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Puzzle#999

Connections

Released: 2026-03-06


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

google/gemini-2.0-flash-001

google

4/4

LAYER, BLANKET, CLOAK, CURTAIN

Things that provide a covering

LEECH, MOOCH, PARASITE, SPONGE

Things that take without giving

HASH, POUND, SHARP, NUMBER

Types of symbols

FACULTY, MARBLE, SENSE, WIT

Mental abilities


anthropic/claude-3.7-sonnet

anthropic

4/4

LEECH, MOOCH, PARASITE, SPONGE

FREELOADERS

BLANKET, CLOAK, CURTAIN, LAYER

COVERINGS

HASH, NUMBER, POUND, SHARP

SYMBOLS ON A TELEPHONE KEYPAD

FACULTY, MARBLE, SENSE, WIT

MENTAL CAPACITIES


mistralai/mistral-medium-3

mistral

4/4

LEECH, MOOCH, PARASITE, SPONGE

Words that describe people who take advantage of others

BLANKET, CLOAK, CURTAIN, LAYER

Words that describe coverings

HASH, NUMBER, POUND, SHARP

Words that can be symbols on a telephone keypad

FACULTY, MARBLE, SENSE, WIT

Words that describe mental abilities or states


deepseek/deepseek-chat-v3-0324

deepseek

4/4

LEECH, MOOCH, PARASITE, SPONGE

Words meaning someone who takes advantage of others

BLANKET, CLOAK, CURTAIN, LAYER

Things that cover or conceal

HASH, NUMBER, POUND, SHARP

Musical symbols or terms

FACULTY, MARBLE, SENSE, WIT

Words that can follow ’lose your’


openai/gpt-4o

openai

4/4

LEECH, MOOCH, PARASITE, SPONGE

Terms for freeloaders or organisms that live off others

BLANKET, CLOAK, CURTAIN, LAYER

Items used for covering or concealing

HASH, NUMBER, POUND, SHARP

Symbols or terms for the ’#’ sign

FACULTY, MARBLE, SENSE, WIT

Words that refer to mental or cognitive abilities


x-ai/grok-3-mini-beta

x-ai

4/4

LEECH, MOOCH, PARASITE, SPONGE

Freeloaders

BLANKET, CLOAK, CURTAIN, LAYER

Coverings

HASH, NUMBER, POUND, SHARP

Symbols

FACULTY, MARBLE, SENSE, WIT

Mental attributes


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

meta

4/4

LEECH, MOOCH, PARASITE, SPONGE

Freeloader

BLANKET, CLOAK, CURTAIN, LAYER

Covering

HASH, NUMBER, POUND, SHARP

Symbol

FACULTY, MARBLE, SENSE, WIT

Intellect


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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