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Puzzle#997

Connections

Released: 2026-03-04


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

google/gemini-2.0-flash-001

google

4/4

HOUND, SHADOW, TAIL, TRACK

Things that follow

FAIR, HONEST, SQUARE, SPORTING

Synonyms for upright

BIKE, BOOK, TOY, VIDEO GAME

Items on a child’s gift list

GONE, NEW, WORKING, GOSSIP

Words often appearing with the word ’Girl’


openai/gpt-4o

openai

4/4

FAIR, HONEST, SPORTING, SQUARE

Synonyms for just

HOUND, TAIL, TRACK, SHADOW

Words meaning to follow

BIKE, BOOK, TOY, VIDEO GAME

Items often associated with children

GONE, GOSSIP, NEW, WORKING

Words that can precede ’girl’


anthropic/claude-3.7-sonnet

anthropic

4/4

HOUND, SHADOW, TAIL, TRACK

FOLLOW

FAIR, HONEST, SPORTING, SQUARE

MEANINGS OF ’JUST’

BIKE, BOOK, TOY, VIDEO GAME

GIFTS FOR CHILDREN

GONE, GOSSIP, NEW, WORKING

PAIRED WITH ’GIRL’


mistralai/mistral-medium-3

mistral

4/4

HOUND, SHADOW, TAIL, TRACK

Types of Dog Breeds or Dog-related Terms

FAIR, HONEST, SPORTING, SQUARE

Words Meaning Just or Equitable

BIKE, BOOK, TOY, VIDEO GAME

Types of Nouns Often Found in a Child’s Room

GONE, GOSSIP, NEW, WORKING

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


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

meta

4/4

HOUND, TRACK, TAIL, SHADOW

Dog-related words

FAIR, HONEST, SQUARE, SPORTING

Words meaning just or equitable

BIKE, BOOK, TOY, VIDEO GAME

Child’s plaything or entertainment

GONE, GOSSIP, NEW, WORKING

Words related to newspaper or magazine sections


x-ai/grok-3-mini-beta

x-ai

4/4

HOUND, SHADOW, TAIL, TRACK

Pursuit methods

FAIR, HONEST, SPORTING, SQUARE

Fairness concepts

BIKE, BOOK, TOY, VIDEO GAME

Consumer items

GONE, GOSSIP, NEW, WORKING

Title words


deepseek/deepseek-chat-v3-0324

deepseek

4/4

FAIR, HONEST, SPORTING, SQUARE

Synonyms for just or equitable

HOUND, SHADOW, TAIL, TRACK

Terms related to following someone

BIKE, BOOK, TOY, VIDEO GAME

Items that can be preceded by ’race’

GONE, GOSSIP, NEW, WORKING

Words that can precede ’girl’


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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