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Puzzle#973

Connections

Released: 2026-02-08


8
Models Tested
6
Solved
3.38
Avg. Correct Connections
8
LLM Providers

google/gemini-2.0-flash-001

google

2/4

SILENCE, MUZZLE, GAG, INHIBIT

Prevent Speaking

ROUTINE, TIMER, HABIT, FACED

Things That Are Constant

LENGTH, NUMBER, SYMBOL, UPPERCASE

Text Formatting Options

GRIND, BIT, DRILL, CENTS

Parts of Machines


mistralai/mistral-medium-3

mistral

4/4

GAG, MUZZLE, SILENCE, INHIBIT

Words meaning to suppress or prevent from speaking

DRILL, GRIND, HABIT, ROUTINE

Words related to repetitive actions or practices

LENGTH, NUMBER, SYMBOL, UPPERCASE

Attributes of a password

BIT, CENTS, FACED, TIMER

Words that can follow the word ’Penny’ to form a compound word or phrase


openai/gpt-4o

openai

4/4

GAG, INHIBIT, MUZZLE, SILENCE

Words related to preventing speech or sound

DRILL, GRIND, HABIT, ROUTINE

Words related to repeated actions

LENGTH, NUMBER, SYMBOL, UPPERCASE

Words related to text or writing characteristics

BIT, CENTS, FACED, TIMER

Words that can be related to currency or measurement


anthropic/claude-3.7-sonnet

anthropic

4/4

GAG, INHIBIT, MUZZLE, SILENCE

SUPPRESS SPEECH

DRILL, GRIND, HABIT, ROUTINE

REPETITIVE ACTIONS

LENGTH, NUMBER, SYMBOL, UPPERCASE

PASSWORD REQUIREMENTS

BIT, CENTS, FACED, TIMER

PRECEDED BY TWO-


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

meta

1/4

GAG, MUZZLE, SILENCE, INHIBIT

Ways to stop someone from speaking

DRILL, GRIND, BIT, TIMER

Related to machine tools or operations

HABIT, ROUTINE, LENGTH, NUMBER

Quantifiable aspects of behavior or measurement

UPPERCASE, SYMBOL, CENTS, FACED

Typographical or monetary units


deepseek/deepseek-chat-v3-0324

deepseek

4/4

GAG, INHIBIT, MUZZLE, SILENCE

Words meaning to suppress or restrain

DRILL, GRIND, HABIT, ROUTINE

Words related to repetitive actions or practices

LENGTH, NUMBER, SYMBOL, UPPERCASE

Words related to elements of typography or writing

BIT, CENTS, FACED, TIMER

Words that can follow ’two-’


x-ai/grok-3-mini-beta

x-ai

4/4

GAG, INHIBIT, MUZZLE, SILENCE

Ways to suppress or silence

HABIT, ROUTINE, DRILL, GRIND

Repeated activities or routines

LENGTH, NUMBER, SYMBOL, UPPERCASE

Attributes of text or data

BIT, CENTS, TIMER, FACED

Units or measures


qwen/qwen3-235b-a22b

qwen

4/4

GAG, INHIBIT, MUZZLE, SILENCE

Restrain

DRILL, GRIND, HABIT, ROUTINE

Monotony

LENGTH, NUMBER, SYMBOL, UPPERCASE

Password Requirements

BIT, CENTS, FACED, TIMER

Two-___ (Phrases)


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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