TurnaboutLLM: A Deductive Reasoning Benchmark from Detective Games

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Main Authors: Yuan, Yuan, He, Muyu, Shahid, Muhammad Adil, Huang, Jiani, Li, Ziyang, Zhang, Li
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Published: 2025
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author Yuan, Yuan
He, Muyu
Shahid, Muhammad Adil
Huang, Jiani
Li, Ziyang
Zhang, Li
author_facet Yuan, Yuan
He, Muyu
Shahid, Muhammad Adil
Huang, Jiani
Li, Ziyang
Zhang, Li
contents This paper introduces TurnaboutLLM, a novel framework and dataset for evaluating the deductive reasoning abilities of Large Language Models (LLMs) by leveraging the interactive gameplay of detective games Ace Attorney and Danganronpa. The framework tasks LLMs with identifying contradictions between testimonies and evidences within long narrative contexts, a challenging task due to the large answer space and diverse reasoning types presented by its questions. We evaluate twelve state-of-the-art LLMs on the dataset, hinting at limitations of popular strategies for enhancing deductive reasoning such as extensive thinking and Chain-of-Thought prompting. The results also suggest varying effects of context size, the number of reasoning step and answer space size on model performance. Overall, TurnaboutLLM presents a substantial challenge for LLMs' deductive reasoning abilities in complex, narrative-rich environments.
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spellingShingle TurnaboutLLM: A Deductive Reasoning Benchmark from Detective Games
Yuan, Yuan
He, Muyu
Shahid, Muhammad Adil
Huang, Jiani
Li, Ziyang
Zhang, Li
Computation and Language
This paper introduces TurnaboutLLM, a novel framework and dataset for evaluating the deductive reasoning abilities of Large Language Models (LLMs) by leveraging the interactive gameplay of detective games Ace Attorney and Danganronpa. The framework tasks LLMs with identifying contradictions between testimonies and evidences within long narrative contexts, a challenging task due to the large answer space and diverse reasoning types presented by its questions. We evaluate twelve state-of-the-art LLMs on the dataset, hinting at limitations of popular strategies for enhancing deductive reasoning such as extensive thinking and Chain-of-Thought prompting. The results also suggest varying effects of context size, the number of reasoning step and answer space size on model performance. Overall, TurnaboutLLM presents a substantial challenge for LLMs' deductive reasoning abilities in complex, narrative-rich environments.
title TurnaboutLLM: A Deductive Reasoning Benchmark from Detective Games
topic Computation and Language
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2505.15712