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Puzzle#1000

Connections

Released: 2026-03-07


6
Models Tested
4
Solved
3.33
Avg. Correct Connections
6
LLM Providers

anthropic/claude-3.7-sonnet

anthropic

4/4

BUCK, DOLLAR, ONE, SINGLE

Forms of currency or money

ROMEO, THOU, WHEREFORE, ART

Words from Shakespeare

BOUNCY, NEW, SAND, WHITE

Types of castle

AIRPORT, DATING APP, INTERNET CAFE,

Places with Wi-Fi


x-ai/grok-3-mini-beta

x-ai

4/4

BUCK, DOLLAR, ONE, SINGLE

Currency terms

ROMEO, THOU, WHEREFORE, ART

Shakespearean terms

BOUNCY, NEW, WHITE, SAND

Descriptors

AIRPORT, DATING APP, INTERNET CAFE,

Places or services


deepseek/deepseek-chat-v3-0324

deepseek

4/4

BUCK, DOLLAR, ONE, SINGLE

Words meaning ’one dollar’

ART, ROMEO, THOU, WHEREFORE

Words from Shakespeare’s plays

BOUNCY, NEW, SAND, WHITE

Words that can precede ’castle’

AIRPORT, DATING APP, INTERNET CAFE,

Places with Wi-Fi


meta-llama/llama-3.3-70b-instruct

meta

4/4

BUCK, DOLLAR, ONE, SINGLE

Types of currency or monetary amounts

ROMEO, THOU, WHEREFORE, ART

Words related to Shakespeare or Romeo and Juliet

BOUNCY, NEW, SAND, WHITE

Types of castles

AIRPORT, DATING APP, INTERNET CAFE,

Places where people often meet for the first time


openai/gpt-4o

openai

2/4

BUCK, DOLLAR, ONE, SINGLE

Synonyms or related to money and singularity

ROMEO, THOU, WHEREFORE, ART

References to Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet

DATING APP, NEW, SAND, WHITE

Words commonly associated with the word ’castle’ (castle, new, castle, sand, white)

BOUNCY, INTERNET CAFE, AIRPORT,

Associated with public places or used in specific infrastructure (e.g., bouncy castles, public internet access, airports)


google/gemini-2.0-flash-001

google

2/4

ONE, BUCK, DOLLAR, SINGLE

Words for a unit of currency

AIRPORT, SAND, WHITE, NEW

Words that start with a name of a colour

WHEREFORE, ROMEO, THOU, ART

Shakespearean words

BOUNCY, INTERNET CAFE, DATING APP,


Methodology Note

Each model receives the same prompt with the 16 words to connect. Models are tasked with creating 4 connections and their answers are evaluated without feedback or retries.

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