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Postby cinelli » November 14th, 2018, 12:56 pm

In this sentence, which word is the odd one out and why?

More pairs hasten iciest solo mail.

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Re: Word

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Postby ReformedCharacter » November 14th, 2018, 1:21 pm

cinelli wrote:In this sentence, which word is the odd one out and why?

More pairs hasten iciest solo mail.

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Spoiler...

I suspect my answer is too simple but 'iciest' is the only word with 3 vowels (the others have 2).

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Re: Word

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Postby Gengulphus » November 14th, 2018, 2:38 pm

Addition to ReformedCharacter's spoiler (which was the first one I found as well)...

Or 'pairs' because it's the only one with an odd number of letters. (Or a prime number of letters would do just as well.)

And I suspect that with a bit of effort, I could find similarly simple reasons for all of the rest. Or possibly all but one - in which case that one would be a candidate for being the true odd one out...


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Re: Word

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Postby UncleEbenezer » November 14th, 2018, 6:15 pm

The question says "this" sentence, and the punctuation makes it even clearer that you're not referring to the gibberish that follows it.

My first thought is the word "sentence", being the only word of more than one syllable.

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Re: Word

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Postby UncleEbenezer » November 14th, 2018, 6:26 pm

Gengulphus wrote: Or possibly all but one - in which case that one would be a candidate for being the true odd one out...
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And for an encore, Gengulphus will now prove there's no such thing as a dull integer. ;)

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Re: Word

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Postby jfgw » November 14th, 2018, 6:32 pm

cinelli wrote:In this sentence, which word is the odd one out and why?

More pairs hasten iciest solo mail.

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Spoiler...
"Iciest" is the odd one out because the others are anagrams of capital cities:

More, Rome;
Pairs, Paris;
Hasten, Athens;
Iciest, Cities;
Solo, Oslo;
Mail, Lima.


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Re: Word

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Postby cinelli » November 16th, 2018, 6:41 pm

Quite right, Julian. Well solved.

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