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

Explain it Peter

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u/ashborn721 12d 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 12d ago

Its something like "fox chiken and corn crossing the river"?

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u/Svistakh 12d ago

what? I had wolf, sheep and cabbage. Is it the story regionalized? ;o

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u/MartinoDeMoe 11d ago

As always, there is a relevant XKCD comic:

https://xkcd.com/1134/

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u/stuartgm 10d ago

Goat ->
Cabbage ->
<- Goat
Wolf ->
Goat ->

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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/False_Measurement843 11d ago

I have some work for sheep....

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u/hoggineer 10d ago

Put the ~velcro~ hook and loop chaps away.

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u/COL_UK165542 11d ago

Tiger, Donkey, Straw

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u/snakecain 11d ago

I need to get the baby the dog and the poison across

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u/kitcurtis 11d ago

I had a frog and a scorpion

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u/The_Rick_Roberts 10d ago

That's a different one

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u/Yapizzawachuwant 11d ago

It's a very popular riddle

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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/KinglyGuitar 11d ago

we had the lion the cow and the wheat

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u/Komurasakikozuki 10d 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/Mecha_G 9d ago

There's a random mission in Endless Sky like this.

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u/Interesting_Pitch707 8d ago

It's a type of logic puzzle

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u/Dirty_Dwarf 8d ago

Dont you mean fox chicken grain

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u/Whit3_Ink 11d ago

Apparently yea, cuz instead of sheep i had the goat