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Puzzle#1085

Connections

Released: 2026-05-31


5
Models Tested
0
Solved
0.40
Avg. Correct Connections
5
LLM Providers

google/gemini-2.0-flash-001

google

Failed

SEA DOG, BREAK, JACK, TAR

Types of Ships

BUTTER, SALT, STEAK, SOAK

Words that go with a Baked Potato

CUE, POCKET, RACK, SPINE

Related to Billiards

PIKACHU, RUBBER DUCK, SASH, SCHOOL BUS

Yellow Things


openai/gpt-4o

openai

1/4

PIKACHU, RUBBER DUCK, SCHOOL BUS, JACK

Yellow objects

BUTTER, SALT, TAR, SPINE

Things with a specific texture or consistency

BREAK, CUE, POCKET, RACK

Terms related to billiards

SEA DOG, SASH, SOAK, STEAK

Homophones or similar sounding words to animals


mistralai/mistral-medium-3

mistral

1/4

BUTTER, SALT, SOAK, STEAK

Things you can do to food

PIKACHU, RUBBER DUCK, SCHOOL BUS, SEA DOG

Things that are yellow

BREAK, CUE, POCKET, RACK

Billards terms

JACK, SASH, SPINE, TAR

Types of fish


deepseek/deepseek-chat-v3-0324

deepseek

Failed

BUTTER, SALT, STEAK, TAR

Items that can be on a ___ stick

CUE, JACK, RACK, BREAK

Terms related to pool/billiards

PIKACHU, RUBBER DUCK, SCHOOL BUS, SEA DOG

Things that are typically yellow

POCKET, SASH, SOAK, SPINE

Words that follow ’book’ to form a phrase


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

meta

Failed

BUTTER, SALT, TAR, STEAK

Types of things that can be rubbed on or applied to something else

JACK, RACK, CUE, POCKET

Terms related to billiards or pool

SCHOOL BUS, SEA DOG, RUBBER DUCK, PIKACHU

Things that are typically yellow in color

BREAK, SOAK, SASH, SPINE

Words that can be related to the back or backbone, or things that can be broken


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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