4th logic game from PT 72. your thoughts?

DEC_LSAT

during the timed test i got to the 4th game and froze. any similar games? i kept rereading the paragraph to understand the set up for it. what were your thoughts?

BinghamtonDave

I've done the game about 15 times. The game itself is predicated almost entirely on seeing that M must pass to J. This is deduced by combined three basic elements of the stimulus and rules: 1. that each worker must actually work on a piece each day (meaning that no worker can not be listed on any of the days.) 2. that no worker can pass to themselves. and finally that both L and K cannot pass to J. At that point your setup should have revealed that only M can pass to J. Hindsight is 20/20, but our job on really tough games should be twofold: solve them effectively or if that fails: minimize the damage and collect the points you can.

Doing the above work to derive the key inference nets us question 19, question 20 and goes a long way to answer question 23. that gives us 3/5. If our fundamentals are strong on the prior games, this should give us 21/23 for games on PT 72, prior to taking a shot at questions 21 and 22.

DEC_LSAT

thanks @David3389 i really appreciate your thoughts on this game. do you know any other games like this? i made the inference that m passed to j but i still didn't understand the set up for this game

BinghamtonDave

I don't off the top of my head know of any similar games to this one. PT 11 Game 4 is in the same ballpark, but I'm not ready to call that similar. There are games that are similar in their strangeness and difficulty lending themselves to immediate setups though: PT 77 Game 3 for instance, PT 40 Game 3, PT 6 game 4.

I think this game teaches us something valuable that I have learned from doing about 975 total games. When faced with a new game that doesn't fit the mold of something we can recall, it has behoved me to not try to force out a preconceived setup. In fact, doing so might be detrimental to my score. It might sound counter-intuitive but sometimes, forcing a traditional setup might do more harm than good.

DEC_LSAT

@David3389 said:
I think this game teaches us something valuable that I have learned from doing about 975 total games. When faced with a new game that doesn't fit the mold of something we can recall, it has behoved me to not try to force out a preconceived setup. In fact, doing so might be detrimental to my score.

@David3389 very insightful!