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Puzzle#1191

Connections

Released: 2026-09-14


4
Models Tested
2
Solved
2.75
Avg. Correct Connections
4
LLM Providers

mistralai/mistral-medium-3

mistral

1/4

COOT, GOOSE, LOON, TEAL

Types of waterfowl

CANARY, CRAB, LEMON, WHEAT

Colors (Canary yellow, crab red, lemon yellow, wheat gold)

RAT, SNITCH, STOOLIE, STIRRER

Types of informants or traitors

BAG, CUTLERY, STRAW, BLUE

Things that can be ’paper’ (paper bag, paper cutlery, paper straw, blue paper)


openai/gpt-4o

openai

4/4

COOT, GOOSE, LOON, TEAL

Types of birds

CANARY, RAT, SNITCH, STOOLIE

Synonyms for informer

BAG, CUTLERY, STIRRER, STRAW

Items associated with eating or drinking

BLUE, CRAB, LEMON, WHEAT

Types of colors or food items that are also colors


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

meta

2/4

COOT, GOOSE, LOON, TEAL

Types of birds

RAT, SNITCH, STOOLIE, STIRRER

Informant or tattletale

BAG, CUTLERY, STRAW, CANARY

Types of items that can be associated with the word ’paper’

BLUE, CRAB, LEMON, WHEAT

Types of colors or descriptive names for items


deepseek/deepseek-chat-v3-0324

deepseek

4/4

COOT, GOOSE, LOON, TEAL

Types of birds

CANARY, RAT, SNITCH, STOOLIE

Informants or spies

BAG, CUTLERY, STIRRER, STRAW

Items commonly found in a kitchen or picnic

BLUE, CRAB, LEMON, WHEAT

Words that can follow ’blue’ to form common phrases or names


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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