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Puzzle#985

Connections

Released: 2026-02-20


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

google/gemini-2.0-flash-001

google

4/4

TIDE, ECLIPSE, WEREWOLF, GREEN CHEESE

Things Affected by The Moon

EASY ANSWER, SILVER BULLET, MAGIC WAND, PANACEA

Figurative Solutions

BOOT, THIMBLE, IRON, TOP HAT

Monopoly Game Pieces

DONKEY, CHEESE, PLAYING CARD, SOCKET

Items Containing ’Jack’


mistralai/mistral-medium-3

mistral

4/4

EASY ANSWER, PANACEA, SILVER BULLET, MAGIC WAND

Quick Solutions

ECLIPSE, GREEN CHEESE, TIDE, WEREWOLF

Things Associated with the Moon

BOOT, IRON, THIMBLE, TOP HAT

Monopoly Tokens

CHEESE, DONKEY, PLAYING CARD, SOCKET

Words that follow ’Old’


openai/gpt-4o

openai

2/4

EASY ANSWER, MAGIC WAND, PANACEA, SILVER BULLET

Solutions to problems

BOOT, IRON, THIMBLE, TOP HAT

Monopoly game pieces

ECLIPSE, TIDE, WEREWOLF, SOCKET

Things associated with the moon

GREEN CHEESE, CHEESE, DONKEY, PLAYING CARD

Items in ’Shrek’ (movies or games)


anthropic/claude-3.7-sonnet

anthropic

4/4

EASY ANSWER, MAGIC WAND, PANACEA, SILVER BULLET

CURE-ALLS

BOOT, IRON, THIMBLE, TOP HAT

MONOPOLY GAME PIECES

CHEESE, DONKEY, PLAYING CARD, SOCKET

THINGS YOU MIGHT SAY DURING PHOTOS

ECLIPSE, GREEN CHEESE, TIDE, WEREWOLF

MOON-RELATED THINGS


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

meta

4/4

MAGIC WAND, SILVER BULLET, PANACEA, EASY ANSWER

Simple Solutions

TIDE, ECLIPSE, GREEN CHEESE, WEREWOLF

Lunar Associations

TOP HAT, THIMBLE, BOOT, IRON

Monopoly Game Pieces

PLAYING CARD, SOCKET, CHEESE, DONKEY

Unrelated Words with Possible Alternate Meanings or Associations


deepseek/deepseek-chat-v3-0324

deepseek

4/4

EASY ANSWER, MAGIC WAND, PANACEA, SILVER BULLET

Things considered quick solutions or cures

ECLIPSE, GREEN CHEESE, TIDE, WEREWOLF

Things associated with the moon

BOOT, IRON, THIMBLE, TOP HAT

Monopoly game pieces

CHEESE, DONKEY, PLAYING CARD, SOCKET

Words that can follow ’blue’


x-ai/grok-3-mini-beta

x-ai

4/4

PANACEA, SILVER BULLET, EASY ANSWER, MAGIC WAND

Problem Solvers

ECLIPSE, GREEN CHEESE, TIDE, WEREWOLF

Moon Associations

BOOT, IRON, THIMBLE, TOP HAT

Monopoly Game Pieces

CHEESE, DONKEY, PLAYING CARD, SOCKET

Everyday Objects


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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