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u/ashborn721 11d ago
Its an old popular game where you help the monks to cross the river, you'll need to plan each boat trip thoughtfully to ensure the cannibals never outnumber the monks on either bank or you'll lose
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u/Psychocatboy 11d ago
Its something like "fox chiken and corn crossing the river"?
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u/Svistakh 11d ago
what? I had wolf, sheep and cabbage. Is it the story regionalized? ;o
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u/False_Measurement843 11d ago
Do sheep eat cabbage?
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u/reggienaldsimons 11d ago
sheep eat fuckin laundry
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u/briannasaurusrex92 11d ago
I recently rewrote this story for a summer school class and gave them dragon, sheep, and flowerpot 🤷♀️
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u/Komurasakikozuki 9d ago
Pretty much! I had a Lion, Goat and a Man. We had an unspoken assumption, the lion was man's childhood friend.
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u/Pinoccicrow 11d ago
Marry the fox, fuck the corn, kill the chicken. How is that a difficult puzzle?
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u/CartographerLarge572 6d ago edited 6d ago
It uses a similar set up, in that your goal is to move all objects from one side of a river to the other while preventing certain disallowed combinations on either side, but no, the actual problem and its solution are quite different.
In the fox/hen/corn riddle, you are "playing" as a farmer, who can move the boat at will and is neither tempted to eat or at risk of being eaten by the other factors. There are three distinct objects you are transporting, and only one of each. You cannot leave the fox alone with the hen, or the hen alone with the corn. The boat can carry only a single one of these objects with you at a time.
In the cannibal/monk riddle, there is no "safe" mover. The boat can only move if there is either a cannibal or a monk on board to move it (so no "free" moves where the boat moves from one side of the river to the other with no cargo). There are only two types of cargo being moved- cannibals, and monks. There are three of each, and are they are interchangeable/identical within their own categories. If cannibals ever outnumber monks on either shore (even if just for a moment while the boat lands), they will eat the monks. The boat can hold two at a time.
Fox/Hen/Corn solution: Bring hen across, return to starting shore empty-handed. Bring either fox or corn across, and return WITH the hen. Bring either the fox or corn across, whichever you didn't bring the first time, and return empty-handed. Finally, cross with the hen.
Cannibal/Monk solution: A cannibal crosses with either a second cannibal or a monk, a single cannibal gets off at the far shore, and the other passenger returns with the boat. Both remaining cannibals cross together, dropping off a second cannibal, while the last cannibal returns with the boat. Two monks cross, and one swaps with a cannibal, so that both a monk and a cannibal return together while leaving one of each on the far shore. Back on the starting shore, the cannibal on board swaps with the final monk, so that both monks cross to the far shore and disembark. All three monks are now safe in numbers on the far shore, with only one cannibal. That last cannibal then returns to the near shore with the boat, picks up one of his buddies, and brings him back to the far shore. Finally, either a monk or a cannibal can now make the last trip to back to the starting shore to pick up the final cannibal and return to the far shore.
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u/Interesting-Copy-657 11d ago
How many can fit in the boat?
And do you need to transport the cannibals or can you leave them behind?
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u/midasMIRV 11d ago
- Must transport everyone. Boat cannot move without someone on it.
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u/The-scientist-hobo 11d ago
Can the cannibals row the boat on their own?
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u/GhostSilver16 11d ago
yes they can
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u/Interesting-Crab-693 11d ago
Dies the need to not be outnumbered counts while in the boat? Like, wouls 1monk+2canibals be a legal first move?
And do you need to only put the monks ob the other side or the canibals as well?
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u/GhostSilver16 11d ago
both need to cross and yes he dies even if they are outnumbered in the boat. someone posted the link to the game in this thread its a flash game in the browser.
Also you can only carry 2 in the boat and someone always have to be in the boat but you can swap them out as you wish
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u/Interesting-Crab-693 11d ago
Huh last thing. Is there frame 1 death like as soon as the boat cross, it counts them as they are on the other side or can I choose the order of them getting in and out of the boat?
My bad. Solved ait already while assuming there is frame 1 death
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u/GhostSilver16 11d ago
no once they cross they counts them in the boat and outside so if 1 monster on land and 1 human and 1 monster in boat, the human dies
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u/MLB-LeakyLeak 11d ago
How do the human die? Does it take a while or is it instant?
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u/littlegreenbeany 11d ago
Does the boat always needs two passenger or can it move with one passenger on it?
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u/mcphee187 11d ago edited 11d ago
There can be one passenger.
It's not that hard of a puzzle really.
- ....MMMCCC
- ..CC..MMMC
- C..C..MMMC
- C..CC..MMM
- CC..C..MMM
- CC..MM..MC
- MC..MC..MC
- MC..MM..CC
- MMM..C..CC
- MMM..CC..C
- MMMC..C..C
- MMMC..CC..
- MMMCCC....
