
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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In a rectangular array of points, with 6 rows and $N$ columns, the points are numbered consecutively from left to right starting with the top row. Thus the top row has numbers from 1 to $N$, the second row from $N + 1$ to $2N$, and so forth. Six points, $P_1, P_2, P_3, P_4, P_5,$ and $P_6,$ are selected such that each $P_i$ is in row $i$. Let $x_i$ be the number associated with $P_i$. Now renumber the array consecutively from top to bottom starting with the first column. Let $y_i$ be the number associated with $P_i$ after the renumbering. It is found that $x_1 = y_2,$ $x_2 = y_1,$ $x_3 = y_4,$ $x_4 = y_5,$ $x_5 = y_6,$ and $x_6 = y_3.$ Find the smallest possible value of $N.$

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