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Puzzle#1045

Connections

Released: 2026-04-21


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

mistralai/mistral-medium-3

mistral

4/4

BALONEY, BILGE, BULL, BUNK

Words meaning nonsense

BREEZE, MOSEY, STROLL, WALTZ

Words meaning to walk leisurely

CROSSBODY, HOBO, MESSENGER, SADDLE

Types of bags

GOLD, MOON, OCTOPUS, THUNDER

Words that can follow ’honey’ to make a compound word


anthropic/claude-3.7-sonnet

anthropic

4/4

BREEZE, MOSEY, STROLL, WALTZ

Ways to walk

BALONEY, BILGE, BULL, BUNK

Nonsense, rubbish

CROSSBODY, HOBO, MESSENGER, SADDLE

Types of bags

GOLD, MOON, OCTOPUS, THUNDER

James Bond movies


openai/gpt-4o

openai

4/4

BREEZE, MOSEY, STROLL, WALTZ

Synonyms for walking

BALONEY, BILGE, BULL, BUNK

Words meaning nonsense

CROSSBODY, HOBO, MESSENGER, SADDLE

Types of bags

GOLD, MOON, OCTOPUS, THUNDER

James Bond movie titles


google/gemini-2.0-flash-001

google

4/4

BULL, BUNK, BALONEY, BILGE

Nonsense

HOBO, MESSENGER, SADDLE, CROSSBODY

Types of Bags

MOSEY, STROLL, WALTZ, BREEZE

Types of Moving

GOLD, MOON, OCTOPUS, THUNDER

Items in ’Goldeneye 007’


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

meta

4/4

BREEZE, MOSEY, STROLL, WALTZ

Leisurely walking styles

BALONEY, BILGE, BULL, BUNK

Nonsense or rubbish

CROSSBODY, MESSENGER, SADDLE, HOBO

Types of bags

GOLD, MOON, OCTOPUS, THUNDER

Types of things that can be associated with the color or concept of ’gold’, like ’gold moon’ or mythological references


deepseek/deepseek-chat-v3-0324

deepseek

4/4

BREEZE, MOSEY, STROLL, WALTZ

Words meaning to move lightly or dance

BALONEY, BILGE, BULL, BUNK

Words meaning nonsense

CROSSBODY, HOBO, MESSENGER, SADDLE

Types of bags

GOLD, MOON, OCTOPUS, THUNDER

Things that can be silent (silent gold, silent moon, silent octopus, silent thunder)


x-ai/grok-3-mini-beta

x-ai

4/4

BREEZE, MOSEY, STROLL, WALTZ

Leisurely movements

BALONEY, BILGE, BULL, BUNK

Slang for nonsense

CROSSBODY, HOBO, MESSENGER, SADDLE

Types of bags

GOLD, MOON, OCTOPUS, THUNDER

Mythical or natural elements


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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