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name: game24 description: "Routes Game of 24 workflows for arithmetic puzzle solving with Tree of Thoughts BFS and naive sampling baselines." disable-model-invocation: true metadata: disco-role: operating license: MIT

Game24

Use this sub-skill when the user wants to solve or reproduce the paper's arithmetic puzzle workflow for the 24 game.

Covers

• task=game24 runs.
• Naive standard and cot sampling baselines.
• The paper-style BFS path using propose generation and value evaluation.
• Final-answer validation through the Game24Task.test_output rules.

Excludes

• Coherent passage generation; use sub-skills/text/.
• Mini crossword solving; use sub-skills/crosswords/.
• New task authoring; see the shared references/workflows.md notes.

Read and run

• references/workflows.md for the data file, prompt families, and the recommended BFS settings.
• references/troubleshooting.md for malformed answers, parser drift, and score-format problems.
• scripts/run_game24.sh for the bundled command wrapper.

Quick command shapes

• BFS: bash sub-skills/game24/scripts/run_game24.sh bfs
• Naive standard: bash sub-skills/game24/scripts/run_game24.sh standard
• Naive CoT: bash sub-skills/game24/scripts/run_game24.sh cot

Acceptance cues

A future agent should be able to:

• explain why the final answer must use every input number exactly once;
• choose between naive sampling and BFS with the right flags;
• inspect or adapt the value prompt when the frontier ranking is poor;
• interpret a r=0 result as a formatting or arithmetic failure, not a package-install failure.