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A 7-litre bucket with no bottom and a sealed top

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What it tests: Spatial insight: turn it over.

Prompt length: 122 characters, roughly 30 tokens (estimate). · Evaluation results for many models ↗

Prompt
I have a 7 litre bucket that is missing a bottom, and the top was welded and sealed shut. How much water can I hold in it?

How to grade it

Turn it upside down: the sealed top becomes the bottom, so it holds about 7 litres.

Answer check: Riddle answer as framed by the source.

Scorecard tick what the model got right: 0/4

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0/4

Where models usually fail

'Zero, it has no bottom.'

Source

Author
GitHub @cpldcpu and contributors
From
Misguided Attention
Exact file or post
https://github.com/cpldcpu/MisguidedAttention/blob/bbae011e1fb5ce239373cb2f381787baec0dd236/README.md
Licence
CC0 1.0
How we use it
Full text (licence allows reuse)

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