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The nature of the problems makes it relatively easy to follow along with the models' reasoning and reasoning errors. For example, on this problem (answer "New England"):

> Think of a place in America. Two words, 10 letters altogether. The first five letters read the same forward and backward. The last five letters spell something found in the body. What place is this?

R1 fixates on answers of the form "CITY, STATE" and eventually returns some confidently wrong nonsense. It doesn't try to explore answers that don't fit the "CITY, STATE" template.

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o1 high got this after i gave it the hint that the first five letters are not a single word.