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Puzzle#978

Connections

Released: 2026-02-13


8
Models Tested
7
Solved
3.75
Avg. Correct Connections
8
LLM Providers

google/gemini-2.0-flash-001

google

2/4

COLORS, FLAG, BANNER, STANDARD

Symbols of Representation

KENT, SALEM, WAYNE, PARLIAMENT

Locations

RESEED, LESSON, SYNC, CAMEL

Things that start with Consonant-Vowel-Consonant-Vowel

PURE, SHEER, STARK, UTTER

Synonyms for Complete


mistralai/mistral-medium-3

mistral

4/4

PURE, SHEER, STARK, UTTER

Words meaning ’complete’ or ’absolute’

BANNER, COLORS, FLAG, STANDARD

Words related to flags

CAMEL, KENT, PARLIAMENT, SALEM

Brands of cigarettes

LESSON, RESEED, SYNC, WAYNE

Words that can follow ’re-’ to form new words


openai/gpt-4o

openai

4/4

PURE, SHEER, STARK, UTTER

Synonyms for complete or absolute

CAMEL, KENT, PARLIAMENT, SALEM

Brands of cigarettes

BANNER, COLORS, FLAG, STANDARD

Terms related to flags

LESSON, RESEED, SYNC, WAYNE

Miscellaneous terms


anthropic/claude-3.7-sonnet

anthropic

4/4

PURE, SHEER, STARK, UTTER

COMPLETE, ABSOLUTE

BANNER, COLORS, FLAG, STANDARD

THINGS THAT REPRESENT A GROUP OR NATION

CAMEL, KENT, PARLIAMENT, SALEM

CIGARETTE BRANDS

LESSON, RESEED, SYNC, WAYNE

WORDS ENDING IN HOMONYMS (TAUGHT SOUNDS)


deepseek/deepseek-chat-v3-0324

deepseek

4/4

PURE, SHEER, STARK, UTTER

Words meaning complete or absolute

BANNER, COLORS, FLAG, STANDARD

Terms related to flags

CAMEL, KENT, PARLIAMENT, SALEM

Cigarette brands

LESSON, RESEED, SYNC, WAYNE

Words that can follow ’re’


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

meta

4/4

PURE, SHEER, STARK, UTTER

Total or complete

BANNER, FLAG, STANDARD, COLORS

Symbols or emblems

CAMEL, KENT, PARLIAMENT, SALEM

Types of cigarettes

LESSON, RESEED, SYNC, WAYNE

Words related to the brand or concept ’John Deere’ or other notable ’Wayne’, like ’Wayne’s world’ is less likely and ’Reseed’ can be related to agriculture or heavy machinery


x-ai/grok-3-mini-beta

x-ai

4/4

PURE, SHEER, STARK, UTTER

Intensifiers

BANNER, COLORS, FLAG, STANDARD

Flag terms

CAMEL, KENT, PARLIAMENT, SALEM

Cigarette brands

LESSON, RESEED, SYNC, WAYNE

Verbs


qwen/qwen3-235b-a22b

qwen

4/4

PURE, SHEER, STARK, UTTER

Intensifiers meaning complete or absolute

BANNER, COLORS, FLAG, STANDARD

Synonyms for flag

CAMEL, KENT, PARLIAMENT, SALEM

Cigarette brands

LESSON, RESEED, SYNC, WAYNE

Uncertain, but best guess might be terms used in sports (’reseed’ a tournament bracket, ’sync’ as in team synchronization, ’Wayne’ as Wayne Gretzky, and ’lesson’ as in strategy adjustments)


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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