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Topic Started: 8th November 2011 - 01:26 AM (1,377 Views)
Firby
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Think of words that end in 'gry'. 'Angry' and 'hungry' are two of them. But there are three words in the english language. What is the third word? If you look real closely, i've already told you what it is.

This is my all time favorite riddle, it took me, literally, a million years to figure it out. Can any of you figure it out? It was all but impossible for me.

(And no cheating by looking online! ;) )
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Silas
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Going to stick my neck out and say that Gry is actually some obscure word and that that is what you are referring to.

Having made my guess I am now off to check Google to see if I am right.
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Lol, dont post the correct answer! :)
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Gry isn't it isn't it. Also according to Wikipedia you have written the riddle wrong.

Language only works as the answer when the riddle is spoken. In the written format your answer has to actually end in the letter set up of gry.
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THE BUNNY SHALL INHERIT!!!
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Mathusala has it... Planescape: Torment taught me that one in a slightly different form. xkcd has also commented on this riddle.
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How can you do a riddle that is based on sound in a written format? It's like me making the tomato tomato comparison in a written format.

However a bit of quick Googling has picking me up two words that do end in gry.

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THE BUNNY WILL EAT!!!
THE BUNNY SHALL FIGHT!!!
THE BUNNY SHALL WIN!!!
THE BUNNY SHALL INHERIT!!!
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Math, how you get it so quick? You've played Planescape: Torment, huh?

Not so, Silas. [ 'But there are three words in the english language. What is the third word?' ] is a seperate thought from the first part of the riddle, Signified by the 'but'.

There are many variations of this puzzle.

And I am jealous that Math did in 4 minutes what took me 2 weeks.

MUTATE; Ack! Ninja'd! And [whovever it was, lol, i forgot already] who mentioned planescape taught of the tactical use of the word 'but' to seperate the two thoughts in a confusing (to the reader) way.
Edited by Firby, 8th November 2011 - 01:53 AM.
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Silas
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My first reaction was language and I don't think I have ever seen the riddle before. I dismissed it due to the fact that (according to by initial reaction and Wikipedia) for the riddle to work that way you have to place quotation marks around the word 'language'. Otherwise it doesn’t work.
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Silas the 'spoiler click to toggle' button in your previous post doesnt work, or at least doesnt work for me on my phone. What are the two words?
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8th November 2011 - 01:26 AM
But there are three words in the english language.
No, that isn't right. Oxford Dictionary estimates that there are over 250,000 distinct words in the english language, not even counting inflections and words that belong to multiple word classes.

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"WHAT DO WE WANT!!??"
"A THINNISH, WATERY PAINT WITH A GREENER TINGE THAN AGRAX EARTHSHADE!!"
"WHEN DO WE WANT IT!?"
"QUITE SOON PLEASE AS MY LAST POT IS RUNNING OUT!"
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I never played planescape no lol, however I did see this riddle before a few times. and others like it

cant recal the one that i liked alot but it was something around the lines of "how many numbers are in 'the next one'" i just cant remember the opener.
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I don't get it. :blink:
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But there are three words in "the english language". What is the third word?
The(1) english(2) language(3)



Here're some more riddles:

If there are six apples and you take away four, how many do you have?

What do you call a person who doesn't have all of his or her fingers on one hand?
hannanibal
 
*Angry mob assembles*

"WHAT DO WE WANT!!??"
"A THINNISH, WATERY PAINT WITH A GREENER TINGE THAN AGRAX EARTHSHADE!!"
"WHEN DO WE WANT IT!?"
"QUITE SOON PLEASE AS MY LAST POT IS RUNNING OUT!"
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(Z–>)90º – (E–N²W)90ºt = 1

@Kimzi: It's a spoken riddle that relies on interpretation of the sentence. It doesn't quite work as written for the reasons Silas mentions, but if you've heard enough of them you can work out what it wants. This is a similar one that really doesn't work when written:

'The longest word in the English Language is pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanokoniosis. Spell it.'

The answer here is of course, I T, since it directs you to spell it.

Here're a few excellent riddles I've heard/read in various places:

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1) If you take sphere and drill a hole through it along its axis such that the hole is 1m long, what volume of material is left behind?

2) You are in a prison, and you have got one chance to escape. There are two doors, of which one leads to death, and another to liberty, but you don't know what door is the one to liberty.
Happily, there are two soldiers, but one does always lie, and the other does always speak the truth. You can ask one question to them.
What do you ask?

3) You are imprisoned (again) and sentenced to death.
The soldiers give you a last thing to say, and:
If this last sentence is a lie, you will be hanged.
If it is not a lie, you will be decapitated.
What can you say to avoid death?




Yes-yes, double merged post, so shoot me :P

Scriv's riddles: Click only if you want to see my answers.
Edited by Warlock Matik, 8th November 2011 - 09:27 AM.
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