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Careful Overweight Canines
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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 word doesn't belong in the group?
Careful
Abalone
Overweight
Canine
Often
Careful
Abalone
Overweight
Canine
Often
Answer
"Careful" does not belong.All of the other words end in a number:
abal-ONE
overw-EIGHT
ca-NINE
of-TEN
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Good One! Really liked it.You really need to look at the words closely to figure this out.
Good teaser.
Thanks.
a hint could have been helpful...great teaser
There is an alternate answer to the puzzle: Often is the odd man out as it is the only word which has 2 different vowels, while all other words have 3 different vowels.
But the number-ending foxed me completely....great one!!!!
But the number-ending foxed me completely....great one!!!!
Great teaser even tho I was too dumb to get it I may need a brain transplant But great teaser anyway. Keep up the good teasers
The answers are staring me right in the face and I couldn't see them. Nice, Javian, very nice.
Careful & Often belong together
Abalone & Canine made a cute couple
But, I couldn't find a date being Overweight
Abalone & Canine made a cute couple
But, I couldn't find a date being Overweight
i liked it!!
Well done.
Aug 24, 2005
Nice, I thought Canine because it was the only word that was an animal....but I knew it couldnt of been that easy!
A little confusing even after seeing the answer since abalone is not pronounced as abal-1. But, if you go strictly by spelling, I see the point. Interesting teaser.
Nice teaser. I was a little too literal on this one. I was going to eliminate Abalone for two reasons:
1) It was the only noun; the others were all adjectives.
2) The other four words started with "round letters" (C & O), while Abalone started with a pointy letter.
Ah well...next time...
1) It was the only noun; the others were all adjectives.
2) The other four words started with "round letters" (C & O), while Abalone started with a pointy letter.
Ah well...next time...
Hmmm...in retrospect, canine COULD be a noun also, but I still felt safe with abalone, since it couldn't be used as an adjective at all, whereas Canine could...
Okay, too early for this...I need coffee...
Okay, too early for this...I need coffee...
I got the right answer, but for a different reason: Careful is the only word containing an "F". Good tease, Javian.
OUCH! Oh no it isn't! I oFten miss the F in often...don't mind me. Haven't had my morning coffee yet. Good tease, bad comment.
The nice thing about working Braingle word teasers is that thinking outside the box soon becomes the norm, which makes solving them fairly easy. Would the obvious elude us?
that was a good one. of course i didn't get it until i looked at the answer. i guess i need to look outside the box next time
Often is an adverb, dearies. I must say I was looking for differences in parts of speech...and I was wrong = ). Maybe I can blame it on the chicken....*gobble gobble*
good one!
Believe it or not, I actually got this one! As soon as I realized ca-nine had a number, I looked for numbers in the other ones. Yea for me (for once)! Great job!!!!!
needs a hint
Cute job! A hint would be cool tho...!
Aug 24, 2005
Good teaser, tho I thought the answer was Abalone, as the other words spelled C O C O if read in a line down. Shrug.
I'm going to go back to my morning coffee now.
I'm going to go back to my morning coffee now.
that teaser was simply smashing! but it could use a hint.
Very good teaser! I really liked it! Very well thought yp! Keep em comin!
Didn't get it, but now that I see the answer I could kick myself! I thought it was "overweight" b/c overweight is the only word that has two vowels next to each other, and is the only compound word. GREAT TEASER!!!
Good job! Ididn't get it though!!
Aug 24, 2005
it was kind of easy at fist i thought Abalone then i realised it was Careful because i saw the one and nine in abalone and Canine and checking to make sure payed off
Tactfully done, however there were a few alternate answers. Some of these answers were stated in the other comments, but I chose abalone because it does not have two words within it while all the others do.
great job i reallly liked this one
that was a funny teaser!! i couldn't get it, but once i saw the answer, i was slapping myself for not seeing it.
great teaser ,,,,took a while to get it, which is part of the fun,,,,dont worry about hints, they just dilute the process of thought,,,,GOOD JOB
great teaser i got it real quick but very clever
Good one I got it just by LUCK!!!
good
Like others, I chose abalone because it is a noun and the others are adjectives and an adverb. I felt proud of myself only because I knew how to peek at the answer!
Nine and ten suddenly jumped out and I got it. Good teaser.
That was great !!!!! GOOD JOB
no need to disagree just its history!!!
Thanks for the great comments! I did the whole "C-O"/round letters to kind of throw people off, because I thought most people would automatically say 'abalone' but it seems there are a ton of alternate answers...A ton of people also suggested adding a hint, but I wouldn't know what to add. Anyway, glad you all liked it.
I got it! YAY Great teaser
it was very tricky nice job
Aug 31, 2005
That was very fun! thanks.
ops Sorry, I didn't get it, even though I thought of ten, the others didn't pop into my head.
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