LOGICAL THINKING XXXVI

SHIP SHAPE

GAMES Magazine

October, 1985

Dorothy Osborne

 

In fourteen hundred ninety-eight

Carumba sailed the ocean great.

With three small ships he made his trek:

The Scout, the Search, the Hunt and Peck.

 

Aboard each ship Carumba placed 

A captain bold and handsome-faced.

The surnames of these captains three

Were  Bloodguts, Fisheye, and McCree.

 

Upon the boat that first reached land

The valiant Fisheye had command.

Carumba nobly shared his ship

With Captain Bloodguts on the trip.

Their craft, though made to veer and 

   lurch

By storms, came sooner than the Search.

Across the waters tempest-blown

The Scout's commander sailed alone.

But tell me, reader, if you can,

Which boat was captained by which man?

Aboard which vessel stout and true

Did brave Carumba sail the blue?

Which ship landed unsurpassed,

Which came second, which one

   last? 

Answers:

 

The Scout landed first under Captain Fisheye, the Hunt and Peck second under Captain Bloodguts with Carumba on board, and the Search landed last under Captain McCree. 

 

Answer in verse:

 

The Scout, by Fisheye ably manned,

Was first of all to reach the land.

Bloodguts, on the Hunt and Peck

Came next with Carumba on the deck.

The Search was last, and plied the sea

Commanded by the bold McCree.