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But surely among us we can find a more sophisticated example?
GAMES Magazine has an occasional Tic-Tac-Toe grid of pictures with the common theme of each line to be determined. I suspect it's easier with pictures.
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Surely we can "find a more sophisticated example"--either through knowing which venues to search for created examples or through spending time to do so. But would it be worth the time spent creating such a puzzle?
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It'd keep our synapses lubricated, I guess.
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...would it be worth the time spent creating such a puzzle?
I s'pose you're right. After all, this is supposed to be a word board, not a puzzle board.
On the other hand,...
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I guess it's just a matter of how you want to lubricate your synapses. Sitting around and making lists of distinctive features shared by four items in four cases with elimination of one of the four in each of the four cases might be fun if one was so inclined to spend time that way. And how gratifying would be the quest, once realized and achieved. And it sure seems that some kind of computer program could do the job easily--maybe.
But my own synpases are making the request that I oil them with some other kind of oil...maybe some oil that will produce more practical results.
However, kudos to anybody who comes up with the happy result, no matter how trivial.
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As an IQ author, I can't let you deride my trade so lightly! Of course an unlimited number of logics can be applied to any set. And the same can be said about science and the physical world. See how many "explanations" were offered for the courses of the planets before Kepler. But the goal is to find the most simple and the most likely logic. That's where intelligence intervenes...
a puzzle a day keeps the hassle away
A puzzle a day keeps the hassle away
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Oh, crealude, how good of you to come here and express your opinion about your trade. IQ tests are fun to take! And it's good that people like you sit around and create test items.
As far as my own comment went, I was simply suggesting that for some of us--certainly not for all of us--we might choose diversions other than the creation of such items to lubricate those synapses AnnaS mentioned, such as perhaps writing a song, a poem, a short story, sculpting, painting, memorizing a moving passage of literature, and so on.
I certainly respect the way you yourself would choose to oil your synapses, be it puzzle-making, creating IQ test items, or some other equally interesting mental operation. What a fascinating career you have! And welcome aboard!
Best regards,
WW
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a puzzle a day keeps the hassle away I'm (I suspect it's fairly evident) on your side! 
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riddle me this, find the odd one out, the theme, the combinations and any other theory you can scrape together
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