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Trance, Stain, Chime...
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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
TRANCE, STAIN, CHIME, TUBA and PERK. These words all belong to the same logical family. Which of the following words also belongs to that family?
GERMANE, EMBARGO, BANANA and NIGHTMARE
GERMANE, EMBARGO, BANANA and NIGHTMARE
Hint
Just one letter makes the difference.Answer
GERMANE. In the logical family of words, you can change one letter in each word and create a country`s name. FRANCE, SPAIN, CHILE, CUBA and PERU. Germane can be changed into GERMANY.Hide Hint Show Hint Hide Answer Show Answer
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This is going on favs
Jul 07, 2002
brilliant. I would never have guessed it.
What about bananu land?
Nice 1
Good teaser
Jul 08, 2002
very very good, didn't get it at all.. totally puzzled
well done
well done
Wicked! well done phillis
This is "favorites" material!
very good work
Gd1!!! well dun!!!
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I won't lie, I didn't get it, but it's hella good
i liked it!
a fun teaser but i figured it out really quick.
Jul 09, 2003
g*job Phyllis.. i really liked it... keep it up *smile*
Nice 1 but wa really easy for me.no offfense for others but this was really obvious.And i think that that hint was really the answer.But evven though good work as always.And contac me i have a thing to say...
i would have never figured that out!! i thought it might have something to do with countries because of the Germane, but i couldn't figure out how it had anything to do with the other words. great job!
Nice racial slur there.
I did not even think that--I was thinking a chink in one's armor. Not everyone is racist.
Very well done, clever and fun! Keep them coming as i truly enjoy your teasers.
CLEVER....BUT I CAN'T SPOT ANY RACIAL SLURS THAT PREVIOUS COMMENT SAYS IS THERE
wow stomped me
Hey, I can't believe it I got it right though I just guessed it
Easy but fun
Nov 26, 2005
I got it as soon as I saw it - must be awake today
i agree with NOTSOLILGEORGE. WHAT 'BOUT BANANU LAND. i must say that it was cute. again you've done it again phyllis. thanx .
wow!!!!!! . I see nothing to do with racism. I guess if that is where "your" head is at......... a major waste of ENERGY!!!!!!!!!!!
Too E Z, but fun
hey. i never would have guessed that. really great one!!! good job.
Wow, that was very good and very difficult!!!! I wonder if I ever would have solved that one. You peeps who got it so fast, goodygoody for you!!!! Re: racial slur: sometimes it's not that, it's just what's in YOUR head. I wouldn't go looking for them, life is hard enough. Maybe the person never thought of that double meaning for chink, never even heard it!!!!! Now see, that was a well written teaser that didnt have to be incorrect to be very hard for most of us!!!!!!!!
Excellent!!!! Guess I need another cup o' java before I try another.... LOL
I'm just not very good at teasers, but I keep trying. This was a really good 1; I should have seen this. I hope that as I continue with Braingle I will get better; I think that it's just a matter of conditioning the mind to look for the obvious & the not so obvious.
Jim
Jim
Well thought of! Good teaser!
Excellent teaser!! I love ones like this that are not too easy but you can get if you really think about it However, I did not get this though I could kick myself!! I should have gotten it
hey, good 1- i wasn't evan close to figuring it out- i was tryingt to substitute vowels, and all kinds of other stuff- very good one!! as far as the racism comment- grow up, man- this is for FUN!!! if you want to pick a fight then go somewhere else to find it!!!! narrow minded, childish, and shallow !!!! there's no racism in this teaser- PERIOD!!!
thats a good one......it was dfficult though!!
very well done. i can see how some people interpreted that as a racial slur, but people need to remember that "chink" is also a legitimate word!
whoa.... hey whoever thought this was something to do with race needs to lighten up!!! be cool a/b it. they didn't mean anything!! . that's like them putting race into the Hurricane Katrina thing. don't go picking fights like that!!
by the way, that was a gr8 teaser!! i didn't see the hint or else i coulda gotten it!!
by the way, that was a gr8 teaser!! i didn't see the hint or else i coulda gotten it!!
w0w..groovy teaser...i would of never guessed dat haha...2 thumbs up
Omg!! I got it!!!!!! But not for the right reason....trust me you don't want to hear my LONG explanation of how I got it....
this one was hard and the hint didn't help at all!!!
That was awesome! Very fun and difficult, though I still got it! After i saw the hint though Oh well, anyway, great one!
i got it wrong.....again ...but i was looking fot a letter that was not in the main words..
