Riddle claims to reveal whether YOU are smart enough for the FBI

The FBI may be looking at an influx of new applicants thanks to a complex conundrum that allegedly determines whether you’re smart enough to become a special agent.

Matthew Palandra, who is known on social media as @themagicmatt, shared the brain teaser with his 5.1 million TikTok followers on Thursday, claiming that solving the puzzle could be a sign that you have what it takes to join the FBI.

“A man and a woman go out for a drink on their first date. It’s a sweltering summer day, so while the man and the woman wait for their food, they both get a glass of ice water,” he explained at the beginning of the video.

He claimed that properly figuring out the brain teaser could be a sign that you’re smart enough to become an FBI agent

‘The woman sweats a lot and is extra thirsty, so she immediately drinks three glasses of ice water, while the man only took sips of his water during the meal.

Later that day, the man texts the woman that he is seriously ill and feels extremely weak. And before midnight the man is pronounced dead by the police.’

Palandra said that when the woman is brought in for questioning, both her and her date’s drinks are found to be poisoned.

The magician and illusionist closed the video by asking viewers to explain in the comments why the man died and the woman did not.

Palandra’s video has been viewed more than 350,000 times in less than 24 hours, although the conundrum of poisoned drinks is not new.

There are a number of versions that can be found online, including variations in which they order iced tea instead of water.

Like most riddles, the solution is obvious when you know the answer.

The poison was in the ice cubes.

The woman’s intense thirst ultimately saved her life as she drank her water quickly before the ice had a chance to melt.

Her date, on the other hand, drank his water slowly, allowing plenty of time for the poison to melt into his drink.

Palandra explained that on a hot summer day a man and a woman went out for a drink and both were given ice water when they sat down. The woman drank three glasses of water while her date slowly sipped his during their meal

The man became seriously ill that night and died, and police determined that both his and his date’s drinks had been poisoned.

Palanddra asked viewers to explain in the comments why the man died and the woman did not

Many commentators rightly suspected that the poison was in the ice cubes. The woman quickly drank her water before the ice had a chance to melt. Her date, on the other hand, drank his water slowly, allowing the poison to fully melt into his drink

More than 4,000 viewers have commented on the post, and many of them got the conundrum right, but not everyone has what it takes to be an FBI agent.

A number of people who gave an incorrect answer focused on the number of drinks the woman had drunk and mistakenly assumed that she had flushed the poison from her system.

“I thought it was because she drank it so fast that she peed all the poison,” one commented.

“She dilutes the poison with all the water she drank,” someone else surmised, while others were convinced the man died of “dehydration.”

“They didn’t have the same drinks,” another mistakenly concluded. “Their drinks were poisoned, not their water.”