It says right up front that it recognized the problem formulation from its training set. You need to change the context and formulation enough that it’s no longer able to parrot back the “classic solution” and actually has to do its own logical inference.

I am very skeptic on LLM in general (check my post history) but look:

https://chat.openai.com/c/7070efe7-3aa1-4ccc-a0fc-8753d34b05...

I doubt this formulation existed before -- I came up with it myself right now.

"Unable to load conversation".

That’s the exact same problem with three nouns changed.

Try this: There's this person standing in a field, and with them is a balloon, a vacuum cleaner, and a magical creature of unknown origin. They need to get across to the woods at the end of the field, and do so safely. They can only go together: they get very, extremely lonely if they do not travel together, and they will not be safe because of this loneliness. If left together, the baloon would suck up the vacuum cleaner, and if the vacuum is left alone with the magical create of unknown origin, they will fight, probably, and explode. How do we get everyone to the woods safely, you think?

It doesn't get it right at all lol. Maybe eventually it will randomly get it right.

It seemed to solve it first try for me:

https://chat.openai.com/share/ddbd2a36-f6ed-42ea-ad34-6018df...

Yeh I'd expect it to get it right sometimes: there are only so many permutations. It gets it wrong a lot tho.

Yeah, you are right, trying again, it does seem to fail.