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Puzzle#1069

Connections

Released: 2026-05-15


6
Models Tested
3
Solved
2.67
Avg. Correct Connections
6
LLM Providers

google/gemini-2.0-flash-001

google

Failed

ABLE, ELBA, JAMES, FORD

Last Names of U.S. Presidents

WAS, SAW, PEEK, WADE

Palindromes

CIAO, CURRY, JORDAN, BIRD

Basketball Players with Last Names That are Foreign Words

CROSS, TRAVERSE, PITT, PALM

Hand


openai/gpt-4o

openai

4/4

CROSS, WADE, FORD, TRAVERSE

Methods of crossing a river

JAMES, JORDAN, CURRY, BIRD

Famous basketball players

ABLE, ELBA, SAW, WAS

Words that are palindromes when spelled backwards or forwards

CIAO, PALM, PITT, PEEK

Words that can start a ’word pair’ (Ciao Bella, Palm Tree, Pitt River, Peek-a-boo)


mistralai/mistral-medium-3

mistral

2/4

CROSS, FORD, TRAVERSE, WADE

Ways to get across a river

BIRD, CURRY, JORDAN, PITT

Famous last names

ABLE, ELBA, SAW, WAS

Palindromic words

CIAO, PALM, PEEK, JAMES

Words that can follow ’tree’


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

meta

2/4

CROSS, FORD, TRAVERSE, WADE

Ways to get across water

BIRD, CURRY, JAMES, JORDAN

Last names of famous basketball players

ABLE, WAS, CIAO, SAW

Words that are also past tense verbs or have past tense verb forms

ELBA, PALM, PEEK, PITT

Island names or surnames of famous people


deepseek/deepseek-chat-v3-0324

deepseek

4/4

CROSS, FORD, TRAVERSE, WADE

Words meaning to cross a body of water

BIRD, CURRY, JAMES, JORDAN

Last names of NBA players

ABLE, ELBA, SAW, WAS

Words that are palindromes

CIAO, PALM, PEEK, PITT

Words that start with ’P’ except ’CIAO’ (Italian greeting)


x-ai/grok-3-mini-beta

x-ai

4/4

CROSS, FORD, TRAVERSE, WADE

Ways to cross

BIRD, CURRY, JAMES, JORDAN

NBA players

ABLE, ELBA, SAW, WAS

Word reversals

CIAO, PALM, PEEK, PITT

Four-letter words


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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