A fox, hen and a basket of corn
This is a very old logic puzzle. Maybe in will be fun for some newbies.
A man had a fox, a hen and a basket of corn. He came to a river. There was a canoe there, but he could only take himself and one other thing in the canoe. If left unattend, the fox would eat the hen, or the hen eat the corn.
How did he manage to get himself and all three items across the river?
A man had a fox, a hen and a basket of corn. He came to a river. There was a canoe there, but he could only take himself and one other thing in the canoe. If left unattend, the fox would eat the hen, or the hen eat the corn.
How did he manage to get himself and all three items across the river?
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posted by Ragknot at
9:12 PM
10 Comments:
first he takes the hen across, then goes back and takes the fox across and picks the hen back up. drops the hen back on the original side and takes the corn across, then goes back and gets the hen and all three make it safely to the other side.
To Anon:
That was good. But had you heard it before?
maybe he just could buy a bigger canoe and take them all across the river
or just eat the corn(if you eat it u are still taking it with you)then cook the hen and eat that too (same as the corn your still taking it)then take the fox acroos on the boat
these are proberly wrong but i dont care
this is an old puzzle and I agree with the post 1 and ragknot
first post i believe is right and what is was gonna say but you know...
Matt, true - you could just eat them all, but what if the goal was to take them across the river so that someone else could eat? I don't think they'd want to with your solution :)
first take the corn, then the fox and then the hen.. it all works out and you dont have to make any extra trips
there is a game like this, i think its on addictinggames.com! i played it before, its fun!
Those are all boring solutions. The fun way to do it would be to put drugs in the fox and and chickens food to knock them out (momentarily) . Then you can take them in any order you wish.
pick up hen. drop hen on the other side. row back, pick up corn. drop corn and pick hen back up to bring to original side. pick up fox and drop him down the other side with the corn. then row back to get hen. if you pick up all three one at a time and drop them one at a time...well, you'll always leave two things on side A or side B, one of which will consume the other.
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