off topic...but here's a riddle!

[Alice]

My kids posed this one to me

You live in a village in the jungle. You only have three possessions and you need all three to survive. You have to cross a river and you can only take one thing at a time. You have a bag of rice, a chicken and a wolf. How do you do it?

[Drew]

The chicken eats the rice, the wolf eats the chicken, you eat the wolf. Then you swim across with all three things. Am I right????????

[Alice]

Nope

[dark horge]

You're not trusting the chicken with the rice,or the wolf with the chicken, right?
And these domesticated animals aren't running away if unattended?

You take the chicken across, and come back.
You take the wolf across, and bring the chicken back.
You leave the chicken and bring the rice across.
Then you come back to fetch the chicken.

Eight trips, and at no point are the chicken and the wolf left without your supervision, nor the chicken and the rice.

Or did I misunderstand the puzzle?
I think wolves are rare in jungles


horge

[ 07-12-2001: Message edited by: dark horge ]

[tmncali]

You take the chicken across, and come back.
You take the wolf across, and bring the chicken back.
You leave the chicken and bring the rice across.
Then you come back to fetch the rice.

last trip should be to fetch the chicken? not the rice.

oh well beat me to it

tony

[ 07-12-2001: Message edited by: tmncali ]

[dark horge]

Hey, no fair!
I was still editing

Besides, it's actually seven trips.

[Drew]

I still like my way, wolf makes for some goooood eatin. (well, not really)

[tmncali]

you got it first

[FishDaddy]

You and the wolf have a nice lunch of fried chicken and rice; then you both swim the river and go hunting for some real meat!!!!

Dick

[Alice]

Tony and Horge got it right. My husband came up with the novel idea of taking the rice over, bringing the chicken over, pouring the rice out of the bag and putting the chicken in the bag, lol. My kids said "that's not right! Something would come along and eat the rice!" Guess they weren't worried about what was going to eat the chicken.

You're right about wolves, Horge, although I always wondered why there were wolves in "The Jungle Book!"

~Alice

[galleon]

Uh Alice, buddy, The Jungle book is set in India, where there just happens to live a gorgeous species of wolf, the Indian Wolf, which is known for living in most terrain, including dry patch, savannah, and forest/"jungle". Go figure. LOL.

[Alice]

Thanks for the info Chris....I have to admit I wasn't up on the animal populations in India. Rudyard, forgive me

[tmncali]

Tony and Horge got it right

actually i was just posting a correction. Horge got it right.

thanks

Tony