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Puzzle#984

Connections

Released: 2026-02-19


7
Models Tested
6
Solved
3.57
Avg. Correct Connections
7
LLM Providers

google/gemini-2.0-flash-001

google

1/4

TONGS, BELLOWS, SHOVEL, BASKET

Items Used With Fire

JOHN TRAVOLTA, PLATFORM SHOES, POLYESTER SUIT, DISCO

Saturday Night Fever Clues

PEEPS, EGGS, DYE, BRAYS

Associated with Easter

BOYLE, POKER, SEER, STU

Last Names That Are Also Words


openai/gpt-4o

openai

4/4

BASKET, EGGS, PEEPS, DYE

Easter items or symbols

DISCO, JOHN TRAVOLTA, PLATFORM SHOES, POLYESTER SUIT

1970s disco references

POKER, SHOVEL, TONGS, BELLOWS

Tools

BOYLE, BRAYS, SEER, STU

Names or Surnames


mistralai/mistral-medium-3

mistral

4/4

DYE, EGGS, PEEPS, BASKET

Easter Traditions

BELLOWS, POKER, SHOVEL, TONGS

Fireplace Tools

DISCO, JOHN TRAVOLTA, PLATFORM SHOES, POLYESTER SUIT

Associated with 1970s Disco Culture

BOYLE, BRAYS, SEER, STU

Surnames of Famous People


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

meta

4/4

PEEPS, EGGS, BASKET, DYE

Easter-related terms

BELLOWS, POKER, TONGS, SHOVEL

Blacksmithing tools

DISCO, JOHN TRAVOLTA, PLATFORM SHOES, POLYESTER SUIT

1970s disco culture

BOYLE, BRAYS, SEER, STU

Surnames of notable people (Susan Boyle, Bray is a rare surname but can be found, and there is a historical figure named John Seer, Stuart ’Stu’ can be short for Stuart)


deepseek/deepseek-chat-v3-0324

deepseek

4/4

BASKET, DYE, EGGS, PEEPS

Easter-related items

BELLOWS, POKER, SHOVEL, TONGS

Fireplace tools

DISCO, JOHN TRAVOLTA, PLATFORM SHOES, POLYESTER SUIT

Disco era

BOYLE, BRAYS, SEER, STU

Names of characters from ’The Simpsons’


x-ai/grok-3-mini-beta

x-ai

4/4

BASKET, DYE, EGGS, PEEPS

Easter items

BELLOWS, POKER, SHOVEL, TONGS

Fireplace tools

DISCO, JOHN TRAVOLTA, PLATFORM SHOES, POLYESTER SUIT

Disco era

BOYLE, BRAYS, SEER, STU

Homophones of cooking methods


anthropic/claude-3.7-sonnet

anthropic

4/4

BASKET, DYE, EGGS, PEEPS

EASTER ITEMS

BELLOWS, POKER, SHOVEL, TONGS

FIREPLACE TOOLS

DISCO, JOHN TRAVOLTA, PLATFORM SHOES, POLYESTER SUIT

ASSOCIATED WITH SATURDAY NIGHT FEVER

BOYLE, BRAYS, SEER, STU

HOMOPHONES OF "BOIL", "BRAISE", "SEAR", "STEW" (COOKING METHODS)


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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