Frustrating game

Japanese raft game

[snowman]

[freeweb.siol.net...]

The object of the game is to transport everyone to the other side. There are restrictions however.

1. Only two people may be on the raft simultaneously.
2. Only the Mother, Father, and Policeman can operate the raft.
3. The father cannot be alone with any of the daughters.
4. The mother cannot be alone with any of the sons.
5. The thief cannot be left with anybody, unless the policeman is present.

Click on the big Blue circle to start the game. Apparently it is possible to win it.....just don't ask me how because I haven't figured it out yet!

[Milamber]

Figured it out... now i just gotta remember how many steps it took.

[edited by: Milamber at 1:44 pm (utc) on May 17, 2005]

[Drake]

That was tuff, but solved in 16 moves. Won't post solution yet.

[Milamber]

took me 17 steps.

[Drake]

Yeah 17, put down step 7 twice in my solution by mistake.

[RussellC]

I solved it, but how do you figure out how many steps it took? It didnt say.

[Milamber]

Write em down as you go ;)

[AWildman]

Whew! Tough but very fun. Good find. Glad I got finally got it or I would have troubles explaining to my boss why I wasn't working. "But I HAVE to get these people to the other side of the river..."

[httpwebwitch]

that was tricky, it was the first few steps that eluded me for a while. 17 crossings.

Let's not post the spoiler here

[AWildman]

Is it bad that I just got a bunch of my coworkers playing this game versus, oh, I dunno, working? :)

[Milamber]

Bad for you, bad for them, or bad for the company?

[Drake]

Of course not, your increasing their problem solving skills. Call it training.

If anyone finds more puzzles like this it'd be much appreciated if you could pass them on.

[snowman]

I still haven't figured it out! Very frustrating....but then again I've never been good at puzzles.

Electronics, I'm good at. Puzzles, I stink.

[lawman]

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lawman

[supermanjnk]

Took me about 20 minutes

here are more games
[foon.co.uk...]
[foon.co.uk...]

[Syzygy]

This is an interactive board.

So, c'mon then... I need some help here - what's the solution? This is driving me nuts... Where's the spoiler when you need it?

;-)

Syzygy

[edit_g]

Took about 10 minutes, that was good fun. Hard to start off with.

[lawman]

Yep, got it. Didn't write steps down, but last two across were cop and crook.

[AWildman]

It was suggested by my coworkers that the DH of programming use the game as a test during the interview process...

Good find!

[limbo]

Anyone got a tip for hapland2? It's doing my head in!

[Milamber]

Here's the number of people who cross at each step.

1 -> 2
2 <- 1
3 -> 2
4 <- 2
5 -> 2
6 <- 1
7 -> 2
8 <- 1
9 -> 2
10 <- 1
11 -> 2
12 <- 1
13 -> 2
14 <- 2
15 -> 2
16 <- 1
17 -> 2

[limbo]

Anyone got a tip for hapland2 [foon.co.uk]? It's doing my head in!

I'm fooing stuck! I wish you hadn't posted that link supermanjnk!

[supermanjnk]

near the bird, if you turn on the light, and point it at the stones the bird will pick on up, as the bird is flying you click on a cloud, which will make the bird drop the stone,one will make it drop it on the wooden launcher, however when you launch it it hits the flag and falls in the water, haven't figured out how to get rid of the flag yet.

[limbo]

haven't figured out how to get rid of the flag yet.

I got that far....

[supermanjnk]

I beat it hapland 2 :D

[limbo]

I beat it hapland 2 :D

Quick tip, I recon I can get the rest, but how the heck do you remove the flag?

[supermanjnk]

you have to burn it, thats all i'm saying.

[limbo]

Using the butterfly?

... throw me bone...

[limbo]

aha! acid rain! :)

[Pedent]

Phew, got it!

I'm quite stubborn, so that could have cost me my weekend if I hadn't solved it reasonably quickly.