- Mon Oct 07, 2019 11:37 am
#70943
Hi nmaugust,
It's quite common to be a little uncertain about the answer choices you select in a Logic Game early on in the game (for the first two or three questions), because you're still internalizing the rules and understanding their interactions. Thus, on the first couple questions, it may be helpful, once you've selected an answer, to quickly glance through the list of rules and confirm that your answer is correct. That will help you avoid unnecessary mistakes. It's a natural part of the "familiarization" process in a game, and you shouldn't begrudge yourself the time you need to "get up to speed" with the game that way.
But, as you move forward in a game, particularly if you find that you're accurate far more often than not, you have to learn to let go of that need to check every detail. Once you've internalized all the rules and the primary variable interaction possibilities, there's no need for you to run every answer choice you pick through the complete scenario and list of rules. You have to know yourself, and be confident of when you've reached that "familiarization" point, and then trust yourself and your instincts/knowledge of the game. No one but you can identify exactly when that has occurred, but if you're getting the great majority of questions in games correct, you can rest assured that it IS occurring at some point. As a rule of thumb, you should find that with at least several questions on almost every game, you're not "re-running" your answer through every individual rule in the game. Be confident in your setup, and the inferences you make in early questions! Let me know if this triggers any follow up questions for you. Keep up the hard work!
Jeremy
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