Goblin

Contributed by Dominic Wong


You're in the middle of a circular lake and there's a hungry goblin on the shore. The goblin can run 4x as fast (on land) as you can swim (the gobin can't swin) so how do you get out of the lake without being eaten (you can run faster than the goblin on land)?


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