Key & Compass presents:
Sheep Crossing
by Andrew Geng

• Map
• Walkthrough
• Extras
  • Amusing, Characters, Credits, Endings, Inventory
• Thank You to my Patreon supporters
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• External links:
  • This game at IFDB, and IFWiki.
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Map

Walkthrough

East bank

In this re-creation of an old chestnut of a puzzle, you must transport three things across a river in a boat that can only hold one of them (and you) at a time. Unfortunately, if the bear is left alone with the sheep, the bear will eat the sheep, and if the sheep is left alone with the cabbage, the sheep will eat the cabbage. But the bear has no interest in the cabbage, so they're safe together.

To solve this puzzle, you need to take the sheep over first, then transport one of the other two next, but take the sheep back across when fetching the third item, and finally bringing the sheep over yet again with the last trip.

CAUTION: You can introduce unwanted difficulties if you interact with your charges too much. The only added wrinkle that you must deal with is that the sheep is initially hungry and uncooperative. Feeding it some grass from the riverbank pacifies it.

> x me. i. (carrying nothing)

> x cabbage. x sheep. x bear. x boat.

> x river. x riverbank. x grass.

> swim. take swimming lessons. xyzzy.

Okay, fine. Let's do this.

> take sheep. (It resists you.)

> take grass. give grass to sheep.

> take sheep.

Note: The game is clever enough to let you just go west and east, without forcing you to type ENTER BOAT explicitly each time. Likewise, you will automatically leave the boat whenever you drop something, so you don't have to type OUT all the time either.

> w.

West bank

> drop sheep. e.

East bank

> take bear. w.

West bank

> drop bear. take sheep. e.

East bank

> drop sheep. take cabbage. w.

West bank

> drop cabbage. e.

East bank

> take sheep. w.

West bank

> drop sheep. w.

*** You proceed happily toward Grandmother's house, with your gifts for her in tow. The day is going well. ***

> amusing

Extras

Amusing

The response to AMUSING, after winning the game, is:

Have you tried...

• ...eating anything yourself?
• ...taking a recently fed bear across the river?
• ...attacking the boat while you're in it?
• ...intentionally drowning anything?
• ...insisting on going somewhere you shouldn't?

Characters

• A sheep is on the east bank. It wants to eat the cabbage.
• A bear is on the east bank. It wants to eat the sheep.

Mentioned:

• Your grandmother wants you to bring her a cabbage, a sheep, and a bear. She wants to eat all three.

Credits

This is the response to CREDITS:

I am indebted to my testers for their keen eyes that caught many bugs and their mischievous spirits that generated a number of features and easter eggs:

• Chelsea Kendall
• Alice Ye
• Fia Bigelow
• Robert Kendall
• David Benjamin

Endings

• You have been eaten by Grandmother.
• if you insist on going to Grandmother's house without everything she asked for.
• You have been eaten. :(
• if you try to eat the bear.
• You have drowned.
• if you try to take the bear across the river after it has eaten the sheep, or
• if you try to take the bear across the river when you are nauseous.
• Grandmother will mourn the loss of the cabbage.
• if you do anything with the scraps of leaves.
• Grandmother will mourn the loss of the sheep.
• if you do anything with the pile of fluff.
• Nobody who claims to be you is ever heard from again.
• if you insist on going in any direction other than west or east.
• You proceed happily toward Grandmother's house, with your gifts for her in tow. The day is going well.
• if you go to Grandmother's house with the cabbage, sheep, and bear.

Inventory

• a cabbage. It's on the east bank.
• Take it across on either the second or third westward trip.
• If the sheep eats the cabbage, or if you do, some scraps of leaves are left behind.
• a sheep. It's on the east bank.
• First, give some grass to the sheep so it's more cooperative.
• Transport the sheep first. Take it back to the east bank when either the bear or the cabbage, but not both, is on the west bank. Take the sheep across a third time once both the bear and the cabbage are across.
• If the bear eats the sheep, or if you do, a pile of fluff is left behind.
• a bear. It's on the east bank.
• Take it across on either the second or third westward trip.
• CAUTION: Smelling the bear will make you nauseous. The cure is to take a trip across the river by yourself. You'll vomit into the river and you won't be nauseous any more.
• some blades of grass. They can be taken at either bank.
• Give them to the sheep to pacify it so you can carry it.
• You may eat the grass too, if you really want to.

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