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[For the entire collection see Zbl 0703.00014.] This report is a summary (to date) of results in the search for partial differential equations in up to three independent and up to two dependent variables which admit three-soliton solutions. The results are presented for polynomial bilinear Hirota forms with terms up to weight six. This includes some examples of mixed weights (inhomogeneous forms). These equations are either known to be integrable or are candidates for the integrable class. Nevertheless there are, strictly speaking, an infinity of such conditions to be checked: admission of \(N\)-soliton solutions, \(N\in\mathbb{Z}\); even then, does the existence of a general soliton solution imply integrability? Further, there may be integrable equations which do not admit a Hirota bilinear form.