LSAT 61, Game 2 Setup, Artifacts, LSATHacks

Game Setup

Time on second attempt: 4:00 min.

See “repeating games” at bottom of section

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I found this to be an easy game personally, but that’s because I have a lot of experience with sequencing games. If you found this hard, good news: Sequencing games are by far the most learnable game type. Just do and redo them until every step is second nature, and you’ll get them down.

Here, you can make two diagrams:

The first diagram combines rules 1 and 2. The second diagram draws rule 3.

P is the only artifact not on the first diagram. So you could combine these two situations and make a combined diagram like this:

But, I think this is misleading. It really gives the impression that P is in front of F, when that is not the case (there is no line connecting them).

Instead, I preferred to recognize that P only had two possibilities, and visualize P moving ahead of or after N and H in both diagrams, as the situation calls for.

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Repeating Games

I’ve written elsewhere about the benefits of repeating games, to solidify your intuition for deductions. Note that the purpose of repeating games is to prove the answers right, so it doesn’t matter if you remember the right answer.

I repeated this game about three days after I first saw it, by which time I had forgotten the answers. I’ve written how long it took me on the second attempt. That time, or a couple minutes above it, is roughly the standard you should be aspiring to – a lot of people take 8-9 minutes on a repeat attempt, get everything right, and pat themselves on the back. But that’s too slow. The faster you go when repeating, the faster you’ll learn to go the first time you see a game.

(I say “a couple minutes above” my time because, after years of teaching the LSAT, I’m really, really fast. You should be almost as fast as me, but you don’t exactly need to match my pace to score -0.)

Time on second attempt: 4:00 min.

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