(5 votes, average: 4.20 out of 5)A farmer is returning from market, where he bought a she-goat, a wolf and cabbage. On the way home he must cross a river. His boat is little, allowing him to take only one of the three things. He can’t keep the she-goat and the cabbage together (because the she-goat would eat it), nor the she-goat with the wolf (because the she-goat would be eaten). How shall the farmer get everything on the other side (without any harm)?
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farmer crosses with goat
farmer returns alone
farmer crosses with cabbage or wolf
farmer returns with goat
farmer crosses with whichever (cabbage or wolf) he didn’t take the first time
farmer returns alone
farmer crosses with goat
they are all on the other side
farmer crosses with goat
farmer returns alone
farmer crosses with cabbage or wolf
farmer returns with goat
farmer crosses with whichever (cabbage or wolf) he didn’t take the first time
farmer returns alone
farmer crosses with goat
they are all on the other side
First farmer take goat and return aloneden take cabbages and come back with goat again with wolf and at last with goat
farmer & she-goat – To
farmer – fro
farmer & wolf – To
farmer & she-goat – fro
farmer & cabbage – To
farmer – fro
farmer & she-goat – To
just goat is enough, what the she-goat is doing here in the puzzle?
first
take she-goat to other side
return empty
then take cabbage and return goat
then take lion and return empty(lion don’t eat cabbage)
then take she-goat and finally three is on other side
it should be wolf :p
🙂