logic game #3- june 2001 lsat

[anellis]

can you direct me on how to find details on this game including the proper set up?
Game #3 about trains arriving at a station

[Adam Tyson]

Hi anellis,

I'm not sure what materials you have, but off the top of my head I know there's a detailed explanation of that game iin the Weekend Course book. We cover it toward the end of the course, in the section dealing with Limited Solution Sets (Identify the Templates and Identify the Possibilities). The detailed explanation is in the answer key at the back of the book, Page 192 in my copy.

If you don't have that book, try this to get started: The rules set up two alternatives, with either W arriving fourth or else Y arriving fourth. That restriction, coupled with the third rule's ordering of W>S>Y, should suggest a template approach. When you add in the rule that R is before both T and V, and further add in that T and V cannot be consecutive in either order, you're going to have so many limitations that the templates will allow you to run through the questions like a hot knife through butter. Soft, spreadable butter, for that matter. Give it a try and get back to us with how you did!

Adam