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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
Find the word that precedes or follows four of the five words in each group below. Then, find the bonus word that precedes or follows the five words you've eliminated. (One from each group)
1. Bean, milk, chamber, nurse, bar
2. Case, flag, pattern, tube, pilot
3. Suit, book, ridge, breaker, man
4. Ball, theme, trailer, double, may
5. Cat, lily, shark, ski, moth
BONUS : __________
1. Bean, milk, chamber, nurse, bar
2. Case, flag, pattern, tube, pilot
3. Suit, book, ridge, breaker, man
4. Ball, theme, trailer, double, may
5. Cat, lily, shark, ski, moth
BONUS : __________
Answer
1. Maid (milk-maid, chamber-maid, nurse-maid, bar-maid)2. Test (test-case, test-pattern, test-tube, test-pilot)
3. Law (law-suit, law-book, law-breaker, law-man)
4. Park (ball-park, theme-park, trailer-park, double-park)
5. Tiger (tiger-cat, tiger-lily, tiger-shark, tiger-moth)
BONUS: Pole (bean-pole, flag-pole, ridge-pole, may-pole, ski-pole)
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Good one, i enjoyed this one.
good 1
GR8 Fun - thanks for waking my mind easily! I really love these.
Didn't see "or follows". Feel dumb.
Very good teaser. Made me really think to come up with the right answers. Thanks for posting,
um... tigercat? well it was a good quiz up till then. keep posting
I liked it.
I thought by precedes or follows it meant comes next in the list but I guess it doesn't make sense to precede a list... great teaser anyway!
I got a couple of them. I much enjoyed this brain teaser. Keep them coming.
I didn't do so good. Thanks for the challenge.
I did not do good either. I did not understand what we were to do until I saw the answers. It was a good one had I known what to do. Glad you all had brains and they were working well
mepapa, I'm not sure what your comment means. "Tiger cat" is a perfectly good, and not uncommon, expression in American English, where it refers to a domestic feline with tiger-like markings. Just because YOU are unfamiliar with a term, doesn't mean the term has no legitimate existence.
I enjoyed it, much like the game of Tribond, but more involved. I would have to concur that Tigercat is valid. It is also the name of the CFL team from Hamilton.
Made me think, but not impossible.
Even after getting the bonus set and figuring which word to eliminate from three, I still had trouble getting that one. got my mind on -case and ice- but couldn't get the one right word.
Figured out the bonus after getting the "maid" row.
Which made me think of POLE CAT instead of TIGER CAT.
But I eventually sorted things out.
Which made me think of POLE CAT instead of TIGER CAT.
But I eventually sorted things out.
The best teaser in a long time..really got my brain workin' this morning! took some thinking to get them all, but I did
Fun teaser - what is a ridge-pole?
ridge·pole
ˈrijpÅl/
noun
noun: ridge pole; noun: ridge-pole
1.
a horizontal beam along the ridge of a roof, into which the rafters are fastened.
2.
the horizontal pole of a long tent.
ˈrijpÅl/
noun
noun: ridge pole; noun: ridge-pole
1.
a horizontal beam along the ridge of a roof, into which the rafters are fastened.
2.
the horizontal pole of a long tent.
Fantastic Teaser - very fun!! We've had such a long, hard winter here this year that I thought snow was the answer to #3 (snow man, etc.)
Overall good, but some too obscure, like tigercat and tigermoth
Very entertaining and challenging teaser; got them all in 10 minutes.
Fantastic! I love this extension / twist on the basic theme. Matching four of five adds a whole new element to the thought process. I was not familiar with tiger cat, ridge pole, or tiger moth, but managed to get the right answers anyway, eventually. Terrific challenge and really fun.
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