Posted by Oogamous
I assume there is no one single Puzzles and Riddles Thread in Mighty Esato yet. Though search returned a few. Thought I'd start one exclusive thread. Post all Your Puzzles and Riddles Here.
Three years back i received an e-mail from a friend which Simply said:
"There are only 3 words in English Language that end in 'GRY'.. One is 'HUNGRY'. The other is 'ANGRY'. What's the third?"
It's been 3 years since this e-mail drove me crazy. I have Scanned thorugh dictionaries hoping i might glimpse the answer somewhere. But Nope. No luck. It's like an unsolved mistery to me.
So if any of u guys have received this mail and/or know the answer please enlighten me.
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Posted by EastCoastStar
its not as easy as just listing another word.
i read this somewhere, and this is a riddle of the american language that has been unawnsered for years and years. the awnser is in the question itself... thats all i know... if i can find a link expaining this better, where i read it, then I will.
i was reading my links below... and somehow "language" seems to be a popular awnser... because the riddle says... what is the third word in 'the english language'... so people say language is the awnser...
did a google search for " There are only 3 words in English Language that end in 'GRY' "
heres one... http://www.fun-with-words.com/word_gry_angry_hungry.html
another... but doesnt help much... http://www.usingenglish.com/forum/archive/index.php/t-183.html
another... http://www.faqs.org/qa/qa-6669.html
http://www.afunzone.com/gry.html
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Posted by Oogamous
ok yeah.. thanks... it's all coming back to me now.. i had forgotten about the "I have already told you about the third word" part of the puzzle.. i do recollect one of my freinds explaining why "Language could be the answer"... just didn't remember that today... Thanks..the first link was pretty comprehensive.
Posted by EastCoastStar
when this was originally written, "language" was not the correct awnser. It was a very hard riddle, and it was mind boggeling, but over the years and years, the riddle changed, and now noone knows the EXACT real riddle
Posted by Oogamous
Ok.. here's another puzzle that i just can't understand:
3 friends go to a restaurant and order 3 cups of tea. The bill amounts to 30 bucks. So each guy pays with a 10 buck note.
10 + 10 + 10 = 30
Now, the hotel manager is a friend of one of the guys and decides to give them a 5 buck concession. So he sends back 5 bucks with the waiter. The friends divide the 5 bucks by keeping 1 buck each and give the remaining 2 bucks as tip to the waiter.
1 + 1 + 1 + 2 = 5
So now to summarize the total amount that the friends have spent:
Each friend initially gave a 10 buck note, but got 1 buck back. So effectively they spent 9 bucks each. Plus a 2 buck tip to the waiter.
9 + 9 + 9 + 2 = 29.
So why doesn't this add up to 30? where did the 1 buck go?
I hope i made myself understood... i guess it's a play on words that i just don't get..
PS: if there is an ongoing puzzle thread here that i don't know about, then i'd gladly shift this post there.
Posted by Debu
@oog:
this is an old one, I' m sure you know the answer yourself.
* The original cost of the drink was 10 bucks a head.
* After the 5 bucks discount the cost was 25/3 bucks per head.
* The waiter recieved 2/3 bucks per head.
* Total expenditure is 25/3 + 2/3= 27/3 = 9 bucks per head.
* They have pocketed 1 buck per head.
* So, 9+1=10, which is the intial amount per head that they shelled out.
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Posted by niranjan007
@oog it should NOT add up to 30. Look at this: (10+10+10)-5=(9+9+9)-2=25. Since they got back 5 bucks, effective payment made is 25.
Posted by Oogamous
hey thanks.. didn't know the answer yet... i know it's an old one, but i always was amazed by it... i just can't figure out where the words have been twisted in my version, because it still sounds logical... makes it sound as if the total is actually 29... Maybe there are different ways to put it down.. like your fractionated version i guess..
.. but still i can see no wrong in the framing of words in the original puzzle.
Posted by nitesh
It been years i solved any riddles. Continue this thread... This thread is ll be intersting...:-).cheers.
Posted by Oogamous
I am male.
Add a letter and make me female.
Add another letter and make me male again.
Add another 3 letters and make me female again.
Guess the four words.
Posted by FutureDesign
Trippy
Posted by nitesh
@dr.oog after some pulling out my hair solving the GRY riddle i came to conclusion that 'one is HUNGRY(nation) second is ANGRY and third is HUNGRY(starving)..;-).!
Posted by Oogamous
Ahem.. The Nation is spelled "hungAry"... anyway i think there may be no actual answer to that GRY question...And EastCoastStar's post is the right solution...
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Posted by nitesh
Silly me:-). Must now stick my hair back. Any1 got the glue.;-)lol.
Posted by numnums
@Oogamous
was that answered clearly? i just used a calculator to be sure..
-> forget the initial $30 charge
-> they paid $25 in the end (figuring in the $5 discount).
-> divided by three customers they each paid $8.33
-> $8.33(333) multiplied by three is $25
-> each customer kept $1 from the $5 discount
-> and the extra $2 went to the waiter
the trick, i guess, is in the wording by starting with "each guy pays 10..."
edit: oops! i missed that niranjan007 answered this already!
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Posted by gregface
if you look at original puzzle like this its simple.
they pay £25 pounds between 3
which means 8.3333333333333333 each, add a pound onto that you get 9.33333333333333333
times by 3 you get 28
add 2 to the waiter and ur there
Posted by Oogamous
@all... thanks. i got that.. well it's just that different solutions with different ways of calculating the total amount to be 30 all seem logical. yet in the original puzzle the wordings seem flawless and very logical and somehow the more i read the original puzzle i seem to think that the calculation leading to 29 isn't flawed at all.
