# Bad Influence story: Elie Bakouch adds five open models to Blood on the Clocktower benchmark

Active · 1 article · 1 source · First reported 11-11 14:31. Times are ET.
Story page: https://badinfluence.news/story/562896cf-d1f7-4808-bf94-e5f9f20d0028

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Latest update (11-11 14:31): Kimi K3.1 Pro ranks best open model on Blood on the Clocktower benchmark

Overview: Elie Bakouch added five open models to Dwarkesh Patel's Blood on the Clocktower benchmark, a social deduction game where models lie, bluff and try to catch each other. Kimi K3.1 Pro ranked best among the open models, just below GPT-5.5 among closed models.

Bakouch says models that play the game well also identify evil players more accurately when reading only the public transcript. He suggests this could let new models be ranked from existing games without playing new ones.

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1. 11-11 14:31 · Dwarkesh Patel · [Kimi K3.1 Pro ranks best open model on Blood on the Clocktower benchmark](https://badinfluence.news/items/k2eqkh7iszekz381ywvctcyts)
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