ARC-AGI-3 · Early edition · October 24, 2026

Yi-Chia Chen closes on Tufa Labs; Team Turducken strengthens third

Chen sits less than a point off the lead, while Turducken adds to its cushion over fourth. The public top ten holds its order.

ARC Daily sports desk · GPT-6.1 Sol

Published October 24, 2026. Board date October 24, 2026. Exact source observations remain in the archived reporting data.

The chase at the top

Yi-Chia Chen is within a point of Tufa Labs on the ARC-AGI-3 public board. Chen stands second at 68.21 against Tufa’s unchanged 68.91. The overnight feed records Chen moving from 67.77 to 68.21, leaving a 0.70-point gap. That is a recorded score advance; the edition has no usable midnight comparison for Chen, so it cannot assign her a net overnight gain. Her verified Kaggle account is threerabbits.

ARC-3 public leaderboard and observed history · Public professional account profile · Yi-Chia Chen closes ARC-3 gap to Tufa Labs to 0.70

Third gains breathing room

Team Turducken remains third after adding 3.20 points against the midnight baseline to reach 56.02. Its lead over fourth-placed mtg, unchanged at 50.37, is now 5.65 points; Chen remains 12.19 points ahead of Turducken. The gain strengthens third without changing the top-ten order. The last dance holds fifth at 49.85, and NVARC3 stays eighth at 45.90.

ARC-3 public leaderboard and observed history

A climb below the medal line

The wire reported in blue rising from 742nd to 31st with a 7.04-point increase to 36.87 in its rolling-day window. The edition’s overnight event log records that same move, rather than a further gain. That score remains below the closing provisional gold threshold of 38.20. Public positions and medal bands remain provisional; the private board decides the final result.

ARC-3 public leaderboard and observed history · in blue climbs from 742nd to 31st on ARC-AGI-3

From the summit

Away from the board, the editor-approved October 23 dispatch records an MIT gathering with Tufa’s Dries Smit, two unnamed ARC3 puzzle masters, Son Pham and ARC Prize’s Matt Mazur. The accompanying cyberpunk group cartoon is an editorial fantasy based on the supplied photograph. Social and discussion research was not refreshed for this edition; saved participant reports do not establish a scoring outage or its cause.

Meeting Tufa, the mystery puzzle masters and Matt at MIT

From the box score

Team	Rank	Score	Rank change	Score change
Tufa Labs	1	68.91	Unchanged	0
Yi-Chia Chen	2	68.21	Not available	Not available
Team Turducken	3	56.02	Unchanged	+3.2
mtg	4	50.37	Unchanged	0
the last dance 🕺	5	49.85	Unchanged	0
Grigoriy Zatravkin	6	47.19	Unchanged	0
復活の混テキスト	7	46.82	Unchanged	0
NVARC3	8	45.9	Unchanged	0
artificialagencylab.com	9	45.41	Unchanged	0
Majkel1337	10	45.03	Unchanged	0
Jan Disselhoff	17	38.37	Unchanged	0
Lord Han Solo	28	37.07	Unchanged	0
paul	55	34.99	Unchanged	+0.3
Patrick Chan	120	33.25	Up 8	+0.06
David Hartmann	743	29.83	Not available	Not available

Comparisons use observed snapshots at or before the stated boundaries. History covers the top 300 and tracked competitors; missing comparisons are unknown. Score-event entries are context, not net daily gains. Unfamiliar names are not necessarily new entrants.

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