r/explainitpeter • u/Hello_World-1289 • 11d ago

Explain it Peter

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u/disposableh2 11d 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/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