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Puzzle#969

Connections

Released: 2026-02-04


8
Models Tested
3
Solved
2.50
Avg. Correct Connections
8
LLM Providers

mistralai/mistral-medium-3

mistral

2/4

CONFLICT, DISCORD, FRICTION, RIVALRY

Types of disagreement

BINGO, CRAPS, LOTTERY, BULLSEYE

Gambling games

APPROX, BOUT, LIKE, ROUND

Words that can follow other words to form common phrases

WAR, HEATED, MAGICAL, NETSCAPE

Words that can precede other words to form common phrases


google/gemini-2.0-flash-001

google

1/4

CONFLICT, DISCORD, FRICTION, RIVALRY

FORMS OF STRIFE

WAR, BOUT, ROUND, APPROX

SIMILAR TO ’WARM’

BINGO, CRAPS, LOTTERY, BULLSEYE

GAMES OF CHANCE

LIKE, HEATED, MAGICAL, NETSCAPE

NOUNS THAT END WITH A LETTER CASE


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

meta

4/4

CONFLICT, DISCORD, FRICTION, RIVALRY

Terms for disagreement

BINGO, CRAPS, LOTTERY, WAR

Games of chance

APPROX, BOUT, ROUND, LIKE

Words related to approximations or loose quantities

BULLSEYE, HEATED, MAGICAL, NETSCAPE

Words associated with specific nouns or concepts, including a target, a state of being, something enchanting, and a browser


anthropic/claude-3.7-sonnet

anthropic

4/4

CONFLICT, DISCORD, FRICTION, RIVALRY

STRIFE OR DISAGREEMENT

BINGO, CRAPS, LOTTERY, WAR

GAMES OF CHANCE

APPROX, BOUT, LIKE, ROUND

ROUGHLY OR APPROXIMATELY

BULLSEYE, HEATED, MAGICAL, NETSCAPE

WEB BROWSERS


openai/gpt-4o

openai

1/4

CONFLICT, DISCORD, FRICTION, RIVALRY

Types of disagreements or clashes

BINGO, CRAPS, LOTTERY, BULLSEYE

Games of chance or games involving luck

BOUT, HEATED, ROUND, WAR

Words related to fights or battles

APPROX, LIKE, MAGICAL, NETSCAPE

Words related to computation or approximation


deepseek/deepseek-chat-v3-0324

deepseek

4/4

CONFLICT, DISCORD, FRICTION, RIVALRY

Synonyms for disagreement or tension

BINGO, CRAPS, LOTTERY, WAR

Types of games

APPROX, BOUT, LIKE, ROUND

Words that can mean ’approximately’

BULLSEYE, HEATED, MAGICAL, NETSCAPE

Brand names or trademarks


x-ai/grok-3-mini-beta

x-ai

2/4

CONFLICT, DISCORD, FRICTION, RIVALRY

Types of conflict

BINGO, CRAPS, LOTTERY, WAR

Games

APPROX, LIKE, ROUND, BULLSEYE

Approximation and targeting

BOUT, HEATED, MAGICAL, NETSCAPE

Events and software


qwen/qwen3-235b-a22b

qwen

2/4

BINGO, CRAPS, LOTTERY, WAR

Gambling games

CONFLICT, DISCORD, FRICTION, RIVALRY

Conflict synonyms

LIKE, ROUND, APPROX, MAGICAL

Informal synonyms for approximate

BOUT, HEATED, BULLSEYE, NETSCAPE

Terms related to sports contests


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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