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Puzzle#1107

Connections

Released: 2026-06-22


4
Models Tested
2
Solved
2.50
Avg. Correct Connections
4
LLM Providers

openai/gpt-4o

openai

4/4

ALPHA, PRIMARY, HEAD, LEAD

Synonyms for ’first’ or ’main’

BANGKOK, POPSICLE, BOOMER, POWDER

Items that can explode

SHORT, SILENT, SOFT, STRESSED

Opposites of loud, or emphasizing less

BY, TIMES, X, ●

Symbols/words indicating multiplication


mistralai/mistral-medium-3

mistral

2/4

ALPHA, PRIMARY, SILENT, SOFT

Types of Radio Waves

HEAD, LEAD, SHORT, STRESSED

Types of Syllables

BY, TIMES, X, ●

Multiplication Symbols

BANGKOK, BOOMER, POPSICLE, POWDER

Words containing other words


deepseek/deepseek-chat-v3-0324

deepseek

4/4

ALPHA, HEAD, LEAD, PRIMARY

Words meaning ’first’ or ’most important’

BY, TIMES, X, ●

Multiplication symbols

SHORT, SILENT, SOFT, STRESSED

Types of syllables in poetry

BANGKOK, BOOMER, POPSICLE, POWDER

___ Pops (types of Popsicles)


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

meta

Failed

ALPHA, PRIMARY, STRESSED, SHORT

Types of syllables or words in linguistics with the first being the first letter of the Greek alphabet used in various contexts and the others describing types of syllables

LEAD, HEAD, TIMES, BY

Words that can be preceded by the word ’New York’ to form names of things, such as New York Lead (a paint), New York Head (a pen), New York Times (a newspaper), and New York By (as in ’New York, by’) though this one is a stretch, but it could refer to ’New York, by train’

X, ●, BANGKOK, BOOMER

All of these have Silom as a relevant term: X mark or Silom, ● could represent a red-light district in a city (Bangkok has a Silom district known for that), Boomer could also have relation to something in Silom - none however Silom does appear

POPSICLE, SILENT, SOFT, POWDER

Types of ’p’ words - Popsicle (a frozen dessert on a stick), silent P, soft P or P in Powder - which, as are these examples - follow


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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