Rugbys_girl, either get off that politically correct high-horse of yours, or at least stop using racial slurs, yourself. You cannot use ANY of the followings words from now on, because all items in this list are racial slurs. And maybe you should research a few hundred more, just to make sure that you are politically correct. Or, is it okay to use them if you are ignorant of their political incorrectness? Check with the PC police on that one, please.
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whoa way too long
got it as soon as i saw it-- doesn't happen alot
ps-i totaly agree with mora
hey mogur--thank you for that list. maybe now some people will understand that it's not the word that's offensive, it's the way you use it.
good one! I was stumped. I tried every which way except the RIGHT way..! LOL
I got all but two immediately..had to think about those even though I knew I was looking for a country...lol Great Teaser!!!
whoa there mogur no offense but was that really nacisary i mean those are racial slurs but wasnt the piont of all that not to call people names and make fun of them, and so on? i mean how do u think the other person feels??? honestly people this is a website t have FUN!!!
by the way that was a very good teaser although i have to admit i also did not get it
by the way that was a very good teaser although i have to admit i also did not get it
First off I thought the teaser was great. Very creative! Secondly, to whoever came up with it, don't pay any attention to the people on here that have mentally manipulated part of it to mean a racial slur. That's their own fault! :
P.S.- I agree w/ hockeygirl!!!
P.S.- I agree w/ hockeygirl!!!
nice teaser, great hint
That waz sooooo much fun!!!! My favorite 4 2day!!!
P.S. what waz that long thing above mine!!!!!!!!!
P.S. what waz that long thing above mine!!!!!!!!!
Was that language really necessary? I think you could have gotten your point across without all of that...
Anyway, I really liked the teaser.
Anyway, I really liked the teaser.
that's cool.
Way over my head. Good one.
First and foremost let me set the record straight here guys. Racism predates racial slurs so this social construction is real even if you aren't "creating" the atmosphere for it to flourish. Secondly, we've wasted far too many words on this. Mav and Mogur, come on guys you aren't receiving awards for your comments b/c they are out of place. Truth of the matter is that phyllis could have chosen another letter at the end of Chin. Not to take anything away from the teaser b/c it was pretty decent. However, there are some words that strike a chord b/c as I stated earlier - this ideology has been around for a long time. When some people are faced with the reality of their actions, they grab the offensive to mask their own shortcomings. When we understand our world better, then and only then can we coexist.
While chink has more than one meaning, to associate it with the word China is really horrendous - it's hard to see chink's non-racial meaning in this case. I can't believe that this got approved. I'm really offended. I don't think racial slurs are "family friendly".
Hooray! And thanks to Jake for fixing this teaser.
Now no more upset.
Now no more upset.
that was funny. I got it right away!
One of the hardest teasers on here
Required some tough brainwaves, but it finally came to me. Good one.
Looking at the previous comments, I still don't see where the racial slur is. I think it has something to do with someone using the word "chink", but that comment came AFTER the comment about the racial slur. Anyone have any ideas?
Excellent teaser. I didn't get it, may have if I'd have taken an hour or so and worked on it, but I didn't, so....Thanks for posting.
Got this right off the bat. Doesn't usually happen that way on these puzzles. Great teaser just the same.
I got this one easily, because I had seen it before.
I didn't get it the first time.
I didn't get it the first time.
E A S Y !!!!!! That's why I liked it!
---I GOT IT!!!!!!!!!!!!P.S. I SEE THERE IS ANOTHER LEROY_h in here. HOW DID THAT HAPPEN?
Thanks for a good teaser! Happy Sunday, friends!
Got it right away, good teaser.
Changing a letter doesn't really have anything to do with logic.
Easy, but still fun. Hi to G & K
nice one
easy and fun
I must have missed this one way back when, but did not get it this time around. Glad some found it easy, but I just did not take the time to figure it out and hurried on to Trivia.
This was a fun teaser, after I figured out what to do. This was the first one of this type I'd seen. As for all this racial slur business, it had been changed by this repeat of the teaser. I am looking forward to more of this type of teaser in the future Phyllis.
I found a different solution. The group only had words that had emphasis on the first syllable. The same was true of NIGHTMARE only in the choices.
I got it right away with no difficulty; I enjoyed this fun and easy teaser.
Fun, easy and entertaining teaser. I got it just as easily as I did the first time I tried it.
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