No Odd One Out
My recent blog puzzle where my readers had to choose the odd one out became extremely popular and was republished in many blogs around the world. Some commentators decided that my posting was a joke and an example where the odd one out didn’t exist. I have to disappoint them: as a protest against find-the-odd-one-out questions and to illustrate that sometimes there is no good choice for the odd one out I would have chosen a different picture:
Can you find the odd one out?
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Jonathan:
The circle is the odd one out.
1. No border
3. No red
4. No big
but
2. No square and
2. White pixel artifact inside black band
Since 2 has two things different, and all the other have one thing different, 2 is the even, er, odd one out.
9 November 2009, 8:52 pmTanya Khovanova:
I am sorry about white pixels, they are not supposed to be there.
9 November 2009, 9:31 pmJonathan:
I know, I was teasing. Though if it is something that is not easy to handle, a red rectangle with border might do the trick.
10 November 2009, 7:40 amJason:
I figured the odd-one-out was the one that you removed—the only one that *couldn’t* be identified as an odd-one-out. Very cute, if you ask me.
10 November 2009, 1:41 pmcolorblind:
Is one of those shapes green again? This is killing me…
10 November 2009, 9:06 pmpermutate:
the last one 😉
14 November 2009, 12:46 pmMaarten:
They all are. Each of the four has an argument supporting removal or belonging to a group.
14 November 2009, 2:34 pmVishal:
The last one.
Because that’s the only one that can’t say “I am the only one without any X”.
First one can say “I am the only one without any borders.”
19 November 2009, 11:02 amSecond one can say “I am the only one without any corners.”
Third one can say “I am the only one without any red.”
João Azevedo:
I would say again the first because it’s the only one with one color
28 November 2009, 6:28 pmJoão Azevedo:
I made fast judgements, but in other point I don’t know if really there is one odd one. 😛
28 November 2009, 6:39 pmIt seemed to mne that every one has a unique characteristic but share other two common characteristics
Noam GR:
yay, I was one of those bloggers lol; I didn’t give the answer in my blog but the joke was that the one that had nothing odd about was actually the odd one out 🙂
2 December 2009, 5:43 pmDeusovi:
The answer is simply “No.”
16 July 2013, 9:37 pm