Riddle me THIS Riddle me THAT

[pixystix6]

There are three words in the English language that end in -GRY. Two are HUNGRY and ANGRY. The third one everyone uses every day and knows what it stands for. If you listened carefully, I already told you what the word is. What is the third word?


can you guess?

[Jerrick]

Hehe, I know this one. =p

[dan de man]

language


but i dont get it?

[tomtrevor]

really? its so simple Dan.

[mawesome]

Ahahaha, yeah, this thing.

It's actually mind numbingly easy. You've probably used the third word at least once today, but I'm not gonna post it. I don't wanna spoil the fun :p

[Jerrick]

Ahahaha, yeah, this thing.

It's actually mind numbingly easy. You've probably used the third word at least once today, but I'm not gonna post it. I don't wanna spoil the fun :p

Exactly, I knew the answer to it, but came back and edited it so it wouldnt ruin it for everyone else.

[monkeyman]

You messed up the riddle. This is the old, real version:

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?

[Jerrick]

You messed up the riddle. This is the old, real version:

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?

Is there really an old version?

There is about 10 versions, whos to say which one is the real one? :p

They all work, kinda, some of them give different answers though.

[monkeyman]

There is about 10 versions, whos to say which one is the real one? :p
Me. :cool:

They all work, kinda, some of them give different answers though.

Then either they don't work very well, or they don't give you the same answer.

[Jerrick]

Me. :cool:


touché.:p

[kington99]

Can someone please PM the answer?

[pixystix6]

touché.:p
that means touch!

you guys are retards! I've never even herd of this riddle lol

[pixystix6]

Can someone please PM the answer?

the answer is language, Dan had to go and ruin it all, lol

[JJtheunicycle]

i dont get it

[pixystix6]

Me. :cool:



Then either they don't work very well, or they don't give you the same answer.


you still get the same answer as long, as your saying "the english language, guess what the third word is"

[pixystix6]

i dont get it


you know, we say it everyday, "the english language" language is the third word...nothing I type looks right!

[thejdw]

She could mean HUNGRY as in the place but maby not lol;)

[grim_reeper01]

is it gry is gry a word

if not how does "the english langage " end in gry

[dan de man]

sera better change that to 4 words ,gry (http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/gry)

[Jerrick]

But is that a commonly used word? :p

[iridemymuni]

i think this riddle is wrong. we are told to GUESS what the third word is, but we aren't really guessing because we've already been told what it is, and we've been told that we were told what it is.

However, none of us really guessed to get the answer.

[dan de man]

but language dosnt end in _gry,+there is no "Y" in language

[spazdude222]

She could mean HUNGRY as in the place but maby not lol;)
I maybe be wrong...but i'm pretty sure the country is Hungary

[spazdude222]

you know, we say it everyday, "the english language" language is the third word...nothing I type looks right!
but that has no GRY in it...i hate riddles...PLEASE some one send me the answer...completely explained and with nothing left out.

[spazdude222]

ok now i get it
i thought about it some more
this sucks...riddles can lick my B@lls, i hate them they just piss me off.

[monkeyman]

you still get the same answer as long, as your saying "the english language, guess what the third word is"

Yes, and you didn't say that.

There are three words in the English language that end in -GRY. Two are HUNGRY and ANGRY. The third one everyone uses every day and knows what it stands for. If you listened carefully, I already told you what the word is. What is the third word?

What you said would be taken as
There are three words in "the English language that end in -GRY." So no, it's most definitely not the same thing.

but language dosnt end in _gry,+there is no "Y" in language

Everything about -GRY is there to throw you off. Written correctly, the riddle says: There are three words in the English language.

Think of it as: There are three words in "the English Language". Stuff about -gry here. What is the third word?

That's why the riddle has to be written the way it does, because it relies on word order.

[iridemymuni]

What is the third word?


clearly, what, is the third word. you say it so yourself, what is the third word. the answer is therefore what, as you tell us it is the third word.

[monkeyman]

clearly, what, is the third word. you say it so yourself, what is the third word. the answer is therefore what, as you tell us it is the third word.

Actually, I asked a question. So, what is?

