MARC2 Analysis Report

March 26, 2026 — Subject model: qwen3.6-27b

1000
Training Tasks
865
Solved by Claude
791
Validated Descriptions
302
MARC-Eligible
101
MARC-Verified Tasks
358
Total MARC Clues

Key Metrics

MetricValue
Training tasks1000
Solved by Claude865 (86.5%)
Validated descriptions791 (91.4% of solved)
MARC-eligible (lang_suff + both_req)302
MARC-verified tasks101
Total MARC clues (all variants)358
Examples-only success rate12.8%
Language-only success rate39.3%

Valid MARC Puzzles (101 tasks)

Task IDmin_kDomainMetaphor
13A narcissistic painting reproduces itself wherever it sees its own reflection.
23A chameleon reads a mood ring to decide what color to wear.
62mythologyA crooked rune inscribed on shadow-stone is straightened by the right hand of the glyph-keeper
72A troupe of acrobats forms a human pyramid, each performer climbing onto the shoulders of the one before.
142Each star casts a shadow of everything it is not.
351biologyLone cells floating in a dark medium each emit a hormone that claims surrounding tissue. Each cell's signal spreads h...
402A cartographer surveys walled provinces and draws one dot on a map for each.
451cookingIngredients scattered too thinly across the pan never caramelize — they just turn green and bitter. Only clusters thi...
472astronomyFragments of a shattered constellation drift through the void, each still gravitationally tethered to the nearest dea...
584biologyA cell divides along its spine, replicating itself in the direction its backbone runs
693Two teams combine their footprints to map everywhere anyone has stood.
821Two monarchs divide a kingdom, each stamping their seal upon their domain's walls.
851electronicsA signal passes through a shift register array — each row of bits processes according to its distance from the clock ...
961A king in his castle banishes all imposters wearing his colors from the kingdom.
1283Lighthouses signaling across the darkness
1361astronomyNebulae in a galactic ring: their spectra redshift one position clockwise while their luminous reach blueshifts one p...
1382A royal decree summons only the knights whose company matches the king's court size to raise their banners above the ...
1461Four royal courts compete for territory, and the strongest claim wins each plot of land.
1512biologyThree nerve endings in the brain stem sense distant organs and grow axons toward them, branching laterally upon arriv...
1531The magenta conductor raises her baton, and the orchestra members become a single azure spotlight.
1571A creature gazes into a red mirror and sees its twin emerge on the other side.
1653A photographic negative reveals what was hidden in the shadows
1781Two dancers audition for the same spotlight — only a solo performer gets to shine.
1801A master seal presses its ink into waiting wax impressions, then crumbles away.
1942astronomyA golden meridian divides two star charts. Red nebulae glow only where one chart shows a star and the other shows void.
2092A gemstone's inner fire escapes through its facets to form a new outer shell.
2231weatherRaindrops suspended in a column of air finally fall and accumulate into a snowdrift at the surface.
2272biologyCell membranes forming around organelles by size
2292biologyA cell membrane encloses precious organelles while free-floating proteins drift in the cytoplasm around it.
2301A dam swells with the pressure of raindrops falling on either side.
2361biologyA cell's membrane shears under directional stress, its base rooted to the substrate while its upper structures lean a...
2401A talent show lineup where acts with fewer mistakes earn the spotlight on the left.
2451biologyA cell prepares to divide: the upper organelles drift toward one pole while the lower organelles migrate toward the o...
2491Only perfectly square rooms deserve a fireplace.
2581A picture frame absorbs a paint swatch and uses it as a stencil to coat its inner walls.
2622musicEach chord cluster on the orange staff has one azure grace note tucked into a corner — a fleeting ornament that tells...
2682A lighthouse beam singles out one ship from a scattered fleet in the dark sea.
2701architectureThe green cornerstone anchors where two walls meet. A red mosaic adorns one wing of the building. The architect deman...
2711Lonely magnets calling their partners home across a dark corridor.
2821Falling leaves settle into piles by the garden wall
2901biologyTwo strands of DNA recombine during crossing-over, and wherever either parent contributes a dominant allele, the offs...
2921cookingA drizzle of sauce slides across a hot skillet until it sizzles against the rim, then skids back at an angle.
3221gardeningA topiary is transplanted next to the garden wall, and an irrigation line is laid along its outer roots.
3632danceDancers in formation begin and end their routine in the same pose at opposite ends of the stage; between movements, e...
3801A lighthouse beam reaches toward ships, and its twin on the far shore shines across the entire sea.
3871electronicsTwo circuit traces of different voltages are routed onto the same chip. The primary trace claims most of the die area...
3985ocean/sailingThree currents flow through the same strait at different depths. The magenta deep current is strongest and defines th...
4083sportsDuring a chaotic scrimmage, four teammates wearing the same rare jersey color stand at the far sidelines and endlines...
4152A chameleon adopts the color of the nearest flower.
4162biologyA cell biologist examines a tissue sample under the microscope. The diversity of cell types determines whether the or...
4172astronomyA constellation missing its fourth star emits a jet of light from the void, the beam streaking diagonally across the ...
4183biologyA cellular biologist stains tissue samples under a microscope, applying different fluorescent dyes depending on how m...
