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Death Mage · Raving Lunatic

"These are delinquent monkeys, so there must be at least as many humans in one place as monkeys, or else the monkeys will gang up on the outnumbered human(s) and force him to dance to organ music."

Concidering a good portion of the puzzle involves monkeys w/o humans, that should have been clearified a bit to reflect said fact.

(yea, I know, monkleys can't torment humans if there are no humans there.. but they COULD run off...)

Green Dragon · Daedalian Member

yeah, but what if the puzzle was meant to be worded like that? If it is, the soloution makes much more sense.

Euler Fan · Guest

After Ed has brought all the other monkeys to one side, wouldn't it be faster if all the humans took the boat and left Ed. Then one human could go back and pick Ed up. I may not be seeing everything clearly here, but this occurs to me to be a quicker solution.