LG Game 2 Setup, by LSATHacks
Game Setup
This is a grouping game. We have four researchers learning different languages. Here is how I set it up:
I’ve listed the researchers vertically. I’ll be listing languages along with them.
We know that if the geologist learns something then the historian also learns it. The linguist and paleontologist don’t learn that language.
If the linguist and paleontologist learn a language then the geologist doesn’t learn it. If the historian doesn’t learn a language then the geologist also doesn’t learn it.
Numbers are important on this game. Three people learn Y, two learn S, two learn Tigrinya and one learns R.
The historian, paleontologist and linguist all have to learn Y. Why? If the geologist learns Y then the linguist and paleontologist couldn’t learn it. Then only two people could learn Y, the geographer and the historian.
We also know the geologist can’t learn R. Then the historian would have to learn it too…but only one person can learn R.
The geologist obviously has to learn some language, so they must learn either S or T. If the geologist just learns one of those languages, then the setup looks like this:
The geologist will learn S or T, the historian learns the same.
We have the two of the other S/T, plus R.
For example, one possibility would be that the geologist learns T. The historian would learn Y and T. The linguist would learn Y and so would the paleontologist.
We would have to place two Ss and one R. We can’t place them with the geologist. The historian could learn any of those. We could (for example) place one S with the historian, another with the linguist, and have the paleontologist learn R.
That’s just an example to make clear how things could look. There are other possibilities.
It’s also possible that the geologist learns both S and T. In that case there are fewer options. It looks like this:
The geologist learns two languages and the historian learns three. Either the linguist or the paleontologist learns R. That’s it for that setup.
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