Logic Games- General

1. Identify game type

2. Begin Diagram

3. Symbolize clues

4. Double check symbols

5. Make deductions

6. Answer questions in smartest order

1. Can't be 1st or last ("before or after" clues)

• 2. Repeated element deductions
• Identify any element that appears in 1+ clue
• combine these clues to get new info

• 3. Down-to-two deductions 
• limit a slot to only 2 elements

• 4. Block-splitting deductions
• a. Identify all blocked elements(MP & RT)
• b. Where can they be placed?
• c. look for slots where putting a single unblocked element would split the block and make it impossible to put block anywhere else.

Complete and accurate list questions

**answer first!!**

1. Complete and Accurate list

• 2. Questions that give more info
• (give added info about an element or where to put it)
• *pay atten to COULD be T/F vs. MUST be T/F

• 3. Questions that do not give new info
• *right answer will not restate a clue--will require deduction

1. Abbreviate the elements in the statement

2. Symbolize the statement using an arrow

• 3. Symbolize the contrapositive
• (flip sides & flip signs)

1. element that is in first half of one conditional clue and back half of another

2. combine elements to create new clue

What does this game look like?

What do I need the clues to do?

R - T --> M - S

B --> A

-B --> A

A --> B

A --> -B

A --> B AND B --> A

Select, choose, assign elements

from or among a list

to a particular group, bin, or team

1. Setup and clues will use both grouping and ordering language

2. Game will have you assign exactly two elements to each group

3. 2 slots in each group will be specified

*should have 2/3 clues

It will have ordering and grouping tasks BUT will not assign a number of elements to each group

*number of elements in a group can vary from question to question

Each group must have at LEAST ONE element and each group can hold UP TO THREE elements