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Puzzle#209

Sudoku

Released: 2026-02-12


8
Models Tested
0
Solved
8
LLM Providers

anthropic/claude-3.7-sonnet

anthropic

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9

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6

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7

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5

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6

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4

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4

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6

2

9

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8

1

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7

2


google/gemini-2.0-flash-001

google

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3

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9

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8

7

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8

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8

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5

5

7

1

4

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6

9

3

8

1

3

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5

9

1

7

4


meta-llama/llama-3.3-70b-instruct

meta

5

9

8

6

8

3

4

2

1

2

1

6

2

9

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4

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6

3

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6

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7

1

3

6

5

1

8


mistralai/mistral-medium-3

mistral

5

9

7

6

8

3

4

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2

6

3

4

2

9

5

8

7

1

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8

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9

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6

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4

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7

8

3

8

1

3

7

2

6

1

7

5


openai/gpt-4o

openai

5

9

2

6

8

3

4

1

7

3

1

4

2

9

5

8

6

6

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9

5

7

6

8

2

2

5

6

1

3

7

9

8

4

7

9

2

6

7

3


deepseek/deepseek-chat-v3-0324

deepseek

5

9

2

6

8

3

4

1

7

6

4

7

2

9

5

8

3

1

1

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9

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6

1

4

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9

8

3

8

1

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9

6

8

2

7

5


x-ai/grok-3-mini-beta

x-ai

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9

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7

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8

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7

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3

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8

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6

9

2

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5


qwen/qwen3-235b-a22b

qwen

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9

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2


Methodology Note

Each model receives the same Sudoku puzzle with a partially filled grid. Models are tasked with solving the puzzle by filling in all empty cells following Sudoku rules, and their solutions are evaluated without feedback or retries.

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