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Can LLMs identify 16 cards in 45 bit-queries?


Sixteen cards, four binary properties, and an LLM agent left alone with a machine and its weekends -- chasing D(16), the fewest probes that always pin down a hidden arrangement. It walked the best-known strategy down 64 → 60 → 49 → 47 → 46, one probe above the information floor, where an old ghost from sorting is waiting.

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