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Puzzle#994

Connections

Released: 2026-03-01


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

mistralai/mistral-medium-3

mistral

4/4

CANAPÉ, FINGER FOOD, HORS D’OEUVRE, TAPA

Types of Appetizers

HARD HAT, LADDER, NAIL GUN, TOOL BELT

Construction Tools

AIRPLANE, LUGGAGE, PALM TREE, SMILING FACE WITH SUNGLASSES

Emojis

COPYPASTA, JOHANNESBURGER, KNUCKLE SANDWICH, LICORICE PIZZA

Internet Slang


google/gemini-2.0-flash-001

google

4/4

CANAPÉ, FINGER FOOD, HORS D’OEUVRE, TAPA

Small Bites

HARD HAT, LADDER, NAIL GUN, TOOL BELT

Construction Gear

AIRPLANE, LUGGAGE, PALM TREE, SMILING FACE WITH SUNGLASSES

Vacation Items

COPYPASTA, JOHANNESBURGER, KNUCKLE SANDWICH, LICORICE PIZZA

Compound Words Ending in the Letter ’A’


openai/gpt-4o

openai

4/4

CANAPÉ, FINGER FOOD, HORS D’OEUVRE, TAPA

Types of appetizers

HARD HAT, LADDER, NAIL GUN, TOOL BELT

Construction tools and gear

AIRPLANE, LUGGAGE, PALM TREE, SMILING FACE WITH SUNGLASSES

Vacation-related items

COPYPASTA, JOHANNESBURGER, KNUCKLE SANDWICH, LICORICE PIZZA

Food items with unusual names


anthropic/claude-3.7-sonnet

anthropic

4/4

CANAPÉ, FINGER FOOD, HORS D’OEUVRE, TAPA

APPETIZERS

HARD HAT, LADDER, NAIL GUN, TOOL BELT

CONSTRUCTION EQUIPMENT

AIRPLANE, LUGGAGE, PALM TREE, SMILING FACE WITH SUNGLASSES

TRAVEL EMOJIS

COPYPASTA, JOHANNESBURGER, KNUCKLE SANDWICH, LICORICE PIZZA

FOODS THAT AREN’T ACTUALLY FOODS


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

meta

4/4

CANAPÉ, FINGER FOOD, HORS D’OEUVRE, TAPA

Types of small food items

HARD HAT, LADDER, NAIL GUN, TOOL BELT

Construction worker equipment

AIRPLANE, LUGGAGE, PALM TREE, SMILING FACE WITH SUNGLASSES

Vacation-related items

COPYPASTA, JOHANNESBURGER, KNUCKLE SANDWICH, LICORICE PIZZA

Types of jest or joke food names


deepseek/deepseek-chat-v3-0324

deepseek

4/4

CANAPÉ, FINGER FOOD, HORS D’OEUVRE, TAPA

Types of appetizers

HARD HAT, LADDER, NAIL GUN, TOOL BELT

Construction equipment

AIRPLANE, LUGGAGE, PALM TREE, SMILING FACE WITH SUNGLASSES

Emoji representations

COPYPASTA, JOHANNESBURGER, KNUCKLE SANDWICH, LICORICE PIZZA

Internet slang or humorous terms


x-ai/grok-3-mini-beta

x-ai

4/4

CANAPÉ, FINGER FOOD, HORS D’OEUVRE, TAPA

Appetizers

HARD HAT, LADDER, NAIL GUN, TOOL BELT

Construction tools

AIRPLANE, LUGGAGE, PALM TREE, SMILING FACE WITH SUNGLASSES

Travel items

COPYPASTA, LICORICE PIZZA, KNUCKLE SANDWICH, JOHANNESBURGER

Phrases ending in food names


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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