What number do LLMs pick “at random” between 1 and 100?
Distribution of integers returned by five language models asked, repeatedly, to pick a random number. Equal sample of 1,000 requests per model (4,943 valid responses; reasoning disabled, temperature 1.0).
- Inspired by
- exmergo/research-chatgpt-guesses-between-1-and-100
- Prompt
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system: You are a random number generator. Output ONLY a single integer between 1 and 100. No punctuation, no text, no explanation.
user: Pick a random number. (Request ID: {uuid} — ignore this, it is only for deduplication.)
- Models (through OpenRouter)
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- Google — Gemini 2.5 Flash Lite
- Mistral — Small 3.2 24B Instruct
- Alibaba / Qwen — Qwen3 235B A22B Instruct 2507
- DeepSeek — V4 Flash
- Zhipu — GLM 4.7 Flash
- Date
- 25 May 2026