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You mean the fox, chicken and grain problem?

I wonder if this just gets localised to typical staple, typical predator and its prey?

I guess cabbage and wolf is eastern Europe / Germany?



Ah yes, "the river crossing problem"!

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/River_crossing_puzzle


Norway has wolf, sheep and various things the sheep eat (I've seen variants cabbage and bales of grass). We also have a variation where everyone shifts down a step and there's a missionary "above" the wolf.


Wolf-goat-cabbage is definitely the version which is popular in Poland.


Coyote, turkey and corn? Lion, cow and millet? Redback spider (or any native fauna really), kangaroo, can of fosters? I don't know how the Japanese would do it. I was going to go with fish, but the puzzle would need reformulating for that.




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