# Chinese IQ Test: Crossing the river

I found a really nice logic puzzle game / IQ Test on the internet today. So, I thought I should share it here since we have a new Logic section on Brilliant already.

Here is a direct link to the game file (it loads on the browser itself and is ~600 Kb). Open the link and the game will open on your browser (assuming you've updated your Adobe Flash player).

Since the game is in Chinese Language, I managed to find an instruction sheet on how to play written in English. Please read it before playing the game. Here are the instructions:

Instructions

There is indeed a solution to this problem and it isn't a trick (I verified it myself).

Happy gaming and happy puzzle solving. :)

Note by Prasun Biswas
6 years, 1 month ago

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Here is my solution (there are only two solutions):

T Guard and Prisoner

B Guard

T Guard and Boy

B Guard and Prisoner

T Father and Boy

B Father

T Father and Mother

B Mother

T Guard and Prisoner

B Father

T Father and Mother

B Mother

T Mother and Daughter

B Guard and Prisoner

T Guard and Daughter

B Guard

T Guard and Prisoner

T stands for Take and B stands for Bring.

- 6 years, 1 month ago

It's Chinese, by the way.

- 6 years, 1 month ago

I said Japanese based on the details of the original web page of the instruction sheet. You can check it out yourself.

No offense but Chinese and Japanese looks all the same to me. :P

- 6 years, 1 month ago

(based on the image) It's written in Chinese. Chinese characters are a subset of Japanese Characters. And given that there are no "Japanese Connectors", this is written in Chinese.

The website just have the wrong attribution.

Staff - 6 years, 1 month ago

Good to know. Thanks for telling. :)

Maybe I should start learning Japanese properly. I know very limited Japanese (mostly learnt from watching anime :p).

- 6 years, 1 month ago

I tried learning Japanese because I was watching anime and wanted to stop reading the subtitles. I gave up after a while, because it was too much work lol.

Staff - 6 years, 1 month ago

Haha, I can relate. :D

- 6 years, 1 month ago

Yes, it is Chinese because I read them. It is traditional Chinese characters not used in Mainland China but Taiwan and Hong Kong. The puzzle can still be from Japan, as the cartoons look Japanese. Taiwanese may adapt it from the Japanese. I solved it but not in one minute.

- 6 years, 1 month ago

Solved it!

- 6 years, 1 month ago

pretty easy game ...:)...just took 1 min...

- 6 years, 1 month ago

You're quite clever then. :) Took me a whole lot more of time than that.

- 6 years, 1 month ago

What is the guiding principle to find the series of steps?

Staff - 6 years, 1 month ago

umm...i started with the policeman and the thief and the rest was quite easy...maybe i was just lucky...:)

- 6 years, 1 month ago

very good game, but finished it easily

- 6 years, 1 month ago

YES! I SOLVED IT!

- 5 years, 3 months ago

Interesting and easy. Took only 2 minutes.

- 6 years, 1 month ago