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Puzzle#1146

Connections

Released: 2026-07-31


4
Models Tested
0
Solved
0.75
Avg. Correct Connections
4
LLM Providers

openai/gpt-4o

openai

Failed

FASHION, MODEL, SHAPE, DAPPLE

Related to form or appearance

MUSHROOM, FUNGUS, SLIME, MOLD

Related to fungi

DINOSAUR, PLUMBER, PRINCESS, JOYSTICK

Elements from the Mario game series

JDATE, GLEEK, CHEERIOS, SPEAR

Things related to specific activities or cultures


mistralai/mistral-medium-3

mistral

1/4

FASHION, MODEL, MOLD, SHAPE

Related to Form or Design

DINOSAUR, MUSHROOM, PRINCESS, SLIME

Characters from the Mario video game series

DAPPLE, JDATE, GLEEK, JOYSTICK

Words with ’Apple’ brand products embedded within them

PLUMBER, CHEERIOS, FUNGUS, SPEAR

Words that can be associated with types of jobs or objects


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

meta

Failed

FASHION, MODEL, PRINCESS, GLEEK

Types of model, or a person who models

MOLD, MUSHROOM, FUNGUS, SLIME

Types of fungus or organisms

DINOSAUR, SPEAR, PLUMBER, JOYSTICK

Words that can be associated with tools or controllers

SHAPE, DAPPLE, CHEERIOS, JDATE

Words related to forms or patterns, or online dating


deepseek/deepseek-chat-v3-0324

deepseek

2/4

FASHION, MODEL, SHAPE, MOLD

Words related to modeling or shaping

DINOSAUR, PRINCESS, PLUMBER, MUSHROOM

Characters from video games (Mario, Yoshi, Princess Peach, Toad)

SLIME, FUNGUS, DAPPLE, SPEAR

Words that can be preceded by ’G’ to form new words (G-Slime, G-Fungus, G-Dapple, G-Spear)

JDATE, CHEERIOS, GLEEK, JOYSTICK

Brand names or trademarks


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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