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Another Common Theme
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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
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
FIG
MUST
HIND
SLOW
SMUG
Answer
FIG --> FOGMUST --> MIST
HIND --> WIND
SLOW --> SNOW
SMUG --> SMOG
MAIL --> HAIL
'Weather conditions' is the common theme.
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I had gotten four words to have a common theme of "pig".......I was way off!
Good try though
I thought it was pig too
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.
Pleasure
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?
i saw that you said you gave me bad karma, any way of it going back up please?
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.
Vlerma I saw fog first and then started looking for weather stuff. If you know the theme, it's a lot easier.
Nice one!
No p(r)ain!
No p(r)ain!
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.
Great teaser jazz!
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.
Good job, but really easy.
Good teaser! I was thinking that musk for the second one would work as well.
Really enjoyed this... and I got it right that made my day! Thanks
Fun, Easy, Praise the Lord and thank you Jazz for the new material
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!
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...
Great teaser! I enjoyed it.
Take care...
It was so easy a first grader could and would have solved it.
Fun, fun, fun in the sub I mean "sun." I really like these. Keep 'em comin'
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...
I thought this was fun!!
Enjoyed this one. Took about 5 mins. The theme was easy ! Thanx, fun!
very kewt...thanks
A little too easy. Took about 30 seconds. Once you got FOG and MIST, everything else fell into place.
Thanks guys for the great comments.
Doehead: As usual, you are up to standard. I'm happy my grade 1 teaser suited you.
Doehead: As usual, you are up to standard. I'm happy my grade 1 teaser suited you.
Yay! A teaser I could actually solve. That made me happy. It was easy but enjoyable.
Thanks
Thanks
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!
I happened to start with "fog," so I got the rest right away. It was fun - thanks!
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.
I started off with Rig and Mast, so it was a bit difficult for me..
It was very fun bur easy. I got dust instead uf mist, but it was fun
sorry, of, not uf
Very fun. I got mist and hail pretty quickly making the others pretty easy. Keep the teasers coming
haha this was fun to do i got some right but not all haha...
good teaser
good teaser
I thought this was going to be hard, but I got the theme in about 7 seconds...
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.
I got that real fast, record timing for me .
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.)
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.)
Why do you think doehead is female?
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!!!
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...
Very clever! I loved it!
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
Genie-Ass
pablo - haven't u heard the song from 'sound of Music' "Doe a dear , a female deer..."
Genie-Ass
Genie-Ass
agrees with avonma
i thought slow was blow :blush:
i thought slow was blow :blush:
Was anyone else thinking: RIG, MAST, WIND, BLOW, ____, SAIL and thinking a nautical/ship theme?
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.
Davidrools: I hadn't thought of your possibility. I might try that theme next time.
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?
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!!
Oh, I just looked back; it was Auntiesis who said She and influenced me.
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!
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!
Thank you
I was stuck with the sailing theme as well, and couldn't get it out of my mind. Thanks!
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.
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!
I''l standby my original comment.
Brilliant. Loved it.
Great teaser! At first I thought of slop instead of snow since that's what we had yesterday
For the first 2 I got 'pig' and 'mutt'
But then I got stuck.
But then I got stuck.
A nobrainer. Quite easy.
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.
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.
I missed the boat on this one, I came up with 5 sailing terms.
I enjoyed this teaser. I came up with Gust (as in a gust of wind) instead of mist. Nice teaser -
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.
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!
We are NOT dolts. Doehead, you are just a big, fat show off!!
Sorry - I was just 8 years old for a minute!
I do not know how I did the first time around, but this time I got all but one and instead of smog, I too got gust. I started out with the first one by changing the F to P and got pig, but as I went on and seen the pattern I had to go back and changed it to fog. It was a fun teaser.
Just came back here for today. I'm glad to see how much interest I draw with my remarks. I always know how to stir the pot and disappear. As far as my gender- maybe I'm a SHIM.
Gr8 fun teaser, thanks Jazz!
Not sure about smog though?
Would love 2 c more of these theme puzzles!
Not sure about smog though?
Would love 2 c more of these theme puzzles!
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