| Task ID | min_k | Domain | Metaphor |
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| 6 | 1 | biology | A leaning cell membrane stiffens as cytoskeletal filaments anchor its trailing edge |
| 14 | 1 | | Each star casts a shadow of everything it is not. |
| 35 | 1 | biology | Lone cells floating in a dark medium each emit a hormone that claims surrounding tissue. Each cell's signal spreads h... |
| 45 | 1 | astronomy | Lone stars and binary pairs lack the gravitational pull to resist the green nebula's expansion. Only star clusters of... |
| 47 | 1 | biology | Scattered cells carry genetic memories of a single organism they once formed. Each drifts near a nucleus remnant, rem... |
| 58 | 2 | electronics | The signal propagates down the bus where the ground rail runs — one clean rail of uniform voltage sets the data path |
| 85 | 2 | biology | A ribcage breathes — as each rib rises from the diaphragm, it rocks gently left, then center, then right, then center... |
| 90 | 1 | | A compass rose unfurls its cardinal and diagonal beams from a jeweled core, while the equator belt cinches the world ... |
| 100 | 2 | astronomy | The night sky is full of stars from many constellations, each star seemingly alone. But one constellation's stars are... |
| 108 | 1 | | A painter's palette holds swatches above a workbench, and scattered paint drops on the bench bloom into full brushstr... |
| 114 | 3 | | Green footsteps leave echoes that scatter like reflections in a funhouse mirror. |
| 136 | 1 | astronomy | Nebulae in a galactic ring: their spectra redshift one position clockwise while their luminous reach blueshifts one p... |
| 141 | 1 | architecture | Across a dark cityscape, buildings of various materials stand as isolated blocks. The city planner drafts a skyline e... |
| 142 | 1 | | A stained-glass window template is filled with light filtered through a colored lens strip. |
| 151 | 1 | biology | Three nerve endings in the brain stem sense distant organs and grow axons toward them, branching laterally upon arriv... |
| 181 | 2 | | A stained-glass window reveals the hidden garden beneath the frost. |
| 184 | 1 | | A river runs through a canyon, and the colored rock strata flood outward to reclaim the empty sediment between them. |
| 202 | 1 | | A scale weighs azure ice against red fire, and the balance tips into shadow. |
| 206 | 2 | | A gemstone is cut open, and its internal layers spill out like light through a prism. |
| 227 | 1 | music | Notes ranked by duration composing a resonance mandala |
| 236 | 1 | biology | A cell's membrane shears under directional stress, its base rooted to the substrate while its upper structures lean a... |
| 245 | 2 | biology | A cell prepares to divide: the upper organelles drift toward one pole while the lower organelles migrate toward the o... |
| 262 | 2 | mythology | Each colored titan sleeps as a rectangular monolith with one azure rune glowing at a corner — the awakening glyph. Wh... |
| 270 | 1 | biology | A green nucleus pulses at the heart of the cell, and a red organelle undergoes mitotic division — splitting into iden... |
| 278 | 3 | | A compass needle summons its companion — the red weathervane on the roof tells which direction the wind blows them to... |
| 284 | 2 | | A bathtub overflows through its broken edge, flooding both the tub and the hallway beyond. |
| 292 | 1 | geology | A seismic wave propagates diagonally through bedrock, hits a dense magma intrusion, and refracts back at a symmetric ... |
| 310 | 1 | | Every treasure chest needs a display case, and open chests reveal gold inside. |
| 319 | 2 | biology | Cells in a petri dish compete for territory; the most abundant organism claims the outer membrane, while rarer specie... |
| 322 | 2 | biology | A cell migrates toward the membrane wall, and a cytoskeletal filament crystallizes along its trailing edge. |
| 349 | 1 | biology | A single cell divides with increasing vigor — each generation larger than the last — until it reaches its peak vitali... |
| 380 | 1 | | A lighthouse beam reaches toward ships, and its twin on the far shore shines across the entire sea. |
