And on the eighth day, He created ordering games. The history might not go back that far, but they have been plaguing students studying for the LSAT for quite some time.

The LSAT consists of three different sections, but the most initially perplexing of the three is called Logic Games. Students must spend 35 stress-filled minutes attempting to figure out whether Marquitta gets her car washed before Orlando, or if Shigeru is the top-ranked tennis player, or if “Rhino Rock” is played at the child’s birthday party. At Blueprint Prep, we watch students struggle with these deep, existential questions over and over again.

It is only through good instruction and lots of practice that students begin to see the patterns that exist between different games on the LSAT. You see, since 1991, LSAC has created hundreds of different games that have stumped students across the globe. However, at Blueprint Prep, we believe that all of these hundreds of different games can be broken down into a small number of categories.

And when we say a small number of categories, we mean small. Not 20 or 10 or 5 or even 3. At Blueprint Prep, we are convinced that games are designed by LSAC almost entirely to test two basic, but wholly different processes. We at Blueprint Prep refer to these two distinct types of process as “ordering” and “grouping” games.

The vast majority of Blueprint Prep students see a significant improvement in this section once they understand that the games are so repetitive. This is akin to many other challenges in life. The first time that you play basketball, it can be very challenging. However, once you realize that there are only a couple different shots that you need to master (3-pointer, jump shot, hook shot), things start to fall into place. We could also make an analogy to your performance in the bedroom over the years, but we do not condone such things at Blueprint Prep.

At the national headquarters of Blueprint Prep in Los Angeles, we keep a well-trained team of computer geeks chained in a dark room crunching numbers for us. They have reported that a normal LSAT consists of two ordering games, one or two grouping games, and zero or one combo games.

The Blueprint Prep geek squad also reports that there is no definite rule about what type of game is the most difficult. Students are split in their reactions and the hardest game in each section has varied over the years. That is why we at Blueprint Prep stress that you prepare well for each type of game.

So don’t let games get you down. With a good strategy and lots of practice, Marquitta and Tyrone will fall right in line and you will have fond dreams about grouping games.

Blueprint Prep offers live and online LSAT courses. Matt Riley wrote the games curriculum for Blueprint Prep and he has lived through four separate LSAT administrations without ever missing a question on games.(That has not worked well for him as a pickup line).