[iridemymuni]

Actually, I asked a question. So, what is?

yes, what is the third word, you even tell us it is.

here you say "There are three words in "the English language that end in -GRY.""

this can be taken as- there are three words in the "english language that". so the third word can be "that"

[monkeyman]

So that is the third word. Gotcha. Or it's is. But wait, is that the third word? What about that one word "is"? Is it that? I think we're going in a circle. We're right now, actually.

:D

[iridemymuni]

yes. we are going in circles.

[mscalisi]

There are actually six words in: "the English language that end in -GRY"

There are three words in the English language that end in -GRY. Two are HUNGRY and ANGRY. The third one everyone uses every day and knows what it stands for. If you listened carefully, I already told you what the word is. What is the third word?


can you guess?

[Jerrick]

Here you go. (http://www.geocities.com/loisnotlane/gry.html)

[johnfoss]

Think of it as: There are three words in "the English Language". Stuff about -gry here. What is the third word?
And when perfect wording is finally achieved for this so-called riddle, it gets raised to the level of a sucky, annoying language deception! Aka an annoying riddle.

Who's on first, What's on second, and I don't know's on third...

[dan de man]

Think of it as: There are three words in "the English Language". Stuff about -gry here. What is the third word?

That's why the riddle has to be written the way it does, because it relies on word order.
but by that logic the words, is,the, age, a and he should all be included

[Spudman]

This thread has turned into a discussion that is much more confusing than the actual riddle.

[mawesome]

Good God!

Ok, here's how the riddle is supposed to be said:

There are three commonly used words in the english language that end in "gry". The first being "angry", the second being "hungry". Can you think of the third commonly used, English word that ends in "gry"? I'll give you a clue; you've probably already used this word at least once today.

There's no screwing around with "it's 'language', because the three words are 'the english language'". It's talking about the actual english language. The language we're speaking right now.


Who else has heard this one before?

[monkeyman]

Good God!

Ok, here's how the riddle is supposed to be said:

There are three commonly used words in the english language that end in "gry". The first being "angry", the second being "hungry". Can you think of the third commonly used, English word that ends in "gry"? I'll give you a clue; you've probably already used this word at least once today.


No, because this is interpreted as: There are three commonly used words in "the english language" that end in -GRY.

None of those words end in -GRY. And because of this question: Can you think of the third commonly used, English word that ends in "gry"?, the answer can't be language, because language does not end in -GRY. You can't have that clause at the end of that sentence, because it makes the answer ambiguous.
Riddles don't work if there's more than one answer. It has to be a hard question with a painfully obvious answer (once it's explained, of course), and it can't have more than one answer, otherwise it's just not good.

[mawesome]

Do you mean "the english language" as in those three words? Or the actual english language? Because it means the actual language, I'm not aware of any less ambiguous way of saying it.

If it was meant to mean "the english language" as in those three words only, then those three words would(or at least should) be in quotation marks(or whatever you want to call them).

[monkeyman]

If it was meant to mean "the english language" as in those three words only, then those three words would(or at least should) be in quotation marks(or whatever you want to call them).
Well, the way I see it, the riddle is referring to the structure of the sentence. So you can't have more than three words in a phrase that is said to only have three words. So it can only be "There are only three words in the English language."

[mawesome]

Ok, I get what you're saying. I've heard this riddle somewhere else before, it's refereing to the language, not the phrase "the english language". It's one of those things that you've gotto take at face value,. If it says "english language" then it means the language, not "english" and "language".

If it was only meaning the three words "the english language" then the "that end in gry" would make no sense at all.

[Andy912912]

Language. I've heard it many times. The point is to confuse you by not using proper punctuation, which would give it away("The English language" Angry and hungry are two of them...). It has a few ways of being said, but all are the same. Has anyone ever gotten this one on the first guess? I didn't...