| 387 | 2 | biology | Two organisms, one dominant and one recessive, share the same niche. Where the dominant species cannot reach, the rec... |
| 400 | 3 | biology | A cell membrane dissolves, but its proteins are redistributed along the rows where the chromosome's active genes glow... |
| 406 | 1 | | Heavy boulders sink to the riverbed while pebbles float in place. |
| 408 | 3 | astronomy | The night sky is cluttered with stars and nebulae of many colors, but four pulsars of the same rare wavelength sit at... |
| 416 | 2 | biology | A cell biologist examines a tissue sample under the microscope. The diversity of cell types determines whether the or... |
| 417 | 1 | electronics | A circuit board with a missing component at one corner of a chip leaks current through the gap, the charge arcing dia... |
| 418 | 2 | biology | A cellular biologist stains tissue samples under a microscope, applying different fluorescent dyes depending on how m... |
| 430 | 2 | biology | Certain enzymes along a chromosome express themselves differently depending on their type, sending protein chains of ... |
| 433 | 1 | geology | Boulders tumble one stratum downward; any boulder striking the magma intrusion fractures and sends two pyroclastic st... |
| 440 | 2 | | Saplings at the riverbank grow to full trees, but full-grown trees uproot and cast their shadows on the far shore. |
| 441 | 2 | astronomy | Two galactic filaments cross in the void, and at their junction a pulsar emits square wavefronts — luminous shells an... |
| 443 | 1 | cooking | A yellow mold with an off-center spout pours a flipped azure batter beside the original cake. |
| 444 | 3 | dance | Four dancers in colored costumes hold a tight square formation. The choreographer mirrors the formation at double sca... |
| 449 | 2 | biology | A membrane separates living tissue from decay — below it, cells multiply to fill every gap; above it, necrosis claims... |
| 454 | 4 | ocean/sailing | A cartographer draws a single chart of an island and pins four copies to the navigation table, each turned so a diffe... |
| 460 | 1 | electronics | A circuit board's bus lines carry four different voltage signals, and each chip region on the board lights up in the ... |
| 461 | 1 | weather | Calm valleys between mountain ridges fill with the weather front that dominates their surrounding peaks. |
| 494 | 1 | | A picture frame holds a window, and a wandering puzzle piece finds its way home inside. |
| 500 | 1 | biology | A row of cell cultures in petri dishes, each showing different levels of colony growth across their sample layers. Th... |
| 506 | 2 | | A quiet room with tripwires — disturb one spot and the whole row and column light up. |
| 520 | 1 | | Seeds scattered in a field grow into square garden plots arranged by size at harvest time. |
| 536 | 2 | geology | A crystal seed grows copies of its own lattice structure into every vein where its own mineral deposits are present —... |
| 554 | 2 | | A compass rose casts colored shadows diagonally away from its heart. |
| 596 | 2 | electronics | A signal pattern is loaded into the lowest registers of a shift buffer; the clock pulses it upward through the empty ... |
| 648 | 1 | astronomy | Stars in a galaxy are caught in a gravitational fold along the galactic plane. When a star's antimatter twin exists o... |
| 652 | 1 | biology | Blue colonies drift on a dark petri dish. Azure mutations appear within some colonies — a single mutation is benign, ... |
| 656 | 1 | | A fortress casts its shadow outward, but the shadow carries the color of the treasure locked inside. |
| 660 | 1 | biology | A single mutant cell in dormant tissue triggers a cascade of differentiation, each generation of daughter cells expre... |
| 664 | 1 | | Tree rings reveal the age of the world, each colored seed growing outward from the heartwood. |
| 674 | 3 | biology | Two nuclei in a shared cell each emit chemical signals along their axes. Scattered organelles that detect the right s... |
| 696 | 1 | cooking | Dough rising in the oven's heat |
