Questions tagged [odd-one-out]
For puzzles on spotting an odd-one-out item in a list.
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Your first guess is wrong
I saw a puzzle I liked and wanted to make a less trivial version. Here it is, find the odd one out.
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Owls at sunset - find the odd one out
Quite contrary to the common belief, owls are very social animals and indeed form flocks or rather tightly bound families with a common social codex. At sunset, they all meet before going on their ...
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The odd one out amongst odd ones out
For this task you will be presented four lists consisting of eight items. All items consist of two parts. To make things slightly easier for you, the length of the shortest part is given.
In each ...
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Which family member doesn’t belong?
My second older brother is a dangerous man, a pig who gorges himself on all our land.
He hurt our mother’s feelings (called her a cow), so she hurt him back from belly to brow.
My oldest ...
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Bookshelves: the intruder
Somebody has messed up my bookshelf by shoving a book into completely the wrong place.
Which is the intruder?
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Which word wasn't with Wednesday's ...crossword
An entry in the 19th fortnightly challenge...
You sit down to breakfast this morning and open the paper. You had done the crossword from last Wednesday and the answers are supposed to be in here ...
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Time (and a place) for an odd-one-out puzzle
This puzzle is part of the Monthly Topic Challenge #6: Is it really that [time] again?.
It is a tough task to create an 'odd-one-out' type puzzle whose solution lacks any ambiguity at all - it is all ...
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Find the odd number out (from math book)
Found this in my brother's math book, we tried to solve it but didn't manage to find any solution. Apology if it it too easy, but we really tried to find it.
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Solving "odd one out" problems. What am I doing wrong?
I find I do very badly at word based odd-one-out-type puzzles. It generally seems to be the case (at least, in my experience) that almost any of the items can be chosen as the odd one out, and this ...
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The silhouette of a hand holding a cylindrical glass jar, in the background is the Milky Way
Elsewhere, a game was played. This game was an unusual sort of game, and the results are an unusual sort of curiosity, though I should say no more outside of spoiler tags. I thought it would make for ...
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One flag doesn't belong: Claims Grandpa
"Look at these flags and tell me-" Said Grandpa flashing a paper with many Flags on it.
"Which one does not belong to the group? All, except one, have one interesting
commonality. One property ...
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Good luck finding the odd-one-out
An entry in Fortnightly Topic Challenge #37: Rare and Endangered 1
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Questions from IQ test that I couldn't find reasonable answers for
So I was solving my my-iq.net's questions and later when I saw the results, had answered these 4 wrongly, but even after getting to know the right answer, I couldn't manage to find logic for these. ...
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A rather odd Crate of Haikus
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If you're positive,
I'm so super attractive-
My flow is current.
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I am a high spy,
Or a big help on the road.
I can be for Sky.
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Typical package,
You can do ...
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Switch the Odd One Out
What two figures - one in range a-i and the other in range 1-9 - is the odd ones that should be switched to restore both patterns, and why?
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A curious odd one out
Which one of (a), (b), (c), (d) or (e) is the odd one out and why?
Source: based on a puzzle from Alex Bellos
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Someone graffiti'd my task list!
I need to perform some maintenance on my house, so the first thing I usually do is write a list of things I need to fix and what is wrong with them. I had it all written down so I went for a quick nap ...
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One of these words is not like the others, one of these words just isn't the same!
Can you believe it? I had a great list of words that all go together, and someone stuck in a word that doesn't belong. Can you take it out for me?
addict
affect
conflict
extract
inject
object
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The odd ones out
I would like you to find the odd ones out of each of the sets. Get them written down and then follow the next instruction.
1) Dodo, Quagga, Pelican
2) Tantalum, Livermorium, Molybdenum
3) Trumpet, ...
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Which one doesn't belong?
1 of the 5 two-word combinations shown below does not have the same word property as the other 4. Which one? Why?
Note: The answer has nothing to do with the number of: letters, vowels, consonants or ...
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Need help to find more missing tiles
Thanks to all your help in (What is the letter?), I was able to fix my mother's tile! Unfortunately, as clumsy as I am, as I was patching this tile up, I smashed a few more. There's a letter/s missing ...
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Odd-one-out puzzles [closed]
I am compiling a list of word puzzles, one for each letter in the alphabet.
Three words are given (two starting with the same letter), and the goal is to find something in common for every pair of ...
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Switch the Odd One Out #2
What two figures (one in range a-i and the other in range 1-9) is the odd ones that should be switched to restore both patterns, and why?
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Identify the odd one out element
There are two columns (two sets), in each set there is a pattern among the 7 elements. The elements are not arranged in any order, the two patterns are not necessarily the same, but they are related ...
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What was I supposed to get again?
