Do you think a practice test or two per week would be sufficient? Perhaps taking one timed and one untimed? Timed work is still very important to me, because it lets me "feel" how much "room" I have in which to operate (if that makes sense), so I don't want to abandon it until the week before the test.
Oh, you weren't talking about patterns in Games? I see the patterns in LR arguments and answer choices pretty clearly.
I have almost every published LSAT, so how many times should I take the newer (mid-2000s) ones?
Sorry if you've said this already, but I don't feel like rereading the whole thread. Are you self studying or in a class? Or did you already take a class and just working alone from now on?
A practice test or two a week is probably enough. You want to touch enough material that you're exposed to all the things the test might throw at you, but you don't want to just be doing test after test after test. This is more about quality than quantity, so really spend some quality time with these. Write down why the arguments are flawed, why each wrong answer choice is wrong, why the right one is right. Literally write down a sentence for each of those things. Forcing yourself to explain it forces you to understand it.
Same with games. What type of game is it? How do you know? What other game have you seen that is most like it? How is that game different? What is this particular question looking for. What's wrong with the four wrong answers?
Same with RC. What's the thesis of the passage? How many points of view are there? Does the author take a position on the topic? Who are these "critics"? And again, what is this particular question looking for. What's wrong with the four wrong answers?
A lot of courses will give you homework problems organized by type. I find these quite valuable for finding patterns, which exist within all the sections of the test. What you begin to discover is that there are only so many things that the test covers, and it does them over and over and over again. Eventually, for every problem you see you can say, "been there, done that."