Cross the odd word out. evening book teeth football afternoon play brown chess sleep study hands ball night read face hockey

Let's try to group them:

evening - afternoon - night - parts of day;

book - ball - play - things or activity at school;

teeth - hands - face - parts of body;

football - chess - hockey - games;

sleep - study - read - if used like verbs they mean actions.

The odd-word-out is "brown".