Oct 29, 2022
The puzzler today is a quick little puzzlement. It isn't the best puzzler, but it will do in a pinch! My brother hated this one.
I'll look for a better one next time, I promise.
Okay, I'm going to give you four words. One of them doesn't belong in this group of words. Here are the words.
Oriole. As in the bird, a Baltimore Oriole.
Month. Like in the calendar, a month.
Oil. Like motor oil.
Orange. Like the color or the fruit.
Oriole, month, oil, and orange.
And the question is which one of those words does not belong with the other three?
My brother said, "Well, you get three that begin with 'O' and one that begins with 'M'..." But that's kind of a Mickey Mouse answer, I think. It's too obvious. That isn't what we are looking for. And then he thought more about it and said, "Well, you have three words which are real things like Oriole, oil, and orange and one of them is an abstract concept." All those 3 things are made by nature and a month is a man-made thing.
So I thought that was a pretty good answer. While it is a great answer, it is unacceptable. There is a better answer out there than those two.
This is really a three part puzzler.
A. Which word doesn't belong?
2. Why doesn't it belong?.
III. On a scale of 1-5, how bad is this puzzler? 5 is it stinks a lot, 1 is it stinks just a little bit...
Good luck!
Okay, time for an answer to this word puzzler. This was not a great puzzler, I know.
There were four words. And the question was, which one of them doesn't belong.
Oriole. As in the bird, like a Baltimore Oriole.
Month. As in the calendar, a month.
Oil. Motor oil. Olive oil. You get it.
Orange. Like the color or the fruit.
And the answer is not that three of them start with the letter 'O'. That would be too easy. Also there was the idea that 3 of them are real things and one of them is a man made construct. Which is clever, but not what we were looking for. That was actually a better answer than the actual answer!
But the actual answer is... Oil! Oil does not belong.
And the reason is, Oil is the only word of the 4 that you can rhyme with. None of the other words can be rhymed with.
Yeah, this one was not our best work! We know that.
But the answer we were looking for was the word Oil!
