LSAT 81, Logic Game 3, Question 14, LSATHacks

This question asks where T can be placed. A good shortcut on this type of question is to see which spots are in all the answers. There’s no need to test first and second, because all answers have them.

This leaves two options. Solving the question now, or doing the rest of the game in order to get more scenarios from those questions and use those to eliminate answers.

Either strategy is fine. Personally, I just answered this question right away, since it didn’t feel very hard. If it had felt harder, I would have gone on to get more scenarios.

I saw right away that placing T third and fourth wouldn’t work, since S always has to be third or fourth. Placing S and T in the middle leaves two blocs of two spaces each:

I mentioned in the setup this doesn’t work. The people left to place are WZ (together), and RV (apart). This kind of setup forces RV together, e.g .WZ–ST–RV. That violates rule 3: RV can’t be together.

So we’re between A and B. Sixth is the only difference between those two, so we should test that:

The scenario above proves it’s possible to place T sixth. So, B is CORRECT.

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