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Topic: Logic
Games
Strategy
Used: Slow Down
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To gain time in logic games, you must spend more time thinking
through and analyzing the setup and the rules. This is not only
the most important principle for logic game success, it's also
the one that's most often ignored, probably because it doesn't
seem intuitively right. People who have timing difficulties want
to speed up, not slow down. But by spending a little extra time
up front thinking through the setup and rules, you'll be able to
recognize the game's key issues and make important deductions
that will save time in the long run.
Consider the following
example:
Two rules for a logic game go as follows:
- If Bob is chosen for the team, then Eric is also
chosen.
- If Eric is chosen for the team, then Pat will not be
chosen.
You can just treat these rules as separate pieces of
information, but there's a deduction to be made from them. If Bob
is chosen, Eric is too. If Eric is chosen, Pat is not. So if Bob
is chosen, then Pat is not chosen. That's an important deduction
— one that will undoubtedly be required from question to
question. If you don't take the time to figure this out up front,
you'll have to find it out over and over again, every time it's
necessary to answer a question.
So always take the game scenario and the rules as far as you
can before moving on to the question. Looking for common elements
among the rules will help you combine them and weed out major
deductions.
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