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Puzzle#281

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Released: 2026-08-04


7
Models Tested
3
Solved
7
LLM Providers

Key:

Used
Unused

Score Threshold:

Within 7

openai/gpt-4o

openai

182Target
25
75
50
4
5
2

(75 + 50 + 25 + 4) * 2 - 5

= 303

Failed

deepseek/deepseek-chat-v3-0324

deepseek

182Target
25
75
50
4
5
2

((75 - (25 - (50 / (5 + 2)))) * 4)

= 228

Failed

Minimax

minimax/minimax-m2.5

minimax

182Target
25
75
50
4
5
2

50 * 4 - (25 - 5 - 2)

= 182

Perfect Solution!

MoonshotAI

moonshotai/kimi-k2.5

moonshot

182Target
25
75
50
4
5
2

4 * 50 - 25 + 5 + 2

= 182

Perfect Solution!

Z.ai

z-ai/glm-5

z-ai

182Target
25
75
50
4
5
2

50 * 4 - 25 + 5 + 2

= 182

Perfect Solution!

mistralai/mistral-medium-3

mistral

182Target
25
75
50
4
5
2

(75 * (4 + 2)) + (50 + 25) - 5

= 520

Failed

google/gemini-3-flash-preview

google

182Target
25
75
50
4
5
2

((75 + 50) + (25 * 2) + (4 + 5))

= 184

Close; 2 away

Methodology Note

Each model receives the same prompt with the numbers to use. Models are tasked with creating an expression using only arithmetic operations to reach the target number. Each number can only be used once and you do not have to use all the numbers. Their answers are evaluated without feedback or retries.

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