Daily puzzles/problems.

[MarkBastable]

Dummy - Portishead

Steve McQueen - Prefab Sprout

Different Class - Pulp

Closer - Joy Division

Loaded - Velvet Underground

Raw Power - Iggy and the Stooges

Nevermind - Nirvana


Plus MM's three (Hunky Dory, Pet Sounds and Revolver) - and Sign o' the Times and Off the Wall are in fact both albums, as is What's Going On by Marvin Gaye.

[billl]

I couldn't spot anymore. (The was a Bangles album called "Everything", but, uh...)

[MarkBastable]

These can be grouped in threes - which is the one left over?

rain breast eye blood
mist haze peel
fever hammer
tit belly patch balls

[billl]

These can be grouped in threes - which is the one left over?

rain breast eye blood
mist haze peel
fever hammer
tit belly patch

I don't know if I am misunderstanding the puzzle, or if there was meant to be an additional word (or two less words) in the list. The way I saw it, since there are twelve words in the list, I was able to make four groups of three, with no words left over. Therefore, I have assembled three groups of three, as well as a fourth group of words that would not fit in the first three groups.

rain tit mist (words containing the letter "i" once)
eye peel fever (words containing the letter "e" twice)
breast haze hammer (words containing the letters "e" and "a" once each)
blood belly patch (the left overs)

Again, my groupings are probably all wrong ("rain" having an "a" in it, unlike its relatives, is particularly suspicious), I'm just throwing it out there.

[MarkBastable]

Crap - I missed one out. See edited original post.

Yeah, you need four groups of three which will leave one over.

Apologies, bill.

I don't know if I am misunderstanding the puzzle, or if there was meant to be an additional word (or two less words) in the list. The way I saw it, since there are twelve words in the list, I was able to make four groups of three, with no words left over. Therefore, I have assembled three groups of three, as well as a fourth group of words that would not fit in the first three groups.

rain tit mist (words containing the letter "i" once)
eye peel fever (words containing the letter "e" twice)
breast haze hammer (words containing the letters "e" and "a" once each)
blood belly patch (the left overs)

Again, my groupings are probably all wrong ("rain" having an "a" in it, unlike its relatives, is particularly suspicious), I'm just throwing it out there.

[billl]

No problem! Well, actually, I think I'll probably have a big problem figuring it out.

[Scheherazade]

Fever hammer?

[MarkBastable]

Fever hammer?

One left over - so, fever or hammer. Which is it? And why?

Don't be misled by the layout either. It could as easily have been this....

rain breast eye blood mist haze peel fever hammer tit belly patch balls

And the order they're given here doesn't matter either.

[billl]

All of the words will remain English words after having one or more letters removed from them, except for the word "eye".

Groupings:
fever ever, tit it, peel eel (remove first letter)
mist is, blood loo, balls all (remove first and last letters)
breast beast, rain ran, patch path (remove one interior letter)
haze he, hammer her, belly by (remove more than one interior letter)

NOTE: "breast" could also, unfortunately, fit into the last grouping (thus yielding "best"), and so this final grouping finally makes my suggested system here look a little less elegant than the first three groupings seemed to be promising.

[MANICHAEAN]

What happens if you get scared half to death, twice?

[Cunninglinguist]

What happens if you get scared half to death, twice?

You void you bowels.

[MarkBastable]

All of the words will remain English words after having one or more letters removed from them, except for the word "eye".

Groupings:
fever ever, tit it, peel eel (remove first letter)
mist is, blood loo, balls all (remove first and last letters)
breast beast, rain ran, patch path (remove one interior letter)
haze he, hammer her, belly by (remove more than one interior letter)

NOTE: "breast" could also, unfortunately, fit into the last grouping (thus yielding "best"), and so this final grouping finally makes my suggested system here look a little less elegant than the first three groupings seemed to be promising.

So much thought appears to have gone into that it seems almost churlish to say, No, not even close.

[prendrelemick]

I have a strong feeling its hammer. Now to work out why.



I'm thinking colours

[MarkBastable]

It's not hammer.

I may have overcomplicated it. I can make it simpler by cutting it down to these, primarily...

breast eye blood mist peel fever hammer tit belly balls

[prendrelemick]

Its peel, which is orange.

haze, patch, rain. purple
blood, tit, balls?. blue
fever, belly, hammer yellow
mist, breast, eye. red