Strawberry Jam Puzzle
The Smith family is a very wealthy family that lives in a big circular home. One morning, Mr Smith woke up & saw a strawberry jam stain oh his new carpet. He figured out that everyone who was there in the morning had a jam sandwish.
By reading the following excuses figure out who spilled the jam.
Billy Smith: “I was outside playing basketball.”
The maid: “I was dusting the corners of the house.”
Chef: “I was starting to make lunch for later.”
WHO IS LYING?
Answer- Maid
Explanation-
The maid: “I was dusting the corners of the house.”
but House is Circular so, where’s the Corners?
The ‘straight-forward’ answer seems to imply that the maid is an idiot who thought of finding ‘corners’ in a ’round house’.
But…
Nowhere in the puzzle it is said that, like the house, the individual rooms are round as well…! So, they CAN have corners, and the maid’s statement does make sense, which, in turn, makes the data given in the puzzle insufficient to solve it.
@viji- Great point, but there can be infinite number of possibility in the molding the data.
But as per puzzle-
- Circular HOUSE is there and
- maid cleaning corners of HOUSE (not rooms)
So,In Simplest form statement seems, Its house’s corner which is circular.
Ans-The chef
The chef is the person who is lying as he said he is making lunch but as said in before it was morning time so he would make breakfast not lunch at that time
The chef. As said: “One morning, Mr Smith woke up”, so its not too late in the morning (Although some persons are already awake), and there is no reason to start preparing Lunch.
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