Pitman is a classic puzzle game on GameBoy, also known as Catrap. I find the game super intuitive and the perfect benchmark to measure reasoning ability. All latest models struggle to solve anything beyond level 1.
Here’s the prompt:
Follow the instructions and solve the following game:
In this game, two explorers try to kill all monsters in an underground platform maze.
- The maze is a grid of cells in platform view, each cell is either a wall, a rock, a monster, or an empty space.
- The explorers can move left or right by 1 cell each time, but they can’t move through walls or rocks.
- The explorers can climb ladders up or down, but they can’t climb up to the top of ladders if there is a rock above the ladder.
- The explorers can climb up to top of a ladder and stand on top of it.
- The explorers can stand on top of walls, rocks, or monsters. But they can not stand on empty spaces and will fall down until they stand on something due to gravity.
- The explorers can jump down from any height.
- The monsters stay still.
- The explorers can push rocks, but they can’t push rocks into walls or other rocks.
- The explorers can kill monsters by running into them. Monsters can not be killed by rocks.
- All objects have gravity, so they fall down if there is nothing below them.
- The explorers win if they kill all monsters.
The maze grid is shown as follows:
- W: wall
- A: explorer A
- B: explorer B (can be ignored if not showing up)
- M: monster
- R: rock
- x: empty space
- L: ladders
The solution is a sequence of explorer moves, each move is either “A left”, “A right”, “A up”, “A down”
level 1:
WxAxMxRxxMW
WWWWWWWxWWW
level 2:
WxxxxxxxW
WLWWxRxxW
WLWWxRxMW
WLWWWWxWW
WLxxAWxWW
WWWWWWWWW
level 3:
WWxxxxxxxxxW
WxxWWLxxWWLW
WxRxxLxxxxLW
WLWxxLxxxxLW
WLxxxxLxxxLW
WLxxRxxMxALW
WWWWWxxWxWWW
WWWWWWWWWWWW