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title: "Can LLMs Play the Game of Science?"
subtitle: "Evaluating scientific reasoning and metacognition using the card game Eleusis reveals distinct scientist personalities in large language models"
description: "A benchmark for evaluating LLM scientific reasoning using the card game Eleusis, testing iterative hypothesis formation, calibration, and strategic experimentation."
authors:
  - name: "David Louapre"
    url: "https://huggingface.co/dlouapre"
    affiliations: [1]
affiliations:
  - name: "Hugging Face"
    url: "https://huggingface.co"
published: "Feb. 09, 2026"
licence: >
  Diagrams and text are licensed under <a href="https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">CC‑BY 4.0</a> with the source available on <a href="https://huggingface.co/spaces/dlouapre/eleusis-benchmark" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Hugging Face</a>, unless noted otherwise.
tags:
  - LLM evaluation
  - scientific reasoning
  - benchmarks
  - calibration
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import Introduction from "./chapters/eleusis/introduction.mdx";
import Benchmark from "./chapters/eleusis/benchmark.mdx";
import Results from "./chapters/eleusis/results.mdx";
import Discussion from "./chapters/eleusis/discussion.mdx";
import Appendix from "./chapters/eleusis/appendix.mdx";

<Introduction />

<Benchmark />

<Results />

<Discussion />

<Appendix />