A solid rug is a rug with only a single color. So if there are two solid rugs, things look like this:
The questions who can’t be the two solid rugs. An open ended question like this can paralyze you. How can you get past paralysis?
You should not sit there, stare at the answers, and try to think of which one is impossible. At least, don’t spend more than five seconds doing this. If the answer isn’t immediately obvious, you will easily waste 30+ seconds if you just stare at the answers. Questions like this aren’t answered in your head. Instead, you can prove answers wrong faster by drawing.
Just draw a working diagram to show the first answer is possible, like this:
That diagram proves A is wrong. I then used the diagram to disprove the other answers. I looked at the diagram and I swapped around variables in my head. I believe almost anyone can do this, if they know the rules and have a feel for the game.
It’s hard to visualize an entire diagram from scratch (I can’t do it easily). But it’s not hard to move around a couple pieces from a diagram.
For instance, to disprove B, I made the two solo rugs F and Y. That’s close to what I already drew; I just swapped P and Y. So my top diagram was W, P, T instead of W, Y and T.
But then I saw the top group couldn’t be WPT, because PT couldn’t go together. So I visualized the top group as W, O, P instead:
That diagram is valid. Hopefully the process I used to arrive at it made sense. I want to show you how I solve the question, not just make a diagram that explains why B is wrong.
You might feel nervous about trying to visualize new diagrams. Is what you’ve made an ok diagram? Most likely, Yes! This game only has three main rules:
- W goes with two other colors
- If O is in, P is in
- These don’t go together:
FT,PT,FY
As long as you don’t violate one of those rules, then any diagram you draw is valid. Realize this, and you’ll have mastered one of the keys to logic games.
A slight switch from the diagram from A proves that C is wrong. I just looked at that diagram and swapped F and T:
For E, I took the diagram from A and swapped YT with FP:
Finally, D is CORRECT. Here’s why it’s impossible. If P and Y are alone, then the remaining options are W, O, F and T.
But, O isn’t an option, because O must go with P. So we would have to place W, F and T in a rug. This doesn’t work, because rule three says that F and T can’t go together.
I encourage you to review this question, and draw my diagram for A on a sheet of paper:
Then mentally move around variables, to practice disproving the other answers in your head, using the aid of a working diagram. Follow the steps I list for each answer.
This method is hard to explain on paper, but once it clicks, you’ll see that it’s very effective.
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