LSAT 25, Game 2 Setup, Tourists and Tour Guides, LSATHacks

Game Setup

This is an interesting game. It depends on knowing the rules very well and one important deduction.

There are four tour guides and they each speak one or two languages. There are six tourists who all speak only one language each. The tourists have to be assigned to the guides.

I found it easiest to draw the tour guides vertically. I wrote their languages beside them. H and I are assigned to Yossarian and L is with Zalamea.

This means is L could speak Spanish or Russian. H and I could each speak either French or Turkish.

It’s important to note that every guide needs at least one tourist. We’ve got six tourists in total. Only K, M and N are left.

Two of those three have to go with Valois and X, at least. We have at most one extra person to put with Yossarian or Zalamea.

This gives you the answer to three questions: remember it. Deductions are very important!  I usually just memorize it but you can draw it like this:

The other rule is: if K is with Xerxes then M speaks French. That is another way to say that M is either with Valois or Y.

Lastly, N has no rules.

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