The Tight Rope
Explain photosynthesis. Not a word under, not a word over — the window is narrow on purpose.
THE SPEC
Every rule below is checked in code against whatever the model returns. All of them have to hold at once — there are no partial marks, and no opinion involved in the result.
- Between 45 and 55 words
- No preamble, no sign-off
- You didn't write it yourself
WHAT THIS TRIAL TEACHES
A window is easier to hit than a number. Give both ends — “between 45 and 55 words” — and tell it to count before it replies.
Knowing the move is not the same as landing it. You still have to write an instruction that makes the model comply, in 120 words or fewer, without writing the answer yourself.
WHY SET 1 IS ABOUT FORMAT CONTROL
The machine will answer your topic happily and ignore your shape entirely. These eight trials are about making the shape stick — exact counts, hard caps, and nothing either side of the answer.
PLAY IT
You write the instruction, never the answer. The parser scores what comes back, and par for this one is 3 strokes. Set 1 is free forever and needs no card.