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Puzzle#990

Connections

Released: 2026-02-25


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

deepseek/deepseek-chat-v3-0324

deepseek

4/4

BABY, FOSTER, MOTHER, NURSE

Types of parents or caregivers

BASIC, KEY, PRIMARY, PRINCIPAL

Words meaning fundamental or most important

BROWN, COOK, DEAN, HARDEN

Last names of famous people

ALKALINE, DECLAN, DIATRIBE, NAPKIN

Words that can be preceded by ’battery’


openai/gpt-4o

openai

4/4

BASIC, KEY, PRIMARY, PRINCIPAL

Synonyms for fundamental or essential

MOTHER, NURSE, BABY, FOSTER

Related to caregiving or child-rearing

BROWN, COOK, DEAN, HARDEN

Verbs that also serve as surnames

ALKALINE, DECLAN, DIATRIBE, NAPKIN

Unrelated miscellaneous words


anthropic/claude-3.7-sonnet

anthropic

4/4

BABY, FOSTER, MOTHER, NURSE

CARE PROVIDERS

BASIC, KEY, PRIMARY, PRINCIPAL

FUNDAMENTAL THINGS

BROWN, COOK, DEAN, HARDEN

LAST NAMES THAT ARE ALSO VERBS

ALKALINE, DECLAN, DIATRIBE, NAPKIN

ANAGRAMS OF ’LIKE AND’


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

meta

4/4

MOTHER, NURSE, BABY, FOSTER

Primary Caregivers

BASIC, KEY, PRIMARY, PRINCIPAL

Types of Schools

BROWN, COOK, HARDEN, DEAN

Surnames of Famous People

ALKALINE, DECLAN, DIATRIBE, NAPKIN

Unrelated Words with Unique Properties


google/gemini-2.0-flash-001

google

2/4

PRINCIPAL, PRIMARY, KEY, BASIC

Synonyms for fundamental

MOTHER, NURSE, FOSTER, BABY

Related to childcare

COOK, NAPKIN, ALKALINE, BROWN

Related to Baking Soda

DIATRIBE, DEAN, DECLAN, HARDEN

Things that rhyme with ’D-


mistralai/mistral-medium-3

mistral

4/4

BASIC, KEY, PRIMARY, PRINCIPAL

Synonyms for ’main’ or ’fundamental’

BROWN, COOK, DEAN, HARDEN

Common last names

BABY, FOSTER, MOTHER, NURSE

Words related to family and caregiving

ALKALINE, DECLAN, DIATRIBE, NAPKIN

Words containing the letters ’A’, ’L’, ’I’, ’N’


x-ai/grok-3-mini-beta

x-ai

4/4

BABY, FOSTER, MOTHER, NURSE

Family roles

BASIC, KEY, PRIMARY, PRINCIPAL

Essential concepts

BROWN, COOK, DEAN, HARDEN

Surnames

ALKALINE, DECLAN, DIATRIBE, NAPKIN

Miscellaneous 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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