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Puzzle#1023

Connections

Released: 2026-03-30


7
Models Tested
4
Solved
3.00
Avg. Correct Connections
7
LLM Providers

google/gemini-2.0-flash-001

google

4/4

AVIS, BUDGET, DOLLAR, HERTZ

Rental Car Companies

DUMMY, ERSATZ, FAUX, MOCK

Fake

FUTZ, MESS, TINKER, TOY

Play Around

FRITZ, PLAYS, TRUFFLES, YUTZ

Words That Sound Like Marx Brothers


mistralai/mistral-medium-3

mistral

1/4

DUMMY, MOCK, PLAYS, TOY

Types of pretend or imitation

ERSATZ, FAUX, FUTZ, YUTZ

Words of non-English origin commonly used in English

AVIS, BUDGET, DOLLAR, HERTZ

Companies in the car rental industry

FRITZ, MESS, TINKER, TRUFFLES

Words that can be verbs or nouns


openai/gpt-4o

openai

2/4

DUMMY, ERSATZ, FAUX, MOCK

Synonyms for fake or false

AVIS, BUDGET, DOLLAR, HERTZ

Car rental companies

FUTZ, MESS, TINKER, YUTZ

Yiddish or informal terms

TOY, FRITZ, PLAYS, TRUFFLES

Things associated with play or indulgence


anthropic/claude-3.7-sonnet

anthropic

4/4

DUMMY, ERSATZ, FAUX, MOCK

FAKE, IMITATION

FUTZ, MESS, TINKER, TOY

FIDDLE AROUND WITH

AVIS, BUDGET, DOLLAR, HERTZ

CAR RENTAL COMPANIES

FRITZ, PLAYS, TRUFFLES, YUTZ

WORDS ENDING IN Z SOUND


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

meta

4/4

ERSATZ, FAUX, MOCK, DUMMY

Fake or artificial

AVIS, BUDGET, DOLLAR, HERTZ

Car rental companies

FUTZ, MESS, TINKER, TOY

Play or tamper with something

FRITZ, PLAYS, TRUFFLES, YUTZ

Names or words of German or Yiddish origin


deepseek/deepseek-chat-v3-0324

deepseek

4/4

DUMMY, ERSATZ, FAUX, MOCK

Words meaning fake or imitation

FUTZ, MESS, TINKER, TOY

Words meaning to fiddle or play around with something

AVIS, BUDGET, DOLLAR, HERTZ

Car rental companies

FRITZ, PLAYS, TRUFFLES, YUTZ

Titles of TV shows or movies with ’The’ before them


x-ai/grok-3-mini-beta

x-ai

2/4

DUMMY, ERSATZ, FAUX, MOCK

Imitations

AVIS, BUDGET, DOLLAR, HERTZ

Car rental companies

FUTZ, MESS, TINKER, YUTZ

To mess around

TOY, PLAYS, TRUFFLES, FRITZ

Words that can be 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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