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Puzzle#1070

Connections

Released: 2026-05-16


5
Models Tested
2
Solved
2.20
Avg. Correct Connections
5
LLM Providers

google/gemini-2.0-flash-001

google

1/4

ALLEGRO, FORTE, LARGO, PIANO

Musical Terms

BASSOON, FIDDLE, FLUTE, STEIN

Musical instruments that could also be a drinking vessel.

BELFAST, COUPE, NESQUICK, TUMBLER

Types of glass

MESS, PLAY, THERMOSTAT, TINKER

Things you can with the word ’around’


openai/gpt-4o

openai

2/4

COUPE, FLUTE, STEIN, TUMBLER

Types of drinking vessels

FIDDLE, ALLEGRO, FORTE, LARGO

Musical terms or instruments

PLAY, TINKER, MESS, PIANO

Verbs that also have noun forms

BASSOON, BELFAST, NESQUICK, THERMOSTAT

Items or names that don’t fit the other categories


mistralai/mistral-medium-3

mistral

4/4

COUPE, FLUTE, STEIN, TUMBLER

Types of Glasses

FIDDLE, MESS, PLAY, TINKER

Words that can follow ’play’

ALLEGRO, FORTE, LARGO, PIANO

Musical Terms

BASSOON, BELFAST, NESQUICK, THERMOSTAT

Words containing common brand names


deepseek/deepseek-chat-v3-0324

deepseek

4/4

COUPE, FLUTE, STEIN, TUMBLER

Types of drinking glasses

FIDDLE, MESS, PLAY, TINKER

Words that can follow ’Fiddle’

ALLEGRO, FORTE, LARGO, PIANO

Musical terms

BASSOON, BELFAST, NESQUICK, THERMOSTAT

Words containing double letters


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

meta

Failed

FLUTE, FIDDLE, PIANO, BASSOON

Musical Instruments

COUPE, TUMBLER, STEIN, THERMOSTAT

Types of Glass Containers or Devices with Glass Components

ALLEGRO, FORTE, LARGO, MESS

Italian Musical Terms and a Possible Error in a Musical Composition

BELFAST, NESQUICK, PLAY, TINKER

City or Product Names and Verbs


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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