4303geologyMineral veins trapped in a bedrock stratum erupt under tectonic pressure — basalt intrusions push farther than quartz...
4334astronomyDrifting stars are pulled one orbit closer to the accretion disk; any star that grazes the disk erupts into twin jets...
4433musicA yellow conductor whose baton leans to one side cues the azure melody to play its retrograde inversion on that flank...
4441gardeningA gardener plants four varieties in a tiny square plot, then cultivates a plot twice as large with the same layout be...
4492danceThe red ribbon dancers hold their formation across the floor — behind them, the chorus packs in tight filling every m...
4602geologyA landmass split by rift valleys has four mineral veins, each vein staining the nearest quarter of an exposed rock fo...
4621Stained glass fragments remembered by a single window
4881astronomyA lone star collapses one shell inward, and the radiation it shed fans outward through every other spoke of the nebul...
5301A photographic negative develops only in the darkroom's shadows.
5321biologyA cell divides along its spindle, each daughter inheriting the mother's blueprint but oriented to face a new horizon,...
5351cookingSeveral trays of blueberry scones cool on a dark countertop, but a few scones in each batch have been swapped for ras...
5362biologyA cell divides according to the instructions written in its own DNA — each gene that is 'expressed' spawns a daughter...
5433biologyIn a petri dish teeming with competing colonies, the species that outgrows all others leaves its signature protein fo...
5611astronomyTwo nebulae—one emerald, one sapphire—drift across a star field. Only where both nebulae have voids in their dust doe...
5861Three stone tablets reveal their secret runes through the wounds they bear.
5982electronicsTwo circuit board regions share a bus line. Red components in each region experience a voltage differential that push...
6112mythologyA divine mosaic depicts realms of the gods separated by rivers of a single sacred hue. Each realm glows with its deit...
6481ocean/sailingA captain reads a nautical chart split by the equator. Ports that have a sister port at the same longitude in the opp...
6602geologyA single crystal nucleus forms in cooling magma, and mineral bands crystallize outward in diamond-shaped growth rings...
6633Seeds planted in a garden plot grow into bushes whose size depends on how many were planted together.
7061astronomyA comet grazes a nebula and its trail paints every particle of the cloud in the comet's spectral hue, while the comet...
7185biologyCells in a tissue multiply through mitosis, each dividing more aggressively the more diverse the population around th...
7231An elevator descending floor by floor — predict which floor it arrives at next.
7242astronomyThree bands of golden stars stretch across the ecliptic. The central band is a dense river of light, while the upper ...
7313biologyA cell membrane only absorbs molecules whose shape perfectly matches its receptor sites. Mismatched molecules bounce ...
7332Two distant shores reflected in a shrinking lake, merging as the water drains away.
7581A small stained-glass window gazes into a hall of mirrors, seeing itself reflected and twisted from every angle.
7841theaterWhen the same character appears in the wings on both sides of the stage, a phantom of that character materializes cen...
7863electronicsAn engineer etches a single circuit module onto a wafer. The module's own pin count determines how many copies are st...
7901A mirror lake reveals which stars have true reflections
7972A seed crystal grows reflections in a hall of four mirrors.
7981biologyThree genes compete for expression in the same tissue, and dominance determines which phenotype shows.
8063ocean/sailingDye markers dropped from different positions on a dark sea are carried by the same diagonal current, each leaving a r...
8151biologyEach blue cell is a living organism that undergoes mitosis, budding off four differentiated daughter cells into its i...
8171astronomyStars along a three-band constellation chart — the terminal star's position in the sky determines which stars flare i...
8181warfareThe green fortress holds the field. Scouts that can see its walls along a siege-line advance, planting their banners ...
8193biologyCells of a single species colonize the petri dish in unpredictable clusters, but every species folds into the same ge...
8602Scattered birds return to roost on a single wire at dusk
8792Two shields overlap, and light passes only through holes shared by both.
8933biologyAmong the petri dishes, the colony with the most aggressive infection is isolated for study
8982ocean/sailingA ship's flag where the border stripes bleed wide from salt spray, while the central emblem stays crisp.
9313Four voices singing in a round, but the strongest voice always wins the note.
9393biologyA enzyme reads the folding pattern of a receptor protein and activates a pigment gene, dyeing a nearby cell cluster i...
9411danceThree choreographers sit at the left edge of a viewing gallery above the dance floor. Each wears a signature color. D...
9653ocean/sailingColored buoys float at scattered positions in a dark sea. Wherever a buoy is anchored, the entire shipping lane benea...
9662architectureA blueprint traces the walls around an empty courtyard; wherever a cornerstone is laid across the lot, the same bluep...
9772biologyA geneticist reconstructs a corrupted segment of DNA by recognizing the codon repeat cycle that governs the rest of t...
9822astronomyA constellation duplicates itself at the far diagonal of an expanding universe, and wherever binary stars face each o...
9832biologyTwo enzyme markers bind to the membrane wall, triggering mitosis in reverse — the cell cleaves along the marked axis,...