Steve Maskery
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Suggest IS an odd one out because it is the only one that is not a noun.
Answer courtesy of DaveR.
Answer courtesy of DaveR.
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Steve Maskery
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Sonnet is the odd one out as it is the only one with 6 letters.
Also courtesy of DaveR.
Also courtesy of DaveR.
Steve Maskery":mu6lo7k1 said:
Its patterns! What confused me for ages was the odd one out thing, it's the word that's most similar to all the others.
1 No double letter (starlet)
2 Ends in T (saffron)
3 Starts with S (torrent)
4 E third last letter (shallot)
5..... bit shaky but... o is the only second letter to be common to more than one word. Soooo... (suggest)
Which leaves Sonnett.
Possibly. lol.
Number 2 is doing my nut in. I'm sure it's snooker. It's the potting order but it's off and I can't see it. Grrr!
xy mosian
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Steve,Steve Maskery":14r54p6k said:
It doesn't actually ask which ONE is not the odd one out!
But "Which of these is not the odd one out?"
Perhaps find the odd one out, the answer is the rest.
xy
Steve Maskery
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Yes, fair enough, but if that is the case, how can I coe up with on single answer to the MC question?
xy mosian
Established Member
Steve Maskery":3bw4xdd2 said:
Oh! nay lad, it's getting late for my brain, but perhaps a filtering job?
xy
Sporky McGuffin
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I'm pretty sure there is a single answer to that first one.
All but one of the answers is an odd one out in one way. One of the answers is not the odd one out for any of those ways.
That said you can move on to the next question by selecting any answer...
All but one of the answers is an odd one out in one way. One of the answers is not the odd one out for any of those ways.
That said you can move on to the next question by selecting any answer...
Steve Maskery
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Yes you can, but you don't get told whether you are right or wrong until the end... and then you don't know which answer is wrong!
John Brown
Freeloading Social media influenza
I could be barking up the wrong tree. Or just barking, but...
Starlet is the odd one out because it doesn't have a repeated letter.
Torrent is the odd one out because it doesn't begin with S.
Suggest is the odd one out because the others are nouns.
Sonnet is the odd one out because it doesn't have seven letters.
Saffron is the odd one out because it doesn't end in T.
That leaves Shallot.
However, there may be other interpretations, but I think that's the general idea.
Where do I collect my licence to kill and my Aston Martin?
Starlet is the odd one out because it doesn't have a repeated letter.
Torrent is the odd one out because it doesn't begin with S.
Suggest is the odd one out because the others are nouns.
Sonnet is the odd one out because it doesn't have seven letters.
Saffron is the odd one out because it doesn't end in T.
That leaves Shallot.
However, there may be other interpretations, but I think that's the general idea.
Where do I collect my licence to kill and my Aston Martin?
John Brown
Freeloading Social media influenza
I have to mention here that I wrote that post before I had seen the second page of this thread, which would have made it a bit easier. It looks like some others had already started down the same route.
John Brown
Freeloading Social media influenza
Think the second one may be Pi in snooker ball values, but I'm going to bed now.
John Brown
Freeloading Social media influenza
OK, I'll go to bed shortly. I think the third one is to to with the international phonetic alphabet. Romeo Beckham, Oscar Wilde, Charlie Bucket, Radar Love, Victor Mature, so odd one out must be Shaka.
Really going to bed now.
Really going to bed now.
John Brown
Freeloading Social media influenza
The next one revolves(or rotates!) around the idea that you are looking at the flag semaphore from behind, so the first symbols resolve to HAPPY, which kind of gives the game away.
ZZZzzzzzzz
ZZZzzzzzzz
misterfish
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5 requires access to an ASCII table
John Brown
Freeloading Social media influenza
6 is Gene Autrey related.
The next section gets harder(in my opinion) there's one that is, I am pretty certain, based on converting to morse and swapping dots and dashes, but although this works fine for agony and denial, and witty and tepid, I can't make smart into anything sensible.
OK, I've worked it out now. It's OFTEN
I have no clue on part 3 A, B or D.
The next section gets harder(in my opinion) there's one that is, I am pretty certain, based on converting to morse and swapping dots and dashes, but although this works fine for agony and denial, and witty and tepid, I can't make smart into anything sensible.
OK, I've worked it out now. It's OFTEN
I have no clue on part 3 A, B or D.
John Brown
Freeloading Social media influenza
I withdraw the phonetic alphabet answer - Radar Love is not, of course correct. My tired brain was thinking of Xray...
Maybe there's another person that goes with Love, since the others all seem to be people. I've no idea who or what Shaka is...
Maybe there's another person that goes with Love, since the others all seem to be people. I've no idea who or what Shaka is...
finneyb
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I wonder if you can job share at GCHQ - if so there could be a opening for the ukworkshop consortium 
Brian
Brian
Shaka Zulu, famous Zulu warrior king who won some famous battles, using the buffalo horns as his model he encircled his enemies and (very) basically, if memory serves, united Zululand under one king. Possibly for the first time. Memory's a bit vague these days. All that cider. My old fella gave me a book on him years ago. Fascinating man.
Only NATO alphabet name for Love I can find now is Victor. And I resorted to google on that one. Never heard of him personally.
Re the snooker one: Seeing it as Pi was a bit clever. I had the ball scores worked out but the dash eluded me. (9) Obviously you can't score a nine in snooker. Route I went down was to subtract the last 2 digits 31415-26 which left me 31389 which left me at a loss. I tried various routes on the internet until I got pissed off and went to bed.
Im not too bad with language and lateral , but when it comes to numbers I come to a screeching halt so it looks like the game is up for me.
Good luck guys. I'll watch with interest
Only NATO alphabet name for Love I can find now is Victor. And I resorted to google on that one. Never heard of him personally.
Re the snooker one: Seeing it as Pi was a bit clever. I had the ball scores worked out but the dash eluded me. (9) Obviously you can't score a nine in snooker. Route I went down was to subtract the last 2 digits 31415-26 which left me 31389 which left me at a loss. I tried various routes on the internet until I got pissed off and went to bed.
Im not too bad with language and lateral , but when it comes to numbers I come to a screeching halt so it looks like the game is up for me.
Good luck guys. I'll watch with interest
John Brown
Freeloading Social media influenza
Well I know that Shaka is the odd one out(even if my logic was slightly flawed), as it wouldn't have let me through to the fiendishly difficult next stage otherwise.
