LG Flashcards
Method for LG
- Overview - SEAL (Situation, Entities, Action, Limitations) 2. Sketch 3. Rules 4. Deduction - BLEND Blocs of entities Limited options Established entities Numbers Duplications 5. Questions
Question Types
Acceptability: use the rules to eliminate violators New Ifs: take the new rule through steps 3 and 4 Complete and Accurate List: hold off on answering “complete and accurate list” questions until you’ve tackled other questions. the sketches you make for other questions in the game will help you to answer. use the choices to decide what possibilities you have to test. Cannot v. Must: characterize the one right and four wrong choices Maximum v. Minimum: use number deductions
Strict Sequencing
Defintion: Ordering entities with respect to defined positions
Ex: There are exactly seven houses on a street. Each house is occupied by exactly one of the seven families: the Kahns, Lowes, Muirs, Newmans, Owens, Piatts, Rutans. All the houses are on the same side of the street, which runs from west to east.
The Kahns live in the fourth house from the west end of the street.
The Muirs live next to the Kahns…
Sketch:
K L M N O P R
_ _ _ K _ _ _
1 2 3 4 5 6 7
^ ^
\M/
(M- 3 or 5)
Key Info: Look for limited options and blocs and entities
Loose Sequencing
Defintion: ordering entities with respect to each other
Ex. A soft drink manufacturer surveyed consumer preferences for exactly seven proposed names for its new soda: Jazz, Kola, Luck, Mist, Nipi, Oboy, and Ping. The manufacturer ranked the seven names according to the number of votes they recieved. The name that recieved the most votes was ranked first. Every name recieved a different number of votes. Some of the survey results are as follows:
Jazz got more votes than Oboy
Oboy got more votes than Kola
Kola got more votes than Mist
Ping got fewer votes than Luck…
Sketch: J K L M N O P
J L
I I
O P
I
K
I
M
Key Info: Which entities can be first? Which entities can be last? If there’s no line between the entities there’s no relationship.
Matching
Definition: Matching two kings of entities to each other
Ex: Threee couples - John and Kates, Lewis and Marie, and Nat and Olive - have dinner in a resturant together. kate, Marie, and Olive are weomen; the other three are men. Each person orders one and only one of the following kinds of entrress: pork chops, roast beef, swordfish, tilefish, veal cutlet. The six people order in a manner consiitant with the following conditions:
Marie orders the swordfish.
Neither Jon nor Nat orders a fish entree…
Sketch:
pc rb sf tf vc
_J_I_K_I_L_I_M_I_N_I_O\_
pc sf pc
rb rb
vc vc
Key Info: always two or more types of entities. Entities in one of the types can be matched multiple times. Pay attention to numbers and duplications.
Distributuion
Defintion: Forming several small groups out of a large group
Ex: Petworld has exactly fourteen animals (three gerbils, three hamsters, three lizards, five snakes) that are kept in four seperate cages (W, X, Y, Z) according to the following conditions:
Each cage contains exactly two, four, or six animals.
Neither cage Y nor Z contains a gerbil…
Sketch:
G G G
H H H
L L L
S S S S S
6(_) left
__W__I__X__I_Y(no G)_I_Z(no G)_I
\_\_ \_\_ \_\_ \_\_ \_\_ \_\_ \_\_ \_\_
Key Info: Each entity must and can be placed in only one group. Pay attention to the numbers. work out ratios whenever possible.
Selection
Defintion: choosing a small group out of a large group
Ex: a hooyist is stocking her aquarium with exactly three fish of different types and with exactly two species of plants. The only fish under consideration are a G, an H, a J, a K and an L, and the only plants under consideration are of the species W, X, Y, and Z. She will observe the following conditions:
If she selects the G, she can select neither the H nor a Y
If she selects the K, she must select an X…
Sketch:
3 = Fish 2 = Plant
G H J K L w x y z
If G -> No H and No Y
If y or H -> No G
If K -> x
If no x -> no K
Key Info: What is not slected is as important as who is
Hybrid
Defintion: performing two or more of the other actions
Ex: Exactly six dogs - P, Q, R, S, T, and U - are entered in a dog show. The judge of the show awards each first, second, third, and fourth places, to four of the dogs. The information that follows is all that is available about the six dogs:
Each dog is either a greyhound or a labrador, but not both.
Two of six dogs are female and te rest are male.
Dog P and R are greyhounds…
Sketch:
f f m m m m
_ I P I Q I R I S I T I U I_
_ G/L I I I I I I I_
_ f/m I I I I I I I_
1 ____
2 ____
3 ____
4 ____
5 ____
6 ____
Key Info: Set up your sketch according to the types of games that you are integrating. Determine which rules speak to which action(s) in the game. Combine sketches whenever possible.
