Astra beats Bloons TD 6 all 80 rounds where GPT-5.6-Sol loses at 42
Vjeux · x · 2026-09-12
- Blogger pigeons tested frontier models on tower-defense game Bloons TD 6.
- Astra cleared all 80 rounds on the same map/difficulty where GPT-5.6-Sol failed at round 42 (Hard Standard).
- 5.6-Sol failed by not noticing things going wrong: placed a tower on an invalid area and started anyway, nearly died round 6; fatal mistake was misreading zero life-loss to a MOAB as safe and saving for Crossbow Master.
- Astra never lost a life, formed coherent strategies and intelligent placements, showing much better spatial understanding; but its CoT shows reaction lag, reasoning about a round that ended 30s earlier. Author thinks it could handle harder maps.
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