P.S. an oxymoron(JUST riddles/and MORE) link here, LOTS of ways to do it. Who knew? (http://www.justriddlesandmore.com/gry.html)

[pixystix6]

do any of you even know what a riddle is suppost to be? lol, you're all arguing about how this riddle makes no sense, when it makes perfect sense, the answer is "language"
..."what is the third word in 'the english language"

a riddle is suppost to use words to make you think of an answer that would make most sense to a person, but is completely obvious in the sense that answer is hidden in the words you said. A riddle is suppost to throw you off, and this one is doing just that, there is only one answer to it. And in my research (totally a dorky thing to do about a riddle) on this riddle, it is said to be know as the riddle with no exact answer. So it really could be anything that involves the words ending 'gry', but I really don't think so, it's jsut there to throw you off, so for now until someone can find a better answer to this riddle, the answer shall remane 'language".

[mawesome]

Yeah, the way I first heard it told was that you had to find the third "gry" word. A word which doesn't actually exist (not a commonly used one anyway).

If the question of the riddle is "can you find the third word?" then I guess the answer could easily just be "no".

[pixystix6]

lol I suppose that would work

[grim_reeper01]

maybe they mean there are 3 words in the english language as in if u take some letters out of "english language" and re-arrange them u will get a word that ends in gry maybe

[tomblackwood]

I can't believe we've managed four pages of discussion from a botched first post. Jerrick's was the only post out of any (my current one included) that added any value.

Gilby should think about charging by the post, the same way some cell providers do for text messaging. We could hope that would correct the problem, although there are plenty of horror stories about surprised parents opening their $600 phone bills.

[grim_reeper01]

OK, now let's take this riddle apart and solve it as a riddle. Remember, that a riddle has a trick with the words or usage of the words. The trick in this puzzle is misdirection. There are words here that are meant to mislead you and they do just that. The first two sentences in the puzzle have nothing to do with the question being asked: "Think of words ending in -GRY. Angry and hungry are two of them." Ignore these two sentences. They are there to mislead and distract you. Works doesn't it??? Now, what is left is the "meat" of the riddle: "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." In the phrase, the English language, the third word is simply the word 'language'. There you have it!! Get it? 'Language' is definitely something everyone uses every day and in the phrase "the English language" is the third word! OK, now you're saying,"That can't be it; too easy!!" But remember what a riddle is and that the "GRY" riddle is a riddle - NOT a trivia question. "Ok", you're saying, "But that is really stupid!" Hey, we didn't write this riddle - but we do believe that we have the solution, stupid or not! We don't have actual statistics, but we can say that the "GRY" riddle has really gotten around over the last twenty years or so and we get MANY requests for the solution. As is the case with riddles, you need to listen or read them carefully before solving and before passing them along. Somehow, the "GRY" riddle got really distorted - hopefully this explanation will help and satisfy all of you who have been racking your brains for the answer!

By the way, there really are words in the English language that end in -GRY. However, they are definitely obscure and to most of us unknown and rarely used. When have you used bowgry, hogry, hangry or aggry in everyday circumstances? (Remember the riddle clearly states that the answer is something used every day by everyone.) So forget about using any of those obscure words! Instead, start repeating the riddle in its correct version and be happy that you now know the solution!

[Jerrick]

I can't believe we've managed four pages of discussion from a botched first post. Jerrick's was the only post out of any (my current one included) that added any value.

Gilby should think about charging by the post, the same way some cell providers do for text messaging. We could hope that would correct the problem, although there are plenty of horror stories about surprised parents opening their $600 phone bills.

I dont think it was botched at all.

There are many versions of the riddle. Some make more sense than others, and other make no sense at all.

=p

[dan de man]

maybe they mean there are 3 words in the english language as in if u take some letters out of "english language" and re-arrange them u will get a word that ends in gry maybe
i thinkits pretty darn obviuos that by the fact there is no "y" that you wont get an anagram ending in "gry"

[pixystix6]

maybe they mean there are 3 words in the english language as in if u take some letters out of "english language" and re-arrange them u will get a word that ends in gry maybe


there is no 'r' in those entire 2 words, lol

[gkmac]

A few problems...The first two sentences in the puzzle have nothing to do with the question being asked: "Think of words ending in -GRY. Angry and hungry are two of them." Ignore these two sentences. They are there to mislead and distract you.Except that the phrase "the English language" is actually part of the first sentence. If we ignore the first two sentences, the phrase "the English language" is ignored, hence we are unable to solve the puzzle.

