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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
Which of the following does not belong?
Sorrow, Gold, Joy, Girl, Secret, Silver, Diamond, Boy.
Sorrow, Gold, Joy, Girl, Secret, Silver, Diamond, Boy.
Answer
Diamond.The rest are all featured in the nursery rhyme which accompanies the sighting of a magpie, which would supposedly predict the future.
1 for sorrow,
2 for joy,
3 for a girl,
4 for a boy,
5 for silver,
6 for gold,
7 for a secret never to be told.
Other similar rhymes include:
One for anger
Two for mirth
Three for a wedding
Four for a birth
Five for rich
Six for poor
Seven for a witch
I can tell you no more.
One for sorrow
Two for mirth
Three for a funeral
Four for a birth
Five for heaven
Six for hell
Seven's the Devil his own self
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I got this ages a go, and :O:O:O I got it again.
Fun to sing out loud, haha.
I got this ages a go, and :O:O:O I got it again.
Fun to sing out loud, haha.
That was quite the thinker to get you thinking about those who think about thinkology!
lol nice teaser. I didn't guess, but whatever
I remember one that read,
"Five for England, six for France".
"Five for England, six for France".
Seven for a boy in really dirty pants?
Good teaser. Thanks for posting.
Great!
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