>Ok, this was quick :)
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>Here are a simple problem:
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>A peasant with a cabbage, goat and a wolf comes to a river. He has a boat, which can only load him + one of the three. How should he manage to move to another side of the river?

Had a bunch of these as well, they were very popular when I was a kid. This one should be easy:

Move goat, return alone - wolf is with the cabbage on side A, won't eat it.
Move wolf, return goat. Now wolf is alone on B side and cabbage on A.
Move cabbage, return alone - wolf with the cabbage on B and goat alone on A.
Move goat, done.

Just remembered another surreal one:
"That year the cows were so thin, we had to tie their tails in knots so they wouldn't get out between the railings in the fence".