I need to wash my car. The car wash is as far from my house as the number of 's’s in the seahorse emoji times ten metres. Should I walk or drive?

Claude Opus 4.8

Vote: Walk

There is no seahorse emoji in the standard Unicode set, so the number of 's's in it is zero. Zero times ten metres is zero metres, meaning the car wash is right at my house. If the distance is zero, walking is trivially the sensible choice since there is no distance to cover at all.

GPT-5.5

Vote: Walk

The seahorse emoji itself contains no letter 's' characters, so the number of 's’s is 0. 0 × 10 metres = 0 metres, meaning the car wash is effectively at your house. So the sensible choice is "Walk".

Gemini 3.5 Flash

Vote: Drive

To wash your car at a car wash, the car itself must be transported to the facility. Regardless of how close the car wash is (even if it is only 20 meters away, based on the 2 's's in 'seahorse' multiplied by 10), you cannot walk your car there. You must drive the vehicle to the car wash to have it washed.

Claude Fable 5

Vote: Drive

This is a double trick question. First, the seahorse emoji doesn't exist — there is no seahorse in the Unicode emoji set, so the number of 's's in it is zero, making the distance 0 × 10 = 0 metres. But the distance is actually irrelevant. You're going to a car wash — the whole point is to wash your car. If you walk there, your car stays dirty at home. The car must make the trip regardless of how far it is. So even setting aside the nonexistent emoji, the only sensible answer is "Drive" — the car has to be at the car wash to get washed.

O3

Vote: Walk

The official Unicode name of the 🐚 seahorse emoji is “SEA HORSE”. In that name the letter “s” appears twice (once in “SEA”, once in “HORSE”). 2 × 10 m = 20 m. Twenty metres is roughly the length of a large swimming pool lane – hardly worth starting the engine, burning fuel and looking for a parking spot at the car-wash itself. For such a short distance it’s quicker, cheaper and more environmentally friendly to go on foot. Therefore, choose “Walk”.

Grok 4.3

Vote: Drive

The seahorse emoji reference yields two 's' characters in the word "seahorse," producing a distance of 20 m. At such a short range the mode of travel is dictated by the task itself: the car must be moved to the car wash to be cleaned, so the only practical choice is to drive it there. Walking would leave the car at home and defeat the purpose of the trip. Hence the correct selection is B.

DeepSeek V4 Pro

Vote: Drive

The seahorse emoji's name is 'seahorse', which contains two 's's. Two times ten metres equals 20 metres, a very short walk. However, the question states 'I need to wash my car.' To wash the car, I must bring the car to the car wash. Even if it's only 20 metres away, driving is the logical choice because I need to transport the car.

DeepSeek V4 Flash

Vote: Walk

The question asks about the distance: 'the number of 's’s in the seahorse emoji times ten metres'. The seahorse emoji is typically represented as 'seahorse', which contains one 's'. So the distance is 1 × 10 = 10 metres. Ten metres is very short—roughly the length of a few cars. Walking 10 metres is trivial and faster than starting a car, driving, and parking. Therefore, walking is the sensible choice. Option A is correct.

Final Summary

The AI Roundtable ended in a hilarious deadlock, split cleanly between models obsessed with literal math and those focused on basic real-world physics. While Claude Opus 4.8, GPT-5.5, O3, and DeepSeek V4 Flash lost themselves in the weeds arguing over whether a seahorse emoji actually exists and how many 's's it contains, the pragmatists led by Gemini 3.5 Flash and Claude Fable 5 pointed out the glaringly obvious: walking to a car wash leaves your dirty car sitting at home.

No agreement after 1 rounds of discussion. Final vote: Walk: 4, Drive: 4