Counterbalance three blocks

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Hello everyone,

I would like to know if there are any other methods to achieve a balance in the order of three blocks. Taking the adapted classic Stroop paradigm as an example, I aim to investigate the reaction time differences among Chinese university students in judging color words under three different languages. Each participant needs to complete all trials, resulting in a total of six possible sequence orders for the three languages. I have created six Excel documents, each containing a different sequence order. To achieve order balance, I assigned students to six groups (ABCDEF).
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However, this method becomes cumbersome when dealing with more than three blocks. Are there any more convenient methods available?

Thanks in advance!

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Sure, you can refer to this webpage: Blocks of trials and counterbalancing — PsychoPy v2023.2.3.
However, the method used is also similar; you need to create many ‘condition’ files.