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fox-goose-bag-of-corn

One of Lewis Carroll's favorite puzzles to ask children was the one about the Fox, Goose, and Bag of Corn. It has to do with getting them all safely across a river.

alice swimming

The rules for this puzzle are:

  • You must get the fox, goose, and bag of corn safely across the other side of the river
  • You can only carry 1 item on the boat across with you.
  • The fox cannot be left alone with the goose, (or it will be eaten).
  • The goose cannot be left alone with the corn, (or it will be eaten).

The data structure to represent this puzzle is a vector of vectors.

The starting position is you, the fox, the goose, and corn on one side of the river. The boat is empty. The other river bank is empty.

[fox goose corn you] | [boat] | []

You could take the corn on the boat with you

[fox goose corn you] | [boat] | []
[fox goose] | [boat corn you] | []

But then the fox would eat the goose!

The goal is to have the plan in steps so that all make it safely to the other side

[fox goose corn you] | [boat] | []
 ...
[] | [boat] | [fox goose corn you]

Instructions

  • Clone or fork this repo
  • cd fox_goose_bag_of_corn
  • Run the tests with cargo test
  • Make the tests pass!

Solutions

Once you have your kata solution, you are welcome to submit a link to your repo to share here in this section with others.

If you haven't solved your kata yet - Don't Peek!

License

Copyright © 2015 Stephen Bastians

Copyright © 2014 Carin Meier

Distributed under the Eclipse Public License either version 1.0 or (at your option) any later version.