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# Playing with ARC-AGI tests
- URL: https://www.workroom-productions.com/playing-with-arc-agi-tests/
- Published: 2026-01-19T17:23:33.000Z
- Updated: 2026-01-22T14:27:28.000Z
- Description: Play with ARC Prize's tests for reasoning systems
- Author: James Lyndsay
- Tags: Exercises, #PlayTime

*Workroom PlayTime045*

## Exercise

*15 minutes playing + 5 mins conversation*

### Kickoff

Demo – let’s pick an AGI-1 task from [Explore All Tasks](https://arcprize.org/tasks/) and do it together.

### Do one yourself

Try (AGI-1 task) [ARC-AGI Task #03560426](https://arcprize.org/tasks/03560426/) alone and keep a note of your hypotheses.

### Work together

Try (AGI-1 / 2 task) [ARC-AGI Task #12422b43](https://arcprize.org/tasks/12422b43/) together – listen for hypotheses

Then let’s try to solve (AGI-1 / 2 task) [ARC-AGI Task #136b0064](https://arcprize.org/tasks/136b0064/) together.

*If we've got time, we'll go back to solving solo / in pairs.*

### Debrief

*5 mins – though we will be talking about most of this as we go. The following topics are suggestions if we feel quiet.* 

- How did the tests evaluate reasoning?
- Compare several tests. What is different in how they evaluate?
- Does this 'feel' like a challenge to reasoning, or simply a sweet spot for tests?
- Looking at the [leaderboard](https://arcprize.org/leaderboard), AGI-2 is a greater challenge to current models than AGI-1, and was developed as AGI-1's challenges were surmounted. Can this reflect a change in reasoning capability?

## Extend

Only humans managed [ARC-AGI Task #25094a63](https://arcprize.org/tasks/25094a63/) and [ARC-AGI Task #212895b5](https://arcprize.org/tasks/212895b5/). Why might that be?

JL note: JL's machines have a further extension to 90/120 mins.