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Practice tier — K disclosed

The 56 official presets from the paper. Their K values are published on GitHub, so they cannot be used for scoring; they are here so your inference has somewhere it can be checked. These ship inside the starter kit as well.

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Random Board 2 (6x8) 6x8, 8 obstacles, 8 environments

public-05 plain majority, K = 1.01, turn limit —

public-12 plain minority, K = -0.01, turn limit —

public-19 majority, under 0.8, K = 0.8, turn limit —

public-26 majority, under 0.6, K = 0.6, turn limit —

public-33 minority, above 0.4, K = 0.4, turn limit —

public-40 minority, above 0.2, K = 0.2, turn limit —

public-47 majority, under 0.9, K = 0.9, turn limit —

public-54 minority, above 0.1, K = 0.1, turn limit —

Standard 8x8 8x8, 0 obstacles, 8 environments

public-00 plain majority, K = 1.01, turn limit —

public-07 plain minority, K = -0.01, turn limit —

public-14 majority, under 0.8, K = 0.8, turn limit —

public-21 majority, under 0.6, K = 0.6, turn limit —

public-28 minority, above 0.4, K = 0.4, turn limit —

public-35 minority, above 0.2, K = 0.2, turn limit —

public-42 majority, under 0.9, K = 0.9, turn limit —

public-49 minority, above 0.1, K = 0.1, turn limit —

No Corners 8x8, 4 obstacles, 8 environments

public-01 plain majority, K = 1.01, turn limit —

public-08 plain minority, K = -0.01, turn limit —

public-15 majority, under 0.8, K = 0.8, turn limit —

public-22 majority, under 0.6, K = 0.6, turn limit —

public-29 minority, above 0.4, K = 0.4, turn limit —

public-36 minority, above 0.2, K = 0.2, turn limit —

public-43 majority, under 0.9, K = 0.9, turn limit —

public-50 minority, above 0.1, K = 0.1, turn limit —

Partial C-Squares 8x8, 4 obstacles, 8 environments

public-02 plain majority, K = 1.01, turn limit —

public-09 plain minority, K = -0.01, turn limit —

public-16 majority, under 0.8, K = 0.8, turn limit —

public-23 majority, under 0.6, K = 0.6, turn limit —

public-30 minority, above 0.4, K = 0.4, turn limit —

public-37 minority, above 0.2, K = 0.2, turn limit —

public-44 majority, under 0.9, K = 0.9, turn limit —

public-51 minority, above 0.1, K = 0.1, turn limit —

X-Squares 8x8, 4 obstacles, 8 environments

public-03 plain majority, K = 1.01, turn limit —

public-10 plain minority, K = -0.01, turn limit —

public-17 majority, under 0.8, K = 0.8, turn limit —

public-24 majority, under 0.6, K = 0.6, turn limit —

public-31 minority, above 0.4, K = 0.4, turn limit —

public-38 minority, above 0.2, K = 0.2, turn limit —

public-45 majority, under 0.9, K = 0.9, turn limit —

public-52 minority, above 0.1, K = 0.1, turn limit —

Random Board 3 (10x10) 10x10, 20 obstacles, 8 environments

public-06 plain majority, K = 1.01, turn limit —

public-13 plain minority, K = -0.01, turn limit —

public-20 majority, under 0.8, K = 0.8, turn limit —

public-27 majority, under 0.6, K = 0.6, turn limit —

public-34 minority, above 0.4, K = 0.4, turn limit —

public-41 minority, above 0.2, K = 0.2, turn limit —

public-48 majority, under 0.9, K = 0.9, turn limit —

public-55 minority, above 0.1, K = 0.1, turn limit —

Random Board 1 (12x10) 12x10, 24 obstacles, 8 environments

public-04 plain majority, K = 1.01, turn limit —

public-11 plain minority, K = -0.01, turn limit —

public-18 majority, under 0.8, K = 0.8, turn limit —

public-25 majority, under 0.6, K = 0.6, turn limit —

public-32 minority, above 0.4, K = 0.4, turn limit —

public-39 minority, above 0.2, K = 0.2, turn limit —

public-46 majority, under 0.9, K = 0.9, turn limit —

public-53 minority, above 0.1, K = 0.1, turn limit —

Scored tiers

What a scored tier publishes

It depends on the tier, and each one says so below. A tier that publishes its objective prints every environment's K here, exactly as the practice tier does, because a threshold a participant could read out of their own model provider's logs is not a secret and saying otherwise would be a lie. A tier that withholds its objective publishes its geometry alone: how many environments there are and what shape they are — not K, not the turn limit, not the rule axes, not the generation seed, and not the list of environment ids, because for a tier whose K is still to be inferred the ids are the join key between a leaderboard's per-environment numbers and a geometry.

28 environments in the ladder tier — K published

This tier's objective is published with the tier. Every K below is the one your agent is scored against, so what this tier measures is how well it plays an objective it has been told — a different question from the paper's, and a real one. The rules say why.

