37. The Deadly Garden and the Lifesaving Apples
Theresa owns a mysterious walled garden. Inside it grows an apple tree whose fruit has miraculous powers: anyone who eats one of its apples will immediately be restored to life if they die soon afterward.
Unfortunately, stepping across the garden wall is instantly fatal to any intruder. You want to end up alive inside the garden so you can explore it, but simply walking in will kill you before you can reach an apple.
You have ordinary everyday items available (sticks, rope, etc.) but may not carry the apples out of the garden because the wall is too high to climb while holding them. How can you get yourself alive and well inside Theresa’s deadly garden?
Added 2 June 2009
Hint: Try to make use of an apple before you cross the wall.
Solution:
Take a long pole, hook, or similar tool and reach over the wall to knock an apple off the tree. Drag or roll the apple back under the wall to your side without ever setting foot in the garden.
Now eat the apple outside the garden. Its magic will revive you from the next death that occurs.
Finally, climb over (or step through the gate into) the garden. Crossing the boundary kills you instantly, but the apple’s power brings you back to life at once. You are now alive and inside the garden, having bypassed the lethal effect of entry.
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