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Puzzle#1042

Connections

Released: 2026-04-18


7
Models Tested
7
Solved
4.00
Avg. Correct Connections
7
LLM Providers

google/gemini-2.0-flash-001

google

4/4

AC, DC, POWER, VOLTAGE

Electrical terms

DARK HORSE, LONG SHOT, SLEEPER, UNDERDOG

Figurative Uses of Unlikely Winners

STARE, WONDER, GOGGLE, MARVEL

Types of Gazes

FANTAGRAPHICS, FRESCADE, CRUSHWORTHY, PEPSINOGEN

Words with uncommon initial letter combinations


openai/gpt-4o

openai

4/4

AC, DC, POWER, VOLTAGE

Electricity-related terms

DARK HORSE, LONG SHOT, SLEEPER, UNDERDOG

Terms for an unexpected contender

GOGGLE, MARVEL, STARE, WONDER

Words related to sight or amazement

CRUSHWORTHY, FANTAGRAPHICS, FRESCADE, PEPSINOGEN

Unusual or unique words


anthropic/claude-3.7-sonnet

anthropic

4/4

GOGGLE, MARVEL, STARE, WONDER

LOOK WITH AMAZEMENT

AC, DC, POWER, VOLTAGE

ELECTRICITY TERMS

DARK HORSE, LONG SHOT, SLEEPER, UNDERDOG

UNEXPECTED WINNERS

CRUSHWORTHY, FANTAGRAPHICS, FRESCADE, PEPSINOGEN

BRAND NAMES


mistralai/mistral-medium-3

mistral

4/4

GOGGLE, STARE, WONDER, MARVEL

Words meaning to look

AC, DC, POWER, VOLTAGE

Electrical terms

DARK HORSE, LONG SHOT, SLEEPER, UNDERDOG

Terms for unexpected winners

CRUSHWORTHY, FANTAGRAPHICS, FRESCADE, PEPSINOGEN

Words containing ’graph’ or ’pep’


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

meta

4/4

GOGGLE, STARE, WONDER, MARVEL

Words related to looking or admiring

AC, DC, POWER, VOLTAGE

Terms related to electricity

DARK HORSE, LONG SHOT, SLEEPER, UNDERDOG

Terms for an unlikely winner

CRUSHWORTHY, FANTAGRAPHICS, FRESCADE, PEPSINOGEN

Obscure or unusual words, with FANTAGRAPHICS being a publisher like MARVEL and the others being relatively unknown or niche terms


deepseek/deepseek-chat-v3-0324

deepseek

4/4

GOGGLE, MARVEL, STARE, WONDER

Words related to looking or amazement

AC, DC, POWER, VOLTAGE

Terms related to electricity

DARK HORSE, LONG SHOT, SLEEPER, UNDERDOG

Terms for unlikely winners

CRUSHWORTHY, FANTAGRAPHICS, FRESCADE, PEPSINOGEN

Obscure or less common words


x-ai/grok-3-mini-beta

x-ai

4/4

GOGGLE, MARVEL, STARE, WONDER

Gazing verbs

AC, DC, POWER, VOLTAGE

Electrical concepts

DARK HORSE, LONG SHOT, SLEEPER, UNDERDOG

Underdog terms

CRUSHWORTHY, FANTAGRAPHICS, FRESCADE, PEPSINOGEN

Specific terms


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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