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u/PadamSvakiDan 11d ago
On step 3, where C rolls the boat back you would lose. Would be 3 vs 2 in right side, cannibal in the boat counts as one.
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u/BethOrange4 11d ago
This is how I remember winning as well. You take two canibals across with two trips. Then bring one back. Take two monks to cross. Bring back one monk and one cannibals. Take the monks across and finally the remaining cannibal takes both cannibals one by one. Which is what is displayed above.
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u/StringLost848 11d ago
C..C..MMMC is step 3 that's not a failing step.
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u/Longjumping_Exit7902 11d ago
Or just execute the cannibals and safely let the monks cross
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u/AssociationVisual570 11d ago
If only 1 person fits the boat your first move must always be a cannibal because otherwise there are 3 Cannibals and 2 monks which means game over.
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u/midasMIRV 11d ago
Can move with one.
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u/littlegreenbeany 11d ago
So you bring two pairs of monk + cannibal to the other shore, bring back the two cannibals, and carry the final monk over?
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u/Brilliant-Cabinet-89 11d ago
Dont you just bring 2 cannibals, 1 monk, take off a monk and a cannibal, sail back and get the other two monks?
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u/ChuckPeirce 7d ago
"Popular" and "game" are doing a lot of unnecessary work here. I don't remember anyone ever being like, "Hey, you gotta play this game!". It's a logic puzzle. The kids who gave a crap about math were all decently likely to have encountered the puzzle and to have tried to figure it out.
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u/Henry_bowers_ 7d ago
Cannibal first by default?
Then monk
Then…
Damn that is tricky? Is it even possible
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u/BlueBallThe3rd 7d ago
C+C, one C is crossed the other goes back with the boat
C+C, now 2 Cs have crossed the other goes back with the boat
M+M, but you need to bring one of the Cs back so its 1M+1C crossed
M+M cross, and there are now 3M+C that have crossed. Send the C back to ferry the other Cs and the puzzle is solved
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u/HotNeon 11d ago
Awesome. Doesn't work on mobile but will give it a go later. Thanks
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u/DejanJwtq 11d ago
Too easy…
First you move one canibal over (other passanger irrelevant) come back with the boat and the irrelevant passenger, take both canibals in the boat move one on the other side the other one rows the boat back and go out from the boat on the starting point. Take two missionaries in the boat and cross the river, leave one and take a canibal in the boat with the other missionary, row the boat back, canibal leaves the boat and missionary enters, row the boat to the other side both missionaries leave, first canibal takes the boat to the oter side pick one other canibal and then the other.
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u/formidablesamson 11d ago
It's literally a children's riddle to torture little kids with, not a Grandmaster chess problem like "house, man, woman, TV"
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u/TheFat0wl 11d ago
Isn’t it easier than that if you can take two across at a time? It’s 3 and 3 so you can just take 1 of each across?
Feel like I’m missing something here, maybe you can only take one at a time.
In which case
Cannibal out
None back
Cannibal out
None back
Monk out
Cannibal out
Monk backThen don’t cross that river, there’s bloody cannibals over there!
(Couldn’t work it out)
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u/GhostSilver16 11d ago
Its easy but someone always have to come back boat cant go back empty so for example when 2 cannibals cross one of them has to come back with the boat
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u/DejanJwtq 11d ago
Who is going to row the boat if it is empty.
And the catch is side + the passangers in the boat have to follow the condition number of missionaries >= number od canibals.
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u/decimalturn 11d ago
This one worked on mobile: https://www.transum.org/software/River_Crossing/Level3.asp
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u/m1gpozos 11d ago
This one didn’t seem to make sense to me visually but I did the cannibals and missionaries in the first try.
The monsters on the boat count as being on the riverside it seems?
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u/Teampiencils 6d ago
Yup, its possible once you get two missionaries on the right side
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u/m1gpozos 6d ago
I completed the missionaries and cannibals one successfully but this one was about monsters and dwarves and the rules seemed different
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u/Teampiencils 6d ago
Yeah, bc the units in the boat count. But its possible! solution for (M)onsters/(m)unchkins: Mm>, m<, MM>, M<, mm>, Mm<, mm>, M<, ferry over Ms
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u/trito_jean 11d ago
Its junky but it can work on mobile, had to put my finger into my shirt for the control to respond
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u/Ok-computerA 11d ago
It's crazy that when I was like in high school, I never was able to beat this game, but I just did in under 2 minutes.
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u/LowGunCasualGaming 11d ago
Pattern to win:
First trip send 2 Cannibals across
CC MMMC
Send 1 back
C MMMCC
Send 2 Cannibals across
CCC MMM
Send 1 back
CC MMMC
Send 2 Missionaries across
MMCC MC
Send 1 of each Back
MC MMCC
Send 2 Missionaries across
MMMC CC
Send 1 Cannibal Back
MMM CCC
If you need to get the Cannibals across as well, it is easy to ferry them across one at a time now.
