EXERCISE : Odd Man Out
Grade: 100points
Due: Week#, Monday, 9am

This is a very simple exercise. It is related to those I designed for
children in the Think link series of cards in the early 19705.
(Think link cards, which show a word or picture, were used
randomly to stimulate ideas.)
PROCESS
1. Obtain four Random Words.
2. On some basis show that one of the words Is the "odd man out,"
3. Define that basis.

NOTE: It Is best to avoid the very obvious reasons for one word being the odd man out.
These obvious reasons would include:
the number of letters; starting or ending with a certain letter, etc.
Reasons based on the physical nature of the spelling or the word are best avoided.

Exercise Example:
The four Random Words are: FUR; RANSOM; CHIMPANZEE; WORRY.

Immediate thoughts:
... "worry" is the only human emotion among the words, "chimpanzee" is the only creature

Further thoughts:
"ransom" is the only word that implies criminality
"fur," "ransom" and "worry" are all unpleasant (for some people).
"Chimpanzee" is not

VARIATIONS
1. The game can be played so that for the same set of Random Words
you have to choose a second odd man out,
2. The game can be played so that for the same set of
Random Words each of the words could be shown to
be an odd man out.