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Modern Puzzles by Henry Ernest Dudeney: $192$
- Missionaries and Cannibals
- There is a strange story of three missionaries and three cannibals,
- who had to cross a river in a small boat that would only carry two men at a time.
- Being acquainted with the peculiar appetites of the cannibals,
- the missionaries could never allow their companions to be in a majority on either side of the river.
- Only one of the missionaries and one of the cannibals could row the boat.
- How did they manage to get across?
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Sources
- 1926: Henry Ernest Dudeney: Modern Puzzles ... (previous) ... (next): Crossing River Problems: $192$. -- Missionaries and Cannibals
- 1968: Henry Ernest Dudeney: 536 Puzzles & Curious Problems ... (previous) ... (next): Combinatorial & Topological Problems: Miscellaneous Combinatorial Puzzles: $449$. Missionaries and Cannibals