I was sent this Riddle...You guys might have heard it before but it's driving me nuts, I can't figure it out A RIDDLE THAT'LL KILL YOUR BRAIN!This is going to make you so MAD!There are three words in the English language that end in "gry".ONE is angry and the other is hungry. Everyone knows what the thirdONE means and what it stands for. Everyone uses them everyday, andif you listened very carefully, I've given you the third word.What is it? _______gry?
This is what I found, the "original" GRY riddle:
"Think of words ending in -GRY. Angry and hungry are two of them. There are only three words in the English language. What is the third word? The word is something that everyone uses every day. If you have listened carefully, I have already told you what it is."
The key is the phrase "the English language." In this three-word phrase, the third word is simply the word "language." Get it? "Language" is definitely something that "everyone uses every day"! Without that quirky little twist, the puzzle would be just another trivia question, not a riddle. Maybe
but they already said the word hungry in the riddle, it's one of the three words
HERES ONE EXPLINATION I FOUND ON LINE WHICH EXPLAINS IT
Here one answer, in a nutshell, quoted from "Gry, Gry, Everywhere, and Not a Clue In Sight", from The Word Detective, the online version of Words, Wit and Wisdom, a newspaper column that answers readers' questions about words and language, and is currently syndicated in newspapers in the U.S., Mexico and Japan. Here is the gist of what its author has to say:
Perhaps the whole puzzler is more a grade school antic than anything else. The way I heard the setup for the question was this:
There are three words in the English language that end with "gry." One is hungry and the other is angry. What is the third word? Everyone uses this word every day, everyone knows what it means, and knows what it stands for. If you have listened very closely I have already told you the third word.
If you read the second sentence you see that the "third" word is "hungry".
The author is writing here about the third word in the second sentence of the riddle, exactly as quoted, NOT some mythical third commonly used English word ending in "-gry". We admit this is a rather stupid riddle, but then we we didn't make it up; we just answer it, over, and over, and over.
I was sent this Riddle...You guys might have heard it before but it's driving me nuts, I can't figure it out A RIDDLE THAT'LL KILL YOUR BRAIN!This is going to make you so MAD!There are three words in the English language that end in "gry".ONE is angry and the other is hungry. Everyone knows what the thirdONE means and what it stands for. Everyone uses them everyday, andif you listened very carefully, I've given you the third word.What is it? _______gry?
Jaime Cruz wrote: The answer is language.It is the third word of "the English language". The question needs to be spoken, otherwise the quotation marks give away the trick. This version apparently originated in 1996. Ummm, I heard this before ... but I still don't get it So what does the "gry" have to do with it
Best answer I can give you is check it up on google, because that is where I got the answer and supposedly it's correct.
The answer is language.It is the third word of "the English language". The question needs to be spoken, otherwise the quotation marks give away the trick. This version apparently originated in 1996.
Ummm, I heard this before ... but I still don't get it
The answer is language.It is the third word of "the English language". The question needs to be spoken, otherwise the quotation marks give away the trick. This version apparently originated in 1996.
The answer is language. It is the third word of "the English language". The question needs to be spoken, otherwise the quotation marks give away the trick. This version apparently originated in 1996.
I was sent this Riddle...You guys might have heard it before but it's driving me nuts, I can't figure it out
A RIDDLE THAT'LL KILL YOUR BRAIN! This is going to make you so MAD! There are three words in the English language that end in "gry". ONE is angry and the other is hungry. Everyone knows what the third ONE means and what it stands for. Everyone uses them everyday, and if you listened very carefully, I've given you the third word. What is it? _______gry?