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Puzzle#1027

Connections

Released: 2026-04-03


7
Models Tested
3
Solved
2.57
Avg. Correct Connections
7
LLM Providers

google/gemini-2.0-flash-001

google

1/4

HURRICANE, MISSION, CRUISE, ROCKS

Tom Cruise Movies

JONES, COLLINS, LONG, ZOMBIE

Last Names That Are Drinks

LUST, THIRST, DAMAGE, GROUND

Things That Need To Be Quenched

SMALL, MEAN, SNIDE, PETTY

Synonyms for Ungenerous


openai/gpt-4o

openai

2/4

MEAN, PETTY, SMALL, SNIDE

Synonyms for ’insignificant’ or ’trivial’

JONES, LONG, LUST, THIRST

Synonyms for ’desire’

COLLINS, HURRICANE, ZOMBIE, CRUISE

Names that can be associated with famous or fictional characters

ROCKS, DAMAGE, GROUND, MISSION

Terms related to exploration or adventure


anthropic/claude-3.7-sonnet

anthropic

4/4

MEAN, PETTY, SMALL, SNIDE

NEGATIVE DESCRIPTORS

JONES, LONG, LUST, THIRST

WORDS THAT CAN FOLLOW ’FOR’

COLLINS, HURRICANE, ROCKS, ZOMBIE

TOM CRUISE MOVIE COCKTAILS

CRUISE, DAMAGE, GROUND, MISSION

WORDS THAT CAN PRECEDE ’CONTROL’


deepseek/deepseek-chat-v3-0324

deepseek

4/4

MEAN, PETTY, SMALL, SNIDE

Synonyms for unkind or spiteful

JONES, LONG, LUST, THIRST

Words that can follow ’long’

COLLINS, HURRICANE, ROCKS, ZOMBIE

Cocktail names

CRUISE, DAMAGE, GROUND, MISSION

Words that can follow ’mission’


mistralai/mistral-medium-3

mistral

4/4

MEAN, PETTY, SMALL, SNIDE

Types of insults

JONES, LONG, LUST, THIRST

Words that can follow ’HEDGE’ or ’BLOOD’ to form compound words

COLLINS, HURRICANE, ROCKS, ZOMBIE

Types of cocktails

CRUISE, DAMAGE, GROUND, MISSION

Words that can follow ’CONTROL’ to form compound words


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

meta

1/4

MEAN, PETTY, SNIDE, SMALL

Types of insults or derogatory terms

LUST, THIRST, HURRICANE, MISSION

Types of words that can be combined with ’crusade’

JONES, COLLINS, CRUISE, ZOMBIE

Last names of famous individuals (Tom Jones, Phil Collins, Tom Cruise) or a genre (zombie)

LONG, ROCKS, GROUND, DAMAGE

Types of words that can be combined with other words to create new words or phrases


x-ai/grok-3-mini-beta

x-ai

2/4

MEAN, PETTY, SMALL, SNIDE

Insults

ZOMBIE, HURRICANE, LONG, COLLINS

Cocktails

CRUISE, DAMAGE, GROUND, MISSION

Control

JONES, LUST, THIRST, ROCKS

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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