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Puzzle#1018

Connections

Released: 2026-03-25


7
Models Tested
5
Solved
3.00
Avg. Correct Connections
7
LLM Providers

mistralai/mistral-medium-3

mistral

4/4

BLUR, CLOUD, MUDDY, OBSCURE

Words related to unclear or indistinct

FORTUNE, PEOPLE, TIME, SPIN

Magazine titles

CASH, CHARGE, CHECK, WIRE

Payment methods

CUR, GALLOP, PING, QUARK

Types of animal sounds or names


openai/gpt-4o

openai

Failed

FORTUNE, TIME, CASH, PEOPLE

Magazine titles

CUR, GALLOP, PING, SPIN

Words associated with movement or sound

CHARGE, CHECK, CLOUD, WIRE

Financial terms

BLUR, MUDDY, OBSCURE, QUARK

Words associated with lack of clarity or smallness


anthropic/claude-3.7-sonnet

anthropic

4/4

BLUR, CLOUD, MUDDY, OBSCURE

MAKE UNCLEAR

FORTUNE, PEOPLE, SPIN, TIME

MAGAZINES

CASH, CHARGE, CHECK, WIRE

WAYS TO TRANSFER MONEY

CUR, GALLOP, PING, QUARK

TYPES OF SUBATOMIC PARTICLES


deepseek/deepseek-chat-v3-0324

deepseek

4/4

BLUR, CLOUD, MUDDY, OBSCURE

Words meaning to make unclear

FORTUNE, PEOPLE, SPIN, TIME

Magazine titles

CASH, CHARGE, CHECK, WIRE

Types of payments

CUR, GALLOP, PING, QUARK

Onomatopoeic words


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

meta

1/4

CLOUD, MUDDY, OBSCURE, BLUR

Types of unclear or vague visual conditions

FORTUNE, CASH, CHECK, CHARGE

Ways to pay or types of monetary transactions

PING, WIRE, CUR, QUARK

Terms related to physics, computer science, or units of measurement

PEOPLE, TIME, SPIN, GALLOP

Words that can be related to magazines (e.g. People magazine, Time magazine, Spin magazine, and Gallop could be related to a survey or poll like a Gallup poll)


x-ai/grok-3-mini-beta

x-ai

4/4

BLUR, CLOUD, MUDDY, OBSCURE

Ways to obscure

CASH, CHARGE, CHECK, WIRE

Financial terms

TIME, PEOPLE, FORTUNE, SPIN

Magazine names

CUR, GALLOP, PING, QUARK

Sounds and actions


google/gemini-2.0-flash-001

google

4/4

BLUR, MUDDY, OBSCURE, CLOUD

Vague, hard to see

CASH, CHECK, CHARGE, WIRE

Payment Methods

FORTUNE, PEOPLE, TIME, SPIN

Types of Magazine

PING, QUARK, CUR, GALLOP

Unusual Words Starting with ’q’ and ’g’


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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