Diagram

[maryadkins]

Here's the diagram I came up with. Tell me if you have any questions.

[Sarah.Mansour4]

Anyway you can explain how you made the 4 inferences about the possible orders of the GRW balls.

I am having quite a bit of difficulty decoding and understanding this logic game:(

[timmydoeslsat]

Anyway you can explain how you made the 4 inferences about the possible orders of the GRW balls.

I am having quite a bit of difficulty decoding and understanding this logic game:(

She made an inference regarding the numerical distribution of the colors, not the order.

We know that we must have more red than white. We also know that there is a vertical GW block somewhere. Plus, we have the rule that states that the R could never be below the lowest G placed.

In terms of how this affects our distribution, consider the fact that we already know each the colors must be used due to the playout of the rules.

G (1) R (1) W (1)

We can go ahead and say that R must have at least 2, as how else would it ever be more than W?

G (1) R (2) W (1)

We have four spots accounted for, we have two left. We have two left to place. My technique is to focus on one variable and exhaust its possibilities numericallly. This will give us the full distribution for all variables. I picked G when I did this.

What if G stays at 1?

We would have 2 left to place among R and W, and we could make it either:

G (1) R (4) W (1)
G (1) R (3) W (2)

What if G has 2?

We would have this below with 1 left to place, and it must go to R since it has to stay above the amount W has.

G (2) R (3) W (1)

What if G has 3?

We would have a finished lineup.

G (3) R (2) W (1)

So we have these four numerical breakdowns:


G (1) R (4) W (1)
G (1) R (3) W (2)
G (2) R (3) W (1)
G (3) R (2) W (1)

The order of these elements is in no way determined. But if you had a question that asked what if we have 2 exactly 2 R's...you know which distribution you would have.

[ttunden]

I had a lot of success with this game primarily through brute forcing my way through the questions.

I understand box #1 can only be G/W

so I just drew 3 hypotheticals then a few hypotheticals that were specific to certain questions like 19 and 23.

I've seen here and 7sage posit some inferences that do help but are not ancillary. If you're like me, where the 3rd game you got it right but took up a lot of time, then you don't have the luxury of time to infer so much like 7sage and Manhattan does.

[at9037]

G - 6
G
R
R
G
W - 1

Can this be a possible combination?

Since the second rule says there has to be one box with a green ball lower than any of the boxes containing red balls? It does not say that all green balls have to be lower than all the red balls.

[at9037]

G - 6
G
R
R
G
W - 1

Can this be a possible combination?

Since the second rule says there has to be one box with a green ball lower than any of the boxes containing red balls? It does not say that all green balls have to be lower than all the red balls.

[ohthatpatrick]

Yes! Nice one.

Yeah, that rule is the most frequently misinterpreted challenge of this game.

We can ask ourselves, "IS there a green box that is lower than all the red boxes?" and the answer in your scenario is certainly yes.

[AnnaC659]

Hi,

I can't open the attached file for some reason. Could you please have a look?

It appears as below for me:
www.manhattanprep.com is currently unable to handle this request.
HTTP ERROR 500

[ohthatpatrick]

Sorry, that's weird. It worked for me. Feel free to email me if you want me to send it that way:
ptyrrell@manhattanprep.com