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Puzzle#1050

Connections

Released: 2026-04-26


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

google/gemini-2.0-flash-001

google

4/4

DICK, JANE, MOTHER, SPOT

Characters in children’s books

CLIFF, BUILDING, POLYHEDRON, CLOCK

Things That Can Be Scaled

CATCH, FINE PRINT, STRINGS, CAVEAT

Things that Come With Conditions

PITCH, RANGE, REGISTER, TONE

Qualities of a Voice


anthropic/claude-3.7-sonnet

anthropic

4/4

CATCH, CAVEAT, FINE PRINT, STRINGS

ATTACHED CONDITIONS

PITCH, RANGE, REGISTER, TONE

QUALITIES OF SOUND

DICK, JANE, MOTHER, SPOT

CHARACTERS IN EARLY READERS

BUILDING, CLIFF, CLOCK, POLYHEDRON

THINGS WITH FACES


openai/gpt-4o

openai

4/4

CATCH, CAVEAT, FINE PRINT, STRINGS

Hidden conditions or details

PITCH, RANGE, REGISTER, TONE

Musical or sound-related terms

DICK, JANE, MOTHER, SPOT

Characters from the ’Dick and Jane’ book series

BUILDING, CLIFF, CLOCK, POLYHEDRON

Things that have faces


mistralai/mistral-medium-3

mistral

2/4

CATCH, PITCH, RANGE, TONE

BASEBALL TERMS

CAVEAT, FINE PRINT, STRINGS, REGISTER

ATTACHED CONDITIONS

DICK, JANE, MOTHER, SPOT

FAMOUS NURSERY RHYME CHARACTERS

BUILDING, CLIFF, CLOCK, POLYHEDRON

TYPES OF FACES


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

meta

Failed

CATCH, DICK, JANE, MOTHER

Names of classic children’s book characters

CAVEAT, FINE PRINT, SPOT, CLIFF

Words related to warnings or precautions

STRINGS, PITCH, RANGE, TONE

Musical terms

BUILDING, CLOCK, POLYHEDRON, REGISTER

Words related to architecture or geometric shapes and timekeeping or accounting


x-ai/grok-3-mini-beta

x-ai

4/4

PITCH, RANGE, REGISTER, TONE

Music Terms

CATCH, CAVEAT, FINE PRINT, STRINGS

Conditions or Caveats

DICK, JANE, MOTHER, SPOT

Dick and Jane Characters

BUILDING, CLIFF, CLOCK, POLYHEDRON

Things with Faces


deepseek/deepseek-chat-v3-0324

deepseek

4/4

CATCH, CAVEAT, FINE PRINT, STRINGS

Terms related to conditions or stipulations

PITCH, RANGE, REGISTER, TONE

Musical or vocal terms

DICK, JANE, MOTHER, SPOT

Characters from ’Dick and Jane’ stories

BUILDING, CLIFF, CLOCK, POLYHEDRON

Types of faces on a die (dice)


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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