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Puzzle#1165

Connections

Released: 2026-08-19


4
Models Tested
3
Solved
3.50
Avg. Correct Connections
4
LLM Providers

openai/gpt-4o

openai

4/4

BREEZE, CINCH, SNAP, PICNIC

Things that are easy

HIDE, MASK, OBSCURE, BLANKET

Words related to covering or obscuring

BASE, BASKET, FOOT, PICKLE

Baseball terms

ANTS, COCOA, RHEO, SEOUL

Words that start with a different letter than their English spelling


mistralai/mistral-medium-3

mistral

4/4

BREEZE, CINCH, PICNIC, SNAP

Synonyms for ’easy’

HIDE, MASK, OBSCURE, BLANKET

Words meaning ’to cover’

BASE, BASKET, FOOT, PICKLE

Types of basketball terms

ANTS, COCOA, RHEO, SEOUL

Words that can precede ’nest’


deepseek/deepseek-chat-v3-0324

deepseek

4/4

BREEZE, CINCH, PICNIC, SNAP

Words that can be preceded by ’a piece of cake’

BLANKET, HIDE, MASK, OBSCURE

Synonyms for cover

BASE, BASKET, FOOT, PICKLE

Sports terms (baseball, basketball, football, pickleball)

ANTS, COCOA, RHEO, SEOUL

Words that can follow ’ANT’ (ants, ant cocoa, ant rheo, ant Seoul)


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

meta

2/4

CINCH, SNAP, PICNIC, BLANKET

Types of fasteners or outdoor items

MASK, HIDE, OBSCURE, BREEZE

Things that conceal or relate to concealment

FOOT, BASE, BASKET, PICKLE

Terms related to baseball

ANTS, COCOA, RHEO, SEOUL

Types of ants, or words related to Korea or physics


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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