• @ooterness
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    317 months ago

    Okay, but what if I have a lamb, a cabbage, and a wolf? Obviously I can only bring one at a time over the wall, but the lamb will eat the cabbage if I’m not there…

    • @MinFapper
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      87 months ago

      Is that from a riddle?

      Based on what you’ve given so far, you can just take the lamb first, since the wolf won’t eat the cabbage.

      • @mlg
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        97 months ago

        The original riddle is a boat or gondola across the river that can only fit yourself and one thing.

        It’s not that hard of a riddle, it’s just that you have to apply the same logic to the other side too.

      • @[email protected]
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        7 months ago

        Right, but what do you take next? And what do you do when you’re going back to get the third thing, leaving whatever’s on the other side unsupervised?

      • @ooterness
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        37 months ago

        That’s some genius-level out of the box thinking. You’re hired!

        • @[email protected]
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          17 months ago

          No it doesn’t. The problem is what happens on the other side of the fence before you get there.

          I have the wolf, the sheep and the cabbage under my complete control while they are on my side of the fence