Why does LLM struggle in playing 24 puzzle

Question

I have yet to find an LLM that solves the 24 puzzle with these numbers (6 9 9 10) correctly.Many seemingly capable LLM will produce incorrect intermediate or final results, e.g. claiming 9 &times; 9 &divide; (10 - 6) = 24.Did I miss anything in my prompt? Or if there's a reason LLMs are bad at these questions?

sp332 · Accepted Answer

CISO of Anthropic: "No LLM has had an emergent calculator yet." https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39591527

resource0x · Answer

Because it's unsafe, according to [1]. I don't fully understand all the caveats listed there, but I won't take such a risk either :-)[1] https://privacy.commonsense.org/evaluation/24-Game-Math-Card...