Ian let me know about this challenging river crossing puzzle game. The graphics are well done, and the little animations are kind of amusing:
(To play, click on the image and then press the big blue button. Note the rules below!)
Here are the rules:
1. The raft can carry only 2 people.
2. The father can not be left with any of the daughters unless the mother is present
3. The mother can not be left with any of the sons unless the father is present.
4. The criminal can not stay with any family member unless the guard is present.
5. Only the father, mother, and guard know how to use the raft.
Click on the characters to move them on/off raft. Click the red control ball to send the raft across the river.
Couple of answer submissions are already in the ‘comment’ section; try to solve it first before giving in and looking! 
Here is an earlier River Crossing Puzzle you can try to figure out.
I got to 2 trains and thought it was hard!
Ahh! This is more like it!
Took me a couple of minutes, but here’s the routes:
cross. Guard + Prisoner
back. Guard
cross. Guard + Girl
back. Guard + Prisoner
cross. Mother + Girl
back. Mother
cross. Mother + Father
back. Father
cross. Guard + Prisoner
back. Mother
cross. Father + Mother
back. Father
cross. Father + Boy
back. Guard + Prisoner
cross. Guard + Boy
back. Guard
cross. Guard + Prisoner
(My first entry used some invalid characters and got truncated..)
tht was a nice river crossing puzzle…..
heres what i did
theif and gaurd goes and gaurd comes back
gaurd goes wid a boy nd comes back wid theif….
father takes another boy nd comes back alone
mother and father goes….mom comes back
gaurd nd theif goes….father comes bac
mom dad goes…..mom comes back
mom nd girl goes……gaurd nd theif comes back…
gaurd nd girl goes…..gaurd comes back to take the theif wid him..
thts it
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1. Cop + Criminal
2. Cop himself
3. Cop + Boy 1
4. Cop + Criminal
5. Dad + Boy 2
6. Dad himself
7. Mom + Dad
8. Mom herself
9. Cop + Criminal
10. Dad himself
11. Mom + Dad
12. Mom herself
13. Mom + daughter 1
14. Cop + criminal
15. Cop + daughter 2
16. cop himself
17. Cop + criminal
i think there’s a way less than 17 steps as well…
the family memebers just can’t bear each other…
I didn’t find it *that* difficult.
Here’s what I did:
1. Guard & Criminal cross.
- Guard returns -
2. Guard & son1 cross.
- Guard & Criminal reutrn -
3. Father & son2 cross.
- Father returns -
4. Mother & Father cross.
- Mother returns -
5. Guard & Criminal cross.
- Father Returns -
6. Mother & Father cross.
- Mother returns -
7. Mother & daughter1 cross.
- Guard & criminal return -
8. Guard & daughter2 cross.
- Guard returns -
9. Guard & Criminal cross.
All done!
Also… why oh WHY does the mother hate her sons, and the father hate his daughters? Unless maybe it’s the secret lives of a Brady Bunch-esque family… dun-dun-DUN!!
this game is a test that japanese used to hired people, , I have done it before and found symetrical answers (first boys then girls), (first girls then boys), Is a really cool logic game, harder that the river puzzle that implies a wolf, a chicken and corn.
I found in the web a cool test that implies attention, memory and proccesing speed, just get in google a put luminosity, then calculate your lumus IQ, i don´t care about the score, but the test is nicely done.
Fun game, I enjoyed it!
sorry is lumosity
Can’t access the page
Was looking forward to a game!
i was looking forward to playin this game but i could not access the site.
1. Cop + Criminal
2. Cop himself
3. Cop + Boy 1
4. Cop + Criminal
5. Dad + Boy 2
6. Dad himself
7. Mom + Dad
8. Mom herself
9. Cop + Criminal
10. Dad himself
11. Mom + Dad
12. Mom herself
13. Mom + daughter 1
14. Cop + criminal
15. Cop + daughter 2
16. cop himself
17. Cop + criminal
and all who cannot play u click on the image and then press the big blue button and then press do pops up ok
wow ! it is cool i found it fun !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!**********
cross. Guard + Prisoner
back. Guard
cross. Guard + Girl
back. Guard + Prisoner
cross. Mother + Girl
back. Mother
cross. Mother + Father
back. Father
cross. Guard + Prisoner
back. Mother
cross. Father + Mother
back. Father
cross. Father + Boy
back. Guard + Prisoner
cross. Guard + Boy
back. Guard
cross. Guard + Prisoner
(My first entry used some invalid characters and got truncated..)
very nice, thank you, but not that difficult at all
give us a hint!!!!!!!
its eaaaaaaaasy! :D:D:D but i cant do it:P
RK your puzzles are awesome. I really love this site and I became a member just today!
So Glad to hear you like the puzzles, Anonymous
Hope to add some nice features for members in 2008, like chat, forums, multiplayer puzzle games…
I figured it out finally but thats to much stuff to be typing!!! GOOD LUCK ALL!!!!
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