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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 is the odd one out?
Boundaries
Cancerous
Librarian
Scorpions
Chameleon
Keyboards
Boundaries
Cancerous
Librarian
Scorpions
Chameleon
Keyboards
Hint
Look to the night sky for a clue...Answer
"Keyboards". All the other words contain names from the 12 signs of the zodiac: bound-Aries, Cancer-ous, Libra-rian, Scorpio-ns, chame-Leo-nHide Hint Show Hint Hide Answer Show Answer
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Good one, I didn't get it.
didn't get it at first but it was a good one.
That was good it had me stumped
Liked it -- got the right answer, but it was only a lucky guess!
Really stumped me! So far today, I'm batting 0 for 3. Where's my coffee??
great
Good job!
I wouldn't have gotten it without a hint.
I wouldn't have gotten it without a hint.
great.
i got the answer right on my first try, the hint didnt help alot
got it but it was a lucky guess. but i wouldnt have gotten it without the hint
i got the answer right on my first try, the hint didnt help alot
i got it right, the hint just confused me atleast i got it!!
I hurt my brain on this one.
Good job..very original
Good job..very original
very good, ididn't get it, and it was fun trying
Very clever!! I got the Cancer, Scorpio and Libra, but couldn't connect the others Great teaser!!
Coincidentally boundaries has 10 letters-All the rest of the words have 9 letters.
Exactly! I thought it was boundries with 10 letters.
I liked it, it was fun and easy
Cancerous is the only one that's not a noun. Then there's the letter count. This teaser wasn't ready for prime time.
hmm....cancerous is totally the only adjective. Thus, that was my guess o.o
i got it!!!! i really liked it. i think that the hint did help. (or it helped me at least...) good job!
I thought it was a good one but very easy. I am in to the sign thing so I seen it for what is was right away. But good job I liked it.
I was completely stumped until I read the hint. I loved it!
I think it is a very good teaser.
I think it is a very good teaser.
I liked it lot! Took me a bit of thinking, but got it (cancerous got me rolling on the right track!!). Thanks for a fun puzzle!
Got it after I read the hint. Thanks for the fun,
That was so easy I thought I got it wrong. (untill i read the hint anyway) Great teaser!
Also coincidentally, Libarian was the only word not containing an 'O'.
i don't lnow zdoiac
I got the answer right...but it was a lucky guess! Nice one!
I got it, but not w/ ur answer.
My guess was that keyboard was the only compound word! key and board. the other ones are just words with endings on them.
My guess was that keyboard was the only compound word! key and board. the other ones are just words with endings on them.
it was easy so it was bad
Chameleon is the only word not having an r.
I got it, but after the hint, AND i gessed between keyboards and boundaries . but good 1!
GOOD ONE!
As comments say; too many different answers!
I didn't like it too much, but it was smart
I love astrology, so i got it right away, no hint needed. Lovely concept, i love it! Great teaser and keep up the good work
I liked if but there are too many possible anwsers
Hi all! Thanks for your comments - this was my first teazer and I've learnt a lot about things to check my teazers for (like multiple answers!)
AWESOME!
Hm, I got the right answer, but for the wrong reason. I though it was keyboard because it only had 2 syllables and the other ones had 3 syllables.
Sep 26, 2006
Also, all the words have nine letters except Boundaries which has ten.
This was a very well written and fun teaser. Thanks.
Like pinapples, a year ago, I got it, but after the hint, AND I guessed between keyboards and boundaries. But good 1!
I picked KEYBOARDS but for another reason. It's the only compound word in the list.
Sep 26, 2006
Strangely enough, I caught on quickly. Great Teaser! Thanks for making me feel a wee bit smarter!
Well, I didn't get it. I counted letters, compared definitions, looked at every angle EXCEPT the Zodiac. Silly me. Teaser did what it was supposed to do - made me think!!
ha i thought it was keyboards because it is the only one without an "n"
Even though Librarian has no O in it, I had the answer you were in search of. Terrific teaser, for the younger generation, if they need to learn those signs. Keep up the mind-mashing work, I do enjoy it.
I knew it had something to do w/ constellations, and I thought it was keyboard, but I still couldn't figure out why...!! Great teaser.
This one I got, had some help from the hint, but i was leaning towards astrology signs
Good one, you got me!
Sep 26, 2006
An alternate answer exists...much simpler: Boundaries is the odd one out.
Boundaries contains ten letters; all the other selections contain nine.
Boundaries contains ten letters; all the other selections contain nine.
An easier correct answer is Librarian, the only listed word without an "o".
nice!
Fun NE! (... and thanks for the hint ...!)
Good one Pleroux!! Especially being your first submission!! I wouldn't have gotten it without the hint!
Librarian has no O AND Chameleon has no R. I thought those were a bit too easy to be true.
I would not have gotten this without the clue. I hate using the clue! Great teaser!
