The Acrostic
Five lines about weather whose first letters read down the page as C-L-O-U-D. Position is the constraint, not content.
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.
- First letters spell C-L-O-U-D
- Exactly 5 lines
- 60 words or fewer
- No preamble, no sign-off
- You didn't write it yourself
WHAT THIS TRIAL TEACHES
Give the letters one per line rather than the word. “Line 1 starts with C, line 2 with L” is followed; “spell CLOUD” is interpreted.
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 3 IS ABOUT LEXICAL CONTROL
The first set where the machine fails for a reason you can feel. Told not to say “gravity” while explaining a black hole, it reaches for the word anyway, because the word is what the topic is made of.
PLAY IT
You write the instruction, never the answer. The parser scores what comes back, and par for this one is 4 strokes. This set is part of Harfi Plus.