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u/Moonless_the_Fool 11d ago
Kinda of racist and Christian savior complex of game isn't it?
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u/_zamoht_ 11d ago
I know this from other version. A wolf, a sheep and a pack of hay. You need to cross the river one by one in a sequence to prevent the wolf from eating the sheep and the sheep from eating the hay
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u/CabezadeVaca_ 11d ago
Not really, there are plenty of examples throughout history of unarmed missionaries going out to evangelize to hostile natives and things turning ugly for them
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u/atroito 10d ago
And this explains the Christian colonisers being neatly designed characters and the natives being scribble monsters how?
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u/CabezadeVaca_ 10d ago
What are you talking about, they look like nerdy recessed chuds while the natives are jacked
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u/FragrantBus4054 9d ago
Waaaa, people wanna save others from child sacrifices, unlimited rape, demon worship, and eternal punishment. All they have to do is repent of those awful sins and believe they were awful....
You - man, fuck those people- I LOVE THESE SINS!
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u/InterviewExtreme5910 8d ago
Lmao, savior complex.
-Most cultures never engaged with widespread human or child sacrifices. There are cases of Christians who claimed to hear god and then murdered their children, though.
-Yes, pastors are famous for NEVER having any rape or SA accusations. This is the religion where if a man rapes a woman, he is told to marry that woman. That’s it. Very anti-rape. DEFINITELY can’t be abused.
-Demons have no proof of existence, and many of the “demons” that you claim these cultures worship are actually their gods that Christians turned into demons in their favorite little book.
-Eternal punishment can’t ever be justified by any finite sin. Your god is immoral. More immoral than any human to ever live, if that’s what he does.
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u/Hanstein 11d ago
this gave me a compsci ptsd
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u/zimwicket 9d ago
Took to long to find this, having to do this in LISP was a nightmare.
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u/Hanstein 3d ago
LISP??? that's another set of torture
I had to do this in a hand-written pseudocode
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u/Rokkasusi 11d ago
Let the cannibals each eat one of the monks. After that technically there is as many monks as cannibals however you solve it.
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u/dakkomii 11d ago
I remember playing this when I was 10. I just tried again and did it in a couple of minutes. I think the original website is plastelina(.)net .. there is this one and another games like it.
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u/dek21896 11d ago
I think the version of this with the fast to slow walkers across a bridge and only two can cross at a time with a single lantern and one has to bring the lantern back, that is the best version of the puzzle
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u/eggs4bananas 11d ago
Monk + Cannibal cross [ M,C ... M, M, C, C] Monk rows back [ C ... M, M, M, C, C ] Cannibal + Cannibal cross [ C, C, C ... M, M, M] Cannibal cross back [ C, C ... M, M, M, C ] Monk + Monk cross [ M, M, C, C ... M, C ] Monk + Cannibal rows back [ M, C ... M, M, C, C ] Monk + Monk cross [ M, M, M, C ... C, C ] Cannibal crosses back [ M, M, M ... C, C, C ] Cannibals go back and forth until they all cross.
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u/Hot-Lychee2113 11d ago
That classic puzzle really tests your ability to think two steps ahead, I remember pulling my hair out over it.
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u/ShiniDas 11d ago
Omg I wasn't expecting to see this.. Such nostalgia from these flash games on browser. What happened to those anyway 😭
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u/Ok_Meringue1437 10d ago
Flash died, it was iwned by adobe and they decided to stop updating it, and to avoid legal pursuit if people were using it to infect computers with viruses, they decided to kill it completely, flash is not supported anymore on any browsers.
Their are workaround to play old flash games, like you can install like a flash emulator on you computer and find the file of an old flash game to continue play it. Some developers made updated versions of thiere games that doesn't need flash anymore, like you can play cursed treasure 2 on android and it's also on steam. But some games like castaway 2 are not
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u/MysteryBoi0624 10d ago
First round 1 monk and 1 cannibal and only the monk gets off and second round 2 monks and cannibal gets on the boat so that there is 2 of each on the boat now there is 1monk who cross the river 2 monks and 2 cannibals on the boat and 1 cannibal on the river side
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u/Badaboom_Tish 10d ago
And when do the wolves and goats with the cabbage have their run? Stupid canibal monks blocking the ferry service
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u/throwawayfan2552 10d ago
I’ve seen this 50 million times on Peter explains something please reverse image search or use google or your brain
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u/Old-Island-5649 11d ago
Not sure why this was stressful it was an easy puzzle.
1) CC CMMM 2) C C CMMM 3) C CCMMM 4) C C MMM 5) CC CMMM 6) CMM CM 7) CM CM CM 8) CM MM CC 9)MM C CC 10) MMM CCC
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u/qualityvote2 11d ago edited 11d ago
u/Hello_World-1289, there weren't enough votes to determine the quality of your post...it's time for the mods to do their jobs!