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Puzzle#1194

Connections

Released: 2026-09-17


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

mistralai/mistral-medium-3

mistral

4/4

BOUNCE, FLEXIBILITY, GIVE, SPRING

Words that can mean both a noun and a verb related to elasticity or movement

MINE SHAFT, SEWER LINE, SUBWAY STATION, WELL

Underground structures

FOUNTAIN, PRESTIGE, SHEEP DETECTIVES, WOLVERINE

Words that are also names of Marvel characters or teams

HANDLES, LANGUAGE, TAP, TRIANGLE

Words that can follow the word ’Pump’ (Pump handles, Pump language, Pump tap, Pump triangle)


openai/gpt-4o

openai

2/4

BOUNCE, FLEXIBILITY, GIVE, SPRING

Words related to elasticity

MINE SHAFT, SEWER LINE, SUBWAY STATION, WELL

Underground structures

FOUNTAIN, HANDLES, LANGUAGE, TAP

Words related to communication or expression

PRESTIGE, SHEEP DETECTIVES, WOLVERINE, TRIANGLE

Titles of movies or films


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

meta

1/4

SPRING, BOUNCE, FLEXIBILITY, HANDLES

Categories related to physical movement or elasticity

WELL, MINE SHAFT, SEWER LINE, SUBWAY STATION

Categories related to man-made or natural underground structures

SHEEP DETECTIVES, WOLVERINE, TAP, TRIANGLE

Categories related to animals or unrelated words

GIVE, FOUNTAIN, PRESTIGE, LANGUAGE

Categories related to intangible concepts or nouns


deepseek/deepseek-chat-v3-0324

deepseek

4/4

BOUNCE, FLEXIBILITY, GIVE, SPRING

Words that can mean to yield or bend

MINE SHAFT, SEWER LINE, SUBWAY STATION, WELL

Underground structures

FOUNTAIN, PRESTIGE, SHEEP DETECTIVES, WOLVERINE

Titles of movies in the ’X-Men’ series

HANDLES, LANGUAGE, TAP, TRIANGLE

Words that can follow ’double’ to form a phrase


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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