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More Fun and Games with Analytical Reasoning

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Note: As of August 2024, the LSAT will no longer have a Logic Games Section. The June 2024 exam will be the final LSAT with Logic Games. Learn more about the change here.

Most LSAT students have a love/hate relationship with the analytical reasoning section (aka logic games). When things click, analytical reasoning can be surprisingly enjoyable. When they don’t, it can be immensely frustrating. Some students come to love games so much that they’ll sacrifice study time from other fun sections, like reading comp.

Analytical reasoning most often becomes a frustrating affair when students neglect to take time upfront to get a grasp of the game and the rules. Rushing the setup to get to the questions quicker is a surefire way to actually lose time because you’ll constantly be checking your answer.

Below are two hard homebrewed games, tailored especially to help your analytical reasoning practice.

Let me know how you did in the comments. Don’t cheat!

People Eating Tasty Animals (PETA) is trying to classify animals as Cute or Delicious to help plan their next luncheon and ad campaign. Of eight animals – Cats, Dogs, Elephants, Mice, Pigs, Rabbits, Snakes, and Tarantulas – exactly six will be classified as Cute or Delicious, or both. A max of four animals may be within each classification. The classifications must conform to the following rules:

If Cats are classified Cute, then Cats are also delicious

 

Cats and Dogs cannot be assigned the same classification, nor can Snakes and Tarantulas

If the Mouse is included in a classification, then the Cat is included as well

If a classification does not include a dog, it must include a rabbit

 

 

 

 

Any classification that includes Elephants must include Pigs

1. Which animal cannot be classified as both Cute and Delicious?
2. If Tarantulas and Mice are classified, then what Animal must be Delicious?
3. If an equal number of animals are Cute as are Delicious, and if Dogs are delicious, what animal must also be Delicious?
4. If any classification that includes Rabbits also included Dogs which two animals must be classified but cannot be classified together?

A group of Blueprint students are trying to figure out the ideal order in which to take a practice LSAT. They have 2 analytical reasoning sections, 1 reading comp section, 2 logical reasoning sections, and a writing sample. The experimental section, which may not be later than 3rd, is one of the analytical reasoning sections. The arrangement of the sections must conform to the following restrictions:

At least one Logical Reasoning Section must come before the first Analytic Reasoning section

 

The writing sample cannot precede any section

If the Reading Comp Section comes before any Logical Reasoning Section, the two Analytical Reasoning sections cannot be immediately following one another, otherwise, they must be consecutive

 

 

 

The two Logical Reasoning Sections cannot be consecutive, when either is consecutive with an Analytical Reasoning section

1. If Reading Comp is fourth, which section must be 5th?
2. If one Analytical Reasoning section is immediately between both Logical Reasoning sections, who must be first?
3. If the first section is Logical Reasoning and the third is Analytical Reasoning, which section must go fourth?
4. If the experimental section is consecutive with the Reading comp section, which section cannot be fourth?

Answers:
PETA: 1. Mice, 2. Rabbits, 3. Pigs, 4. E and R
LSAT: 1. Logical Reasoning, 2. Reading Comp, 3. Logical Reasoning, 4. Reading comp

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