Improving Logic Games Score

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  km.edelson Alum Member

  September 2014 31 karma

  Try approaching your setup and improving your understanding of the game rather than the speed of the whole game, setup and questions combined. Take some tough games and diagram them, and explain to yourself at every step (in writing if need be - sometimes this helps me to avoid taking mental shortcuts) exactly why you're making the choices you are, what the inferences are, why this works, and that does not. And do it multiple times, writing out all possible scenarios - for a given question, write out the incorrect ones too and show yourself why they're incorrect. Try approaching the questions with these detailed, carefully thought out diagrams. In a lot of cases - even really tough games - you can just tick them off since you'll now be able to navigate the game really well in your head (or refer quickly to a completely accurate diagram). Of course, you don't have time to do all of this in a section of a test, but it improved my ability to make accurate inferences quickly by a lot. It also helped me a lot to trust my instincts, identify situations in which it would be useful to write out sub game boards, and make inferences that get re-used in multiple games. It turns out that a lot of the games (I think) that initially present the greatest difficulties are not so bad when you take them apart and figure out how they work. Hope this helps, good luck, and try the method on the hardest, strangest, most visually cumbersome games you can. With enough practice you can make even the harder games much more transparent. Even a few hours of this will go a long way.
• captainoats Alum Member

  September 2014 16 karma

  Thank you so much! I'll definitely try that!