LSAT 22, Game 2 Setup, Medical Training, LSATHacks

LG Game 2 Setup, by LSATHacks

Game Setup

This game mixes linear and grouping. We must place three nurses and three psychologists in four different sessions. Sessions are taught by one nurse and one psychologist.

Each session is taught by both a nurse and a psychologist. That means that we have eight spots within to be filled by six people. There will be repetition, but everyone has to go at least once.

I set this up horizontally. You can do it vertically too. It’s arbitrary.

I didn’t write numbers under my diagram.  Nlly I would for an explanation, though I don’t use them in my own diagrams (it’s faster without them).

But in this case I felt that numbers would make the explanation confusing and cluttered. There are only four spaces, so it’s pretty easy to tell which is first, second, third and fourth.

I inserted the second rule directly in the diagram. Leopold teaches day 3. It doesn’t mean that Leopold only teaches day 3. But Leopold is definitely there on day 3.

The next thing you should do is draw the list of who is a nurse and who is a psychologist. It will be essential to know this list or at least be able to refer to it quickly.

Nurses are early in the alphabet, and psychologists are late in the alphabet.

Most of the rules have to do with the nurses. The next rule is that T is not with F or L. We draw that like this:

The last two rules are useful in combination. J is only in session S. Session M comes after session S.

Think about where you can put S and M. We can try putting S in 3 and M in 4, but there is a conflict. We already have Leopold in 3. Johnson has to go in S. But Johnson and Leopold are both nurses. They can’t both go in 3.

We can put S and M in 2 and 3. It looks like this:

We can also put S an M in 1 and 2 which looks like this:

We can’t put them any other way:  S always has to go before M. As we saw above, we can’t put S and M in 3 and 4. So there are only two possibilities and only two places J can go.

I did not write out the rule about J being in S. I like to represent this type of rule directly on my diagram as much as possible. It’s much easier to remember that way, and it lets you visualize the game more effectively.

The only rule about psychologists is that T doesn’t go with F or L. Otherwise, they can be placed anywhere. Most answers involving psychologists will be wrong.