This riddle is handed in by Zakaria.
2.15.2011
Riddle from Amsterdam: nothing may be eaten!
A man is walking with a sheep, a head of lettuce and a wolf. He sees a river and sees a boat. The boat can only hold two things, but if he leaves the sheep with the wolf, the wolf will eat the sheep, so he can't do that, and if he leaves the sheep with the lettuce, the sheep will eat it. How can he get across the river without anything being eaten?
This riddle is handed in by Zakaria.
This riddle is handed in by Zakaria.
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This riddle is very well known here, in fact we used to consider it a part of our folklore, but you proved us wrong! :)
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ReplyDeleteAt first he'll take the sheep across the river. Then he'll go back and take the wolf and get him across the river but he'll take the sheep back with him. So now we have the wolf across the river, the lettuce still at the start and the sheep on the boat. The man will go to the start, leave the sheep but he'll take the lettuce across the river. Then he'll go back and take the sheep across the river...and here you go ;)
Vretti, Pomegranate team
In fact, our version does not have a sheep but a goat, and solving a task involving contradictory interests is called here in a joking manner: "to reconcile the goat to the cabbage". :)
ReplyDeleteVRETTI THAT WAS THE GOOD ANSWER
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