I don't know if he trips him up, but he clearly finds out more than Soze would like. The story Kint wants people to believe is the one he made to grand jury. The facts in it checked out, I'm assuming that would be the 5 of them meeting at a line up over the arms robbery, the exposing of the NYPD, the murder of Saul Berg. He doesn't want the police hearing about Keyser Soze, or that they were on the boat with anything but dope. He didn't plan for anyone to make it out of the harbour alive. But he is able to quickly size up what Kujan wants (a story to fuel his obsession with Keaton) and takes him on that journey using names from the board behind him. It's possible he's used names on the board as a substitution for real people. It's possible he's completely confected entire parts of his story. He's eventually forced to work Soze in and so does it in a way that Kujan can link back to Keaton, which is all he's interested in anyway. Kint basically gives Kujan enogh rope to hang himself. But he's always in control of where the story goes because, as Kujan tells him at the start "I'm smarter than you, and I'm going to get what I want out of you whether you like it or not." Kujan's basically told him that he wants to hear a story about Keaton, and Kint tells it in such a way that Kujan believes he is drawing the information out of him reluctantly when really Kint's just leading Kujan exactly where he wants to go.
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