There comes a time in every man’s life when he must ask himself certain unanswerable questions. Who am I? Why am I here? What is this sticky thing on the bottom of my shoe?

But perhaps most important of life's questions is this: what are logic games?

After years of research, hours of experimentation, and even one fairly gruesome dissection, we at Blueprint Prep believe we have found an answer: logic games are a section of the LSAT.

Alright, so we all already knew that, but every article needs a lead-in, amiright?

Logic games show up only once on the LSAT, yet many of our students at Blueprint Prep afford them a place in their studies that goes way behind their actual importance. Why is this? Well, logic games are actually kind of fun (or at least, as fun as anything on a logic test can get).

Instead of parsing dense reading passages, or trying to figure out how an argument logically follows from certain premises, in logic games, all you’re really doing is solving a puzzle involving organizing information according to a certain set of rules. It presents no real world application of any kind (unless you want to reorganize the shelves in the Blueprint Prep office).

At Blueprint Prep, we find that when students first begin prepping for the test, they are dumbfounded by the games section. But soon enough, students realize that studying for games is a lot easier than studying for the reading sections because it’s much more like a math test, and a fairly simple one at that. At Blueprint Prep, we've found that students can go from missing the majority of the games section on a practice test to getting every question right on the real deal simply through a couple of months of prep.

There are two main types of games on the test, and two minor types. At Blueprint Prep, we divide the entire section into four types: ordering, grouping, combo, and neither. A neither category may seem like a copout, but we at Blueprint Prep have found that there are very few games that cannot be classified under some kind of grouping or ordering mixture.

Unfortunately, this great, awesome, and completely-unnecessary-for-developing-any-real-skill-set-applicable-to-law-school section only shows up once on the test (or possibly twice if you get it as your experimental section). As it is only one section out of a total of four scored sections on the test, we at Blueprint Prep think that students should keep in mind that by studying for it at the expense of logical reasoning and reading comprehension, they may be doing themselves a serious disservice come test day.

Although they may have a lot more fun in their studying.

Article by Jodi Triplett and Trent Teti of Blueprint Test Preparation. Blueprint Prep is a test preparation company that specializes in the Law School Admissions Test, and it enjoys bacon and long nights of serious talk that last until sunrise. Blueprint Prep was founded in 2005.