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tree, etc.
Sorry, kinduva tongue-in-cheek question.
Everything with the exception of a balloon can be zipped up -
in different meanings of the word zip, of course.
One of my college profs (now deceased) used to administer IQ tests and he related this story to us in class: A little, black girl (I think he said she was nine) had the highest IQ he'd ever personally measured - except she missed a question the answer to which he thought was obvious. He asked her about it. I don't remember the whole story or the particular set of items, but I remember how her response started - "Well, you can zip up a tree..."
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kinda trivial, but 3 sets
cravat bat ski hat
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Saturn______Dodge______Earth______Mercury
Dodge is not a planet, earth is not a car
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I thought so, but I was thrown for a loop by dxb's "all mixed up between different lines" (I thought of troy presented a "set" which were independent of each other)... ~ tsuwmYeah, now I look more closely, you're right. I jumped to the wrong conclusion. Still, mixing up the lines adds to the interest...perhaps.  And they're not difficult. Edit:After a PM from WW, I realise that it is evidently more difficult than I thought it would be. What I’ve done is what I thought she had done. - I have made 7 sets of 4. - In each of the 7 sets there is one item which, if removed, leaves a different set of 3, call it a sub-set, that the fourth (removed one) would not fit into. - Then I’ve mixed them all up. Hope that helps – I seem to have been too obscure for my own good – anyway, I didn’t explain it well enough. I don’t think I mentioned the sub-sets. Oh dear, I’m sorry about that. The sets and sub-sets (with the sub-sets in brackets) are: jewellery materials, (precious metals)
loaves, (towns)
body parts, (measures)
rivers, (colours)
papers, (vegetable products)
cats, (countries – sort of)
boats, (activities)
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Everyone except one was unlike all the others in some respect, so the one that wasn't unlike all the others was unlike all the others in that it wasn't unlike all the others.
Or, for those who prefer the Readers' Digest explanation, it was least like the others because it was the only one that was like all the others.
I'd be interested in seeing a concrete example, Faldage.
How can a number of things, each of which are different from each other, be the same as one other single thing?
A shopper with 3 different purchases in her arms could be the same shopper earlier in the day with 1 or 2 purchases in her arms, but with 3 purchases she is not the same as herself with one or two or none.
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I wish I could find it. I have tried unsuccesfully to reconstruct it. There were four features and I can't even remember how they related to each other. It was in a Scientific American from the '60s. The Mathematical Games section.
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