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Wizard or Magician
Group
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
This is quite a group I've found;
Look who belongs, it will astound.
In this group, find BY and LO,
But see neither HIGH nor LOW.
This group is not very big,
But it has GRIT, GIRT and TRIG.
HOVELS is in, but move the "s",
this group SHOVEL does not possess.
It is sad but true, this thought:
VOLE belongs, but LOVE does not.
Now, which one belongs, tell me quick:
WIZARD, MAGICIAN, MEDIUM or MAGIC?
Look who belongs, it will astound.
In this group, find BY and LO,
But see neither HIGH nor LOW.
This group is not very big,
But it has GRIT, GIRT and TRIG.
HOVELS is in, but move the "s",
this group SHOVEL does not possess.
It is sad but true, this thought:
VOLE belongs, but LOVE does not.
Now, which one belongs, tell me quick:
WIZARD, MAGICIAN, MEDIUM or MAGIC?
Hint
I think you will do better,If you focus on each letter.
Look close and you will see,
Group members have a symmetry.
Answer
WIZARD is in the group.The group contains words with symmetrically distributed letters.
For example, in VOLE, the first and last letters, V and E, are equidistant from the centre of the alphabet, as are the middle two letters, O and L. However, LOVE does not belong because the L and E are not equidistant; neither are the O and V.
Can you think of any other words that belong in this group?
Here is a chart showing pairs of equidistant letters:
AZ
BY
CX
DW
EV
FU
GT
HS
IR
JQ
KP
LO
MN
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Awesome, MarcM!!
A little too tough for my pea brain this morning tho!!
A little too tough for my pea brain this morning tho!!
I liked it a lot
but I was thinking hard all day and I think by the time I read this I had exausted my brain power for the day
but I was thinking hard all day and I think by the time I read this I had exausted my brain power for the day
Great teaser! Was a bit hard for me, but I had fun trying to figure it out! :d
Too tough for me but delightfully entertaining. A very well thought out teaser!
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THIS IS A TEASER WORTHY OF THE SITE'S NAME.
I TOTALLY ENJOYED IT!!
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THIS IS A TEASER WORTHY OF THE SITE'S NAME.
I TOTALLY ENJOYED IT!!
XIEXIE NI! THANK YOU!
Great teaser - I got it by just looking at the words for a while. The word "BY" tipped me off.
Excellent!! Now this is a teaser!!
I wouldn't have got it in a million gazillion years! Excellent teaser, and very well written. Congratulations!
Great one, by gad!! I love ones that are doable but hard. Actually, though this one was in theory "doable," I couldn't do it Made me like it even more
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Very fun! Took some time but got it - just what I needed to jumpstart my brain this morning!
I would have never gotten it.
I agree with most of the other comments - clever, well written, but I had no clue!
Thanks for a good one!
Thanks for a good one!
This was really hard.. ok teaser.
UCH, my brain!!! Thanks for trying to make it work!!!
Impressive
Keep 'em coming.
Keep 'em coming.
It took the hint to get me there but I got it! Great job MarcM!
I did not get the answer, but it was really fun trying to figure it out. They say working at something like this daily will keep your mind sharp. Guess I need some practice . Please keep sending these. They will train me to use that gray matter of mine.
way too tough for me. guess my brain doesn't think that way. nice job, tho.
wow.
Great teaser. I didn't figure it out
Wow! very creative teaser. Totally stumped me.
I got it, I got it, I got it, I got it!!!!
I had to read the hint, and then, I don't know, I guess the word "symetry", plus, like someone else said, the "by", and it just popped into my head. That's a good one, pretty hard but not impossible. Thanks for the wonderful teaser!
I had to read the hint, and then, I don't know, I guess the word "symetry", plus, like someone else said, the "by", and it just popped into my head. That's a good one, pretty hard but not impossible. Thanks for the wonderful teaser!
This one was a Brain "Taser". Zapped me good. Had no clue.
way to hard for me!!!!!
Great teaser! And it rhymed, too. This is a great teaser, a Great Teaser, and did I mention, a GREAT TEASER?
This was a tough one...way out of my league. Even the hint didn't help. My kudos to Marc and the few who actually got the answer.
Still don't understand. What you mean by eqidistant letters?
equidistant means the distance is equal (i.e. the letters are the same distance away from the middle of the alphabet)
good job....thanks for the headache. I took a lucky guess and got the right answer after my left eye started twitching. hehe.
Great teaser. Took me a day of analyzing before I figured it out. BY was also the clue for me.
Great teaser. but out of my dsata base today. Sorry.
I'm still thinking about this one.?????
All of my ideas about the group got shot down when I reread the riddle. Ow! I guess I got tazed too.
Impressive!
Well done. Very thought provoking.
How on earth did you figure this out to write in the first place?? Awesome, just awesome. Thanks
Excellent teaser. I love the way that you presented it i.e. in the form of a poem. Great work, Marc!
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