ALBA - Word Plays: leaderboard

Metric: Mean judge score (0-100) on ALBA's 100 expert-written pt-PT word plays questions (palindromes, pangrams, anagrams, acrostics and other rule-bound word games with letter and word counts), judged by Gemini-2.5-Pro with an expert pt-PT rubric (precision, linguistic quality, completeness), three expert-rated few-shot examples and greedy decoding, 1-5 rating rescaled to 0-100; higher is better. Source: arxiv.org. Saturation forecast: Estimated already saturated. 15 models tracked.

Top models

#ModelScoreOverall rank
1GPT-591.5#91
2Gemini 2.5 Pro85.3#145
3Gemma 3 12B (IT)34.3#655
4Qwen 3 8B31#667
5Gemma 2 9B (IT)22.8#774
6Llama 3.1 8B Instruct19.3#1018
7Apertus-8B-Instruct-250913.8#1048
8Ministral-8B-Instruct-241012#1080
9EuroLLM-9B-Instruct11.3#1043
10Qwen 2.5 7B Instruct11#846
11salamandra-7B-instruct4.8#1390
12OLMo-2-1124-7B-Instruct4#1349
13Mistral 7B Instruct3.5#1345

No result here: #3 Claude Opus 5.5, #5 GPT-6 Astra, #8 Claude Fable 5.1.

Interactive version: theaggregate.ai/benchmark?slug=alba-word-plays · How It Works · Data refreshed daily, snapshot 2026-10-11.