year's eve
party there are the various things you would find at a New Year's Eve party. There is
champagne for a champagne toast, there's fruit punch with ice cubes in it and various
pieces of rotten fruit that were going to be thrown away, hor oeuvres, deserts, and whatever.
In any case, one of the guests comes to the party, but leaves early. But before he leaves
he partakes of all the various things - he has a glass of champagne,
a glass of fruit punch, he tries every one of the appetizers and deserts ...
Tom:
And he dies.
Ray:
He stumbles over the tuba on his way out. Not just kidding. he leave for some unknown
reason hours before the other guests leave. The next morning all the other guests are
found dead by the butler. He had the night off because it was New Year's. He comes
in and the other 74 guests or whatever number where there, are all dead. And they have
bee poisoned and they've clearly been poisoned by something that was one the table. And yet,
this guy left early, even though he drank everything that everyone else did, and survived.
He wasn't immune to the poison or anything. Why did he survive?
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