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Puzzle#998

Connections

Released: 2026-03-05


7
Models Tested
4
Solved
3.14
Avg. Correct Connections
7
LLM Providers

google/gemini-2.0-flash-001

google

2/4

INCUBATOR, LAB, SANDBOX, TEST BED

Places for Experimentation

BOLT, NUT, SCREW, WASHER

Hardware Items

ALTERNATE, REPLACEMENT, SUBMARINE, BELOW

Words Suggesting Substitution

HERO, SEESAW, SWITCH, TOGGLE

Things with On/Off Positions


openai/gpt-4o

openai

2/4

BOLT, NUT, SCREW, WASHER

Fasteners

INCUBATOR, LAB, SANDBOX, TEST BED

Places for experimentation or development

ALTERNATE, REPLACEMENT, SWITCH, TOGGLE

Things that can be changed or switched

BELOW, HERO, SEESAW, SUBMARINE

Things that go up and down or are below


anthropic/claude-3.7-sonnet

anthropic

4/4

BOLT, NUT, SCREW, WASHER

FASTENERS

INCUBATOR, LAB, SANDBOX, TEST BED

PLACES FOR EXPERIMENTATION

ALTERNATE, SEESAW, SWITCH, TOGGLE

CHANGE BACK AND FORTH

BELOW, HERO, REPLACEMENT, SUBMARINE

TYPES OF SANDWICHES


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

meta

2/4

BOLT, NUT, SCREW, WASHER

Hardware fasteners

INCUBATOR, LAB, SANDBOX, TEST BED

Experimental environments

SWITCH, TOGGLE, ALTERNATE, REPLACEMENT

Terms for substitutes or alternatives

SEESAW, BELOW, HERO, SUBMARINE

Words that can be preceded by ’see’


mistralai/mistral-medium-3

mistral

4/4

BOLT, NUT, SCREW, WASHER

Hardware Fasteners

INCUBATOR, LAB, SANDBOX, TEST BED

Development Environments

ALTERNATE, SEESAW, SWITCH, TOGGLE

Things that change back and forth

BELOW, HERO, REPLACEMENT, SUBMARINE

Words that can follow ’under’ or ’under-’


deepseek/deepseek-chat-v3-0324

deepseek

4/4

BOLT, NUT, SCREW, WASHER

Hardware fasteners

INCUBATOR, LAB, SANDBOX, TEST BED

Places for experimentation

ALTERNATE, SEESAW, SWITCH, TOGGLE

Words meaning to change back and forth

BELOW, HERO, REPLACEMENT, SUBMARINE

Words that can follow ’sub’


x-ai/grok-3-mini-beta

x-ai

4/4

BOLT, NUT, SCREW, WASHER

Fasteners

INCUBATOR, LAB, SANDBOX, TEST BED

Testing Environments

ALTERNATE, SEESAW, SWITCH, TOGGLE

Switching Mechanisms

BELOW, HERO, REPLACEMENT, SUBMARINE

Movie Titles


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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