Death in Paradise: DI Goodman likens how the Mystery of the Week of the "Old Times" episode was carried out to this puzzle.They solved it by knocking out the boat's owner and stealing it. Mongrels references this in the first episode with Nelson the fox, his chicken "girlfriend" and a bag of grain they were eating.The solution was to take them all at once since toy animals don't eat each other.
The puzzle included a rowboat, a sack of grain and a toy chicken and fox. Gareth: Well then, he shouldn't be allowed near animals, should he? However the twist is that the cat can't bear to take the lift more than twice, meaning the puzzle is impossible and the correct "answer" is to get confused and give up. Brennan's (better known as author of the GrailQuest books) Dracula's Castle, where you have to travel with a cat, a dog, and a mouse in a lift. Later, you arrive at a farmhouse, where you could sleep, but decide not to after it turns out to be the farmer's house, when he runs after you, pulling (and strangling) the goat after him. As you hear the farmer shout profanities at you, you decide to not wait for him and go on. Norik (your alter-ego) shouts at it and the wolf runs off, which also results in the rest of the cabbage being thrown into the river. Then, when he returns to finally get the goat, the wolf grows tired of not being able to eat the goat and eats the cabbage instead. When he returns back to get the goat, you must convince him to get you over the water first. This puzzle is featured quite humorously in a Czech-language gamebook Norik: You need to cross a river and you meet a farmer with a boat, a wolf, a goat and a basket of cabbage and need to help him get the three "items" to the other side of the river.