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Thanks for the reply but this makes no sense to me. So the goat eats the lion then? And who eats the human? Who does the human eat? How would ANYONE solve this riddle if they don’t have a way to know that the lion is vegan? I mean how would anyone come to the conclusion that the lion eats the cabbage with 0 background other than the name of the animals (that imply that lions are carnivorous and goats vegan)?


The lion is an omnivore, it eats both the cabbage and the goat. The goat is for whatever reason, not interested in eating the cabbage.

We know the lion will eat the cabbage because the riddle states the lion and cabbage cannot be left alone, and and idea of a cabbage eating a lion is a ridiculous notion.




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