Four people (Ralph, Q.T., Charles, and Bill) with last names Appleman, O'Neal, Smith, and Quail, each owned a number of puzzles.
Each person was of a different occupation: horse trainer, coat check person, mathematician, and teacher.
If each person owned one of the following amounts of puzzles, (7, 8, 15, and 17) can you figure out the first name, last name, and how many puzzles each person owned?
Ralph and Quail once dated the coat check person.
The coat check person isn't Bill Quail.
The person who owned 15 puzzles, Appleman, and the coat check person have known each other for years.
The person who owned 15 puzzles, Quail, and the mathematician have known each other for years.
The person who owned 15 puzzles, Charles, and the horse trainer went to the movies together.
The coat check person, whose first name is Q.T., wasn't the person who owned 17 puzzles.
The teacher isn't Q.T. O'Neal.
Ralph, Appleman, and the person who owned 8 puzzles each had different dinners last night.
Ralph is not the person who owned 17 puzzles, nor has the last name Appleman.
The person who owned 8 puzzles, Charles, and the teacher went to the movies together.
Quail isn't the teacher or the person who owned 8 puzzles.
Bill, O'Neal, and the person who owned 7 puzzles each had different dinners last night.
The person who owned 7 puzzles, Ralph, and the coat check person went to the movies together.
The teacher isn't Bill or the person who owned 7 puzzles.
The horse trainer, who owned 17 puzzles, isn't O'Neal.
The teacher, whose first name is Ralph, wasn't the person who owned 8 puzzles.
The coat check person isn't Ralph Smith.
The teacher, the person who owned 15 puzzles, didn't want a copy of Quail's book.
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Place a N in any square that is a definite "no" and a Y in any square that is a definite "yes". I give up!