Posted by nitesh
@dr.oog agree. Well any1 got more purple or riddle:-).
Posted by *Jojo*
To the 1st riddle, 'language' doesn't end with 'gry' . . . The closest I guess would be the word - 'agree' , though spelled differently!
Posted by Burgaz
Think you missed the point there JN....
Posted by Oogamous
@JN... Yup U need to look at the link ECS provided for the correct explanation.
Try this. Really Simple.
I am male.
Add a letter and make me female.
Add another letter and make me male again.
Add another 3 letters and make me female again.
Guess the four words.
Posted by k4m!k4ze
@ooga - is the answer - lad , lady , laddy , ...(cant figure out the last one :/ ) ?
guys there is this riddle which i encountered in a pretty old PC game, i still havent figured out the answer. Somebody help me, it's been running around in my head without an answer for years - Speak my name and i disappear. What am i ?
Posted by Oogamous
Nope. It's He, Her, Hero, Heroine. :-)
Posted by k4m!k4ze
but it was a good try wasnt it ?
Ok somebody help me with this riddle -
Speak my name and i disappear. what am i ?
Posted by *Jojo*
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I thought it was . . . Dumb/Dumber/Dumbest/Dumbo !
Posted by nitesh
Lol
Posted by blackspot
@k4m, how about "Silence" -- if you speak it the silence disappears.
Posted by k4m!k4ze
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yeah !! that's the correct answer ! another one -
A dozen or so of us can help you to change your story. What are we ?
Posted by blackspot
Board of Censors or Critics
edit: Lawyers too!
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Posted by Oogamous
Punctuation marks.
Posted by k4m!k4ze
nope not the answer
Posted by Oogamous
Players of Chinese Whisper?
Posted by Oogamous
Something to do with astrology, stars? ok so what's the answer?
Posted by Oogamous
Yoo hoo? What's the answer? I can't sleep when i don't know something.
Posted by k4m!k4ze
I dont know the answer either
that's why i asked you guys
Sorry to disturb your sleep
Posted by blackspot
how do you know it's wrong?
Posted by Oogamous
Good Point. *Stares at K4 angrily* How do u know our answers are wrong???
Posted by niranjan007
What about words? With words, you can change your story.
Posted by k4m!k4ze
I have this PC game in which it asks riddles and i have to type in the answer, and all the answers suggested didnt work...
@blackspot - your "silence" answer worked for the first riddle when i type it in, so i knew it worked
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Posted by blackspot
cool, can i copy that software.
Posted by k4m!k4ze
Its only a trial version, you can get the full version free because its abandonware but from what i've read about it, it doesnt seem to be the same as the trial :/ The game's name is Hodj 'n' Podj. Do a google with the game's name and 'abandonware' , you'll get some sites to download it from
Posted by gelfen
i think punctuation is the answer (as @oogs) said, because this riddle sounds familiar.
there are 14 recognized punctuation symbols, 12 of which are in common useage.
Posted by goldenface
You are an archaeologist that has just unearthed a long-sought triplet of ancient treasure chests. One chest is plated with silver, one with gold, and one with bronze.
According to legend, one of the three chests is filled with great treasure, whereas the other two chests both house man-eating pythons that can rip your head off.
Faced with a dilemma, you then notice that there are inscriptions on the chests:
Silver Chest - Treasure is in this Chest
Gold Chest - Treasure is not in this Chest
Bronze Chest - Treasure is not in the Gold Chest
You know that at least one of the inscriptions is true, and at least one of the inscriptions is false.
Which chest do you open?
Posted by leeboy13
bronze chest mate?
Posted by goldenface
I don't know mate.
My answer would be: The heaviest one.
Posted by leeboy13
i thought this was soem kind of riddle
Posted by goldenface
It is!
There is an answer to it. I'm just too tired to think logically at the moment.
Posted by fatreg
open all of them.
your an acheologist opening old chests.
im sure snakes cant live for years and years without food, water or light?
fatreg
Posted by msmmsm
A man lives in a house on 2 levels, upstairs are 3 light bulbs, which connect to 3 light switches downstairs.
He does not know which light switch turns on which light bulb and he is only allowed to go up the stairs once to find out. How does he do it?
Posted by PotOfVB
I agree with leeboy13
I would open the bronze chest
remember that
'You know that at least one of the inscriptions is true, and at least one of the inscriptions is false."
possibilities.....
assuming.... inscriptions real meaning....
Silver = false Treasure is not in this Chest
Gold = true Treasure is not in this Chest
Bronze = true Treasure is not in the Gold Chest
*Not in silver or gold, but in Bronze
Silver = true Treasure is in this Chest
Gold = false Treasure is in this Chest
Bronze = true Treasure is not in the Gold Chest
*Bronze and gold inscriptions contradict each other
Silver = true Treasure is in this Chest
Gold = true Treasure is not in this Chest
Bronze = false Treasure is in the Gold Chest
*Can not be in both silver and gold
Silver = false Treasure is not in this Chest
Gold = false Treasure is in this Chest
Bronze = true Treasure is not in the Gold Chest
*Can not be in gold as bronze says it is not in gold chest
Silver = true Treasure is in this Chest
Gold = false Treasure is in this Chest
Bronze = false Treasure is in the Gold Chest
*Can not be in both silver and gold
Silver = false Treasure is not in this Chest
Gold = true Treasure is not in this Chest
Bronze = false Treasure is in the Gold Chest
*The treasure is in none of the chests!