Q2

[banyrags]

First of all my thank you to everyone here for their input in breaking down all the LSAT questions from previous tests, this is really helping me a lot.

Now to the questions on this game:

I am unable to understand why on Q. 2 L cannot be 602, from the G>L block G can go 601 and L 602.

Secondly, on Q. 3 why B is incorrect. If G is 602, that leads to L in 603, F/H in 604/605, S & M in 601.

I initially thought this was an easy game, but it really got me frustrated.

[noah]

Happy to help.

I am unable to understand why on Q. 2 L cannot be 602, from the G>L block G can go 601 and L 602.

Secondly, on Q. 3 why B is incorrect. If G is 602, that leads to L in 603, F/H in 604/605, S & M in 601.

For this question, we're asked what is the latest year. L can go in 602, but the issue is whether it can go any later - and it can.

I explained Q3 in its own thread - we try to keep things neat!

[soyeonjeon]

But if "latest" here means the most "late" and not the most recent as I and some others seem to have understood, I think this could be a manipulative problem?

How are we supposed to know whether the lsat authors meant "latest" as the most recent or the most last?

I chose B for this.

Thank you always for your help.

[noah]

But if "latest" here means the most "late" and not the most recent as I and some others seem to have understood, I think this could be a manipulative problem?

How are we supposed to know whether the lsat authors meant "latest" as the most recent or the most last?

I chose B for this.

Thank you always for your help.

With questions like these, often we simply need to listen to what the LSAT has said. Here, "latest" was used in the sense we normally use it--the one that comes last in a sequence.

While I can see how folks got confused, I think LSAT is on firm ground here since the usage of "latest" to mean most last is pretty common (What's the latest time you can see me, doctor? What's the latest you've ever planted your cucumbers? What's the latest year in which we sent an astronaut to the moon?). The "est" form by definition means the most of something. If you want to say "most last", you'd say "earliest."

[MargaretY87]

I understand that L can't be in the 605 slot (because of the G-L-F chunk) but why can't L be in 604?

[Laura Damone]

Hi! Sorry for the embarrassingly long response time here. This one slipped through the cracks.

L can't be in 604 because of H. H can go no earlier than 604, meaning it's in 604 or 605. If L were in 604, F would have to go in 605, and we can't have more than one monument started in either of those two years. That leaves nowhere for H to go.

Representing the H rule as a cloud over slots 4 and 5 can help you see that relationship. Hope this helps!