TEST YOUR BRAINS

LaDyBuG · Comandante

RE: TEST YOUR BRAINS

elrapero · Regular Plus

Lahtina wrote:

I guess the riddle does kill the brain. If not all, at least it kills the part responsible for laughing.

Me <-- no entender nada

what word could it be..

-- Edited by elrapero at 01:47, 2006-01-24

Lahtina · Foro Master

I guess the riddle does kill the brain. If not all, at least it kills the part responsible for laughing.

QUE chula LINDA · Guru

latrez wrote:

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 answer is "language".

"GRY" Riddle Answer

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

-- Edited by QUE chula LINDA at 01:56, 2006-01-24

GENIE · Foro Master

latrez wrote:

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.

The Word Detective may be found on the web at http://www.word-detective.com.

latrez · Regular Plus

but they already said the word hungry in the riddle, it's one of the three words

Cheeky · Regular Plus

Hungry?

GENIE · Foro Master

latrez wrote:

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?

THE ANSWER IS HUNGRY

Julie · Comandante

Well I found aggry and puggry but as well the follwonig explaination. So go figure

http://www.sls.lib.il.us/reference/por/features/99/gry.html

http://www.geocities.com/loisnotlane/gry.html

Jaime Cruz · Foro Master

DulceGalletita wrote:

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.

latinsoulchild · TOP Guru

Esa baina ni lo intento..lol

DulceGalletita · Foro Master

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

Cheeky · Regular Plus

Language? I thought it was supposed to end in gry?

Daeveed · Foro Master

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.

I think you're high on ether.

latrez · Regular Plus

this might sound stupid but isn't the word suppose to end in "gry"?

Jaime Cruz · Foro Master

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.

latrez · Regular Plus

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?