The Lion, The Goat & The Yam

The Lion, The Goat and The Yam

This riddle tried my patience as a child. I never seemed to find the answer.

You are stuck on an island with a lion, a goat and a tuber of yam. Of course you know that left to themselves, the goat will devour the yam and the lion will do the same to the goat. Now, you have come to a small river and have to cross to the other but can only take one of them across at a time. How would you do it so that they don’t eat up themselves?

See if you can ‘fix’ it in 60 seconds…

Comments

  1. eben j Avatar
    eben j

    Take the goat across,come back for the yam and return the goat for the lion.finally,send the goat

  2. Omowunmi Thomas Avatar
    Omowunmi Thomas

    Take the lion across the river first, then the yam and finally the goat

  3. rosemary williams Avatar

    Take d goat and drop it half way.Den u take d yam to d other sidE of d bridge,Den u cum baCk for d lion den aftrr dat d goat would be d last

  4. ISIPAT Avatar
    ISIPAT

    take the goat and the yam, keep and have your yam handy. then come back for the lion still having your yAM HANDY AND CROSS BOTH. YAM CAN ALWAYS BE IN YOUR HAND

  5. Emperor Avatar
    Emperor

    The only answer is that, carry goat first and cross keep it and come back and carry yam keep it,then carry that same goat back where lion is,then keep the coat and carry the lion and cross, keep the lion and the coat and then go back to carry the coat, then carry all of them and move on with your journey.

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