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These brain teasers rely on your ability to recognize groups of common attributes. For each of these puzzles you'll need to figure out why the words or letters are grouped as they are. Sometimes you will be asked to pick the odd-one-out or to place a new word into the correct group.Group
Here are two groups of words:
GROUP A - sing, rink, bade
GROUP B - nine, lice, pack
The words in each group have a special link. None of the words from group A would fit in Group B, and vice versa, but the link between the groups of words is the same.
What group would the word "tick" fit into, and why?
GROUP A - sing, rink, bade
GROUP B - nine, lice, pack
The words in each group have a special link. None of the words from group A would fit in Group B, and vice versa, but the link between the groups of words is the same.
What group would the word "tick" fit into, and why?
Answer
"Tick" belongs in Group A.The special property in each group is that the first two letters in one word can be switched with the first two letters of another word in the same group, and still form a proper word. The same also works for swapping the last two letters round.
So for Group A:
SI makes SING, SINK and SIDE
RI makes RINK, RING and RIDE
BA makes BADE, BANG and BANK
And Group B:
NI makes NINE, NICE and NICK
LI makes LICE, LINE and LICK
PA makes PACK, PANE and PACE
TICK fits into Group A because:
TI makes TING, TINK and TIDE
And:
--CK makes SICK, RICK and BACK.
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