Diagram

[SarahL574]

Hi there! Can Manhattan team please post a diagram + inferences for this game? Thanks!

[ohthatpatrick]

Sure thing.

It looks like it's an Ordering game with a Mismatched twist (6 ppl, 4 spots),
so we want an OUT column to capture those two unused people.

__ __ __ __ | __ __
1....2...3...4.....out

H J M O S T

R1: ~(HJ), but both IN
(add ~H and ~J beneath the OUT column, or put H and J in a cloud above the IN spots)

R2: O --> ~S,
S --> ~O

This is an In/Out placeholder rule. Since O and S can't both be IN, at least one of them is OUT.
(put a O/S+ placeholder in the OUT column)

R3: J --> J3
~J3 --> ~J

(I would probably put a "J/" above spot 3 and a "/J" above the remaining OUT spot)

R4: J and M --> (JM)
(my circle around JM is showing me that their position is reversible)


..........J/....................../J
__ __ __ __ | O/S+ __
1....2...3...4........out
.........................~H ~T

From here, we ask our typical questions:
- Anyone mentioned more than once?
- Anyone never mentioned?
- Anything worth framing? Any chunks or important 2 or 3 way splits?

There is the possibility of the (JM) chunk. It could be in 1/2, 2/3, or 3/4, or we might not have a chunk, in which case the final OUT spot would be J or M.

J is also mentioned in another rule. When we think about J's two rules together, we realize that (JM) could not be 1/2, because J is only ever allowed in spot 3.

So it's either MJ in 2/3 or JM in 3/4.
Or, we don't have the (JM) chunk, which means one of them takes that final OUT spot.

I would start those frames, even if they don't lead anywhere else.

__ M J __ | O/S+ __
__ __ J M | O/S+ __
__ __ __ __ | O/S J/M

The next big rule is that H and T must be IN, but not touching. For the first frame, we get
h/t M J t/h | (O, S)

For the second frame, we'd have to put H and T in spots 1 and 2, which isn't allowed. So frame 2 gets crossed out.

That means we really only have two frames:
h/t M J t/h | O S
and
__ __ __ __ |o/s j/m

We could "sub-frame" that second one if we wanted (probably by doing one where J is 3 and one where J is out), but I would probably just go to questions at that point.

For the 2nd frame, we're just saying to ourselves
"Remember, if J is in, he's 3rd. And you have to keep H and T buffered from each other."

That's it.

Hope this helps.