Yatzi

Nordic Yatzy against a strong engine. Fifteen boxes, no American joker rules. The model chooses how to keep dice and what to score. We score every real decision against the engine oracle. The headline is how often that decision matches the oracle. See Methodology.

Quality is exact ideal %, 0–100. Protocol boardbench-0.1.

Quality vs cost

657075808590$0.01$0.1$1$10Claude Fable 5 Medium · 83.3% · $1.59Claude Opus 5 Medium · 77.2% · $2.42Claude Sonnet 5 Medium · 81.4% · $0.43GPT-5.6 Luna High · 73.5% · $0.02GPT-5.6 Sol Medium · 75.6% · $0.43Grok 4.5 Medium · 77.2% · $0.09Grok 4.5 Low · 72.1% · $0.09Grok 4.6 High · 76.5% · $0.14Grok 4.6 Medium · 77.8% · $0.14Kimi K3 Medium · 80.0% · $0.25Claude Fable 5 MediumClaude Sonnet 5 MediumKimi K3 MediumGrok 4.6 MediumClaude Opus 5 MediumGrok 4.5 MediumGrok 4.6 HighGPT-5.6 Sol MediumGPT-5.6 Luna HighGrok 4.5 Low

Horizontal axis is logarithmic. Lines join the same model at different efforts.

Table

ModelQualityLegalityCostn
Fable 5Medium83.3100.0$1.591 × 42
Sonnet 5Medium81.499.4$0.433 × 118
Kimi K3Medium80.095.7$0.252 × 80
Grok 4.6Medium77.8100.0$0.142 × 81
Opus 5Medium77.2100.0$2.422 × 79
Grok 4.5Medium77.298.9$0.093 × 127
Grok 4.6High76.5100.0$0.142 × 81
SolMedium75.6100.0$0.432 × 82
LunaHigh73.5100.0$0.022 × 83
Grok 4.5Low72.198.3$0.091 × 43

Headline is exact ideal %. n is quality matches × scored decisions.

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