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Puzzle#1061

Connections

Released: 2026-05-07


7
Models Tested
6
Solved
3.71
Avg. Correct Connections
7
LLM Providers

google/gemini-2.0-flash-001

google

4/4

FLY, HOOK, LINE, NET

Fishing equipment

DOUBLE-DRIBBLE, GOALTEND, TRAVEL, CARRY

Basketball fouls

DROVE, HOST, MASS, PACK

Groups of things

CAR WINDOW, CHANNEL, ELEVATOR, VOLUME

Controls with slider


openai/gpt-4o

openai

4/4

FLY, HOOK, LINE, NET

Fishing terms

CARRY, DOUBLE-DRIBBLE, GOALTEND, TRAVEL

Basketball violations

DROVE, HOST, MASS, PACK

Collective nouns for groups

CAR WINDOW, CHANNEL, ELEVATOR, VOLUME

Things you can adjust


anthropic/claude-3.7-sonnet

anthropic

4/4

FLY, HOOK, LINE, NET

FISHING EQUIPMENT

DROVE, HOST, MASS, PACK

GROUPS OF THINGS OR PEOPLE

CARRY, DOUBLE-DRIBBLE, GOALTEND, TRAVEL

BASKETBALL VIOLATIONS

CAR WINDOW, CHANNEL, ELEVATOR, VOLUME

THINGS YOU CAN RAISE OR LOWER


mistralai/mistral-medium-3

mistral

4/4

DROVE, HOST, MASS, PACK

Words with double meanings (e.g., group of animals, religious service, etc.)

DOUBLE-DRIBBLE, GOALTEND, CARRY, TRAVEL

Basketball violations

FLY, HOOK, LINE, NET

Basketball shot types

CAR WINDOW, CHANNEL, ELEVATOR, VOLUME

Types of buttons


deepseek/deepseek-chat-v3-0324

deepseek

4/4

FLY, HOOK, LINE, NET

Fishing equipment

DROVE, HOST, MASS, PACK

Collective nouns for animals (drove of sheep, host of sparrows, mass of men, pack of wolves)

CARRY, DOUBLE-DRIBBLE, GOALTEND, TRAVEL

Basketball violations

CAR WINDOW, CHANNEL, ELEVATOR, VOLUME

Things that can be rolled up


x-ai/grok-3-mini-beta

x-ai

4/4

FLY, HOOK, LINE, NET

Fishing equipment

DOUBLE-DRIBBLE, GOALTEND, TRAVEL, CARRY

Basketball violations

DROVE, HOST, MASS, PACK

Collective nouns

CAR WINDOW, CHANNEL, ELEVATOR, VOLUME

Adjustable features


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

meta

2/4

HOOK, LINE, NET, FLY

Fishing terms

MASS, HOST, PACK, CAR WINDOW

Types of things that can be ’carried’ in different contexts, but more specifically ’pack’ refers to the Eucharist in ’mass’, ’host’ refers to the consecrated bread in mass, ’car window’ can be a place for a ’car pack’ or car carryall, and nun’s carrying habit is referred to as ’pack’ or bundle, but an alternative explanation connects these items with ’car’

DOUBLE-DRIBBLE, GOALTEND, TRAVEL, CARRY

Terms related to violations in basketball

CHANNEL, VOLUME, ELEVATOR, DROVE

Words that can also be related to ’car’, where ’channel’ refers to a function in car audio, ’volume’ refers to the loudness, and ’elevator’ can refer to the action of lifting the car, ’drove’ can mean operated a car


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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