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Puzzle#1189

Connections

Released: 2026-09-12


4
Models Tested
3
Solved
3.25
Avg. Correct Connections
4
LLM Providers

mistralai/mistral-medium-3

mistral

4/4

BUMPER STICKER, FUZZY DICE, HOOD ORNAMENT, VANITY PLATE

Car Accessories

LURKER, POSTER, SPAMMER, TROLL

Types of Online Users

CURSOR, EYELIDS, SMOKE DETECTOR, TURN SIGNAL

Things That Blink

NERD, RED, SPOILER, WEATHER

Words That Can Follow ’Alert’


openai/gpt-4o

openai

4/4

BUMPER STICKER, FUZZY DICE, HOOD ORNAMENT, VANITY PLATE

Car accessories

LURKER, POSTER, SPAMMER, TROLL

Internet personas

CURSOR, EYELIDS, SMOKE DETECTOR, TURN SIGNAL

Things that indicate movement or change

NERD, RED, SPOILER, WEATHER

Things that can change or vary over time


deepseek/deepseek-chat-v3-0324

deepseek

4/4

BUMPER STICKER, FUZZY DICE, HOOD ORNAMENT, VANITY PLATE

Car accessories

LURKER, POSTER, SPAMMER, TROLL

Online community roles

CURSOR, EYELIDS, SMOKE DETECTOR, TURN SIGNAL

Things that blink

NERD, RED, SPOILER, WEATHER

Words that can follow ’snap’


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

meta

1/4

BUMPER STICKER, VANITY PLATE, HOOD ORNAMENT, SPOILER

Car Accessories

LURKER, TROLL, SPAMMER, POSTER

Internet Forum User Types

CURSOR, EYELIDS, NERD, TURN SIGNAL

Unrelated Words Needing Context for Connection

FUZZY DICE, RED, SMOKE DETECTOR, WEATHER

Unrelated Concepts - Things with Varied Commonalities Such as Color or Warning Systems


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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