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Puzzle#983

Connections

Released: 2026-02-18


7
Models Tested
3
Solved
2.71
Avg. Correct Connections
7
LLM Providers

mistralai/mistral-medium-3

mistral

2/4

CRIMP, CURL, TEASE, SHAVING

HAIR STYLING TERMS

BAD, FLY, RAD, WICKED

SLANG TERMS

BANTAM, CRESTED, FREE-RANGE, LEGHORN

TYPES OF CHICKENS

FEATHER, HEAVY, SOUR, TOPICAL

TYPES OF CREAM


google/gemini-2.0-flash-001

google

2/4

BAD, HEAVY, RAD, WICKED

Slang terms for ’good’

BANTAM, CRESTED, FREE-RANGE, LEGHORN

Types of Chickens

CURL, CRIMP, FEATHER, TEASE

Hair Styling Actions

FLY, SHAVING, SOUR, TOPICAL

Types of Foam


openai/gpt-4o

openai

2/4

CRIMP, CURL, FEATHER, TEASE

Hairstyle techniques

BAD, RAD, WICKED, HEAVY

Slang for good or cool

BANTAM, CRESTED, FREE-RANGE, LEGHORN

Types of chickens

FLY, SHAVING, SOUR, TOPICAL

Adjectives describing various subjects


anthropic/claude-3.7-sonnet

anthropic

4/4

CRIMP, CURL, FEATHER, TEASE

HAIR STYLING TECHNIQUES

BAD, FLY, RAD, WICKED

SLANG FOR COOL/AWESOME

BANTAM, CRESTED, FREE-RANGE, LEGHORN

TYPES OF CHICKENS

HEAVY, SHAVING, SOUR, TOPICAL

TYPES OF CREAM


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

meta

1/4

CRIMP, CURL, TEASE, SHAVING

Hair styles or related terms

BAD, RAD, WICKED, HEAVY

Informal terms for something good or excellent

BANTAM, CRESTED, LEGHORN, FREE-RANGE

Types of chickens

FEATHER, FLY, SOUR, TOPICAL

Types of cuts or styles in food or other contexts, with FLY potentially referring to a type of fishing lure and SOUR relating to a type of cream or other food product, and TOPICAL referring to a type of application or treatment


deepseek/deepseek-chat-v3-0324

deepseek

4/4

BAD, FLY, RAD, WICKED

Slang terms meaning ’cool’ or ’excellent’

BANTAM, CRESTED, FREE-RANGE, LEGHORN

Types of chickens

CRIMP, CURL, FEATHER, TEASE

Hair styling techniques

HEAVY, SHAVING, SOUR, TOPICAL

Types of cream (heavy cream, shaving cream, sour cream, topical cream)


x-ai/grok-3-mini-beta

x-ai

4/4

CRIMP, CURL, TEASE, FEATHER

Hair Styling

BAD, RAD, WICKED, FLY

Slang for Cool

BANTAM, CRESTED, FREE-RANGE, LEGHORN

Chicken Types

HEAVY, SHAVING, SOUR, TOPICAL

Cream Types


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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