<p>A father, a mother, two sons, two daughters, and a lion needs to be on one side of the bank. Oh, there's a hunter too. The hunter needs to row the boat across the river but the boat can only hold one other person/animal. The lion must be with the hunter (the circumstances if not...) and the mother cannot be left alone with the sons and the father cannot be left alone with the daughters. So how to get all of them to one shore? </p>
<p>Hint; this is a brain-teaser.</p>
<p>Wait, so the hunter has to row the boat, the boat can only fit one other person/animal besides the hunter, and the lion has to be with the hunter at all times?</p>
<p>Umm....I am assuming they are not drowning in the water, in which case they are already on one shore.</p>
<p>They could be on separate shores to start off with, Duality.</p>
<p>Well the hunter has to row the boat across the river too. So start out with the hunter and lion on one side and everyone else on the other, then make a crossing. :)</p>
<p>If you can pick where they can start off, PorSK, why not put them all on the same side? Then there's no problem to solve. :p</p>
<p>Because the hunter still needs to cross the river. :p</p>
<p>Oooo. Good job reading the question, PorSK! :)</p>
<p>Wait I think it's supposed to be that the hunter, the father, and the mother are all able to row and it just got a little garbled.</p>
<p>That's actually an interesting problem if so.</p>
<p>I like the fact that the father cannot be left alone with the daughters and the mother cannot be left alone with the sons. Freudian complexes, eh?</p>
<p>Right now it's a little screwed up, I think. There are a couple points not touched upon (who can row? where do they begin? does the father count as a son? does the mother count as a daughter? etc.). These might be included in the point of the riddle, though... lol</p>
<p>I was thinking sexual abuse, but if you'd like we can pretend this conversation never happened.</p>
<p>yeah, PorSK is rite...that's the answer! very smart ;) wasn't that different from normal "chances" posts...</p>
<p>Simple. Have the lion eat all the people, then get in the boat with the hunter, row across, get out and regurgitate them all.</p>
<p>Sorry, couldn't resist.</p>
<p>Actually, I think you're right :p</p>
<p>I like Madman's answer better than mine. :)</p>
<p>Hunter rows lion to the other side first, hunter rows back alone, hunter rows dad over, dad rows back alone, dad rows son over, dad rows back, dad rows son over, dad rows back, dad rows mom over, mom rows back, mom rows daughter over, mom rows other daughter over, mom gets off boat.</p>
<p>The lion (a cat) will not cross the water without getting in the boat because he hates the water, so the hunter must row him across in the boat. All the others simply swim across. or walk if feasible.</p>
<p>Guys, it's obviously a riddle straight out of Chronicles of narnia. Two boys and two girls....a lion...a hunter... Obviously everyone rides on the lion's back, and since he's Jesus, he can just fly to the other side, and the hunter is satan, so he's got no chance against Jesus and then they just win. Duh. Also, what is a brainer?</p>
<p>There's a game exactly like this online somewhere; it involves the same people except for a cop and robber instead of hunter and lion.</p>
<p>It's pretty fun, search for it.</p>
<p>:)</p>