Brewster Rockit by Tim Rickard for March 24, 2021

Easy. Take the goat over first, then go back for the wolf. Swap the wolf out for the goat and take the goat back to where you started. Swap out the goat for the cabbage, take the cabbage across, and leave the cabbage with the wolf. Finally, go back to where you started, get the goat, and take it across, Done!

Naah — just make a huge chevon salad and share it with the wolf.

Personally, I like the teleporter idea.

I know this one:

“I must do this? Why must I do this?”

“Why would I travel with a wolf? If it’s really a wolf, then I shouldn’t be alone with it, either.”

It’s cruel to tease those tiny brains.

So, the goat shouldn’t eats the cabbage and the wolf shouldn’t eats the goat, eh? The solution is very simple. First you eats the goat and then you takes the wolf across the river and then you takes the cabbage. Since the goat you ate is technically inside your stomach, it also crosses the river with you. Problem solved. Now gimme my reward.

I wonder if Freefall’s Florence Ambrose, a genetically altered red wolf, would consider this question speciesist.

Sounds like profiling to me

Are You Serious? This is way to complicated for the meager minds of the crew of R.U. Sirius!

Throw the wolf across the river, c’mon, it’s like 8 feet. Then stuff the cabbage down your pants and row the goat over. C’mon, what’s a cabbage weigh, anyway? I’m sure the additional weight of a cabbage isn’t going to sink the boat. One trip and done! Get on with your sad life…cabbage in pants optional. :)

I say eat all three before your trip!

I’d go for the teleporter

You shoot the goat and the wolf and eat the cabbage.

Just take the cabbage across along with the wolf. How much weight can it possible add to the load?

I love a good goats story.

Heck in a corporation this would all look like out of the box thinking!

Let the goat eat the cabbage, then let the wolf eat the goat. That way, they’re all bundled together and you can take them all at once!

This was a group problem so they should have discussed their various ideas with each other first, that way they would have come up with only one wrong answer.

Cook the goat with the cabbage. Share with the wolf.

Just use The Chunnel. Duh.

I’d let them sort it out then come back for the survivor.

Let the goat eat the cabbage. Let the wolf eat the goat. Take all 3 (2 of which are in the wolf’s stomach) over in one trip.

Say the heck with it and eat both the Goat and the Cabbage yourself.

BBQ Goat is pretty good with a nice cole slaw.

OR: take the goat first, go back for cabbage; exchange cabbage for the goat, which returns to the original side, and change the wolf for the goat; leave the wolf with the cabbage on the far side while you go back for the goat. Either way, the goat is bound to get seasick.

The first computer I ever used was a little home-made thing, a wooden box about 4"×4"×4" with four toggle switches and a light, which would let you work the problem. If the light didn’t go on, you won. They had it at Rummel’s Ice Cream in Waterville, ME, around 1960.

Walk around until you find someone with a bigger boat than yours. Offer to pay them for use of their boat. Take the wolf, goat, cabbages and boat owner across the river. Let them row back. If the boat is not big enough for two people and cargo, let them watch the wolf/goat or goat/ cabbages while you row back for the rest.

Bring some mayo and make Cole-slaw and everyone is happy. Hey – you didn’t say take them all across in the same form as they began with…