The Anchoress
GUEST POST BY SIMCHA FISHER:
If I were, I would have won this game much, much faster than I did. My six-year-old got bored long before I’d come close to exhausting all the different orders of passage across the river, and the poor goat and the cabbage kept getting eaten, which was dispiriting after a while. Eventually I figured it out, however, so am feeling not that dumb right now.
It’s an ancient puzzle, and you probably know the answer. But if you don’t, and you need something to drive you over the edge a little bit today, because your Monday just hasn’t been Monday enough already, by all means have at it.
Related: What’s in a number? And what’s sacred about arithmetic?
Updated: And then I sat up half the night trying to do this one. Should I get a life yet?
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