Can anyone solve this riddle?
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Actually, many words end in -gry, including gry itself, although all but angry and hungry are rare, foreign, obscure or obsolete.The most common "answers" are aggry, a burial bead from Ghana, puggry, a scarf worn around the neck in India to protect the head from the sun, and anhungry, an obsolete form of hungry that was used once in one of Shakespeare's less-popular plays (Coriolanus, Act I, Scene I, line 209); this association with the Bard is enough to earn it a place in Merriam-Webster's Third New International (unabridged)Dictionary of the English Language. \n"But that can't be the answer," you groan. No. It's not. There is no answer. \nThe puzzle is WRONG. "It's a fraud, it's a fake," says Will Shortz, who is the puzzle editor of the New York Times and the host of a puzzle segment on National Public Radio's Weekend Edition (NPR, 11/10/96). The actual truth is that \nNO other common English word ends in -gry! It's a trick question -- and the trick, at least in some versions, has been lost. Word-puzzle fans and reference librarians have been trying for years to track the question's history to find the original answer. But to do that we need to know what the original question was. And there are several different versions in circulation purporting to be the original. \n\n\n\nA very early version, found in an old book by a member of the Stumpers list, goes like this: \n\n"There are three words in the English language that end with 'gry'. Two of these are angry and hungry. The third word is a very common word, and you use it often. If you have read what I have told you, you will see that I have given you the third word. What is the third word? Think very carefully." \nThe next page of the book gave this answer: \n\n"Three, the question has nothing to do with angry, hungry, or any of the many other obscure words that end in 'gry', it is a simple question asking you what the third word in the sentence is. As you take tests, remember this."\n\nThe full text of the e-mail containing this version is quoted at the bottom of this page. \nAs asked on the Bob Grant radio show (New York City) in 1975, which many experts believe to be the earliest documented version, it went: \n\n"There are only 3 words in the English language, all adjectives, which end in -gry. Two are angry and hungry; the third word describes the state of the world today. What is it?"\n(Several sources say this was "taken from an old book", which leaves open the question of whether it was from the same book referred to in the e-mail above, or whether there were already multiple forms of the puzzle going around.) \nAccording to Ross Eckler of Word Ways magazine, while there are "nearly one hundred" words ending in -gry, none of them are common. But only one of them (besides angry and hungry) is an adjective, and that is meagry, a word found in the Oxford English Dictionary which means "meager." So meagry would seem to answer the question, at least in this form. \n\nYet another version that many believe is the original, "right" form of the question, goes thus: \n\n"Two words that end in -gry are 'angry' and 'hungry'. There are three \nwords in the English language. What is the third word? It's a common word \nthat everyone knows."\nIn this case, the answer is the third word in the phrase "the English language", i.e. "language"! The part about "angry and hungry" turns out to be a red herring. (from COPYEDITING-L list and the rec.puzzles Usenet newsgroup's FAQ) People who don't know the trick to this puzzle, by changing the wording when they pass the question along, have mangled the question until there is no real answer! Most people now seem to accept this as the "real" answer. \nA similar suggestion (from Charles Wiedemann of Hackettstown, NJ, p
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its a riddle or what.
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please explain this question.
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I won 10 points!\n\nThis is pretty easy. Try to stump me with harder ones.
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I turn polar bears white\nand I will make you cry.\nI make guys have to pee\nand girls comb their hair.\nI make celebrities look stupid\nand normal people look like celebrities.\nI turn pancakes brown\nand make your champane bubble.\nIf you squeeze me, I'll pop.\nIf you look at me, you'll pop.\nCan you guess the riddle?\n\n97% of Harvard graduates can not figure this riddle out, but 84% of kindergarten students were able to figure this out in 6 minutes or less. Can you guess the correct answer? Good luck!\n\nhttp://answers.yahoo.com/question/index;_ylt=ApANrEgf6Nxt7yU7hizRWjjsy6IX?qid=1006050616470
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the answer is d.\n\nPS. just a random answer.
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I'm still working my way up to 26. Ching the answer to four is Prince Albert.\n\nModified: I almost forgot to post back, became to carried away solving the questions (almost done). The answer to 26 is George Michael...good luck :)
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cool joke.pls. answer my riddles too.
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Is this a joke or a riddle? I'm not sure how to answer this one.
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i read this from another post of the same question..and i think hes right...the answer is no. it is the answer to the last question "can you guess the riddle?" obviously a kindergartener would know any of the other stuff, but a harvard grad would actually try and figure out if there is an answer.
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This is more of a word problem or a riddle than a math problem.\n\nThe answer is 7 (SEVEN).  Remove its first letter and it becomes EVEN!
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Even the answer is not clear!
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The answer is an egg.
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nobody knows!\n\nsorry!
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Yeah, Mary. I heard this one in 5th grade!\n\nNunu is a good answer too, but I think this is the simple version of the riddle.
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duh...?  what's your question, Mam?  \n\n=0(
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alright... whats the word u want the answer to this riddle to be? Hunger! yay 2 points for answering a question lol, sry, but thats a tricky one