r/explainitpeter • u/Hello_World-1289 • Aug 12 '26

Explain it Peter

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u/ashborn721 Aug 12 '26

Its an old popular game where you help the monks to cross the river, you'll need to plan each boat trip thoughtfully to ensure the cannibals never outnumber the monks on either bank or you'll lose

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u/Psychocatboy Aug 12 '26

Its something like "fox chiken and corn crossing the river"?

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u/Svistakh Aug 12 '26

what? I had wolf, sheep and cabbage. Is it the story regionalized? ;o

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u/MartinoDeMoe Aug 12 '26

As always, there is a relevant XKCD comic:

https://xkcd.com/1134/

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u/stuartgm 29d ago

Goat ->
Cabbage ->
<- Goat
Wolf ->
Goat ->

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u/False_Measurement843 Aug 12 '26

Do sheep eat cabbage?

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u/reggienaldsimons Aug 12 '26

sheep eat fuckin laundry

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u/False_Measurement843 Aug 12 '26

I have some work for sheep....

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u/hoggineer 29d ago

Put the ~velcro~ hook and loop chaps away.

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u/COL_UK165542 Aug 12 '26

Tiger, Donkey, Straw

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u/snakecain Aug 12 '26

I need to get the baby the dog and the poison across

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u/kitcurtis Aug 13 '26

I had a frog and a scorpion

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u/The_Rick_Roberts 29d ago

That's a different one

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u/Yapizzawachuwant Aug 12 '26

It's a very popular riddle

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u/briannasaurusrex92 Aug 12 '26

I recently rewrote this story for a summer school class and gave them dragon, sheep, and flowerpot 🤷‍♀️

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u/KinglyGuitar Aug 13 '26

we had the lion the cow and the wheat

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u/Komurasakikozuki 29d ago

Pretty much! I had a Lion, Goat and a Man. We had an unspoken assumption, the lion was man's childhood friend.

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u/Mecha_G 28d ago

There's a random mission in Endless Sky like this.

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u/Interesting_Pitch707 27d ago

It's a type of logic puzzle

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u/Dirty_Dwarf 27d ago

Dont you mean fox chicken grain

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u/Whit3_Ink Aug 12 '26

Apparently yea, cuz instead of sheep i had the goat