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Puzzle#1186

Connections

Released: 2026-09-09


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

mistralai/mistral-medium-3

mistral

4/4

BEWILDERING, ESOTERIC, INCOMPREHENSIBLE, OPAQUE

Words meaning hard to understand

MICROBREWERY, MINIVAN, NANOTECHNOLOGY, PICOSECOND

Words with metric prefixes

ARACHNOPHOBIA, HALLOWEEN, IT, SAW

Horror movie titles

BRUTE, ELECTROMAGNETIC, G, TASK

Types of force


openai/gpt-4o

openai

2/4

BEWILDERING, ESOTERIC, INCOMPREHENSIBLE, OPAQUE

Difficult to understand

MICROBREWERY, MINIVAN, NANOTECHNOLOGY, PICOSECOND

Prefix-related words

IT, SAW, BRUTE, HALLOWEEN

Horror-related

ARACHNOPHOBIA, ELECTROMAGNETIC, G, TASK

Miscellaneous terms


deepseek/deepseek-chat-v3-0324

deepseek

4/4

BEWILDERING, ESOTERIC, INCOMPREHENSIBLE, OPAQUE

Words meaning difficult to understand

MICROBREWERY, MINIVAN, NANOTECHNOLOGY, PICOSECOND

Words with prefixes meaning small

ARACHNOPHOBIA, HALLOWEEN, IT, SAW

Words associated with spiders or horror

BRUTE, ELECTROMAGNETIC, G, TASK

Words that can follow ’force’


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

meta

4/4

MICROBREWERY, MINIVAN, NANOTECHNOLOGY, PICOSECOND

Words that include prefixes related to size or scale

BEWILDERING, ESOTERIC, INCOMPREHENSIBLE, OPAQUE

Words that describe something as difficult to understand

ARACHNOPHOBIA, HALLOWEEN, IT, SAW

Words related to fear or horror

BRUTE, ELECTROMAGNETIC, G, TASK

Words that can be related to force, physics, or a challenge


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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