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Here is a logic puzzle, presented for your pleasure, by chumani

If you care to use the chart below in solving this problem, you do so by entering all information obtained from the clues using, perhaps, an X to indicate a definite "no" and a dot to indicate a a definite "yes". Remember: Once you enter a definite "yes", place a "no" in all the rest of the boxes in each row and column that contains the "yes".

Last week, the Paga-Tasters' Society of Ar gathered for its monthly meeting. Each of the four members were served by His personal slave, each drank His paga from a differently colored paga bowl, and each also consumed a different number of bowls of the strong beverage (from three to six servings). From this information and the clues below, determine which slave belonged to each Man, the color of His paga bowl, and how many bowls of paga He consumed.

1.  The Man who drank from the blue bowl was not served by veema or olga.

2.  The Man who drank from the black bowl was not served by tarna.

3.  Samos drank more bowls of paga than the Man who drank from the green bowl.

4.  The red bowl was used by neither Tarl (who was not served by nila) nor Marlenus.

5.  The Man who drank from the black bowl consumed more paga than the Man who was served by veema.

6.  Rask (who did not drink the fewest bowls of paga) was not served by veema.

7.  The Man who was served by olga drank fewer bowls of paga than Tarl.

8.  Marlenus did not drink from the green bowl.

Note:  all names used in this puzzle are borrowed from the novels, and are in no way intended to represent the denizens of IRC Gor.

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SOLUTION:
Marlenus : served by tarna, blue bowl, 3 servings
Tarl : served by veema, green bowl, 5 servings
Samos : served by nila, black bowl, 6 servings
Rask : served by olga, red bowl, 4 servings