LSAT Logic Games Diagram | Relative Ordering

Note: the LSAT no longer has Logic Games. LSAC removed the section in August 2024. The scored test is now 2 Logical Reasoning sections and 1 Reading Comprehension section, plus 1 unscored experimental section. This post stays up as an archive, and the reasoning skills still carry over, but you won’t see a game on test day.

My LSAT Logic Games Relative Ordering diagram (written for this Logic Game about magicians) led to some questions about how I created that game's main diagram.

Here's a step-by-step approach, taking the rules one at a time:

 

Diagramming the 1st rule (L and Q each perform at some time after P):

 

 

 

Adding the 2nd rule (S performs at some time before O and L):

 

 

 

Adding the 3rd rule (M performs at some time before S):

 

 

 

Adding the 4th rule (P performs at some time after N):

 

 

 

Adding the 5th and final rule (S and N each perform at some time after R):

 

 

 

You may notice that my earlier version of the game's final diagram had R a bit more to the bottom-left than I've depicted it above. Either way is fine. You have some flexibility with regard to exact appearance of the diagram.

I've written free explanations for every question in LSAT PrepTest 159, 158, 157, 156, 155 and 154, with the right answer and why each wrong answer fails. All LSAT explanations are here.

Enough reading. Try a question. Free LSAT drills, 1 at a time, explained the second you answer. Start free drills