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Puzzle#1110

Connections

Released: 2026-06-25


4
Models Tested
4
Solved
4.00
Avg. Correct Connections
4
LLM Providers

openai/gpt-4o

openai

4/4

MICROPHONE, MONITOR, PRINTER, TRACKPAD

Computer accessories

COMPACT, COMPRESSED, DENSE, SQUASHED

Words related to being packed tightly

FRANCIUM, LEAD, MERCURY, POLONIUM

Chemical elements

CRANIUM, CROQUETTE, DUCTILE, HOCKEY

Words that start with ’C’ and ’D’


mistralai/mistral-medium-3

mistral

4/4

MICROPHONE, MONITOR, PRINTER, TRACKPAD

Computer Peripherals

COMPACT, COMPRESSED, DENSE, SQUASHED

Synonyms for Condensed

FRANCIUM, LEAD, MERCURY, POLONIUM

Chemical Elements

CRANIUM, CROQUETTE, DUCTILE, HOCKEY

Words containing ’C’ and ’T’


deepseek/deepseek-chat-v3-0324

deepseek

4/4

MICROPHONE, MONITOR, PRINTER, TRACKPAD

Computer peripherals

COMPACT, COMPRESSED, DENSE, SQUASHED

Words meaning tightly packed

FRANCIUM, LEAD, MERCURY, POLONIUM

Chemical elements

CRANIUM, CROQUETTE, DUCTILE, HOCKEY

Words that can follow ’HEAD’


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

meta

4/4

MICROPHONE, MONITOR, PRINTER, TRACKPAD

Computer peripherals

COMPACT, COMPRESSED, DENSE, SQUASHED

Describing something tightly packed

FRANCIUM, LEAD, MERCURY, POLONIUM

Chemical elements

CRANIUM, CROQUETTE, DUCTILE, HOCKEY

Words associated with the skull, food, malleability, and sports, respectively, however upon closer inspection, ’CRANIUM’ refers to the skull, ’CROQUETTE’ is a type of food, ’DUCTILE’ describes a property of some materials like lead which is also a chemical element and also malleable, and ’HOCKEY’ is a sport, and another connection could be the word ’CRANIUM’ is similar to the sport ’CRICKET’ doesn’t fit, however, another connection would be some people play ’CROQUET’, and some materials like ’LEAD’ in the 3rd group can be ’DUCTILE’ and ’HOCKEY’ has a skill called ’CRANIUM’ is not accurate, however it would make more sense to categorize these as: ’CRANIUM’ and ’CROQUETTE’ don’t fit perfectly but if you had ’CRANBERRY’ it would fit better with ’CROQUETTE’ as types of food or objects that start with ’CR’, however that is not the case here. So looking closer: ’CRANIUM’ doesn’t fit perfectly with any sports however ’CRICKET’ was a stretch. Looking again at the words ’CROQUETTE’, ’DUCTILE’ and ’HOCKEY’ ’CRANIUM’ was left out in this thought and does not fit this category however, looking at ’CROQUETTE’, a type of food and also ’HOCKEY’, a sport and then ’DUCTILE’, a descriptive word for materials like ’LEAD’ and then remembering ’CRANIUM’, doesn’t belong with these three however upon more review ’CRANIUM’ is similar to ’CRICKET’ which is not on this list however another word for skull is not here but could be used with ’HOCKEY’


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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