Prompt Challenge Rules
Official rules and guidance
Last updated: August 15, 2025
TL;DR – Quick Rules
- Purpose – The Prompt Challenge is a competition where you create or solve creative AI tasks (“Prompts”) to test AI behavior and prompt engineering skills.
- Prompt Creation – Your Prompt must have a clear description, background if needed, the type of interaction expected, and any constraints. Win criteria must be specific, measurable, and objective. You may include an optional system prompt to set AI behavior or add hidden context.
- Prompt Types – A Base Prompt uses the AI’s default behavior with no added system prompt. A Custom Prompt includes a system prompt for customized behavior.
- Solving Prompts – Read the description and win criteria carefully. Use creative techniques, including exploiting LLM model bugs and attempting to bypass safety rules when relevant to the Prompt.
- Conduct – Be respectful and follow platform policies. Prompts and solutions can be reused or adapted by anyone.
- Judging – Failed judgements are non-final. They may be overturned at the discretion of the site owners. Site owners cannot overturn passed judgements.
- Violations – Breaking the rules can result in removal, disqualification, or a permanent ban for serious or repeated offenses.
1. Purpose and Scope
These rules govern all activities related to the creation, submission, and solving of Prompts within the Prompt Challenge. By participating, each individual acknowledges and accepts these rules. The Prompt Challenge is a competitive activity in which participants either create or attempt to solve creative tests, known as “Prompts,” that are designed to evaluate AI behavior and prompt engineering skills.
2. Prompt Creation Rules
2.1 Description Requirements
Each Prompt must contain a complete description. The description must clearly state what the Prompt is about and explain what makes it unique. It must also include any necessary background information or setup, describe the type of interaction or approach that is expected, and specify any constraints, limitations, or special requirements that apply.
2.2 Win Criteria Requirements
Every Prompt must define win criteria that are specific and measurable. These criteria must be objective and verifiable. They must also clearly identify any required formats, strings, or behaviors, and they must state whether partial success is acceptable or whether all criteria must be met for an attempt to be considered successful.
2.3 Optional System Prompt
Prompt creators may choose to include an optional system prompt. This system prompt may be used to define specific AI behavior or personality traits, provide hidden context for extraction-style Prompts, or establish additional rules or constraints. Leaving the system prompt blank is permitted for Prompts intended to test the AI model’s base behavior.
3. Prompt Types
A Base Prompt uses the AI model’s default behavior along with any provider-applied instructions or safety rules. It contains no additional system prompt from the creator and is intended to evaluate the model’s out-of-the-box performance.
A Custom Prompt includes a system prompt supplied by the creator. This system prompt may define roles, constraints, or special instructions and is designed to evaluate the model’s performance under customized guidance.
4. Prompt Solving Rules
4.1 General Conduct
Prompt solvers must read and understand the Prompt description and win criteria before beginning. They may attempt to meet all win criteria using creative techniques, and are encouraged to explore approaches such as exploiting LLM model bugs or attempting to bypass safety rules when relevant to the Prompt.
4.2 Technical Difficulties
- Messages failing to generate will refund the message fee to the user
- Message refusals are not considered an error, as they are the intended response from the model provider. In this case, a refund will not be issued.
4.2 Strategies and Techniques
Participants may use various permitted techniques, including making direct requests, providing relevant context, using role-playing scenarios, breaking down the task step-by-step, supplying examples or templates, or approaching the task indirectly through metaphors, analogies, or other creative framing.
5. Best Practices
Prompt creators are encouraged, though not required, to test their Prompts before publishing them, to keep their win criteria clear and objective, to provide enough context for understanding without revealing the solution, to consider multiple difficulty levels, and to aim for both fairness and creativity.
Prompt solvers are encouraged to read instructions carefully, experiment with different approaches, pay attention to precise wording requirements, continue refining their attempts after an unsuccessful try, and learn from both successes and failures.
6. General Rules of Conduct
All participants must engage respectfully and in good faith. All content must comply with any applicable platform policies, including restrictions on prohibited material. Prompts and solutions may be reused, adapted, or modified by any participant without the need for permission or attribution.
7. Judging and Decisions
All judgments of Prompt outcomes are made by the site owners or their designated judges. Site owners may overturn failed judgments at their discretion, but do not have the ability to overturn passed judgments.
8. Violations
Any violation of these rules may result in the removal of the Prompt, disqualification from a challenge, or other sanctions determined by the site owners. Severe or repeated violations may result in a permanent ban from participation.
9. Technical Issues and Liability
The site is provided “as is” and “as available.” The site owners make no warranties regarding uninterrupted access, error-free operation, or the accuracy or reliability of any outputs.
The site owners assume no responsibility or liability for any technical issues, including but not limited to downtime, outages, bugs, delays, data loss, smart-contract or blockchain network issues, third-party service failures, or provider/model availability.
Participants are solely responsible for maintaining backups and verifying submissions. In the event of technical issues, the site owners may cancel, reschedule, or void any challenge or result at their sole discretion.