Fall 2024

Crossing the River With Dogs' is a logic-based river-crossing puzzle based on the textbook of the same title. The idea of any river-crossing problem is simple: get all of the people or items from Side A to Side B. The problem-solving aspect comes into play when there is limited room on the 'boat', and the actors in the problem have various conditions that need to be met. In this puzzle, there are four humans and four dogs. Each dog belongs with its respective human. There is a total of eight passengers, but only three can fit onto the boat at the same time. The dogs can get very anxious if they're left alone, and must either be with their human, or with other dogs, in order to feel at ease. For the boat, any human can pilot the boat, but dogs cannot. There is, however, one dog who received training at a special boarding school for dogs, where the trainers taught him how to drive a boat. He is the only dog in the group of dogs that can pilot the boat.