I’ve posted things like this before and somebody always gets the answer almost as soon as I post it, but I thought this one was tough enough to risk it again.
The answer is a 5-letter word.
It’s the common theme of these things:
Tight Fit
Base Runner
Issue
Lock
Bridge Bid
Smile
I had to do a web search on combinations of these words/phrases before I could even get close.
What’s you best guess? (I’ll use the source of this puzzle as the “definitive” answer.)
Well, I read this before you posted the hint and was pretty lost. But there wasn’t any context; was this in a Mensa test, a magazine, were there other, similar questions? Were you looking for a word that meant the same as each item in the list, or a word that could go with them to make another phrase, or what? Posted the way you did, it was kinda hard to know what sort of answer you were looking for.
Try this one, though; it’s not nearly so difficult:
nest
sterile
Mrs. Robinson
On preview: I wrote that without seeing the previous post. Now that you’ve issued the challenge, I’ll try to come up with a better one.
Well, the idea for the thread came directly from today’s “Common Knowledge” puzzle at Puzzability which is one of my daily stops for puzzles and games. Most of the time they’re fairly easy, but now and then they throw in a real head-scratcher and it takes waiting a day to get the answer.
As for your three-clue thing, all that jumps to mind is “cuckoo” with some doubt about the Mrs. Robinson connection. Is it the “coo coo coochoo” thing? Or am I totally off base?
They do these kinds of puzzles sometimes on one of my favorite radio shows, Says You! Not only does the panel usually get them right, they’re very funny while doing it. One that I remember:
“Banjo, Bartok and Bloodsucker”
“Those are my attorneys.”
I’m better at Odd-Man-Out than Common-Threads; I’ve got a few good ones of those.
George Lazenby
Pope Pius XII
Hugh Downs
Benjamin Harrison
There is some trait shared by three of those people that’s not shared by the fourth. Five points for telling me who is the odd man out, an additional five for telling me why. (Channeling the host of Says You! there.)
It doesn’t have to be people either. Could be almost anything, for any reason.
Maybe another clue/hint? This one has me baffled since I know so little about any of these folks. Lazenby did one shot at James Bond, Hugh Downs was a sidekick for a long time before getting his own show, but I can’t think of anything about the other two guys. At first I thought bachelors, but Hugh has been married.