Logic games- Type of question

[Ssouki]

Hello!

What type of logic games asks us to spot an accurate and complete list of vegetables that might be carried on a shelf, and which one cannot be a complete list? Is it grouping or linear?

Thank you for your anticipated help!

[Francis O'Rourke]

Hi Ssouki!

Is this an actual game that you are looking at? If so, let us know which test it is from so that we can give you a better answer.

What you are describing sounds to me like a grouping question. If a scenario asked you to place vegetables on different shelves, and there is no inherent order to the shelves, I would bet that that game is primarily concerned with grouping vegetables onto different shelves.

However, there is also the chance that this is a Grouping/Linear Combination game. If the scenario tells us that there are different shelves and different positions on each shelf to place the vegetables (e.g. left to right), then we would have grouping and linear elements involved. For an example of this, you can check out the second game from the June 2013 LSAT, here: lsat/viewtopic.php?t=15461

The actual question you are referring to is not tied to an individual game type. Again, let us know which game you found this question on, and we will be able to answer your question better.

[Ssouki]

Hello!

Thank you for your reply!

No, unfortunately, it's not an actual LSAT question! It's an example that I found on the internet. It basically asks us to place the vegetables on a single shelf. So there are only one shelf on which we need to place these vegetables. Would that change things a little bit? Does it make it a linear game?

Thank you so much!

[James Finch]

Hi Ssouki,

The distinction between Grouping and Linear games is that a pure Grouping game requires test takers to place variables in one or more groups, irrespective of their placement within that group. Conversely, a pure Linear game requires ordering horizontally, or more rarely, vertically, a set of variables. This can include multiple rows/columns, which we call Advanced Linear games, or only a single row or column, which is referred to as a Basic Linear game.

Hybrid games contain both grouping and linear elements, requiring first that the variables be sorted into groups, then arranged in a linear fashion within those groups. For example, a game may have 7 variables that must be fit into 5 slots across three shelves: we would first need to know which variables could be included on the shelves, then on which shelf each could go, then finally in what order on each shelf the variables could be arranged.

Hope this clears things up!