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Puzzle#1047

Connections

Released: 2026-04-23


7
Models Tested
4
Solved
2.86
Avg. Correct Connections
7
LLM Providers

google/gemini-2.0-flash-001

google

1/4

SCIENCE, HISTORICAL, LITERARY, PULP

Magazine Genres

NEIGHBOR, MOTHER, MY, VERY

Words That Can Follow ’Dear’

ASIAGO, DEVOTE, EDUCATED, TOTORO

Things that are Cheesy

FLANK, SKIRT, TOUCH, WHAMMY

Types of Steak


anthropic/claude-3.7-sonnet

anthropic

4/4

FLANK, NEIGHBOR, SKIRT, TOUCH

BORDER-RELATED TERMS

HISTORICAL, LITERARY, PULP, SCIENCE

FICTION GENRES

EDUCATED, MOTHER, MY, VERY

WORDS THAT CAN PRECEDE ’GUESS’

ASIAGO, DEVOTE, TOTORO, WHAMMY

WORDS CONTAINING ’TO’


openai/gpt-4o

openai

1/4

FLANK, SKIRT, TOUCH, DEVOTE

Words that can prefix ’line’

NEIGHBOR, MOTHER, MY, VERY

Words in the nursery rhyme ’Twinkle Twinkle Little Star’

HISTORICAL, LITERARY, PULP, SCIENCE

Types of fiction or genres

EDUCATED, ASIAGO, TOTORO, WHAMMY

Recent popular or cultural references


mistralai/mistral-medium-3

mistral

4/4

FLANK, NEIGHBOR, SKIRT, TOUCH

Words that can mean to be adjacent to

HISTORICAL, LITERARY, PULP, SCIENCE

Types of fiction

EDUCATED, MOTHER, MY, VERY

Words that can precede ’dear’

ASIAGO, DEVOTE, TOTORO, WHAMMY

Words containing ’to’ in sequence


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

meta

4/4

FLANK, SKIRT, TOUCH, NEIGHBOR

Types of steak cuts or words related to proximity

HISTORICAL, LITERARY, SCIENCE, PULP

Fiction genres

EDUCATED, MOTHER, MY, VERY

Words that can be combined with ’mother’ to create phrases like ’educated mother’, ’mother of my’, ’my very mother’, but more likely related to phrases like ’my very educated mother’ which is a mnemonic for the order of taxonomy ranks

ASIAGO, DEVOTE, TOTORO, WHAMMY

Proper nouns or unique words: ASIAGO is a type of cheese, DEVOTE is an action but ’Whammy’ and ’Totoro’ are distinctive nouns referencing a game show and a character respectively


deepseek/deepseek-chat-v3-0324

deepseek

4/4

FLANK, NEIGHBOR, SKIRT, TOUCH

Words that can follow ’next to’

HISTORICAL, LITERARY, PULP, SCIENCE

Types of fiction

EDUCATED, MOTHER, MY, VERY

Titles of songs by Taylor Swift

ASIAGO, DEVOTE, TOTORO, WHAMMY

Words that can follow ’My’


x-ai/grok-3-mini-beta

x-ai

2/4

HISTORICAL, LITERARY, PULP, SCIENCE

Fiction genres

FLANK, SKIRT, TOUCH, DEVOTE

Verbs

MY, VERY, EDUCATED, MOTHER

Descriptive words

NEIGHBOR, TOTORO, WHAMMY, ASIAGO

Names or 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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