Is there still Logic Games on the LSAT?
What happened to Logic Games on the LSAT?
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No. Logic Games — formally Analytical Reasoning, the section with the ordering and grouping puzzles — is not on the current LSAT.
What replaced it
A second scored Logical Reasoning section. The test did not shrink and it did not add a new question type; the slot went to more of what was already there.
That is a bigger shift than it sounds. Logic Games was the section with the steepest learning curve and the biggest payoff for drilling — a genuinely trainable skill where a diligent student could go from four right to nearly perfect in a couple of months. Its removal took away the most reliable way to buy points.
What that means for how you study
Two of the three scored sections are now Logical Reasoning. If you are allocating study hours, that is the allocation. Reading Comprehension still matters and improves slowly; Logical Reasoning both matters more and responds better to work.
It also removed the section where speed drills paid off most. The current test rewards accuracy on arguments over pattern-execution under time, which is a slower kind of improvement and frustrates people who came in expecting the old curve.
If you are studying from older material
Check the publication date on anything you own. A prep book printed before 2024 will devote a large fraction of its pages to a section that no longer exists, and full-length tests from that era have a section structure the current exam does not use.
The Logical Reasoning and Reading Comprehension material in older books is still broadly usable — those sections did not change in kind. It is the games chapters, and the practice tests built around a four-section-with-games structure, that will mislead you about pacing and about what a full exam feels like.
The same caution applies to free question sets and secondhand courses. Material that still teaches grouping diagrams is teaching a section you will not sit.
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