Secret Santa Logic Puzzle

[chuckro]

Six friends (Michelle, Lindsay, Sarah, John, Brian and Michael) had a Secret Santa and gave each other presents (Socks, gloves, a sweater, an mp3 player, an umbrella and a cake). Each person gave one gift, each person got one gift. No one gave a gift to themself. The gifts are rather monochromatic, each one is a single color, and none of them are the same color. Who gave and recieved which present?

1. Michael hates getting clothing as a gift. Sucks to be him, because that’s what he got! (Not being a hypocrite, he didn’t give anyone clothing.)
2. John gave the mp3 player to a female friend, in a misplaced attempt to get into her pants. He received the brown gift.
3. Lindsay gave a red gift, and received a blue one.
4. Fortunately for all involved, the cake was the yellow gift. The green gift was an article of clothing, but not the one Michael received
5. Sarah received the black gift, and gave the gloves to a male friend.
6. The sweater is red.
7. Michelle is the baker of the group, she gave someone the cake.
8. Michael gave a gift to Sarah.

Note new clue #8, which should resolve the multiple solutions.

Comments

[tigermelp.livejournal.com]

Michelle gave the yellow cake to Brian.
Lindsay gave the red sweater to Michael.
Sarah gave the brown gloves to John.
John gave the black mp3 player to Sarah.
Brian gave the green socks to Michelle.
Michael gave the blue umbrella to Lindsay.

Did you have it work out as an exchange on purpose?

[chuckro.livejournal.com]

Actually, no, because yours is an alternate solution (though it looks viable) than the one I have. I suspect I'll need one more clue once I figure out where I tripped up.

[tigermelp.livejournal.com]

I wish I had the paper with me right now...the one I used to solve it. Because it made sense at the time (and I'm drunk now, so I totally can't remember what I did!) ...

[trinityvixen.livejournal.com]

Yes, actually. I got down to the point where black/blue were interchangeable for the mp3 player and the umbrella, though I had all the same people getting the colors if not the items (the colors are certain, the gift was not).

However, in the spirit of true logic, I tried to reason that more iPods are blue than they are black (the mini versus the U2-them iPod) and therefore the mp3 player was blue. Most umbrellas are black, too, in my New Yorker that's-what-they-sell-on-the-corner logic. It could be easily reversed, however, as I actually know more people with black mp3 players than blue ones and I myself have a blue umbrella.

Conundrum, innit?

[(Anonymous)]

This one is really easy; give everyone a check.

Green matches everything, as my grandmother used to say.

[edgehopper.livejournal.com]

I have the same result, with:

Michelle gives yellow cake to Brian
Sarah gives brown gloves to John
Lindsay gives a red sweater to Michael
Brian gives green socks to Michelle

Then, either:
John gives a blue MP3 player to Lindsay
Michael gives a black umbrella to Sarah

or

John gives a black MP3 player to Sarah
Michael gives a blue umbrella to Lindsay.