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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 is the common link between the following everyday words?
me
us
ear
ma
pit
turn
ran
tune
me
us
ear
ma
pit
turn
ran
tune
Hint
The sequence of the words is significant.Answer
They are all extracted from the names of the planets of our solar system in order of their distance from the sun as follows:(Me)rcury
Ven(us)
(Ear)th
(Ma)rs
Ju(pit)er
Sa(turn)
U(ran)us
Nep(tune)
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Good teaser. Fortunately Pluto was down-graded since that "planet" wouldn't have worked in this teaser!
Thanks. Actually, I would be able to add the word "to" if Pluto was still considered a full-fledged planet.
It works. Thanks for sharing.
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