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Puzzle#1046

Connections

Released: 2026-04-22


7
Models Tested
5
Solved
3.14
Avg. Correct Connections
7
LLM Providers

google/gemini-2.0-flash-001

google

1/4

NICE, POLISH, PUNCH, SLUG

Things That Might Get A Nose

DECK, GAME, READING, STICKS

Components of ’Cards Against Humanity’

CLAY, GLAZE, KILN, WHEEL

Pottery Studio Equipment

ARTIST, HERB, SOCK, TRUCK

Things That Can Be Painted


anthropic/claude-3.7-sonnet

anthropic

4/4

CLAY, GLAZE, KILN, WHEEL

POTTERY TERMS

DECK, PUNCH, SLUG, SOCK

WAYS TO HIT SOMEONE

HERB, NICE, POLISH, READING

CITIES IN EUROPE

ARTIST, GAME, STICKS, TRUCK

THINGS THAT CAN BE STARVING


mistralai/mistral-medium-3

mistral

4/4

CLAY, GLAZE, KILN, WHEEL

Pottery Terms

DECK, PUNCH, SLUG, SOCK

Types of Hits in Boxing

HERB, NICE, POLISH, READING

Words that can precede ’man’

ARTIST, GAME, STICKS, TRUCK

Types of Shows or Performances


openai/gpt-4o

openai

4/4

CLAY, GLAZE, KILN, WHEEL

Pottery-related items

DECK, PUNCH, SLUG, SOCK

Terms for hits or impacts

HERB, NICE, POLISH, READING

Can be both nouns and adjectives

ARTIST, GAME, STICKS, TRUCK

Things that can involve ’play’


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

meta

1/4

KILN, WHEEL, CLAY, GLAZE

Pottery

DECK, TRUCK, STICKS, GAME

Card-related terms

PUNCH, SLUG, SOCK, POLISH

Types of blows or strikes

HERB, NICE, READING, ARTIST

Words that can be followed by ’garden’, ’guy’, ’room’, or ’easel’ respectively, but also other connections are possible for these words, however another connection is that ’Herb’ is a name, ’Nice’ is a city, ’Reading’ is a city and ’Artist’ is a person with a famous name like ’Artist’ former name of Prince, or another connection is the places: Herb as Herb Ritts, Nice as city, Reading as city, Artist as the artist formerly known as Prince, but a more specific category could be the one that unites these four: Herb, Nice, Reading and Artist can be surnames


deepseek/deepseek-chat-v3-0324

deepseek

4/4

CLAY, GLAZE, KILN, WHEEL

Pottery terms

DECK, PUNCH, SLUG, SOCK

Homonyms that can be types of punches

HERB, NICE, POLISH, READING

Words that can precede ’basil’

ARTIST, GAME, STICKS, TRUCK

Words that can follow ’paint’


x-ai/grok-3-mini-beta

x-ai

4/4

CLAY, GLAZE, KILN, WHEEL

Pottery

PUNCH, SLUG, SOCK, DECK

Fighting

HERB, NICE, POLISH, READING

Place names

ARTIST, GAME, STICKS, TRUCK

Entertainment


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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