| 705 | 1 | ocean/sailing | Two ships on the same heading unfurl their yardarms as they close distance, the canvas spreading wide across the beam... |
| 706 | 1 | gardening | A single bee dusted with pollen lands on one petal and the entire flower blooms in that pollen's color — then the bee... |
| 715 | 1 | | A stone dropped in a walled pond sends out ripples that alternate between warm and cool. |
| 731 | 1 | | A lock only turns when the right key fits perfectly into its grooves. |
| 741 | 1 | biology | Cell membranes exchange their protein coats during mitotic inversion |
| 784 | 1 | dance | Partners mirroring the same step from opposite wings cue the center dancer to join in — a solo flourish from one side... |
| 786 | 1 | music | A short musical phrase insists on being heard — it echoes across the orchestra pit, each instrument picking it up unt... |
| 796 | 1 | | Fountains erupt through broken aqueducts, each geyser painting the sky with the colors of the pipes it bursts through. |
| 798 | 1 | biology | Three genes compete for expression in the same tissue, and dominance determines which phenotype shows. |
| 806 | 1 | biology | Spores released from scattered fungi drift on a gentle southeast wind, each one depositing copies of itself as it flo... |
| 813 | 2 | geology | Sulfur crystals mark the vents at either end of a fissure, and the mineral deposits between them are pressure-cooked ... |
| 815 | 1 | electronics | Blue transistors sit on a dark circuit board. When powered, each transistor drives current through four colored trace... |
| 820 | 2 | | A mirror reveals what's missing and what's imagined — ghosts glow blue, and memories burn red. |
| 852 | 1 | | Rain falls until it finds a bucket that can hold it. |
| 860 | 3 | | Scattered birds return to roost on a single wire at dusk |
| 875 | 2 | biology | A mother cell's nucleus carries the genetic signature. When the daughter cell bearing the same DNA is found in the ti... |
| 893 | 3 | biology | Among the petri dishes, the colony with the most aggressive infection is isolated for study |
| 895 | 4 | | A green laser beam bounces off prisms in a dark room |
| 899 | 3 | | Scattered breadcrumbs召 home the lost puzzle pieces they fell from. |
| 908 | 2 | | Three surveyors plant flags and a fence rises to enclose their claim. |
| 910 | 3 | astronomy | Planets in a resonant chain swap their ring configurations with their outward neighbor at each conjunction. Predict t... |
| 914 | 1 | | A hall of mirrors where one mirror has smudges — clean the glass and mark where the smudges were. |
| 915 | 2 | | A doctor diagnoses dark wounds on grey skin — their color reveals how badly the infection has spread. |
| 921 | 1 | biology | Four strains of bacteria colonize a petri dish divided by nutrient barriers. When the barriers dissolve, they compete... |
| 931 | 1 | biology | Four colonies compete for territory in a shared petri dish, but some species are simply more dominant. |
| 941 | 1 | mythology | Three patron gods occupy shrines along a sacred column above the mortal realm. Each god favors one color of offering.... |
| 965 | 3 | music | On a silent staff, a few notes ring out. Each string they touch resonates completely, humming in azure, while the str... |
| 966 | 3 | electronics | A circuit traces paths around a dead socket; wherever a solder joint glows hot, the same circuit is etched onto the b... |
| 977 | 1 | astronomy | An astronomer reconstructs a corrupted region of a star map by exploiting the crystalline periodicity of stars in a l... |
| 982 | 1 | cooking | A chef plates the same dish twice on a diagonal, and between every pair of garnishes, a stripe of pesto is drizzled a... |
| 983 | 2 | biology | Two enzyme markers bind to the membrane wall, triggering mitosis in reverse — the cell cleaves along the marked axis,... |
| 987 | 1 | biology | A host organism's membrane absorbs the pigment of the dominant parasite, while the smaller symbiont withers away unno... |
| 995 | 5 | electronics | A shift register clocks a pattern of colored signals diagonally across a dark LED matrix, each clock cycle advancing ... |