{
  "title": "Related river-crossing puzzles: fewest crossings under our rules",
  "description": "Three river-crossing puzzles related to the wolf, goat and cabbage, one row per puzzle: the rules as this page writes them, the boat's capacity, the fewest crossings, the number of shortest crossing orders and what counts as a different order, a note that the counts hold only under the rules as written, and where the puzzle appears (problems XVII and XIX of the Latin collection attributed to Alcuin; the missionaries and cannibals version is not traced to a source read for this page). Found by exhaustive search and confirmed by a separate count, 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": [
    "Problems XVII and XIX 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); rules restated in this page's wording",
    "Missionaries and cannibals: rules as written on this page; no source read"
  ],
  "method": "Compiled by Puzzles, Charts & Dilemmas from the data listed"
}