My friend was in quite the predicament and he needed me to grab him something. Knowing secrecy was of the utmost importance, I never wrote down the item, but encrypted the situation. Seemed like a ...
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Odd One Out Riddle *1* [closed]
Draden (me) gives you a notebook with 10 sentences, and you must find the odd one out. The sentences are as follows:
Look at that airplane high in the sky.
They walked across the lake.
The tree is on ...
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Which one doesn't fit in?
I will give you five nouns and you have to find the one which doesn't belong with the others. Sounds easy? Try it!
woman, child, police, sun, car
ireland, island, goblin, citizen, sheep
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Mensa pattern recognition task - find the odd one out among 5 pictures of crosshatched lines
I have a question about the solution to this pattern recognition task:
I know that according to the book, the correct answer is E. The "argument" is: Vertical lines represent $1$ integer; ...
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Switch the Odd One Out #4 (Advanced)
Here is #4 in the series, the most advanced one I have created so far. What two figures (one in range a-i and the other in range 1-9) are the odd ones that should be switched to restore both patterns, ...
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One does not belong. (But they are all wrong, aren't they?)
One of these six equations below does not belong to the group. Which one? and why?
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10+14=23
10+15=24
10+16=25
10+17=26
10+18=27
10+19=28
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Which figure is the odd one out(Puzzle)? [closed]
Can someone points out which is the odd one? My guess was E, basis on the number to shapes in each square, only E contains odd number of figure while other contains even.
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Switch the Odd Ones Out #5 (Advanced)
The 5th in the series, yet another advanced one. What two figures (one in range a-i and the other in range 1-9) are the odd ones that should be switched to restore both patterns, and why?
created by ...
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Odd One Out: Triple Selection
Here is a triad of short 'odd one out' puzzles I wrote.
In each puzzle one of the triplets doesn't belong. Can you figure out which? Each puzzle is independent of the others.
BAR, FUR, IRK, ONE, ROT, ...
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Eduardo's Krazy English Kwiz
Eduardo is having a dream the night before his English quiz. Actually it's a nightmare. His teacher hands him the quiz and says "Hello, Eduardo. To wake up confident and rested, just answer this ...
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Switch the Odd One Out #3 (Intermediate)
What two figures (one in range a-i and the other in range 1-9) is the odd ones that should be switched to restore both patterns, and why?
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Which one is odd one out? [closed]
This question was asked in CSIR June 16.
Out of the following which one is the odd one out?
Cone
Torus
Sphere
Ellipsoid
Well in my point of view, cone, sphere and ellipsoid are topologically ...
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Which word is the odd one out? [closed]
Which of these words is the odd one out? Please give a reason too.
BAP, DEW, LOP, OIK, RED, SAW, SEW, WAS, WED, ERF, KIO, MNB
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Which number is the odd one out?
Which one of the numbers below is the odd one out and why?
1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 8, 13
Hint:
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Switch the most Odd Ones 8 (Advanced)
Two similar but independent patterns has gotten one out of nine parts misplaced with the other pattern. What two figures (one in range a-i and the other in range 1-9) are the most odd ones that should ...
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Who is the impostor?
C, the new head of a certain intelligence agency, is aware that there is an impostor hiding among the ranks.
In order to find the impostor, he has decided to ask all field agents to immediately link ...
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Switch the Odd Ones 7 (Very Advanced)
Two similar but independent patterns has gotten one out of nine parts misplaced with the other pattern. What two figures (one in range a-i and the other in range 1-9) are the odd ones that should be ...
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Identify the grid that does not fit into the pattern
In the two rows the grids in each row form a pattern, so there are two patterns and they are similar to each other but not the same. One element (either in the upper or lower row) breaks the pattern. ...
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2, 3, 9, 19, 36, 62, 92 - Which number is the odd one out? [closed]
Which is the odd one out from the following:
2, 3, 9, 19, 36, 62, 92
Your options are:
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36
I did not create this puzzle myself. It was shared by someone in my exam preparation group on ...
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Odd-one-out chemistry word play
Find the odd one out:
Onions
Thioacetone
Naphthalene
Cyclobutadiene
Guanidine
Cadaverine
Carbon diselenide
Benzene
Edit: I forgot Benzene but I added it.
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Switch the Odd Ones Out #6 (Easy)
The 6th in the series. What two figures (one in range a-i and the other in range 1-9) are the odd ones that should be switched to restore both patterns, and why?
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Find the odd ones out!
Find the odd ones out! Each section will have 1 part that is the odd one out.
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Computer
Chancellor
Conference
Coincide
Curriculum
Continue
Champion
Customer
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Unscramble the words and find the odd one out
Unscramble these words:
noacb
olve
aukccpe
Which is the odd one out? There are several possible solutions.
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