Please wait...
Does that make it the Top of the Hour of the Wolf?
Only if it has already been the hour of the cabbage. And then we have to figure out what to do with that pesky goat...
Greed. Decades ago.
Wed Jul 05 2023 01:10:07 PM EDT from nonservatorI wonder who broke the President.
I did not. Still dont.
Fri Jul 14 2023 09:08:56 AM EDT from IGnatius T FoobarI guess no one caught the wolf-goat-cabbage reference. Either that or it wasn't funny. Oh well.
It's a puzzle, probably more than a thousand years old. It goes like this:
You have a wolf, a goat, and a cabbage, and you need to get to the other side of a river in a boat that can only carry yourself and one of the three items.
If you leave the wolf unattended with the goat, the wolf will eat the goat.
If you leave the goat unattended with the cabbage, the goat will eat the cabbage.
How do you get yourself and all three items across the river without anything being eaten?
(No web searching, figure it out for yourself.)
You have a wolf, a goat, and a cabbage, and you need to get to the other side of a river in a boat that can only carry yourself and one of the three items.
If you leave the wolf unattended with the goat, the wolf will eat the goat.
If you leave the goat unattended with the cabbage, the goat will eat the cabbage.
How do you get yourself and all three items across the river without anything being eaten?
(No web searching, figure it out for yourself.)
Are you allowed to cart things back and forth on each trip ?
That is the only way i can see it working: Keep the vulnerable item on board the boat on successive runs.
You have a wolf, a goat, and a cabbage, and you need to get to the
other side of a river in a boat that can only carry yourself and one of
the three items.
Ship goat to B side.
Return alone.
Ship cabbage to B side and return with the goat.
Ship wolf to B side and return alone.
Ship goat to B side.
Did you already know the answer or did you figure it out immediately? (Or
did you search the Internet for it like I said not to?)
[A now solve the nine dots puzzle.
[A now solve the nine dots puzzle.
in my case i figured it out, but was not sure about the rules. so didnt know if i had the right answer or not ( i did )
of course for me, id just toss the cabbage in the water. ( ick. ) then shuffle the animals across :)
Of course a goat fucker would ask this.
Sat Jul 15 2023 20:44:11 EDT from zelgomerI'm confused. At what point do you fuck the goat?
2023-07-16 04:25 from LadySerenaKitty <ladyserenakitty@uncensored.citadel.org>
Of course a goat fucker would ask this.
Look, we don't all have convenient access to cats.
Play nice, people.
So yes, answering the boat problem requires realizing that you can make return trips with vulnerable items on board. It is an exercise in learning not to be bound by constraints that were not placed on you as part of a problem.
My daughter gave me a different answer: "Let the goat eat the cabbage, let the wolf eat the goat, then you only have to make one trip." She didn't solve the puzzle but she got bonus points for efficiency.
I wasn't able to see a way to do it without it.. Short of tying the wolf to a tree, taking the cabbage first, then come back for wolf.. Then back for goat. But figured that would break the rules.
Sun Jul 16 2023 08:14:46 PM EDT from IGnatius T Foobar
So yes, answering the boat problem requires realizing that you can make return trips with vulnerable items on board. It is an exercise in learning not to be bound by constraints that were not placed on you as part of a problem.
2023-07-17 00:14 from IGnatius T Foobar <ajc@citadel.org>
Play nice, people.
I'm just playing. No offense meant.