Save the Missionaries!
Well clearly I am not as logical as Rebecca which is why I have spent way too long trying to save these missionaries to no avail! The solution is beyond me but I'm sure there's someone out there who can do it. So, here is the challenge: if you can save the missionaries let me know. There is no prize because I am prizeless; however, you will be able to say proudly that you are incredibly logical and that you have helped to save the missionaries. I thought missionaries were supposed to do the saving anyhow...
Well clearly I am not as logical as Rebecca which is why I have spent way too long trying to save these missionaries to no avail! The solution is beyond me but I'm sure there's someone out there who can do it. So, here is the challenge: if you can save the missionaries let me know. There is no prize because I am prizeless; however, you will be able to say proudly that you are incredibly logical and that you have helped to save the missionaries. I thought missionaries were supposed to do the saving anyhow...
posted by missmellifluous at 9:31 pm
13 Comments:
Oh boy...first I have to have a cup of coffee, and then I have to switch browsers...
GO, Rebecca. You can do it! Sadly, I can't, even after reading the solution.
I did it!
Well done, bugblaster! I am not surprised you solved it. Has your lovely wife had a try?
The game doesn't work on any of my browsers.
:(
Oh! That's not fair. The problem is this:
You have three missionaries and three cannibals on one side of the river. You have to get everyone across the river in a boat that can only carry two people at a time. So, you have to make numerous trips dropping off people as you go. The trick is, if there are more cannibals than missionaries on one side of the river at any one time, the cannibals will eat the missionaries. How many boat trips does it take you to get everyone across the river safely?
You can work it out on paper but the computer game is fun because there is a little row boat and the characters row and if you're not careful the cannibals actually eat the missionaries. It's all very exciting.
I could see this becoming a huge time-eater.
I didn't do it.
A wise decision.
Well, I finally did it!
I don't think I could do it again, but I did it once.
Oh! I thought you were going to leave it alone. Well done, Kim! I'm impressed. I gave up ages ago. Sometimes logic isn't logical to me. I studied pure logic in philosophy and not much of it made sense. If it did it was fleetingly and then I was back to being clueless again. Give me words any day.
Ah! I did it finally! Wahoo, I am logical in my own time.
It only lets me do it once and then doesn't work. What I did was put a missionary and a cannibal in the boat, sent them across, and went back for another missionary and a cannibal...but nothing worked after the first trip. So...would it have been right? If a missionary and a cannibal go together, then there are not more cannibals than missionaries at a given time.
Oh! sorry you couldn't play, Candy. You can figure it out on paper although it is not so much fun. You could also make a wooden game like this one for sale on ebay.
It is hard to tell if you would have solved it from there as it all depends on what you did next.
Here is my solution:
SPOILER WARNING!!!!
C= CANNIBAL
M= MISSIONARY
bank 1.......river...........bank 2
CCCMMM
CMMM.........CC---->
CMMM .......<------C......... C
MMM .......CC------->........ C
MMM........ <-----C ..........CC
CM..........MM----->......... CC
CM .........<-----CM..........CM
CC..........MM----->..........CM
CC..........<------C..........MMM
C...........CC------>.........MMM
C...........<------C..........CMMM
.....................CC-----> CMMM
..............................CCCMMM
That's how I did it. Does that make sense?
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