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What is the 6 step process for all logic games?
1. Identify game type
2. Begin Diagram
3. Symbolize clues
4. Double check symbols
5. Make deductions
6. Answer questions in smartest order
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What are the 4 types of deductions?
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.
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What questions are the easiest and usually listed first?
Complete and accurate list questions
**answer first!!**
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What is the best order to answer questions?
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
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What are the 3 steps to handling conditional statements?
1. Abbreviate the elements in the statement
2. Symbolize the statement using an arrow
- 3. Symbolize the contrapositive
- (flip sides & flip signs)
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What is a conditional-combination deduction?
1. element that is in first half of one conditional clue and back half of another
2. combine elements to create new clue
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What questions should you ask to set up a game?
What does this game look like?
What do I need the clues to do?
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If Emily walks the Retriever before she walks the Terrier, then she must walk the Mutt before she walks the Schnauzer
R - T --> M - S
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B only if A
Not B unless A
All A are B
No A are B
B if, but only if, A
B --> A
-B --> A
A --> B
A --> -B
A --> B AND B --> A
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What type of language will be present in an ORDERING game?
Select, choose, assign elements
from or among a list
to a particular group, bin, or team
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What are the 3 clues to look for to identify a two-tiered ordering game?
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
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What is the distinction that makes it a 1-2-2 or 1-1-3 game?
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
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What language will help identify a game as 1-2-2 or 1-1-3?
Each group must have at LEAST ONE element and each group can hold UP TO THREE elements
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