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Puzzle#281

Domino

Released: 2026-08-12

Domino Puzzle Grid

Missing Domino:


5
Models Tested
1
Solved
5
LLM Providers

meta-llama/llama-4-maverick

meta

The excluded domino is number 2 and 2


google/gemini-3-flash-preview

google

After listing all the dominoes in the image, the list is: [0, 4], [5, 6], [2, 4], [3, 4], [1, 4], [0, 3], [3, 6], [2, 5], [1, 1], [5, 5], [0, 2], [4, 4], [4, 5], [3, 3], [0, 1], [1, 2], [0, 0], [1, 5], [6, 6], [2, 3], [0, 6], [0, 5], [1, 3], [4, 6], [2, 6], [3, 5], [1, 6]. By checking the list against the full 28-domino set, the [6, 6] tile is identified as the missing one.


anthropic/claude-haiku-4.5

anthropic

By systematically identifying all visible dominoes in the image and comparing against a complete standard 28-domino set (which contains all combinations of numbers 0-6), the domino [0,1] is the only one not present in the image. All other 27 combinations are accounted for.


openai/gpt-5-image-mini

openai

Scanning the 27 tiles, every pair including all other doubles (0-0 through 5-5) and all mixed pairs with 6 appear; the only double missing is the 6-6 tile, so the excluded domino is 6 and 6.


MoonshotAI

moonshotai/kimi-k2.5

moonshot

By analyzing the 27 dominoes present in the image and comparing against the standard 28 dominoes in a double-six set, I identified all tiles present. The dominoes present include: [0,0], [0,1], [0,2] (twice), [0,3] (twice), [0,5], [1,1], [1,2], [1,3], [1,4], [2,3] (twice), [2,4] (twice), [2,5], [2,6], [3,3] (twice), [3,5] (twice), [3,6], [4,5], [4,6], [5,5] (twice), [5,6]. Counting the occurrences of each number (0 appears 7 times, 1 appears 6 times, 2 appears 9 times, 3 appears 12 times, 4 appears 5 times, 5 appears 10 times, 6 appears 4 times), and comparing to the expected frequency in a set missing one domino, the missing tile is [0,4]. This accounts for the number 0 appearing exactly 7 times (as expected when a domino containing 0 is missing) and explains the low count of 4s (5 instead of 7, as [0,4] would contribute one 4, with other adjustments from misidentifications in the visual analysis).


Methodology Note

Each model receives the same domino puzzle grid. Models are tasked with identifying the missing domino using only visual clues from the grid. Their answers are evaluated without feedback or retries.

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