What connects the following?Having established the connection, you then have to determine which is the odd one out, and why. This is probably the easier part of the question.
• A TV hospital drama.
• A literary detective.
• Fluff.
• A type of comic verse.
• A nineteenth-century English poet.
If you haven’t seen this kind of puzzle before, you need to turn what are general clues into specific answers. For example, is the English poet Wordsworth? Coleridge? Keats? Tennyson? Or someone else? The right overall answer can only be found by comparing lists of answers for the individual clues, but once you have a match between two clues, the rest should fall into place quite easily.
As usual, I will acknowledge all correct answers, but I won’t actually publish an answer for a few weeks, to give other readers a chance to work it out for themselves. Can anyone come up with the answer before I get back online?
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Hi Dennis,
ReplyDeleteI am not sure if my comment successfully went the last time I tried to send it
Cork, Kildare, Clare, Limerick, Down (Odd Man Out)
Best
Keith
Almost correct Keith. You were certainly thinking along the right lines.
ReplyDeleteHow about if I withdraw Cork and replace it with Wexford?
ReplyDeleteThat’ll do Keith.
DeleteI must admit to being totally lost.
ReplyDeleteNot only do you need a warped mind to solve puzzles like this Pat, it has to be warped in a particular way.
DeletePat the clues were all related to counties of Ireland.
DeleteThe comic verse Limerick - was the one I homed in first followed by Kildare The odd one out is in the North
I will take Dennis' comment about having a warped mind as a compliment
I think...
OK Dennis, here is one for you
ReplyDeleteWhat connects these US Presidents?
Grant
Roosevelt
Hayes
Lincoln
Washington
Obama
Clue:The link is musical
Their wives all had names that appear in the titles of Beatles songs: Grant (Julia); Roosevelt (Eleanor Rigby); Rutherford (Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds); Washington (Martha My Dear); Obama (Michelle).
DeleteI would exclude Lincoln from this list, because his wife was called Mary, and I consider Mary Jane to be an ‘unofficial’ release (defining ‘unofficial’ as anything not released while the band remained together).
Very well done indeed
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