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Starry Tubs
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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
What do the following word pairs have in common?
Tubs, Star
Jolt, Inks
Dabs, Czar
Pint, Ohms
Beet, Adds
Tubs, Star
Jolt, Inks
Dabs, Czar
Pint, Ohms
Beet, Adds
Hint
These two word pairs also exhibit the property:Bout, Ants
Peps, Odor
Answer
If you replace every letter in the first word with the letter preceding it in the alphabet (A wraps around to Z), you get the second word.In other words, the first word is the second word with a Caesar shift of 1.
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Comments
I found this one lots of fun
And a bit hard too
And a bit hard too
This is such a clever idea! This must have taken a ton of time, great job
Excellent teaser. No way would I have figured this out on my own. Thanks for posting.
Sorry, I don't think this is a good teaser. It seems to me it was more an exercise in cleverness than something one could solve by thinking. Just my opinioin.
Very nice. Got this one rather quickly, but fun!
Hard but fun!
Fun, thank you.
Very good. Thanks for a grea tmind bender.
Back in the stone age, I was raised on "if you can't say something nice,....", so I can't comment on bestgirl's comment. (Will someone else read my mind and post please?) Meanwhile, the teaser was awesome; I could not figure it out even with the hint. Amazing that that shift works out for all those pairs of words!!
Clever, I'm glad the hint wasn't something really helpful but just a bit more to go on. Got it quite quite quickly but I like the teaser
Okay wordmama I'll comment. I agree with bestgirl 100%.
Got it right away after the hint!! Loved it!!
Very nice!
I found it thanks to the last group of words. Pretty Fun.
I feel like I was getting close, but I gave up too easily because I was afraid it would be something stupid. In the end, though, this was very clever, very doable, and I'm only upset with myself that I stopped thinking about it. Very nice teaser!
Good puzzle! I got v close. First, I thought all r 4 letter words; second - they r in alphabetically descending order. Once, I found these 2 common traits, i didn't think further! Well I'm right too ;)
I didn't find it too difficult. I liked it a lot. Although I'm shocked at the 2+ difficulty rating.
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