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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
The following 15 words can be divided into 5 groups of 3 words. The words in each trio will share a similar characteristic. What are the groupings? Why?
astern, bony, con, deal, land, lien, nit, pending, pinion, range, slander, steroid, tile, vary, venue
astern, bony, con, deal, land, lien, nit, pending, pinion, range, slander, steroid, tile, vary, venue
Answer
Each word can be prefixed with a vowel. Each grouping can be prefixed with the same vowel.a) lien (alien), steroid (asteroid), venue (avenue)
e) astern (eastern), bony (ebony), land (eland)
i) con (icon), deal (ideal), slander (islander)
o) pinion (opinion), range (orange), vary (ovary)
u) nit (unit), pending (upending), tile (utile)
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that was very unique i would have never gotten it. great job.
awesome! i would have never gotten it either!!!
Fantastic idea, i wish i had gotten it 1st
very good teaser, keep it up
Ditto to all four previous comments!
cool. yeah i didnt get it.
confusing...
yay my name was in this !! (EBONY)
Jan 22, 2005
Very intelligent.
clever,i was trying to group them by definition catagories.
very good i would have never gotten that so keep em up
Jan 22, 2005
awesome!
That was cool! I was close, I was trying to group them by letters, but that was very unique and clever! Keep it up!
I think I got lucky. The first thing I tried was the right answer. First time that ever happened with a teaser rated that tough!
Very clever. Didn\'t come close to getting it.
Jan 23, 2005
nice 1
Right - that was clever
very clever... i like!
Boy did I take wrong turns! Glad I finally peeked. Clever and great fun.
Very clever and a one of a kind group. Congratulations, and i wish you many more to come.
Very clever, and nice ideal. I found it to be fun, a bit hard to do. I enjoyed this one, and I do like the ideal behind the teaser. Good Job, and keep 'em coming
I got cross with this - seemed too random and i didn't persevere. Now I wish I had kept going, as it was a very worthy challenge. I think a hint would have been useful to encourage me to keep at it!
- an exceptional teaser - well done!
- an exceptional teaser - well done!
This is one of the first Braingle puzzles I read about four years ago. It's surprising this excellent teaser didn't make Teaser of the Day before this.
i got all except for the u list
i used
snit spending stile
instead of
unit upending utile
i used
snit spending stile
instead of
unit upending utile
Yikes! That was too tough too early in the morning! Great teaser!
I IMMEDIATELY recognised the connections when I thought 'pinion isn't a word!'(I'm 11, I don't know much) and my only flaw was not knowing which words went where.
wow...actually got one right...though i got "eland" by process of elimination.....eland?
oh wait...i got it...island before eland except after sealand
Tough one. I would never have figured this one out. Well done.
This teaser was fantastic!!! At first I tried to group meanings but soon saw there was no commonality. Then I noticed the first two words became new words with 'e' in front, then saw a-lien, got the trick, and filled them all in from there; what great fun!!! Thank you sooo much!!
I know I sound dumb but what does Utile mean?
awesome teaser! I got it right away, but I think I got lucky!
so close!!! i almost got the concept, i thought it was 'put the words together', so i did "astern" mixed with "steriod" to make "asteroid" and "astern" mixed with "lien" to make "alien" (for a space theme) i didn't know the rest, so i clicked answer, and i got 2/3 on #1, so i got a bad grade great teaser, though!!!
mepapa, i don't know what half of those words mean, so u dont sound dumb 2 me! (no, i dont no what utile means, sorry! )
According to the dictionaries I used, untile means useful.
I had no idea what I was supposed to do. The instructions were very bad. I tried to put three words together that might be alike, but that did not pan out. Judging from the comments I am not alone. No one seemed to know what to do. Sorry!
Great teaser! But very easy for a Scrabble player to spot those front hooks. (i-slander is one of my favourites)
Excellent! Clever! Loved it! Thanks for posting!
My mind must be playing tricks on me,I was completely lost on this one.
Totally agree with Babe and Cutebug. Had no idea what was wanted.
The instructions were perfectly clear! Great puzzler!!
Fun, easy and entertaining teaser; I figured this one out right away and got them all very quickly.
Mikster678: "Pinion" is actually a word( it is an engineering component )!
Nice Teaser cnmne; well written, clear instructions, I was totally stumped!
Thanks!
Nice Teaser cnmne; well written, clear instructions, I was totally stumped!
Thanks!
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