Danger
The Thoroughly Clean Man
Level 2 · Medium
A scientist works with a poisonous substance. He washes his hands carefully before dinner but dies of poisoning while eating. The food prepared for him contained no poison.
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- Read the premise aloud. Answers: yes, no or irrelevant.
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The answer
Opening the tap with contaminated hands also contaminated its handle. After washing, he touched it again to turn off the water and transferred the substance back to his fingers. At dinner he handled bread and ingested the poison. Washing cleaned his skin, not the object he touched immediately afterwards.