Even without that fault, the first sentence mainly trips you up because there are meant to be quotes around the phrase which are missing. Therefore one figures out the puzzle actually starts like this...There are three words in "the English language" that end in -GRY. Two are HUNGRY and ANGRY....which is wrong, because the phrase "the English language" actually has no words ending in -GRY. The words actually end with THE, -ISH and -AGE respectively.

Not to mention the fact that the words "hungry" and "angry" never appear in that sentence anyway.

Where's Miss Ayelery when you need her?:rolleyes:

[grim_reeper01]

ok ill change that here is there whole riddle broken down for u ok and this is not my own work ive copied it of a website so down burn me about it




Years ago, a little riddle was developed which has caused many people to ponder endlessly for its solution. The origin of this riddle is unknown to us (at "Just Riddles and More...!) but it is probably the most frequently submitted riddle with no solution and because of this, we offer here what we think is the best solution. If you have a better one or different one, see below.

To understand the "GRY" riddle, it is essential that you accept that riddles are simply brain teasers using word tricks. To be a riddle, there must be a trick in the wording or usage of words in the riddle. A riddle is not generally answered by a fact or information found in a reference book. Also, a riddle often uses a trick from magic - that is, misdirection - some of the words are there to mislead you to thinking about something else.

Now, the problem with the "GRY" riddle being circulated currently is this: the riddle has been mutilated and re-worded (presented here below - read it and see if it is the version you have been pondering) to something that absolutely cannot be answered. There is no answer to this version of the "GRY" Riddle - and rightly so, seeing as how it is not the correct version! This is the most commonly (though incorrect!) version of the "GRY" Riddle:
"There are three words in the English language that end in -GRY. Two are HUNGRY and ANGRY. The third one everyone uses every day and knows what it stands for. If you listened carefully, I already told you what the word is. What is the third word?"

So, what is the riddle here? What is the puzzle? If the above is NOT the correct version, what is?? The following is what we believe to be the correct version of the "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."

OK, now let's take this riddle apart and solve it as a riddle. Remember, that a riddle has a trick with the words or usage of the words. The trick in this puzzle is misdirection. There are words here that are meant to mislead you and they do just that. The first two sentences in the puzzle have nothing to do with the question being asked: "Think of words ending in -GRY. Angry and hungry are two of them." Ignore these two sentences. They are there to mislead and distract you. Works doesn't it??? Now, what is left is the "meat" of the riddle: "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." In the phrase, the English language, the third word is simply the word 'language'. There you have it!! Get it? 'Language' is definitely something everyone uses every day and in the phrase "the English language" is the third word! OK, now you're saying,"That can't be it; too easy!!" But remember what a riddle is and that the "GRY" riddle is a riddle - NOT a trivia question. "Ok", you're saying, "But that is really stupid!" Hey, we didn't write this riddle - but we do believe that we have the solution, stupid or not! We don't have actual statistics, but we can say that the "GRY" riddle has really gotten around over the last twenty years or so and we get MANY requests for the solution. As is the case with riddles, you need to listen or read them carefully before solving and before passing them along. Somehow, the "GRY" riddle got really distorted - hopefully this explanation will help and satisfy all of you who have been racking your brains for the answer!

By the way, there really are words in the English language that end in -GRY. However, they are definitely obscure and to most of us unknown and rarely used. When have you used bowgry, hogry, hangry or aggry in everyday circumstances? (Remember the riddle clearly states that the answer is something used every day by everyone.) So forget about using any of those obscure words! Instead, start repeating the riddle in its correct version and be happy that you now know the solution!

[spazdude222]

Isn't this a little over analysed? I can relate to the whole getting really pissed off about not understanding thing...(that was me when i first read the post) but seriously...if you can't figure it out, let it go!

[pixystix6]

no kidding, this was all for fun and games.. letting it die now...

[burjzyntski]

http://imgs.xkcd.com/comics/words_that_end_in_gry.png

[ivan]

xkcd.com kicks ass!

[monkeyman]

Joe, that was awesome.