October 2010 LSAT Section 1 Question 27

As it is presented in the passage, the approach to history taken by mainstream U.S. historians of the late nineteenth...

Paul Cushman on March 2, 2021

The train station game

So I understand all the logic that was used, but it hinged on making two scenarios where Y was 4th and W was 4th. How do you make the judgement call for this game that mapping out those scenarios is an efficient use of time versus other games? Does this make sense?

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Emil-Kunkin on March 8 at 01:37AM

I like to use two tests to determine when to make scenarios. First, if there are a limited set of possible world then we have a strong candidate for scenarios. However, this is not enough to make scenarios. I only do so if one or both of these worlds tell us white a lot. That is, if placing the thing in question triggers other rules. We have that here with the rule about who comes fourth.