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Puzzle#1059

Connections

Released: 2026-05-05


7
Models Tested
2
Solved
2.00
Avg. Correct Connections
7
LLM Providers

google/gemini-2.0-flash-001

google

Failed

HINT, POINTER, SUGGESTION, WHIFF

Subtle Indication

HICCUP, SHIVER, SNEEZE, FLICKER

Involuntary Body Reactions

BEND, SETBACK, HITCH, BOWLINE

Types of Knots

SHEEPSHANK, GAMELAN, MATCHSTICK, BLINK

Words That Sound like Other Words


openai/gpt-4o

openai

1/4

FLICKER, BLINK, HICCUP, SNEEZE

Involuntary actions

HINT, SUGGESTION, WHIFF, POINTER

Subtle indications

BOWLINE, HITCH, SHEEPSHANK, BEND

Types of knots

SHIVER, GAMELAN, MATCHSTICK, SETBACK

Things that might cause movement or change


anthropic/claude-3.7-sonnet

anthropic

4/4

FLICKER, HINT, SUGGESTION, WHIFF

SLIGHT INDICATION

BLINK, HICCUP, SHIVER, SNEEZE

INVOLUNTARY BODILY ACTIONS

BEND, BOWLINE, HITCH, SHEEPSHANK

TYPES OF KNOTS

GAMELAN, MATCHSTICK, POINTER, SETBACK

THINGS USED IN GAMES


deepseek/deepseek-chat-v3-0324

deepseek

4/4

BLINK, HICCUP, SHIVER, SNEEZE

Involuntary bodily actions

BEND, BOWLINE, HITCH, SHEEPSHANK

Types of knots

FLICKER, HINT, WHIFF, SUGGESTION

Indications or traces

GAMELAN, MATCHSTICK, POINTER, SETBACK

Words that can follow ’drum’


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

meta

2/4

HINT, SUGGESTION, HICCUP, SNEEZE

Words related to subtle indicators or involuntary actions

BEND, BOWLINE, HITCH, SHEEPSHANK

Types of knots

FLICKER, BLINK, SHIVER, WHIFF

Words related to brief or sudden movements

GAMELAN, MATCHSTICK, POINTER, SETBACK

Words related to objects or concepts with specific uses or associations


x-ai/grok-3-mini-beta

x-ai

1/4

HINT, SUGGESTION, WHIFF, POINTER

Hints

BEND, BOWLINE, HITCH, SHEEPSHANK

Knots

BLINK, FLICKER, HICCUP, SHIVER

Involuntary Actions

SNEEZE, GAMELAN, MATCHSTICK, SETBACK

Other Terms


mistralai/mistral-medium-3

mistral

2/4

FLICKER, BLINK, WHIFF, HINT

Words meaning a brief or slight indication

HICCUP, SHIVER, SNEEZE, SUGGESTION

Involuntary actions or reactions

BEND, BOWLINE, HITCH, SHEEPSHANK

Types of knots

GAMELAN, MATCHSTICK, POINTER, SETBACK

Words that can be musical 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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