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I've certainly thought about testing LLMs on Connections and I'm glad someone has. It might be possible to increase their performance, but LLMs as-is are not suited for the task.

The problem is that Connections is ultimately a search problem that requires more than simply grouping similar words. There are lots of combinations to assess. I bet if you enumerate, score, then rank all possible groupings, an LLM would perform much better.