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Puzzle#982

Connections

Released: 2026-02-17


7
Models Tested
6
Solved
3.71
Avg. Correct Connections
7
LLM Providers

google/gemini-2.0-flash-001

google

2/4

DART, FLASH, SPEED, ZIP

Words that mean DASH

HOISIN, OYSTER, PLUM, SOY

Types of Sauce

FLIP, FLOPPY, LEAF, THUMB

Things that can be Done Through Pages

BOMBAY, BUSTLE, MISSUS, SKIM

Words with the Phoneme /ʌm/


anthropic/claude-3.7-sonnet

anthropic

4/4

DART, FLASH, SPEED, ZIP

FAST MOVEMENTS

HOISIN, OYSTER, PLUM, SOY

SAUCES

FLIP, LEAF, SKIM, THUMB

WAYS TO GO THROUGH PAGES

BOMBAY, BUSTLE, FLOPPY, MISSUS

TYPES OF CATS


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

meta

4/4

DART, FLASH, SPEED, ZIP

Fast or speedy words

HOISIN, OYSTER, PLUM, SOY

Types of sauce

FLIP, LEAF, SKIM, THUMB

Words related to pages or books

BOMBAY, BUSTLE, FLOPPY, MISSUS

Types of sapphire or Victorian-era terms


mistralai/mistral-medium-3

mistral

4/4

DART, FLASH, SPEED, ZIP

Words meaning to move quickly

HOISIN, OYSTER, PLUM, SOY

Types of sauces or sauce ingredients

FLIP, LEAF, SKIM, THUMB

Words that can precede ’flop’

BOMBAY, BUSTLE, FLOPPY, MISSUS

Words that are also names of popular songs or albums


openai/gpt-4o

openai

4/4

DART, FLASH, SPEED, ZIP

Things that are fast

HOISIN, OYSTER, PLUM, SOY

Types of sauces

FLIP, LEAF, SKIM, THUMB

Things you can do with a book

BOMBAY, BUSTLE, FLOPPY, MISSUS

Words that can precede ’s’ to form items or terms (Bombay S, BussS, Floppy S, MissusS)


deepseek/deepseek-chat-v3-0324

deepseek

4/4

DART, FLASH, SPEED, ZIP

Words meaning ’quick’ or ’fast’

HOISIN, OYSTER, PLUM, SOY

Types of sauces

FLIP, LEAF, SKIM, THUMB

Words that can follow ’skim’

BOMBAY, BUSTLE, FLOPPY, MISSUS

Words that can follow ’Mrs.’


x-ai/grok-3-mini-beta

x-ai

4/4

DART, FLASH, SPEED, ZIP

Fast Actions

HOISIN, OYSTER, PLUM, SOY

Types of Sauce

FLIP, LEAF, SKIM, THUMB

Book Handling Actions

BOMBAY, BUSTLE, FLOPPY, MISSUS

Nostalgic Terms


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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