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Puzzle#1123

Connections

Released: 2026-07-08


4
Models Tested
2
Solved
2.25
Avg. Correct Connections
4
LLM Providers

openai/gpt-4o

openai

4/4

PLANE, SHAVE, GRATE, SLIVER

Tools

DRIFT, PLOT, THEME, THREAD

Story elements

PICK, PLUCK, STRUM, TAP

Actions associated with playing musical instruments

CARDS, LORDS, WAX, WORSHIP

Things related to rituals or traditions


mistralai/mistral-medium-3

mistral

Failed

GRATE, PLANE, SHAVE, TAP

Verbs that are also types of woodworking tools

SLIVER, DRIFT, PLOT, THEME

Words that can follow ’snow’

PICK, PLUCK, STRUM, WAX

Actions related to playing a guitar

CARDS, LORDS, THREAD, WORSHIP

Words that can follow ’house of’


deepseek/deepseek-chat-v3-0324

deepseek

4/4

GRATE, PLANE, SHAVE, SLIVER

Actions involving removing thin layers

DRIFT, PLOT, THEME, THREAD

Terms related to narratives or stories

PICK, PLUCK, STRUM, TAP

Actions performed on string instruments

CARDS, LORDS, WAX, WORSHIP

Words that can follow ’house of’


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

meta

1/4

GRATE, SHAVE, PLANE, WAX

Types of things that can be used for smoothing or reducing

PICK, PLUCK, STRUM, TAP

Actions taken on a stringed instrument

CARDS, LORDS, THREAD, SLIVER

Objects or groups with a suit in common, such as playing cards or a thread/silver sliver, and Lords as in Lords in playing cards

DRIFT, PLOT, THEME, WORSHIP

Concepts related to abstract ideas or paths of thought


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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