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But the general concept would be that some people meet at a bar before joining the rest of a group at dinner, then later most of these move on to a party. After the party (or bar/dinner) people are going to head home in different groups. | But the general concept would be that some people meet at a bar before joining the rest of a group at dinner, then later most of these move on to a party. After the party (or bar/dinner) people are going to head home in different groups. | ||
β | The enormous complexities of planning who {{w|car pool}}s with whom, from where to where, and when, make an excellent logic puzzle. And what is worse, anyone who has to drive needs to stay sober. So it is important to solve the puzzle before the drinking starts, or else there will be too few that can drive, or | + | The enormous complexities of planning who {{w|car pool}}s with whom, from where to where, and when, make an excellent logic puzzle. And what is worse, anyone who has to drive needs to stay sober. So it is important to solve the puzzle before the drinking starts, or else there will be too few that can drive, or two many who never gets to drink. |
To make matters worse Tom complicates this already complicated {{w|logical puzzle}}, by involving the classic logic puzzle of the {{w|Wolf, goat and cabbage puzzle|wolf, goat and cabbage}} (sometimes also known as {{tvtropes|FoxChickenGrainPuzzle|Fox-chicken-grain puzzle}}). In the last panel, the guy on the right is shown standing with a goat on a tether, saying he can't be in the car with the wolf. Cueball is then brought to swearing over this. (The goat puzzle was also the subject of [[1134: Logic Boat]] and [[2348: Boat Puzzle]]). And this may go some way of explaining why there needs to be a [[#Number of drivers|number of drivers]]. | To make matters worse Tom complicates this already complicated {{w|logical puzzle}}, by involving the classic logic puzzle of the {{w|Wolf, goat and cabbage puzzle|wolf, goat and cabbage}} (sometimes also known as {{tvtropes|FoxChickenGrainPuzzle|Fox-chicken-grain puzzle}}). In the last panel, the guy on the right is shown standing with a goat on a tether, saying he can't be in the car with the wolf. Cueball is then brought to swearing over this. (The goat puzzle was also the subject of [[1134: Logic Boat]] and [[2348: Boat Puzzle]]). And this may go some way of explaining why there needs to be a [[#Number of drivers|number of drivers]]. |