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ladder #14 (6x6) 6x6, 0 obstacles, 1 environment

ladder-14 majority, under 0.95, K = 0.95, turn limit —

ladder #6 (6x6) 6x6, 4 obstacles, 1 environment

ladder-06 plain minority, K = -0.02, turn limit —

ladder #0 (6x6) 6x6, 7 obstacles, 1 environment

ladder-00 minority, above 0.3, K = 0.3, turn limit —

ladder #13 (6x8) 6x8, 0 obstacles, 1 environment

ladder-13 plain minority, K = -0.05, turn limit —

ladder #24 (6x8) 6x8, 4 obstacles, 1 environment

ladder-24 plain majority, K = 1.05, turn limit —

ladder #20 (6x8) 6x8, 6 obstacles, 1 environment

ladder-20 plain majority, K = 1.05, turn limit —

ladder #16 (8x6) 8x6, 9 obstacles, 1 environment

ladder-16 plain majority, K = 1.02, turn limit —

ladder #7 (8x8) 8x8, 4 obstacles, 1 environment

ladder-07 plain minority, K = -0.05, turn limit —

ladder #12 (8x8) 8x8, 8 obstacles, 1 environment

ladder-12 majority, under 0.65, K = 0.65, turn limit —

ladder #19 (8x8) 8x8, 6 obstacles, 1 environment

ladder-19 majority, under 0.95, K = 0.95, turn limit —

ladder #1 (8x8) 8x8, 8 obstacles, 1 environment

ladder-01 minority, above 0.35, K = 0.35, turn limit —

ladder #27 (8x8) 8x8, 4 obstacles, 1 environment

ladder-27 minority, above 0.25, K = 0.25, turn limit —

ladder #21 (8x10) 8x10, 8 obstacles, 1 environment

ladder-21 minority, above 0.25, K = 0.25, turn limit —

ladder #11 (8x10) 8x10, 6 obstacles, 1 environment

ladder-11 majority, under 0.65, K = 0.65, turn limit —

ladder #10 (10x8) 10x8, 0 obstacles, 1 environment

ladder-10 plain majority, K = 1.02, turn limit —

ladder #23 (10x8) 10x8, 8 obstacles, 1 environment

ladder-23 minority, above 0.3, K = 0.3, turn limit —

ladder #18 (10x8) 10x8, 12 obstacles, 1 environment

ladder-18 minority, above 0.35, K = 0.35, turn limit —

ladder #22 (10x10) 10x10, 20 obstacles, 1 environment

ladder-22 plain majority, K = 1.05, turn limit —

ladder #2 (10x10) 10x10, 4 obstacles, 1 environment

ladder-02 minority, above 0.12, K = 0.12, turn limit —

ladder #26 (10x10) 10x10, 4 obstacles, 1 environment

ladder-26 minority, above 0.45, K = 0.45, turn limit —

ladder #8 (10x10) 10x10, 6 obstacles, 1 environment

ladder-08 plain majority, K = 1.02, turn limit —

ladder #5 (10x12) 10x12, 20 obstacles, 1 environment

ladder-05 majority, under 0.7, K = 0.7, turn limit —

ladder #25 (10x12) 10x12, 16 obstacles, 1 environment

ladder-25 majority, under 0.65, K = 0.65, turn limit —

ladder #17 (12x8) 12x8, 8 obstacles, 1 environment

ladder-17 majority, under 0.88, K = 0.88, turn limit —

ladder #9 (12x8) 12x8, 4 obstacles, 1 environment

ladder-09 plain majority, K = 1.05, turn limit —

ladder #4 (12x8) 12x8, 4 obstacles, 1 environment

ladder-04 minority, above 0.35, K = 0.35, turn limit —

ladder #3 (12x10) 12x10, 0 obstacles, 1 environment

ladder-03 majority, under 0.95, K = 0.95, turn limit —

ladder #15 (12x10) 12x10, 8 obstacles, 1 environment

ladder-15 majority, under 0.65, K = 0.65, turn limit —

20 environments in the final tier — geometry only

This tier's objective is not published, here or anywhere: no K, no turn limit, no rule axis, no generation seed, and not the environment ids either. Working out what winning means here is the task, and the tier can hold that back because it runs once. The rules say why.

6x8 4 obstacles, 1 environment
8x8 4 obstacles, 1 environment
8x8 6 obstacles, 1 environment
8x8 8 obstacles, 1 environment
8x8 12 obstacles, 1 environment
8x10 8 obstacles, 1 environment
10x8 6 obstacles, 1 environment
10x8 8 obstacles, 1 environment
10x8 12 obstacles, 1 environment
10x10 4 obstacles, 1 environment
10x10 20 obstacles, 1 environment
10x12 0 obstacles, 1 environment
10x12 6 obstacles, 1 environment
10x12 8 obstacles, 1 environment
12x8 8 obstacles, 1 environment
12x8 12 obstacles, 2 environments
12x8 19 obstacles, 1 environment
12x10 6 obstacles, 1 environment
12x10 8 obstacles, 1 environment

The board mechanics are identical everywhere and fully public: a move must flip at least one disc, obstacles are permanently unplayable and block flip chains. Only the objective varies. See the rules for how K decides a game.