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Sudoku

Released: 2026-05-15


7
Models Tested
0
Solved
6
LLM Providers

google/gemini-3-flash-preview

google

Difficulty:
hard

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openai/gpt-4o

openai

Difficulty:
hard

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deepseek/deepseek-chat-v3-0324

deepseek

Difficulty:
hard

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mistralai/mistral-medium-3

mistral

Difficulty:
hard

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x-ai/grok-3-mini-beta

x-ai

Difficulty:
hard

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google/gemini-2.0-flash-001

google

Difficulty:
hard

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

meta

Difficulty:
hard

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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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