Diagram

[ManhattanPrepLSAT1]

[NatalieC941]

What is the best way to go about approaching this game?

After looking at it, I had no idea how to diagram it in a way that could make any inferences other than what was stated on the paper, so I skipped to Game #4 first and then completed this with all remaining time. I then just did educated guesses based on my understanding of the rules and plug and chug.

Any principles to go by if a game like this should appear again on the test with zero influences and seemingly only plug/chug?

Thanks!

[ohthatpatrick]

I usually write out at least two valid scenarios, when I'm feeling like, "WTF is this game?"

And I do the "If" questions first, for the sake of getting even more scenarios on the page.

Some productive up front questions we could have asked ourself on this one would be,
"Which offices could go first / which offices could go last?"

We know X/Y must go first, and, it turns out, W must go last.

It looks like maybe it can go 3rd with L, but if you investigate that possible scenario, you find out it breaks.

So knowing that W is always 4th is a big inference we could have theoretically made, but it's a lot easier to say that in the calmness of hindsight then in the initial panic of "WTF is this game?"