Chinese IQ Test - River Crossing

[Barbarossa]

http://freeweb.siol.net/danej/riverIQGame.swf

Have a go at this Chinese IQ test – press the big blue button to start and double click on the characters to move them about. There are the following rules which apply:

"Everybody has to cross the river" but…

* Only 2 persons on the raft at a time
* The father can not stay with any of the daughters without their mother's presence
* The mother can not stay with any of the sons without their father's presence
* The thief (striped shirt) can not stay with any family member if the Policeman is not there
* Only the Father, the Mother and the Policeman know how to operate the raft

[DarthInsinuate]

my brain hurts, so i just make the purple haired lady assault the small boy

[GepperRankins]

[manker]

I thought it was pretty easy but the office cleaning lady couldn't do it

[GepperRankins]

i did it so fast i actually did it in minus 5 minutes

[MCHeshPants420]

Why doesn't the thief run off when he's left alone?

[GepperRankins]

and why do chinese adults beat children for not being the same sex as them?

[manker]

Why doesn't the thief run off when he's left alone?

The theif is a girl and as we all know - girls can't run very fast and have a poor sense of direction.

[Barbarossa]

and why do chinese adults beat children for not being the same sex as them?

Yes, that is a concern... and I thought Chinese families were restricted to 1 child per family anyway...


And why doesn't the policeman handcuff the thief to a tree or something?


Anyway.. I thought it was a good little puzzle...