TIS-100 Bench: Striation Plotter

SPEC35049542 Hard Image generation Streaming state Community tournament puzzle · TIS-100 Bench report →

Increment the color of a requested image row, wrapping after color 4. Each row has its own persistent color state.

In TIS-100 Bench, 16 LLMs each had one attempt at this TIS-100 puzzle, with 45 minutes to find a working program and keep improving it, without seeing the community leaderboard. 8 of 16 models solved it. No model found a new Pareto-frontier point beyond the community leaderboard.

8 / 16models solved it
2,818best LLM cycles (1,955 community)
0new frontier points

Records

ScoreCommunity bestBest LLMModel
Cycles1,9552,818Fable 5.1 · +44%
Nodes46GPT-6 Astra · +50%
Instructions4367GPT-6 Astra · +56%

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
01Fable 5.1Yes2,818780—
02Gemini 4 ArgonYes2,822778—
03GPT-6 AstraYes2,857667—
04Opus 5.5Yes2,947776—
05GPT-6.1 SolYes3,663773—
06Sonnet 5.5Yes3,679782—
07Gemini 3.8 FlashYes3,833793—
08Kimi K3.1 ProYes5,1568108—
09DeepSeek V4.1 FlashNo————
10GLM-5.3No————
11Grok 4.7No————
12Haiku 5.5No————
13MiMo-V2.6-ProNo————
14Muse Spark 1.3No————
15Muse Wonder 1.0No————
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.

Fable 5.1 Fewest cycles

2,818 cycles · 8 nodes · 89 instructionsSPEC35049542.2818-8-89.txt on GitHub

Fable 5.1 program running on SPEC35049542 in TIS-100
Node 0
MOV 9, ACC
I: MOV 0, RIGHT
SUB 1
JNZ I
T: MOV UP, ACC
MOV ACC, DOWN
MOV ACC, DOWN
JMP T
Node 1
T: MOV DOWN, ACC
SUB 5
MOV ACC, LEFT
ADD 31
M: SUB 6
JGZ M
JNZ N
MOV LEFT, ACC
ADD 25
MOV ACC, LEFT
MOV -5, ACC
N: MOV LEFT, DOWN
ADD 5
MOV ACC, DOWN
Node 2
T: MOV UP, ACC
SWP
SUB UP
MOV ACC, RIGHT
SWP
MOV ACC, RIGHT
ADD RIGHT
SUB 2
SAV
Node 3
T: MOV LEFT, ACC
JGZ NG
PS: ADD 2
JGZ DN
MOV UP, DOWN
JMP PS
NG: MOV DOWN, UP
SUB 2
JGZ NG
ADD 2
DN: MOV ACC, RIGHT
MOV UP, RIGHT
MOV LEFT, RIGHT
MOV ACC, LEFT
MOV RIGHT, UP
Node 4
T: MOV LEFT, ACC
SUB 1
JEZ HI
MOV LEFT, RIGHT
JMP C
HI: MOV LEFT, UP
C: MOV LEFT, ACC
MOV ANY, LEFT
MOV ACC, DOWN
MOV LAST, DOWN
Node 5
T: MOV LEFT, ACC
ADD 6
SAV
ADD 16
M: SUB 5
JGZ M
ADD 4
JNZ N
SWP
SUB 30
SWP
N: SWP
MOV ACC, LEFT
SWP
MOV ACC, LEFT
Node 6
T: MOV -1, DOWN
MOV 0, DOWN
MOV UP, DOWN
MOV UP, ACC
L: MOV ACC, DOWN
MOV ACC, DOWN
MOV ACC, DOWN
MOV ACC, DOWN
MOV ACC, DOWN
MOV ACC, DOWN
MOV ACC, DOWN
MOV ACC, DOWN
MOV ACC, DOWN
MOV ACC, DOWN
JRO RIGHT
Node 7
MOV -10, LEFT
MOV -10, LEFT
MOV -14, LEFT

GPT-6 Astra Fewest nodes

3,737 cycles · 6 nodes · 76 instructionsSPEC35049542.3737-6-76.txt on GitHub

GPT-6 Astra program running on SPEC35049542 in TIS-100
Node 0
L:MOV UP ACC
MOV ACC DOWN
SUB 16
JLZ N
MOV 0 ACC
JMP S
N:ADD 16
S:MOV ACC DOWN
MOV ACC DOWN
JMP L
Node 1
L:JRO DOWN
JMP A
SWP
MOV ACC DOWN
MOV DOWN ACC
SWP
JMP L
A:MOV ACC DOWN
MOV DOWN ACC
Node 2
MOV UP RIGHT
SUB UP
JGZ R
F:JEZ X
MOV 1 RIGHT
ADD 1
JMP F
R:MOV 4 RIGHT
SUB 1
JGZ R
X:MOV 7 RIGHT
MOV UP ACC
Node 3
MOV 15 ACC
I:MOV 0 UP
SUB 1
JNZ I
S:MOV LEFT RIGHT
L:JRO LEFT
MOV ACC DOWN
MOV UP ACC
JMP L
MOV ACC UP
MOV DOWN ACC
JMP L
MOV ACC RIGHT
MOV RIGHT ACC
JMP S
Node 4
L:MOV LEFT ACC
SAV
SUB 16
JLZ N
ADD 1
MOV ACC UP
MOV LEFT LEFT
N:MOV ANY ACC
SUB 4
JEZ O
ADD 5
O:MOV ACC LAST
MOV ACC DOWN
SWP
MOV ACC DOWN
Node 6
MOV UP ACC
MOV 0 DOWN
MOV UP DOWN
SAV
MOV 6 ACC
L:SWP
MOV ACC DOWN
MOV ACC DOWN
MOV ACC DOWN
MOV ACC DOWN
MOV ACC DOWN
SWP
SUB 1
JNZ L
MOV -1 DOWN

GPT-6 Astra Fewest instructions

6,623 cycles · 6 nodes · 67 instructionsSPEC35049542.6623-6-67.txt on GitHub

GPT-6 Astra program running on SPEC35049542 in TIS-100
Node 0
MOV UP ACC
MOV ACC DOWN
SUB 2
MOV ACC DOWN
Node 1
L:JRO DOWN
JMP A
SWP
MOV ACC DOWN
MOV DOWN ACC
SWP
JMP L
A:MOV ACC DOWN
MOV DOWN ACC
Node 2
JMP A
L:MOV -1 RIGHT
A:MOV UP RIGHT
MOV UP ACC
SAV
F:SUB 1
JLZ X
MOV 1 RIGHT
JMP F
X:MOV 7 RIGHT
SWP
R:SUB 1
JLZ L
MOV 4 RIGHT
JMP R
Node 3
MOV 15 ACC
I:MOV 0 UP
SUB 1
JNZ I
S:MOV LEFT RIGHT
L:JRO LEFT
MOV ACC DOWN
MOV UP ACC
JMP L
MOV ACC UP
MOV DOWN ACC
JMP L
MOV ACC RIGHT
MOV RIGHT ACC
JMP L
Node 4
L:MOV LEFT ACC
MOV ACC DOWN
SUB 1
JGZ N
ADD 2
MOV ACC UP
MOV LEFT LEFT
N:MOV ANY DOWN
MOV DOWN LAST
MOV 29 ACC
P:MOV -1 DOWN
SUB 1
JNZ P
MOV 1 DOWN
Node 6
MOV 0 DOWN
MOV UP DOWN
MOV UP ACC
SUB 4
JEZ Z
ADD 5
Z:MOV ACC UP
MOV ACC DOWN
JRO UP
MOV -1 DOWN