Who Owns the Cat?
I created a puzzle in preparation for a school-wide challenge where the winner gets a sum of money, but I'm worried it's much too difficult. Is $20 a fair amount to offer?
You are trapped in a home. You are with five people, each with different nationalities and pets. They sit in a circle and you don’t know where. Two are knights, three are liars. Who owns the cat?
CLUES:
The American is a liar
The Englishman says he sits to the right of the German
The German says he owns birds
The Spaniard owns a dog
The Dane says the Spaniard actually owns a cat
The man who owns the fish sits directly left to the lonely liar
The lonely liar is the liar who has no adjacent liars
Two liars sit opposite each other
The American says he owns the fish
The cat owner is a knight
The bird owner is left to the man who keeps horses
The German sits right in between both knights
The Englishman says he will never be a horse owner
The cat owner sits next to the German