Someone stole the cookie jar again!
Someone stole the cookie jar again! You manage to narrow down your list of suspects to 4 people: Albert, Sydney, Garfield, and Ann. You gather all of them into a room and interview each suspect.
Albert: I am taller than Ann, Garfield stole the cookie jar, and Sydney always lies.
Sydney: I'm female, Garfield is taller than Albert, and the tallest person in this room stole the cookie jar.
Garfield: Ann is taller than me, Ann always lies, and Sydney did not steal the cookie jar.
Ann: Sydney is male, you are not taller than me, and I'm the only one that always tells the truth. Also, Garfield stole the cookie jar!
(Assume that a person either always lies or always tells the truth. The fact that a person stole the cookie jar does not imply that said person always lies.)
Who stole the cookie jar?
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1 solution
Sydney and Ann disagreed about Sydney's gender, Garfield called Ann a liar while Albert called Sydney a liar. So on the surface it seemed that there's two opposing camps here with { Sydney & Garfield } vs { Ann & Albert } , but Ann's claiming "to be the ONLY one that always tells the truth" doesn't seem to fit the descriptions for someone from a pair of truth tellers.
Thus, Sydney & Garfield must have told the truths. A girl Sydney, and that their heights in decreasing order is Ann > Garfield > Albert > Sydney. So, the cookie jar must have been stolen by Ann, right?
Actually, no, because if you stopped to recheck and reread Ann's statements, she did say something like this, "You are not taller than me". Since we knew that Ann's a liar, than this "You" that she addressed then must have really been taller than her.
The final answer : Ann's "You" = Me