Unit 12 · Multi-Step Conditional Reasoning
Six Friends Circle — Who Started with the Bean Bag?
Lesson 30 of 30
About this lesson
Six friends in a circle. Five spatial clues build the seating map. Then a two-move pattern (throw opposite, hand left) repeats three times until Willow holds the bag. The question asks who started. This is the hardest NSW Selective TS format: spatial setup + sequential tracing combined.
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Six friends are standing in a circle in the playground, facing inwards. Grace is standing to the left of Catherine and is opposite Willow. Max is facing Karri and is standing next to Catherine. Liam is in between Willow and Karri.
They've been playing a game in which they throw a bean bag to one another in a specific pattern. Someone throws the bean bag to the person opposite. They then hand it to the friend on their left. In the first round, after three repetitions of this pattern Willow is holding the bean bag.
Who was holding the bean bag at the start?
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