RIVER CROSSING PUZZLE -1
CANNIBALS AND MISSIONARIES
Three missionaries and three cannibals want to get to the other side of a river. There is a small boat, which can fit only two. To prevent a tragedy, there can never be more cannibals than missionaries together.
Solution:
1 cannibal and 1 missionary there, missionary back.
2 cannibals there, 1 cannibal back.
2 missionaries there, 1 missionary and 1 cannibal back.
2 missionaries there, 1 cannibal back.
This one cannibal takes the remaining cannibals to the other side.
CANNIBALS AND MISSIONARIES
Three missionaries and three cannibals want to get to the other side of a river. There is a small boat, which can fit only two. To prevent a tragedy, there can never be more cannibals than missionaries together.

How could all of them get safely across the
river?
Solution:
1 cannibal and 1 missionary there, missionary back.
2 cannibals there, 1 cannibal back.
2 missionaries there, 1 missionary and 1 cannibal back.
2 missionaries there, 1 cannibal back.
This one cannibal takes the remaining cannibals to the other side.
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