SUDOKU BENCHMARK · STEADY

Claude Opus 5.5 on Steady grid 1

Solved: 53 of 53 blank cells right. It said it was 99% sure. All of Claude Opus 5.5's answers.

RESULTSolved
CELLS RIGHT53 / 53
SAID99% sure
MODEL TIME1.4 min
COST$0.210 (API-equivalent)
TOKENS IN / OUT903 / 10,144

5 given 5 filled correctly 53 wrong, with the right digit 3 left empty

The end of its reply

I solved this by hand with step-by-step elimination. One case split was needed: r1c7 = 5 led to a contradiction in column 5, so r1c7 = 6. I re-checked every row, column and box of the final grid, and each contains 1–9 exactly once.

<grid>
243158697
815976324
976234518
621487935
459321876
387569241
598743162
164892753
732615489
</grid>
<confidence>99</confidence>

Grid steady-0 of set v1, 28 givens. Puzzle as one line: ..3..8.97.........9...3..18..14..93.45.....76.87..92..59..4...2.........73.6..4..