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Puzzle#1081

Connections

Released: 2026-05-27


5
Models Tested
2
Solved
2.40
Avg. Correct Connections
5
LLM Providers

deepseek/deepseek-chat-v3-0324

deepseek

4/4

COMMUNE, HAMLET, TOWNSHIP, VILLAGE

Types of settlements

BATTLESHIP, OPERATION, OTHELLO, TROUBLE

Board games

AYE, LEAR, PIER, STAIR

Homophones of letters (I, L, P, S)

BANJO, MACBETH, MONOGAMY, NUTMEG

Words that can follow ’Lady’


mistralai/mistral-medium-3

mistral

4/4

COMMUNE, HAMLET, TOWNSHIP, VILLAGE

Types of small communities

BATTLESHIP, OPERATION, OTHELLO, TROUBLE

Board games

AYE, LEAR, PIER, STAIR

Words that become body parts when a letter is added

BANJO, MACBETH, MONOGAMY, NUTMEG

Words containing the names of letters


openai/gpt-4o

openai

2/4

COMMUNE, HAMLET, TOWNSHIP, VILLAGE

Types of small communities

BATTLESHIP, OPERATION, OTHELLO, TROUBLE

Board games

LEAR, PIER, STAIR, BANJO

’Ear’ homophones

MACBETH, AYE, MONOGAMY, NUTMEG

’Mac’ sounds or references


google/gemini-2.0-flash-001

google

1/4

COMMUNE, HAMLET, TOWNSHIP, VILLAGE

Types of small settlements

LEAR, MACBETH, OTHELLO, TROUBLE

Titles including a Shakespeare character

AYE, BANJO, NUTMEG, PIER

Words that can be spelled using only open letters (no enclosed spaces)

BATTLESHIP, MONOGAMY, OPERATION, STAIR

Words that refer to a set of steps


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

meta

1/4

COMMUNE, MONOGAMY, HAMLET, VILLAGE

Types of social units or dwellings

BATTLESHIP, OPERATION, OTHELLO, TROUBLE

Names of things that can be a ’shooting’ or related to conflict

AYE, PIER, STAIR, BANJO

Words related to nautical or structural ’stringed’ or ’flight’ concepts or sounds, but more specifically this group can be related to words that sound similar to types of strings or sounds

LEAR, MACBETH, NUTMEG, TOWNSHIP

Names of Shakespeare plays or words that evoke a sense of spice, territory, or division


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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