Odd-one-out puzzles

This is a page with a few little brain-teasers to get you thinking. In each puzzle you have to work out which image or word is the odd one out. The solutions can be found at the bottom of the page – no peeking!

Puzzle 1

 

a

b

c

d

Puzzle 2
 
a b c d

Puzzle 3
a b c d

Puzzle 4
 
a b c d

Puzzle 5
FLOW SNIP TRAP DRAW BACK
a b c d

e

Puzzle 6
Tonne Metric carat Pound Fluid ounce Kilogram
a b c d

e

Puzzle 7
Canasta Yahtzee Bridge Cribbage Rummy
a b c d

e

 




Solutions

Odd-one-out Explanation
 1  b The mirror image is on the right, but it is on the left in all the others.
2 c It is an image of a left hand, all the rest are right hands.
3 a Opposite sides of the dice formed don't add up to seven, all others form proper dice.
4 b The pattern is made up of four overlapping rectangles, the other patterns are made of three.
5 e All the others can also be read backwards as proper words.
6 d It is a measure of volume, all the others are measures of weight.
7 b It is a dice game, all the others are card games.