Setup and Rule Diagrams

[Dave Killoran]

Setup and Rule Diagram Explanation

This is a Basic Linear: Unbalanced: Overloaded, Identify the Possibilities game.

This is an unusually simple game. Five lectures are given over the course of five weeks, instilling a Linear aspect in the game. While the five lectures are given by speakers with different specialties, the speakers are only referred to as “the first week’s speaker” etc, meaning that the 1-2-3-4-5 week base equally serves to refer to the speakers. Thus, the five weeks/speakers are the base, and the specialties are placed above the base.

And, as opposed to rules establishing various placements or limitations on variables, here the majority of rules simply indicate which lectures can be given each week. The third, fourth, fifth, and sixth rules reveal the following information about the speaker’s specializations:

PT34-June2001_LGE-G2_srd1.png

The second rule leads to the powerful inference that because the third and fourth speakers must lecture on M and N, no other speaker can lecture on N and M, leading to the following setup:

PT34-June2001_LGE-G2_srd2.png

This setup can be used as-is, or four basic templates can be created:

PT34-June2001_LGE-G2_srd3.png

These four templates contain just eight possibilities. With this setup the game is very easy.

[srcline@noctrl.edu]

Hello

Can someone please explain the how to do the diagram for this problem? I was confused on how the different weeks played into this game.

Thankyou
Sarah

[Dave Killoran]

Hey Sarah,

Some games are actually easier than they first appear, which is always nice when it happens. That is the case here because of the limitations on the specialties. Here's how it works:

Five lectures are given over the course of five weeks, instilling a Linear aspect in the game. While the five lectures are given by speakers with different specialties, the speakers are only referred to as “the first week’s speaker” etc, meaning that the 1-2-3-4-5 week base equally serves to refer to the speakers. Thus, the five weeks/speakers are the base, and the specialties are placed above the base.

And, as opposed to rules establishing various placements or limitations on variables, here the majority of rules simply indicate which lectures can be given each week. The third, fourth, fifth, and sixth rules reveal the following information about the speaker’s specializations:


K L M N O P 6

K/L/M K/L/M/N M/N M/N N/O/P
1 2 3 4 5


The second rule leads to the powerful inference that because the third and fourth speakers must lecture on M and N, no other speaker can lecture on N and M, leading to the following setup:


K/L L/K M/N N/M O/P
1 2 3 4 5


From there, not much can happen and they game can be conquered relatively quickly!

Please let me know if that helps. Thanks!

[srcline@noctrl.edu]

Hello Dave,

Your explanation helped a lot, this was a pretty easy game.
Thankyou
Sarah