Braingle: 'Another Common Theme' Brain Teaser

Another Common Theme

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:	#35564
Fun:	(3.03)
Difficulty:	(1.58)
Category:	Group
Submitted By:	jazzmusician46

Your task here is to change one letter in each of the following words, in order to find six (6) words with a common theme.

FIG
MUST
HIND
SLOW
SMUG
MAIL

Answer

FIG --> FOG
MUST --> MIST
HIND --> WIND
SLOW --> SNOW
SMUG --> SMOG
MAIL --> HAIL

'Weather conditions' is the common theme.
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Comments

menz Mar 06, 2007	I had gotten four words to have a common theme of "pig".......I was way off!
jazzmusician46 Mar 06, 2007	Good try though
T_Bone_Gal_3 Mar 12, 2007	I thought it was pig too
vlerma Mar 17, 2007	Since we have had ourselves one heck of a winter here I got fog first and then just started looking for weather words. It worked. Thanks. Nice job.
jazzmusician46 Mar 17, 2007	Pleasure
reptile5000 Mar 21, 2007	hi jazz, sorry, i read my messages after i recovered my account. my friend from school had found my password. i am very sorry at what has happened. now i have bad karma i saw that you said you gave me bad karma, any way of it going back up please?
solarsistim321 Apr 01, 2007	That was really fun. I admit, it was a bit easy, and, seeing as I'm possibly the smartest man alive, I got it in under a minute. Vlerma I saw fog first and then started looking for weather stuff. If you know the theme, it's a lot easier.
Pablo Apr 07, 2007	Nice one! No p(r)ain!
vlerma Apr 07, 2007	You know I was going to let this go by, but after thinking about it for a while I decided to apologize to you Jazz because by my reading this and remarking as I did I gave it away to those who have to read everyone else's remarks before they become so intelligent. Sorry Jazz, I will keep that in mind for future reference. I guess I was just so trusting that everyone played fair.
WaterlooRoad00 Apr 07, 2007	Great teaser jazz!
lmurray Apr 07, 2007	QUITE EASY, I LIKED IT. HOWEVER, SMOG IS NOT A WEATHER WORD AND WE HAVE SOME OF THE WORLD'S WORST SMOG HERE IN BEIJING.
cloughme Apr 07, 2007	Good job, but really easy.
Bachi234 Apr 07, 2007	Good teaser! I was thinking that musk for the second one would work as well.
Tryer Apr 07, 2007	Really enjoyed this... and I got it right that made my day! Thanks
builder Apr 07, 2007	Fun, Easy, Praise the Lord and thank you Jazz for the new material
jcann Apr 07, 2007	This was easy, but fun, once I got the first word. But that's the way a like them! Great way to start the day!
anion Apr 07, 2007	I too was looking to find words that would work for pig but then I just looked at the first answer and I did okay then. Great teaser! I enjoyed it. Take care...
doehead Apr 07, 2007	It was so easy a first grader could and would have solved it.
Aarghonauts Apr 07, 2007	Fun, fun, fun in the sub I mean "sun." I really like these. Keep 'em comin'
kitty728 Apr 07, 2007	2ez4me i knew it was related to weather so at first - instead of snow i guessed blow and at first instead of hail i guessed gail as in gail winds but then realized that is spelled gale.. anyhoo. tks for a good one...
katjojo Apr 07, 2007	I thought this was fun!!
2ndhandrose Apr 07, 2007	Enjoyed this one. Took about 5 mins. The theme was easy ! Thanx, fun!
ariel777 Apr 07, 2007	very kewt...thanks
oombutu Apr 07, 2007	A little too easy. Took about 30 seconds. Once you got FOG and MIST, everything else fell into place.
jazzmusician46 Apr 07, 2007	Thanks guys for the great comments. Doehead: As usual, you are up to standard. I'm happy my grade 1 teaser suited you.
Starfruit Apr 07, 2007	Yay! A teaser I could actually solve. That made me happy. It was easy but enjoyable. Thanks
Pizzazz2u Apr 07, 2007	It did fall into order, once one caught on to the theme, but it was a terrific teaser! It IS amazing that we always have marvelous comments by Doe and Lmurray....LOL (Shaking my head by their self-proclaimed inteligence) Still in all, Jazz, an awesome teaser!
avonma Apr 07, 2007	I happened to start with "fog," so I got the rest right away. It was fun - thanks!
bradon182001 Apr 07, 2007	I gave up as the possiblities were endless even with the first word. I tried every combination, but couldn't get a theme so will have to say I think this was a very good teaser because it made me think (even tho I didn't get it.) Thanks for the work out.
ViaTunisi Apr 07, 2007	I started off with Rig and Mast, so it was a bit difficult for me..
nascarjake3 Apr 07, 2007	It was very fun bur easy. I got dust instead uf mist, but it was fun
nascarjake3 Apr 07, 2007	sorry, of, not uf
CatSmw Apr 07, 2007	Very fun. I got mist and hail pretty quickly making the others pretty easy. Keep the teasers coming
cooltigerr1 Apr 07, 2007	haha this was fun to do i got some right but not all haha... good teaser
coolguy5678 Apr 07, 2007	I thought this was going to be hard, but I got the theme in about 7 seconds...