I would not have gotten this without the clue. I hate using the clue! Great teaser!
Well, I thought I had it right away because Boundaries has 10 letters and the rest have 9. Then I looked at the hint. Should have realized it wouldn't be anything as mundane as amount of letters. Good one!
I thought of syllables but Librarians had 4 syllables so that threw out the syllable equation.
Good puzzle.
Good puzzle.
thought at first it would have something to do with having all the vowels, so maybe that makes boundaries the odd one out, as it is the only one to contain all 5? good one though, I got it and liked it, ever after an incorrect first impression.
Good. A better title would have eliminated the other possible answers.
Good Puzzle.
Even better since I got it.!!!!
Thanks for submitting your brainangle.
Even better since I got it.!!!!
Thanks for submitting your brainangle.
Had to use the hint but, I was on the right track anyway.
Nice one all the same THX
Nice one all the same THX
I also thought the answer was boundaries, since it has ten letters and all the other words have nine. That was a clever puzzle.
I found this quite easy. as cancer, liibra and scorpio appear at the start of the words.! It is no doubt a nicely thought out teaser!
I read my horoscope JUST before this!
good teaser, needed the hint
Great teaser! The comments show how dilligently we all reached our answers, for what we thought were valid reasons. I, for one, went the noun vs the adjective. Discounted the zodiac because I didn't see aries or leo...my bad! I loved it..
i got it, but for a different reason, lol
oooooooh....I thought it was boundaries with the ten letters instead of nine
still...good one
still...good one
very easy but good nonetheless.
hint made it to easy but it was still fun
Very clever. I was thinking it was something to do with nouns vs. adjectives since cancerous is the only one that's not a noun. Then I read the hint and knew it had to do with horoscopes. I just didn't go as far as taking the words apart. Good one!
You had me counting letters, vowels, and etc. But having seen four of the zodiac names I decided that keyboard had to go. Good job.
I started to get it w/ the Libra, Cancer, and Scorpio but then i didn't really see much of the others and I ended up finding a different way. Scorpions is the odd one out because it's the only one w/o the letter "a" in it.
Wow, most of us tried all the same things .. I counted letters too, looked at tenses, noticed that keyboard was compound and had less than three syllables .... but I knew those couldn't possibly be the reason for elimination, because they were just too trite and just not quite reeking of the usual Braingle cleverness.
So I kept looking ... looking ..... and then after pushing through all boundaries, I resisted asking a librarian and lo and behold I heard the cancerous scorpion speak to me about what the chameleon was hiding. No need to bang my head on the keyboard for this one!!
So I kept looking ... looking ..... and then after pushing through all boundaries, I resisted asking a librarian and lo and behold I heard the cancerous scorpion speak to me about what the chameleon was hiding. No need to bang my head on the keyboard for this one!!
i actually got it right
but i figured the keyboard is the only one that makes sounds....
but i figured the keyboard is the only one that makes sounds....
My first guess went with the letter count since they're all 9 letter words but one. Then I checked the hint and got the answer right away.
Alternative solution - Cancerous, the only adjective. The others are all nouns.
Fun!
Good one. I couldn't get it until I saw the hint. I had been thinking about the zodiac, but couldn't see them in the words. Finally I found them. Thanks! that was fun!
Talk about unusual. Wasn't it because "keyboards" is the only compound word? Or it could have been "boundaries", it being the only abstract one, or the only one with more than nine letters. Hm, oh well.
I chose 'cancerous' because it's the only one without the 'ee' sound.
Yes, there are several answers but that doesn't stop it from being a clever and creative teaser. 'Odd one out' puzzles seldom have unique solutions and that adds to the fun.
Yes, there are several answers but that doesn't stop it from being a clever and creative teaser. 'Odd one out' puzzles seldom have unique solutions and that adds to the fun.
I am first in 2012. Where is everybody from 2009 until 2012? Hmmm!
Did not get the teaser, but it was a fairly good one. So many alike though
Did not get the teaser, but it was a fairly good one. So many alike though
Nice & ez
I said it was cancerous because it describes something, while the rest are nouns.
cancerous. Other words are nouns or "things"
a bit too easy, but fun
Easy but good. I saw three of the "signs" instantly, but two were a bit illusive. I started looking for a different answer, then WHAM! I got it. Fun too.
Cancerous and Librarian gave it away for me.
The answer could just as well have been the word 'BOUNDARIES," the only word in the list containing exactly one of all the standard English vowels, a, e, i, o, and u. And btw, the word that that earlier poster was looking for was "elusive," not "illusive."
I'll have to go with "Boundaries" as well, too, since it is ten letters and all others are nine letters.
Not one of my faves I'm afraid; too many other possibilities!
meh. Too easy, but slightly fun.
Easy teasy. Cute. Fun. Not bad.
of course I got it! Fun! and Clever!
Fun, easy and entertaining teaser. I got it very quickly.
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