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Puzzle#1072

Connections

Released: 2026-05-18


5
Models Tested
2
Solved
2.60
Avg. Correct Connections
5
LLM Providers

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

meta

2/4

PAIR, PEAR, PARE, PÈRE

Words that are homophones

BLOW, CRACK, POP, SPLIT

Words that mean to burst or break open

PADRE, EARP, ROYAL, WIKI

Words that can be related to a type of family member or a proper noun

TWIN, RED, CHEAP, LUMP

Words that are related to a descriptor, a color or a sum


mistralai/mistral-medium-3

mistral

4/4

PAIR, PARE, PEAR, PÈRE

Homophones

BLOW, CRACK, POP, SPLIT

Types of jokes or humorous styles

PADRE, RED, ROYAL, TWIN

Types of baseball teams

CHEAP, EARP, LUMP, WIKI

Words that can follow ’Wiki’


deepseek/deepseek-chat-v3-0324

deepseek

4/4

PAIR, PARE, PEAR, PÈRE

Homophones of ’pair’

BLOW, CRACK, POP, SPLIT

Types of breaks or separations

PADRE, RED, ROYAL, TWIN

Names of MLB teams

CHEAP, EARP, LUMP, WIKI

Words that can follow ’ear’


google/gemini-2.0-flash-001

google

2/4

PAIR, PEAR, PARE, PÈRE

Homophones

BLOW, CRACK, POP, SPLIT

Sounds of Breaking

TWIN, ROYAL, RED, CHEAP

Types of Bedding

EARP, PADRE, WIKI, LUMP

Words That Can Follow ’Sugar’


openai/gpt-4o

openai

1/4

PAIR, TWIN, PÈRE, PADRE

Synonyms or related to pairs or pairs of two

BLOW, CRACK, POP, SPLIT

Types of sounds

PEAR, RED, ROYAL, CHEAP

Types of varieties or descriptors (e.g., PEAR can be Bartlett, RED can be apple, etc.)

PARE, EARP, LUMP, WIKI

These words do not fit the other categories and are linked through wordplay or loose association


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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