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Which is the odd couple? Find how these pairs were formed, then decide which does not belong with the other four.
1. HIS and MIST
2. LUSH and PULP
3. LOFT and SOUND
4. WIDE and NINE
5. HIKE and SEED
1. HIS and MIST
2. LUSH and PULP
3. LOFT and SOUND
4. WIDE and NINE
5. HIKE and SEED
Hint
Each couple is a well-known pairing of words, with one letter swapped.Answer
The original couples, before the exchange of a letter, were:1. HIT and MISS
2. PUSH and PULL
3. LOST and FOUND
4. WINE and DINE
5. HIDE and SEEK
The odd couple is 'WINE and DINE'. All the others are antonym pairs.
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i figured it out but it took me a while
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Well done. It's a lot better to persevere, isn't it! I'm often annoyed when I check the answers ... and know I'd have got an answer with just a little more effort!
GOOD FUN HERE, it took me a little while to get the first one, but then it moved along quickly.
I loved it! Very clever!!! You stumped me!
Took a little thought, but interesting.
good one!
needed the hint to get started!
Good one! I got them all but #3 took a bit of thinking. Thanks for posting!
What a clever idea! I got the pairs figured out, but gave up on which one doesn't belong. It was refreshing to have a different kind of teaser.
That was a toughie.
I thought it was LOFT and SOUND
because the answer was soft and lound and lound was misspelled loud. oh well
because the answer was soft and lound and lound was misspelled loud. oh well
Now that was a good and fun teaser. Not too easy, yet not too hard. Thanks for that one!
Wasn't sure about this one until I got to #4. Figured the rest out from there. Nice teaser.
There's a much simpler answer, number 5 doesn't belong because the first vowel doesn't match.
I liked this one, too - thanks for posting!
@asupmdr: ...and no. 3 doesn't belong because the second word has five letters, and no. 1 doesn't belong because the first word has three letters.
Why would you be asked to determine the way the pairs are formed if it had nothing to do with which is the odd one out?
Why would you be asked to determine the way the pairs are formed if it had nothing to do with which is the odd one out?
i thought this was a great teaser, although i did get it wrong, because i changed the wrong letter in 3, the words do seem to have other links. maybe next time you should give an obscure clue in the actual teaser as to what links them
nicely done
...and #4 is the only one with both words ending in vowels & #5 where one ends in a vowel and one in a consonant - these are not "simpler solutions" but simplistic and I wouldn't consider them worthy of a Braingle space!
I'm with Brainron !
Fun, easy and entertaining teaser; I got this one fairly quickly.
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