53 Game 3
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This video also ends super abruptly, is it my computer?
No—it's the dumb program we used to convert the videos for playback. Sometimes it just failed us without warning.
Anyway, should be good now!
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In Q 13, why is the person who came before Z confess?
The question tells us so!
It occurs to me that you may be conflating the second person who confessed for the second person questioned.
On reflection, I could've walked that through a little more, I suppose.
Anyway; notice the question only says Z is second to confess, which absolutely leaves open the possibility that she was questioned much later than second, but that almost everyone before her did not confess.
However, though that's a theoretical possibility, in practice, where else could you put her? You've got to have X and V after her, and that leaves no room for her anywhere other than 2nd!
Clearer?
How did you know to use the surrounding shapes rather than a multi-row template, with the two rows being C and not-C?
First, in the specific: In this game we are putting people in order (whether or not they confessed); I could not see a way of sustaining such an order across columns of C and Not C.
Now, in the general, it's not really a question of knowing; there is no "right"—or "wrong"—template to use. Only perhaps a "more efficient" and a "less efficient."
Repetitive practice aimed specifically at pattern-intelligence informed my decision, and I thought "Señor Danger [which is what I call myself in moments like these], I think this is the most appropriate template here."
You are now in the beginning stages of that repetitive practice. Keep watching, keep working according to your study plan, and pay attention to the choices you make. Which choices work for you—and which don't—will inform your future choices, based on your experience (and on my experience!).