LSAT 62, Logic Game 4, Question 22, LSATHacks

LG Game 4 Question 22 Explanation, by LSATHacks

There’s no easy way through this question. You just have to brute force it. 

That’s what I thought at first, anyway. But I realized there was a better way. Remember, on this game there are four special configurations:

• ST
• SU
• TM
• WM

Reversing one of those is difficult. And we’re looking for an answer that can’t be true. So why not look for an answer that reverses one of them?

That’s A, which is CORRECT. It reverses TM to MT. If you don’t have TM, you need WM. And you need SU since you can’t have ST.

So we would have WMT. And SU would have to go before them, because U is before W. There’s no space:

These diagrams prove that B–E are possible:

B

C

D

E

Remember, if a scenario doesn’t violate any rules, it’s correct. If you’re slow at drawing scenarios like these, practice! If you know the rules like the back of your hand you can draw a scenario to disprove an answer in about 5-10 seconds.

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