Diagram

[georgia.hoyler]

I am really struggling with how to diagram all of the information that is necessary to keep track of in this question: you have the three councilmen voting two ways on at least 2 out of the three bills--I tried to set this up with the bills as the base, and I had two columns for every bill, one for "for" and another for "against", but I just can't keep track of it all. Is there an easier way?

Thank you!

[giladedelman]

Please forgive me for taking so long to reply!

I've attached my diagram to this post. Basically, I put the councilmen on the bottom and the bills on the side, so each councilman has three spots, one for each bill. Then in each spot, I put a plus sign if they vote for it, and a minus sign if they vote against.

The first inference to make here is that H must vote for the recreation bill, because G does not. At that point, I noticed that I could set up two frames around whether G or H votes for the schools bill. I don't think you have to frame this game, but I found it to be pretty useful.

Hope this helps!

[shaynfernandez]

I actually only diagrammed the "for" votes, in other words...


_
_ _ _
R S T
~G ~F ~H


It worked out great for me I knew whatever wasn't covered in my two hypotheticals would be a vote against.

[johnadamsbird]

When I played this game the first time through, I set up an open board (basically the same setup as giladedelman) with the council members on the bottom.

When I was reviewing, like shaynfernandez I took a lesson from the 2nd game in this same section (languages/researchers) and tried a closed board by putting bills on the bottom and assigning council members to them (because the # of bills is defined). I thought this made things a lot easier.

Do any other instructors have thoughts as to whether open or closed would be more advantageous in this type of game? Or is it a matter of personal preference?

Thanks!