
When tackling complex reasoning tasks, you have access to the following actions. Use them as needed to progress through your thought process.

[ASSESS]

[ADVANCE]

[VERIFY]

[SIMPLIFY]

[SYNTHESIZE]

[PIVOT]

[OUTPUT]

You should strictly follow the format below:

[ACTION NAME]

# Your action step 1

# Your action step 2

# Your action step 3

...

Next action: [NEXT ACTION NAME]


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Three tour guides are leading eight tourists. The first two guides need to form groups such that each gets at least one tourist, but the third guide will only take either 1, 3, or 4 tourists. How many different groupings are possible?

Present the answer in LaTex format: \boxed{Your answer}
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