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The river crossing, The problem of three jealous husbands (each of
whom won't let another man be alone with his wife), the problem of
the wolf, the goat, and the cabbage, and the problem of the two
adults and two children where the children weigh half as much as the
adults.
 Wolf
goat cabbage
The difficulty is that only one item can be taken across the river
at once but, if left unattended, the sheep will eat the cabbage and
the wolf will eat the sheep.
The solution is to bring back to the starting bank of the river an
item that has already been taken across. In this case, the sheep
must be taken across first, followed by either the cabbage or the
wolf, but then the sheep must be brought back before the next item
is taken across to avoid the sheep become either a diner or a
dinner.
These medieval puzzles were considered and elaborated by Niccoló
Tartaglia, Luca Pacioli, and Claude-Gaspar Bachet, and even more so
by later mathematicians such as Edouard Lucas and Gaston Tarry
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Fords, are places where the river can be crossed by foot,
horse or using wheeled transport without the need of any
structures on or over the riverbed.
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Ferries, The rivers would have been crossed by boat from the
earliest times several iron age dug out canoes have been found,
and there are records of passenger ferries from the medieval
period
Journey Provisions
Camp Site Weapons
Castle Feast
River Crossing
Market Inn
Fair Joist
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