auntiesis Apr 07, 2007	This is a good one Jazz. I got it rather quickly, but that is because I finished the first grade. I didn't realize that doehead was only in the 1st grade. She must be a child wonder. Anyway, great teaser. I couldn't get the theme for a few seconds, then I discovered snow, and the rest just fell into place.
frozenrose_885 Apr 07, 2007	I got that real fast, record timing for me .
wordmama Apr 07, 2007	I got 5 of them immediately, then snow took a few seconds, helped by the theme. Lotsa fun. Thanks! I wish doehead would take her negativity and get lost in the woods. (I apologize, folks; I don't like being negative myself, but doehead's comments push me to that state.)
Pablo Apr 07, 2007	Why do you think doehead is female?
luckyduck Apr 07, 2007	I live in CO and our weather changes every day. I don't know if that made a difference but I got that one pretty easy. I felt pretty dumb when I didn't get the last one since I already new the pattern! Good One!!! I liked it a lot!!!
luckyduck Apr 07, 2007	Pablo---idk for sure if doehead is a girl and I no you aren't talking to me but a doe is a FEMALE deer so...
jamy400 Apr 07, 2007	Very clever! I loved it!
kauphi1976 Apr 07, 2007	ok tat took 23 seconds (one whole second for each letter). And no I aint no 1st grader cos I wouldnt have learnt half them words. Nice one Jazz. Make em harder and keep em comin Genie-Ass
kauphi1976 Apr 07, 2007	pablo - haven't u heard the song from 'sound of Music' "Doe a dear , a female deer..." Genie-Ass
Dishhead5 Apr 07, 2007	agrees with avonma i thought slow was blow :blush:
davidrools Apr 08, 2007	Was anyone else thinking: RIG, MAST, WIND, BLOW, ____, SAIL and thinking a nautical/ship theme?
jazzmusician46 Apr 08, 2007	Thanks for your comments guys. It looks like I tricked a few of you. Davidrools: I hadn't thought of your possibility. I might try that theme next time.
speedqueenkmw Apr 08, 2007	got it in a few seconds~that's a first for me! sometimes fun to have the answer pop into your head immediately, ya know?
wordmama Apr 08, 2007	Pablo, I used to think doehead was male based on the negativity, but then someone else referred to "him" as her or she, I don't remember which and then I felt dumb realizing that a doe is indeed a "mommy deer", as I say it to 1st or 2nd graders who don't know the word female. If doehead IS male, he's just proving how inappropriate he is, right down to his name!!
wordmama Apr 08, 2007	Oh, I just looked back; it was Auntiesis who said She and influenced me.
scallio Apr 09, 2007	Hurray, davidrools- You and I think alike! While reading through the comments, I was beginning to think I was the only one that came up with a ship theme! Now I see I have company! I thought SAIL, RIG, MAST, WIND, BLOW and SLUG. Great teaser, Jazzy!
jazzmusician46 Apr 10, 2007	Thank you
j9mattfield Apr 19, 2007	I was stuck with the sailing theme as well, and couldn't get it out of my mind. Thanks!
Qrystal May 10, 2007	I was kinda halfway between the weather theme and the ship theme .... thought the theme was air, and got the words FOG, MIST, WIND, BLOW, SMOG, and SAIL. Also thought of HAIL, and DUST, and decided not to think much more on it and went ahead and clicked on the answer.
dshebo Jun 15, 2007	Great Teaser! I actually came up with Rig, Gust, Wind, Blow, Smaog, and Sail thinking that they were ship terms. Your's makes more sense I guess. Thanks for the great teaser!
doehead Apr 07, 2010	I''l standby my original comment.
sunnybonghits Apr 07, 2010	Brilliant. Loved it.
patiencewithaP Apr 07, 2010	Great teaser! At first I thought of slop instead of snow since that's what we had yesterday
gargph Apr 07, 2010	For the first 2 I got 'pig' and 'mutt' But then I got stuck.
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cutebug Apr 07, 2013	A nobrainer. Quite easy.
HABS2933 Apr 07, 2013	I agree that this teaser was easy. I however got fog straightaway as it wast the only word other than fig that fit the f_g pattern (well so would "fag" but didn't think the author would use it). Once you get fog then the rest just fall into place. I can see however that if you didn't see fog the rest would also be difficult to solve. I do agree with the poster above who said SMOG is not a weather word. It may be made worse by weather, but in and of itself, it has nothing to do with the weather.
jaycr Apr 07, 2013	I missed the boat on this one, I came up with 5 sailing terms.
thecatladycac Apr 07, 2013	I enjoyed this teaser. I came up with Gust (as in a gust of wind) instead of mist. Nice teaser -
lukasiwicz Apr 07, 2013	Whether doehead is male or female, he/she seems a bit too eager to impress upon the rest of us dolts how much our intelligence suffers in comparison to his/hers.
gaylewolf Apr 07, 2013	Lucasiwidcz: Read my lips. Repeat after me. We are NOT dolts. Doehead, you are just a big, fat show off!! Sorry - I was just 8 years old for a minute!