The puzzle is essentially this: There are three English words ending in "-gry". Two are "angry" and "hungry". What is the third one?
There is no other common word ending in "-gry", so how did the puzzle come about? It first appeared in print in 1975.
Perhaps the answer to the original version of the puzzle was meagry or aggry (as in "aggry bead"). There are over 100 obsolete words that end in "-gry" (see link below), and these two were in use until fairly recently. However, since there is no longer a real answer to this, modern versions of the puzzle have turned from being puzzles to being riddles. There are perhaps as many as a dozen versions in circulation - each with a different answer!
ok the link below gives the long version of the answer i got pasted the first part here. there are many versions of this puzzle/riddle and each is explained on the link.
2006-12-21 01:40:34
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answer #1
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answered by polyesterfred 3
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you worded it wrong....the question is supposed to go something like "there are only 3 words in THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE that end in -gry, angry and hungry, what is the third word?
and the answer LANGUAGE..in that "there are only 3 words in 'the english language'" and LANGUAGE is the third of those words
2006-12-21 10:38:31
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answer #2
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answered by Anonymous
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One
2006-12-21 09:39:05
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answer #3
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answered by Anonymous
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pottingry [OED:7/2:1195; Jamieson:3:532]
2006-12-21 09:52:01
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answer #4
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answered by Anonymous
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the "third" word is "hungry" as it has two meaning one is feeling to eat food and the second is it is a state
2006-12-21 10:58:10
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answer #5
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answered by Sonu G 5
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Tangry, a type of dry sweet. origin Urdu.
2006-12-21 09:45:38
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answer #6
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answered by Ishfaq A 3
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gry
2006-12-21 09:41:03
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answer #7
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answered by Anonymous
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I agree with Polyesterfred's
2006-12-21 09:47:54
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answer #8
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answered by Myastar 4
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There is not one.
2006-12-21 09:41:18
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answer #9
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answered by Anonymous
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There is no actual other word.
The riddle is "what is the third word?"
The answer is "what"
2006-12-21 09:42:48
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answer #10
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answered by Blunt Honesty 7
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