The missionaries and cannibals problem, and the closely related jealous husbands problem, are classic river-crossing logic puzzles.[1] The missionaries and cannibals problem is a well-known toy problem in artificial intelligence, where it was used by Saul Amarel as an example of problem representation.[2][3]
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