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EnigmaForge: The Question Is Hidden in the Story

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TL;DR - EnigmaForge is a renewable benchmark that asks models to infer both a hidden logic question and its answer from document-like stories. Its results suggest this “intuition” capability differs substantially from fact retrieval and can expose effects from model content filters.

  • Each generated puzzle has a SAT-verified unique solution and an ablation certificate showing every clue is necessary.
  • Twenty-five frontier models were evaluated on more than 600 instances, producing 17,400 scored records across three matched conditions.
  • Intuition scores showed a 22Ă— performance spread, versus 1.6Ă— for fact recovery, substantially reshuffling model rankings.
  • Some models performed as well or better without being told the question, while refusals showed that benchmark scores may partly measure content-filter behavior.

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EnigmaForge: The Question Is Hidden in the Story

arXiv cs.AI Daniel Eisner 2026-09-24 arXiv:2609.30144
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TL;DR - EnigmaForge is a renewable benchmark that asks models to infer both a hidden logic question and its answer from document-like stories. Its results suggest this “intuition” capability differs substantially from fact retrieval and can expose effects from model content filters.

  • Each generated puzzle has a SAT-verified unique solution and an ablation certificate showing every clue is necessary.
  • Twenty-five frontier models were evaluated on more than 600 instances, producing 17,400 scored records across three matched conditions.
  • Intuition scores showed a 22Ă— performance spread, versus 1.6Ă— for fact recovery, substantially reshuffling model rankings.
  • Some models performed as well or better without being told the question, while refusals showed that benchmark scores may partly measure content-filter behavior.
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