Step 2

Symbolizing this is actually a much more vexed issue than it may appear. There hasn't been an error on the games section of any of the tests still in print; this clue comes the closest. It is not literally wrong, but it is literally unfair, in that it does something that a standardized test definitionally should not be doing: penalize the people who are adroit at the skill the test purports to test, and reward those who are not.

The issue here is the lack of the word "only." The average low-scoring test-taker who reads this clue will assume that V having P and S means that it does not have L, as low-scoring test-takers tend to rely on connotation and common sense. The average high-scoring test taker will see that this is untrue; the sentence says "has," not "only has," which leaves L an open question. As we will soon deduce, however, it does turn out that V couldn't possibly have L. Whatever time someone spends making this deduction is time not spent by anyone who didn't notice that it had to be made. This sort of reverse correlation with ability is generally considered poor test design.

None of this is to say that this game should have tried to nail test-takers by allowing V to have L in some possibilities. Doing this would not be unfair, exactly, but it would border on sadistic, which is also generally considered poor test design. Better that they avoid the issue altogether, as they usually do.