TIS-100 Bench: Image Test Pattern 3

NEXUS.11.711.2 Medium Image generation Built-in puzzle · TIS-100 Bench report →

Generate a third fixed target image. Reuse spatial regularities to fit the drawing procedure into the node limits.

In TIS-100 Bench, 16 LLMs each had one attempt at this TIS-100 puzzle, with 30 minutes to find a working program and keep improving it, without seeing the community leaderboard. 12 of 16 models solved it. No model found a new Pareto-frontier point beyond the community leaderboard.

12 / 16models solved it
1,520best LLM cycles (882 community)
0new frontier points

Records

ScoreCommunity bestBest LLMModel
Cycles8821,520GPT-6 Astra · +72%
Nodes23GPT-6 Astra · +50%
Instructions2437Gemini 4 Argon · +54%

Community records from the community leaderboard when we froze it. A record counts only after fresh-game replay and 100,000 passing random tests.

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ModelSolvedBest cyclesBest nodesBest instructionsNew frontier points
01GPT-6 AstraYes1,520343—
02Kimi K3.1 ProYes1,576678—
03Opus 5.5Yes1,576342—
04Fable 5.1Yes1,625555—
05Grok 4.7Yes1,633897—
06DeepSeek V4.1 FlashYes1,646786—
07GPT-6.1 SolYes1,739343—
08Sonnet 5.5Yes1,811447—
09Gemini 4 ArgonYes2,085337—
10Muse Wonder 1.0Yes3,1459107—
11Gemini 3.8 FlashYes4,799562—
12Muse Spark 1.3Yes6,804681—
13GLM-5.3No————
14Haiku 5.5No————
15MiMo-V2.6-ProNo————
16GPT-6 LunaNo————

Best scores can come from different programs. New frontier points are not matched or beaten on all three scores by any community program.

Best model programs

These programs are in TIS-100 save format and released under the MIT License. All of this puzzle’s model programs are on GitHub and Hugging Face.

GPT-6 Astra Fewest cycles

1,520 cycles · 7 nodes · 78 instructionsNEXUS.11.711.2.1520-7-78.txt on GitHub

GPT-6 Astra program running on NEXUS.11.711.2 in TIS-100
Node 1
MOV 8 ACC
E:SUB 2
H:JLZ H
SAV
L:MOV ACC DOWN
SWP
ADD 1
MOV ACC DOWN
SWP
MOV ACC DOWN
JRO DOWN
JMP E
JMP L
Node 4
MOV 14 ACC
L:MOV ACC DOWN
MOV ACC DOWN
ADD 4
JMP L
Node 5
MOV UP ACC
MOV ACC DOWN
MOV UP ACC
MOV ACC DOWN
MOV 0 DOWN
ADD UP
NEG
ADD 17
MOV ACC UP
Node 6
MOV 8 ACC
E:SUB 2
H:JLZ H
SAV
L:MOV ACC DOWN
SWP
ADD 1
MOV ACC DOWN
SWP
MOV ACC DOWN
JRO DOWN
JMP E
JMP L
Node 8
MOV 8 ACC
L:MOV ACC RIGHT
MOV ACC RIGHT
MOV UP RIGHT
MOV ACC RIGHT
NEG
ADD 17
MOV ACC RIGHT
MOV UP RIGHT
NEG
ADD 15
E:JLZ E
JMP L
Node 9
MOV ANY DOWN
MOV LAST DOWN
MOV LAST ACC
JEZ P
MOV 3 DOWN
SUB 2
L:MOV 3 DOWN
MOV 3 DOWN
MOV 3 DOWN
MOV 3 DOWN
SUB 4
JNZ L
P:MOV 3 DOWN
MOV -1 DOWN
Node 10
MOV UP ACC
NEG
ADD 29
MOV ACC LEFT
MOV UP ACC
MOV ACC LEFT
MOV 0 LEFT
ADD UP
NEG
ADD 17
MOV ACC UP

Gemini 4 Argon Fewest nodesFewest instructions

2,604 cycles · 3 nodes · 37 instructionsNEXUS.11.711.2.2604-3-37.txt on GitHub

Gemini 4 Argon program running on NEXUS.11.711.2 in TIS-100
Node 4
SAV
MOV ACC RIGHT
SUB 9
JLZ P
NEG
SUB 1
P: ADD 10
MOV ACC RIGHT
ADD ACC
NEG
ADD 31
MOV ACC RIGHT
SWP
ADD 1
Node 5
MOV LEFT DOWN
MOV LEFT ACC
SAV
A: MOV -3 DOWN
SUB 1
JGZ A
MOV LEFT ACC
B: MOV -1 DOWN
SUB 1
JGZ B
SWP
C: MOV -3 DOWN
SUB 1
JGZ C
MOV 1 DOWN
Node 9
MOV 0 DOWN
MOV UP DOWN
JMP J
L: NEG
ADD 3
R: MOV ACC DOWN
J: JRO UP
MOV -1 DOWN