Setup and Rule Diagrams

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Setup and Rule Diagram Explanation

This explanation is still in progress. Please post any questions below!

[mkloo11]

Hi! Any chance an explanation to this game will be shared before the June administration? Super struggling with it!

[mkloo11]

Hi! Any chance an explanation to this game will be shared before the June administration? Super struggling with it!

Editing to add my thinking: I've tried to find a pattern or key inference for the game, but haven't gotten to one yet. I think the game is doable with a pretty scant diagram and just brute-forcing through the questions. Is that the right approach? Thanks so much!

[Robert Carroll]

mkloo11,

I'll offer one diagram of this. Since there are no rules about people being "directly across" the table from each other, and nothing I can see deals with a "clockwise" or "counterclockwise" direction around the table, I think this can be diagrammed just as a Basic Linear game. The only difference is that spaces 1 and 8 are also adjacent. In that respect, this game already reminds me quite a bit of a recent Circular game on the LSAT, which I'll link here: viewtopic.php?f=1318&t=31306

Note that since any two of G, L, K can't be adjacent (L and K are a couple and each of them cannot be next to G via the last rule), it's always good to be aware of those three variables when doing questions, because it's always going to be tricky keeping them all separated. That's a good thing! The fewer ways they can be separated, the easier it will be to find inferences in Local questions. Globally, I don't think anything special can be done about that yet - I could say something like "one of them must be 2 or 3 and the other two from 5 to 8", but that's about all.

Robert Carroll