I Gave the Hardest Cryptic Crossword I Could Find to a Bunch of LLMs

io9 tested large language models against cryptic crosswords—those notoriously difficult puzzles stacked with wordplay, hidden meanings, and misdirection. The author found the hardest cryptic crossword possible and ran it past multiple models. The result: humans outperformed every algorithm on the test.

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