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Puzzle#1031

Connections

Released: 2026-04-07


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

google/gemini-2.0-flash-001

google

4/4

CLASH, CONTEST, BATTLE, MATCH

Synonyms for a fight

ANOTHER, EITHER, NEITHER, ONE

Words That Show Choices

WILLING, DOWN, IN, GAME

Agreeable

LOW, NIGHT, WILD, AFTER

Things that Follow ’GOOD’


anthropic/claude-3.7-sonnet

anthropic

2/4

BATTLE, CLASH, CONTEST, MATCH

COMPETITIONS

DOWN, IN, LOW, WILLING

FOLLOWED BY "TO"

ANOTHER, EITHER, NEITHER, ONE

INDEFINITE PRONOUNS

AFTER, GAME, NIGHT, WILD

PRECEDE "LIFE"


mistralai/mistral-medium-3

mistral

2/4

BATTLE, CLASH, CONTEST, MATCH

Synonyms for competition

DOWN, IN, AFTER, WILD

Words that can follow ’game’

ANOTHER, EITHER, NEITHER, ONE

Indefinite pronouns

GAME, NIGHT, WILLING, LOW

Words that can precede ’life’


openai/gpt-4o

openai

1/4

BATTLE, CLASH, CONTEST, MATCH

Synonyms for competition or conflict

DOWN, LOW, AFTER, NIGHT

Related to decrease or night time

WILD, GAME, IN, ANOTHER

Phrases or words often paired with ’game’

WILLING, EITHER, NEITHER, ONE

Related to choices or options


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

meta

1/4

BATTLE, CLASH, CONTEST, MATCH

Types of conflict or competition

DOWN, LOW, WILD, NIGHT

Types of parties or social gatherings, but more specifically words that can be paired with ’town’ to create a type of gathering

IN, GAME, WILLING, ANOTHER

Phrases that include these words: ’in the game’, ’game willing’, ’in another’, ’willing in’, ’another in’, and more specifically words that can be connected to each other in phrases to still convey ’in game’ or ’willingness in game’

ONE, EITHER, NEITHER, AFTER

Words that can be singular or in pairs


deepseek/deepseek-chat-v3-0324

deepseek

4/4

BATTLE, CLASH, CONTEST, MATCH

Synonyms for competition

DOWN, GAME, IN, WILLING

Words that can follow ’up’

ANOTHER, EITHER, NEITHER, ONE

Words that can follow ’or’

AFTER, LOW, NIGHT, WILD

Words that can precede ’life’


x-ai/grok-3-mini-beta

x-ai

4/4

Battle, Clash, Contest, Match

Competitions

Either, Neither, Another, One

Options

After, Low, Night, Wild

Compound starters

Down, Game, In, Willing

Be phrases


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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