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Chicken fox and seed riddle.

If the chicken and the corn are left together the chicken will eat the corn. You have a boat but can only take one thing across at a time. Then cook the chicken because you are craving kfc but you are in the middle of the woods. He has a rowboat and it can only carry him and one other thing. But this boat can only carry the farmer and one of his purchases the fox the chicken or the seed. If he takes the grain first and leaves the fox with the chicken the fox will eat the chicken.

Left unsupervised the chicken will eat the grain or the. You have a fox a chicken and a bag of chicken feed and must take them all to the other side of a river. Take the chicken go back grab the fox when you drop off the fox take the chicken back with you leave the chicken but grab the grain go across and leave the grain with the fox then go back and get the chicken. You must cross a river with only one of them at a time. Take chicken bring back fox 3. He saw a boat nearby but he could only take one of his items with him.

The old chicken fox and grain riddle goes a little something like this the farmer needs to get across the river but he can only take thing at a time with him in the boat. A man has to get a fox a chicken and a sack of corn across a river. There was a farmer making his way to the market with a fox a chicken and some grain. You cannot leave the chicken with the fox nor the chicken with the bag of chicken feed. A chicken a fox and a bag of chicken feed. On his way home the farmer came to the bank of a river and rented a boat.

A river crossing puzzle is a type of puzzle in which the object is to carry items from one river bank to another usually in the fewest trips. The farmer s challenge is to carry himself and his purchases to the far bank of the river without anything getting eaten. A farmer goes to market and buys a fox a chicken and a bag of seed. How can he do it in seven trips or less. If left together the fox would eat the chicken or the chicken would eat the seed. However he has a fox a chicken and a bag of grain.

You have a fox a chicken and a sack of grain. If the fox and the chicken are left together the fox will eat the chicken. He came to a clearing with a stream. If you leave the fox with the chicken he will eat it. Take fox and seed bring back seed 2. If you leave the.

A stock puzzle subset of the inventory management puzzle. You are a farmer taking a fox or a wolf a chicken or a goose and a sack of grain to market don t ask why you re taking a fox to market and you come across a river. He knew if he took the grain and left the fox and chicken the fox would eat the chicken and if he took the fox the chicken would eat the. The difficulty of the puzzle may arise from restrictions on which or how many items can be transported at the same time or which or how many items may be safely left together.