For teachers and students looking for a more challenging brain teaser, here is Smart-Kit's highly popular River Crossing Puzzle Game! The instructions and rules are in the game, but in case you want to read them here:
A farmer, his son and daughter, and their pets need to cross a river. The pets are an aggressive dog, 2 hamsters, 2 rabbits. There is a small two-seater boat they can use. All 3 people know how to use the boat, but none of the animals can. Click the motor to use the boat.
1. If the farmer is not around, the aggressive dog will bite everyone and everything.
2. If the daughter is not around, the son will tease the rabbits.
3. If the son is not around, the daughter will tease the hamsters.
4. The hamsters and rabbits get along fine with each other.
Click on the characters to move them on/off the boat.
Couple of answer submissions are already in the 'comment' section (although these are for an older river crossing puzzle we had up; try to solve it first before giving in and looking!:)
Another Smart-Kit exclusive students will love to compete on is the carnival based puzzle game: Cover the Spot! Or you may try another great brain teaser: the Frog Jumping Puzzle!
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Here is an earlier River Crossing Puzzle you can try to figure out (more of static logic brain teaser).
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!
but i cant do it
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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I just saw this puzzle on the main page.
Nice and not too difficult.
While solving it, I wondered how the criminal can be kept alone on one bank without fleeing
this game is hard.
M DD F SS TP | | —- Affecting factor here is Police and Thief , we should keep them both with family member or thief has to be alone. M-Mother, F-Father , D-daughter, S-son,
T-Thief,P-Police
1. At first we can’t move father – son or mother – daughter => thief – police man moved first, police come back
M DD F SS | | P T
M DD F SS P | | T
2. Police and one boy(or girl) will go again, police will drop boy and come back with thief.
M DD F S | | S PT
M DD F S T P | | S
3. Father and remaining son(or Mother and remaining girl) will go father will come back
M DD TP | | FS S
DD TP FM| | SS
4. Father and Mother is the only possible move, Mother(Father) will come back
DD TP | | MF SS
M DD TP | | F SS
5. Police and thief will go and stay and father will come back
M DD | | TP F SS
DD FM | | TP SS
6. Father and mother will go and mother will come back
DD | | MF TP SS
MD D | | F TP SS
7. Mother will pick one girl to other side, this time police and thief will come back
D | | MD F SS TP
T PD | | MD F SS
8. police take remaining girl to other side, police will come back.
T | | PD MD F SS
PT | | D MD F SS
9. Police will take thief other side.
— | | PT M DD F SS
This solution has another solution for that we just need interchange father with mother and boy with girl
Happy journey ends
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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
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good
Here is my solution to the River crossing Puzzle
Father, Dog
Father back
Father Rabbit1
Father Dog back
Daughter Rabbit2
Daughter back
Daughter Son
Son back
Father Dog
Daughter back
Daughter Son
Son Back
Son Hamster1
Father Dog back
Father Hamster2
Father back
Father dog
Ajazio
Answer for River crossing buzzle
->Uncle+Dog
Uncle Uncle+1hamster
Uncle+Dog Boy+1hamster
BoyBoy+Girl
GirlUncle+dog
BoyBoy+Girl
GirlGirl+Rabbit
Uncle+DogUncle+Rabbit
UncleUncle+Dog
dog and man will always have to be together till only dog is left at one side…
) dog+man forward
) man backward
) man+rabbit (f)
) dog+man (b)
) girl+rabbit (f)
) girl(b)
) girl+boy (f)
) boy (b)
) dog+man (f)
) girl (b)
) boy+girl (f)
) boy (b)
) boy+hamster(f)
) dog+man(b)
) man+hamster(f)
) man(b)
) man+dog(f)
17 steps in all ..
try if u can get in less steps…
1.farmer and dog goes to the other side,farmer comes back.
2.farmer along with the hamster goes to the other side,farmer and dog comes back.
3.boy and another hamster goes to the other side,boy comes back.
4.farmer along with the hamster goes to the other side,boy comes back.
5.boy and girl goes to the other side,girl comes back.
6.girl with rabbit goes to the other side,girl comes back.
7.girl with another rabbit goes to the other side,girl comes back.
easy but very nice river crossing puzzle game
I just wrote the answers on my stomach for school!
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