#20 - Local, Except

[Administrator]

Please post your questions below!

[Kenyambo]

What’s the breakdown to answer this question? Is it basically try each answer choice? Or is there a quicker way to,solve this ?

[Adam Tyson]

It depends, Kenyambo, on how much work you did diagramming the game before you got to this question. For example, one approach to this game is to create templates, which are multiple different diagrams that together show all the possible outcomes, even if they are not fully drawn out. With templates, you could answer this question simply by looking at the templates in which K could have been on Thursday and then eliminating answers that were possible in those cases.

If you did not have templates, you still would have the solution to the first question as a reference tool, and you might have drawn a local diagram to help answer one of the other prior questions. Perhaps those diagrams would help you to at least eliminate a few wrong answers, leaving little left for you to test.

Finally, you might consider drawing two diagrams that reflect what could happen when K is on Thursday, and use those to eliminate wrong answers. In one diagram, put G on Wednesday and see what that does to H, L, and N. In the other, put G on Friday and see what that does to those other variables.

Testing answers is a last resort in most cases, so always look for the change to use your prior work or to predict answers based on local diagrams before taking that more tedious, time-consuming approach.