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River crossing where the boat fits both

Reasoning trapseasyquick checkPrompt in Englishtrick questionmemorisation

What it tests: Resisting a memorised multi-trip puzzle solution when one trip is enough.

Prompt length: 147 characters, roughly 40 tokens (estimate). · Evaluation results for many models ↗

Prompt
A man with his sheep wants to cross a river. He has a boat that can carry both him and the animal.  How do both get to the other side of the river?

How to grade it

The man and the sheep get into the boat together and cross once. Nothing else is needed.

Answer check: Direct from the premise: the boat carries both.

Scorecard tick what the model got right: 0/4

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0/4

Where models usually fail

Back-and-forth trips; worrying that the sheep will be eaten or will eat grass.

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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