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Puzzle#1157

Connections

Released: 2026-08-11


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Models Tested
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Solved
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Avg. Correct Connections
4
LLM Providers

mistralai/mistral-medium-3

mistral

Failed

DONE, GOING, SOLD, TOAST

Past participles

BET, AYE, BRAVO, KNOWS

Words that are also letters in the NATO phonetic alphabet

HISTORY, ONCE, TWICE, USA

Words that can precede ’upon a time’

SUNK, THROUGH, HARE, TUNG

Words containing chemical symbols


deepseek/deepseek-chat-v3-0324

deepseek

Failed

DONE, SUNK, TOAST, HISTORY

Words that can follow ’dead’

BET, BRAVO, USA, AYE

Network names

THROUGH, GOING, KNOWS, TUNG

Homophones of other words (threw, gone, nose, tongue)

ONCE, SOLD, TWICE, HARE

Words that can follow ’Hare’ (as in the tortoise and the hare)


openai/gpt-4o

openai

Failed

TOAST, HARE, TUNG, BRAVO

Things that can be cheered

USA, ONCE, TWICE, DONE

Expressions for finishing or completing

AYE, BET, KNOWS, GOING

Words related to agreements or intentions

SUNK, THROUGH, HISTORY, SOLD

Words related to conclusions or finishes


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

meta

Failed

BET, SOLD, DONE, GOING

Past participles or states of being in an auction

BRAVO, AYE, TWICE, ONCE

Words that can be used to express approval or affirmation in various contexts

HARE, TOAST, TUNG, SUNK

Words that sound like metals when a word is added or removed (Hare-brained like Mercury, Toasted like Copper, Tungsten, and Sunk like Zinc when ’zinc’ sounds like ’sunk’)

HISTORY, USA, THROUGH, KNOWS

Words related to knowledge or a country (History as a subject, USA as a country, Through as in ’through knowledge’, and Knows as in possession of knowledge)


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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