Futility Closet

Avoiding a Scandal

Posted in Puzzles by Greg Ross on August 23rd, 2007

www.sxc.hu/photo/39856

Three beautiful women and their jealous husbands want to cross a river, but the boat will hold only two people at a time. How can they arrange the crossing if no woman is to remain with a man unless her husband is present? I'll give the answer tomorrow.