Braingle: 'Comb Tonic' Brain Teaser

Comb Tonic

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.

Puzzle ID:	#28315
Fun:	(2.8)
Difficulty:	(2.1)
Category:	Group
Submitted By:	cnmne
Corrected By:	cnmne

Which word in Group B can be added to Group A? Why?

Group A: comb, mount, strophe, tonic
Group B: acre, floor, giant, log, redo, view

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Comments

WJSMama Jan 28, 2006	nice and easy. I liked it
wizofaus Jan 29, 2006	Got the right answer, for a completely wrong reason (I thought it was to do with the vowel 'o' in the first/primary syllable!)
solarsistim321 Feb 10, 2006	what
Vigo95 Feb 20, 2006	i did not realize strophe was a word by itself , until now ! i learned something !
vlerma Mar 03, 2006	Ouch!Total catastrophe for me/ But a very nice teaser. If I had realized the trick to it. I would had done well, bt as it is, I just became catatonic. Sorry
bluehawk Mar 03, 2006	I LIKEY ! KEEP UP GOOD WORK.
Atropus Mar 03, 2006	Nice one. ...and then I though.. hang on, isn't it spelt catalogue? Go, UK spellings! O_o
speediebean Mar 03, 2006	Oh my goodness.. I'd thought it was "giant" that could have gone into Group A.. and I won't go into the reasons why! Definitely fun fun fun!!! Love these ones that make me think.. then make me go "'DOH!"
churchlady Mar 03, 2006	Thank you but I am sorry to say I did not get it. Keep them coming.
windexnodrip Mar 03, 2006	I to thought it was supposed to be giant! well, we can't get them all right......?
shawneeo Mar 03, 2006	I wanna know why two out of ten thought the answer was giant !? I didn't get it, and I thought the answer was view, but I didn't spend a lot of time. I don't know if I ever would have thought of that, cata, althought right away I thought of catastrophe, but the "cata" didn't hit me for the others. That's the way I like it, showing me I have to think and look in more ways! Thanks!
free_bird Mar 03, 2006	I too thought that log was part of group A because of the "o"
saleprice Mar 03, 2006	I got all the 1st part Cata etc, but for the life of me I couldn`t get what was associated with the 2nd part, silly me when I saw the answer!!
jabdr Mar 03, 2006	Good one, CNMNE. I got it at first look....though I could miss the next one! Keep them comming.
lazy-boy Mar 03, 2006	Good one It took a lot of thought and still was wrong
crookface Mar 03, 2006	great teaser
pat56 Mar 03, 2006	Well I guess I'm not good enough at things like this because the question was which word in group b can be added to a and why.So I thought it was a word in the b group so where did cata come from?
iteachkids Mar 03, 2006	I was on the right track, really I was! I was playing with prefixes/syllables/suffixes, but when I tried a few and never came up with cata. I guess I gave up too easily. Until today, I knew of no such word as "catamount" for "cougar." I've seen "catalogue," but rarely. In my dictionary, "catalog" is the spelling. I'm sure it's a US/UK thing. GREAT teaser!!!
Coolfreeze Mar 03, 2006	sorry, but i didn't get it.
nyperry Mar 03, 2006	I guess I am really stupid. I cannot find the word "cata" in Group B.
ejj1955 Mar 03, 2006	I thought this was worded badly--like some others, I was looking for a word in the B list that could be added to each of the words in the A list to create new words.
ejj1955 Mar 03, 2006	One more thing . . . the catalogue/catalog thing--these are both acceptable spellings in the US.
rootsradical23 Mar 03, 2006	who in earth has heard of the word "strophe"???? i looked it up, but until then had never heard of it or heard anyone else use it....
americangirl06 Mar 03, 2006	I thought this would be easy, but it stumped me. Good one!
doodlebug612 Mar 03, 2006	Don't get it, cata is not in group b, so how can you add it to the words in group a?
azbee123 Mar 03, 2006	that was so cute!!!!!!! loved it... only... i didnt get it
avonma Mar 03, 2006	I'm sorry, but I just can't come up with "cata."
bagogirl Mar 03, 2006	nice one, even though i got it for a different reason
nikapooh Mar 03, 2006	Ok people who didn't get it the word log in group b can have cata added to it just like all the words in group a. All my scrabble playing paid off for this one.
Lucasgal Mar 03, 2006	That was hard! FUN!!!!!!! :
bradon182001 Mar 03, 2006	I, too, tried to fit one word from B with each of A. Needless to say, I was WRONG!! Made me think, though.
OldChinaHand Mar 03, 2006	More of a tormentor than a teaser.
(user deleted) Mar 03, 2006	I answered correctly!
AmyLeigh Mar 04, 2006	I did not get it ! Where in the world did cata come from, that word is not in group B!
beefdog33 Mar 04, 2006	that was strange but kinda funny