There was a chicken in my boat. But I returned to find meat, feathers, and a fox sitting in my boat instead. It gave me a small chuckle and reminded me of the chicken/fox/grain/boat riddle.
If you’re not familiar, a farmer has one boat and needs to transport his chicken, fox, and grain across a river. But you have to do it in a specific order, or else the fox will be left alone with the chicken or the chicken will be left alone with the grain (the chicken and grain will be eaten respectively).
by Mr_Froggi
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I’m familiar with that riddle.
If I remember correctly you transport the chicken first, leaving the Fox with the grain, then you transport the Fox, but bring the chicken back with you, then put the chicken back at the start and transport the grain to the other side, then return to fetch the chicken.
This is a cute story btw.
Is the correct answer to transport the chicken, then the grain, transport the chicken back, transport the fox, then re-transport the chicken?
I think the original riddle was goat/wolf/cabbage/boat, but that’s a really cool discovery! I love the fox casually sitting in the boat and acting all innocent lol
I want someone to develop a fox-eating grain just to balance this dumb riddle.
Why does he need to move the fox at all? How small is this boat? And if you know chickens, know he’s not going to stop the chicken even if he’s watching.
I always heard sheep/wolf/grain