Pencil Puzzle Bench - Heyawake: leaderboard
Models shade Heyawake room grids while keeping unshaded cells connected and avoiding long straight runs through multiple rooms. Direct-ask exact success fraction for 15fixed golden-300 puzzles of this type; archived DirectAskStrategy_05aaaac9, latest record per source model and puzzle. No agentic or revised strategy cohort mixed.
Metric: Direct-ask Success Rate (%). Source: ppbench.com. 51 models tracked.
Top models
| # | Model | Score | Overall rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | GPT-4o | 0 | #343 |
| 2 | Gemini 2.5 Pro | 0 | #152 |
| 3 | Gemini 3.1 Pro (Preview) | 0 | #58 |
| 4 | Claude Sonnet 4.6 | 0 | #90 |
| 5 | Claude Sonnet 4.5 | 0 | #142 |
| 6 | GPT-5.2 | 0 | #110 |
| 7 | GPT-4.1 | 0 | #248 |
| 8 | Claude Opus 4.6 | 0 | #63 |
| 9 | GPT-OSS-120B | 0 | #341 |
| 10 | Kimi K2.5 | 0 | #144 |
| 11 | DeepSeek V3.2 | 0 | #205 |
| 12 | Qwen 3.5 397B A17B | 0 | #146 |
| 13 | Gemini 3 Pro | 0 | #80 |
| 14 | Qwen 3 Next 80B A3B (Thinking) | 0 | #320 (Qwen 3 Next 80B A3B) |
| 15 | GLM-5 | 0 | #141 |
Interactive version: theaggregate.ai/benchmark?slug=pencil-puzzle-bench-heyawake · How It Works · Data refreshed daily, snapshot 2026-10-20.