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Puzzle#989

Connections

Released: 2026-02-24


7
Models Tested
7
Solved
4.00
Avg. Correct Connections
7
LLM Providers

google/gemini-2.0-flash-001

google

4/4

CORAL, SHELLS, BONES, TEETH

Found in the Ocean/Body

BAGPIPES, SCOTTIE, TARTAN, THISTLE

Scottish Things

SHAW, CHEKHOV, MILLER, COWARD

Playwrights

JIM, BALANCE, TRACTOR, LASER

things that need an alignment


anthropic/claude-3.7-sonnet

anthropic

4/4

BONES, CORAL, SHELLS, TEETH

HARD, RIGID NATURAL STRUCTURES

BAGPIPES, SCOTTIE, TARTAN, THISTLE

SYMBOLS OF SCOTLAND

CHEKHOV, COWARD, MILLER, SHAW

PLAYWRIGHTS

BALANCE, JIM, LASER, TRACTOR

BEAM TYPES


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

meta

4/4

BONES, SHELLS, TEETH, CORAL

Hard parts of living organisms

SCOTTIE, TARTAN, THISTLE, BAGPIPES

Symbols or icons related to Scotland

CHEKHOV, COWARD, MILLER, SHAW

Playwrights

BALANCE, JIM, LASER, TRACTOR

Types of beams


mistralai/mistral-medium-3

mistral

4/4

BONES, TEETH, SHELLS, CORAL

Parts of the human body or objects commonly found in nature that are hard and white

BAGPIPES, SCOTTIE, TARTAN, THISTLE

Things commonly associated with Scotland

CHEKHOV, COWARD, MILLER, SHAW

Famous playwrights

BALANCE, JIM, LASER, TRACTOR

Types of beams


openai/gpt-4o

openai

4/4

BONES, CORAL, SHELLS, TEETH

Things associated with the sea or ocean

BAGPIPES, SCOTTIE, TARTAN, THISTLE

Things associated with Scotland

CHEKHOV, COWARD, MILLER, SHAW

Playwrights

BALANCE, JIM, LASER, TRACTOR

Types of equipment or machines


deepseek/deepseek-chat-v3-0324

deepseek

4/4

BONES, CORAL, SHELLS, TEETH

Parts of the body or marine life

BAGPIPES, SCOTTIE, TARTAN, THISTLE

Symbols or items associated with Scotland

CHEKHOV, COWARD, MILLER, SHAW

Famous playwrights

BALANCE, JIM, LASER, TRACTOR

Words that can follow ’Tractor’ to form a compound word or phrase


x-ai/grok-3-mini-beta

x-ai

4/4

BAGPIPES, SCOTTIE, TARTAN, THISTLE

Symbols of Scotland

CHEKHOV, COWARD, MILLER, SHAW

Famous playwrights

BONES, CORAL, SHELLS, TEETH

Hard natural structures

BALANCE, JIM, LASER, TRACTOR

Words that can precede ’beam’


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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