LSAT 23, Game 4 Setup, Mayoral Candidates, LSATHacks

LG Game 4 Setup, by LSATHacks

Game Setup

This is a type of pattern game. It’s a rare type. You must know the rules very well.

We have to use each candidate three times. The candidates are all interchangeable.

Everyone has to speak first or second at least once. There are six spots that are first or second and there are five people.

So someone could go twice in first or second but not three times. Suppose R went three times. There would only be three other spaces left in first or second, and four people to put there. It just doesn’t work.

The second rule is that if someone speaks fifth then they have to speak first at least once. No one can speak fifth three times, because then they are not speaking first. Someone could speak fifth two times and first once.

Lastly, someone can only speak 4th once, at most.

I’ll repeat:  everyone is interchangeable. Clearly, if you put R in 5 (for example) then you have to put R in 1 somewhere else. But if you don’t trigger a rule, there are no other rules about these variables.

Don’t move onto the questions until you know the three rules practically by heart. There is no way of writing them down that is going to fix this for you. You have to learn them and when you do, the game isn’t that hard.

If you can remember a few strangers’ names at a party for a few minutes, you can remember three rules for the same amount of time.

Not realizing that the rules have to be internalized is the single biggest thing holding many people back at logic games.

(The other important thing most people miss is that deductions must be written down, clearly enough to be referenced later)