In Digital Media class today we had to complete the following brain challenge with my friend Nolan (nolanis.inquiryhub.org):

There are 3 Humans, 2 Monkeys & 1 Gorilla, and need to get them across a river. We were given different colored Popsicle stick to represent each of the animal (yes, humans are animals). But that’s the easy part. You see, only 2 animals could be on the boat at the same time, and only the the Humans and the Gorilla could paddle the boat, the Monkeys could not. Also, the primates (monkeys and gorilla) could not outnumber the humans at any geographical location or the primates will kill the human(s).

Try that one yourself, its not as easy as it sounds, Also, the title of this post is very misleading, the Gorilla wasn’t the really annoying one, it was the monkeys because they couldn’t paddle the boat.

After many attempts we thought we got it, but then got the boat stuck on the opposite side.

After that we started to get really pissed off at the puzzle, And started thinking outside the box and came up with one plan where the monkeys ran off, one where the Gorilla eats someone, and one where we tied a rope to the boat so we didn’t have to keep sending people back to return the boat.

Soon pretty much everyone had figured it out but us, and Nolan decided that we should go outside, to get away from everyone trying to tell us how they did it, outside the classroom we still couldn’t figure it out, even when Leif tried to help.

In fact, we didn’t figure it out until after everyone was doing their reflections on these blogs, but, at least we eventually figured it out 🙂