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Puzzle#1017

Connections

Released: 2026-03-24


7
Models Tested
2
Solved
2.29
Avg. Correct Connections
7
LLM Providers

google/gemini-2.0-flash-001

google

2/4

MEAN, VILE, LOW, BASE

Synonyms for unpleasant

BOW, KISS, RING, VOW

Marriage related words

DUMP, FIRE, FOOD, TOW

"___ TRUCK"

CAKE, ROW, SOW, WIND

Words that can be followed by "WALK"


openai/gpt-4o

openai

2/4

BASE, LOW, MEAN, VILE

Synonyms for low quality or morally bad

CAKE, KISS, RING, VOW

Items or actions associated with weddings

DUMP, FIRE, FOOD, WIND

Common elements related to waste or natural elements

TOW, BOW, ROW, SOW

Words that rhyme


anthropic/claude-3.7-sonnet

anthropic

4/4

BASE, LOW, MEAN, VILE

DESCRIPTORS OF CHARACTER

CAKE, KISS, RING, VOW

WEDDING ELEMENTS

DUMP, FIRE, FOOD, TOW

THINGS YOU CAN TRUCK

BOW, ROW, SOW, WIND

WORDS PRONOUNCED DIFFERENTLY DEPENDING ON MEANING


mistralai/mistral-medium-3

mistral

2/4

BASE, LOW, MEAN, VILE

Words that can precede ’life’

CAKE, KISS, RING, VOW

Wedding traditions

DUMP, FIRE, FOOD, WIND

Words that can follow ’truck’

BOW, ROW, SOW, TOW

Words that are also homophones for actions


deepseek/deepseek-chat-v3-0324

deepseek

4/4

BASE, LOW, MEAN, VILE

Synonyms for despicable

CAKE, KISS, RING, VOW

Elements of a wedding

DUMP, FIRE, FOOD, TOW

Words that can follow ’dump’

BOW, ROW, SOW, WIND

Words that can follow ’wind’


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

meta

Failed

KISS, RING, VOW, BOW

Wedding actions or items

FIRE, WIND, LOW, ROW

Forms or directions of a break

DUMP, BASE, MEAN, VILE

Words for something undesirable or of poor quality

CAKE, FOOD, TOW, SOW

Words related to types of things to eat or agricultural actions


x-ai/grok-3-mini-beta

x-ai

2/4

KISS, RING, VOW, CAKE

Wedding related

BASE, LOW, MEAN, VILE

Negative adjectives

BOW, ROW, SOW, TOW

Verbs ending in -ow

DUMP, FIRE, FOOD, WIND

Words in phrasal verbs


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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