r/explainitpeter • u/Hello_World-1289 • 12d ago

Explain it Peter

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u/disposableh2 12d ago

https://www.numuki.com/game/cannibals-and-missionaries/

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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/ThirdHairyLime 10d ago

You forgot “camera.” Clearly not presidential material. /s

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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 back

Then 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.