Another Handshake Problem

[pocaracas]

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So... 8 persons, total.
1 of them is out in the kitchen.
Brute force, assuming everyone shakes hands, but not with their respective spouses, nor themselves:
- Mrs Delepine shakes hands with 6 people
- Each of the others shakes hands with 5 people (I know they all report different numbers, but they're wrong! )
In total, 5 * 6 + 6 = 36 handshakes.

Any other solution should yield less than these 36. There's an upper bound!

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There are 6 guests and they all report a different number of handshakes.... At most, each would have shook 5 hands, so... I'm going out on a limb and say we have a guest that shook no hands, one that shook one hand, another that shook 2 hands, another 3, another 4 and, finally, one that shakes 5 hands...
Because of the guest that shook no hands, the anti-social Mr Carvalho, Mrs Delepine couldn't have shaken everyone's hands, so.... down a notch for her... at least. But wait! If one guy shakes 5 hands, then that guy's spouse is the anti-social... Mrs Carvalho to the rescue of the family name!
If one guest shakes 5 hands, then the guest that only shakes one hand must go with that guy.... down another notch for Mrs Delepine.

Mr and Mrs Burke take a page out of the Carvalhos and one shakes 4 hands, while the other shakes 1... Mr Burke, shaking 4 hands, must be shaking Mrs Delepine's hand, because he's not shaking Mr Carvalho's, nor his own spouse, but everyone else.

And we're missing a couple, the Andersons. Mrs Anderson shaking 2 hands, and Mr Anderson shaking 3 hands. Mr Anderson shakes hands with Mr Burke and Mrs Delepine, while Mrs Anderson shakes with Mr Burke and Mrs Carvalho.

Mrs Delepine is then shaking hands with Mrs Carvalho, Mr Burke and Mr Anderson: 3 handshakes... usually people can recall up to 3 events quite easily...

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I think Mrs Delepine needs to see a psychiatrist.