{
  "title": "Wolf, goat and cabbage: the 16 bank arrangements",
  "description": "All 16 ways to place the farmer, the wolf, the goat and the cabbage on the two banks of the river, one row per arrangement: the bank of each, who is on each bank, whether the arrangement is safe under this page's rules and, if not, what is eaten on which bank, the fewest crossings needed to reach it from the start, and whether it lies on one of the two shortest solutions. Computed by exhaustive search 2026-10-31. License CC BY 4.0.",
  "license": "CC BY 4.0",
  "license_url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/",
  "creator": "Puzzles, Charts & Dilemmas",
  "page": "https://puzzleschartsanddilemmas.com/puzzles/river-crossing-puzzle/",
  "derived_from": [
    "Puzzle as set in problem XVIII of the Propositiones ad acuendos iuvenes, attributed to Alcuin, in J.-P. Migne (ed.), Patrologia Latina, vol. 101, cols. 1149-1150, https://archive.org/details/patrologiaecur101mign (public domain); the eating rules are this page's wording"
  ],
  "method": "Compiled by Puzzles, Charts & Dilemmas from the data listed"
}