Language riddle

[Anahita]

Think of all the words that end in -GRY. Hungry and angry are two of them. There are only three words in the English language. What is the third word? The word is something that nearly everyone uses daily. If you paid attention, I already told you what it is.

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Here's one that's just a 'little' more difficult.

ALBERT EINSTEIN'S RIDDLE

ARE YOU IN THE TOP 2% OF INTELLIGENT PEOPLE IN THE WORLD?
ALBERT EINSTEIN WROTE THIS RIDDLE EARLY DURING THE 19th CENTURY. HE SAID THAT 98% OF THE WORLD POPULATION WOULD NOT BE ABLE TO SOLVE IT.

There are no tricks, just pure logic, so good luck and don't give up.

1. In a street there are five houses, painted five different colours.
2. In each house lives a person of different nationality
3. These five homeowners each drink a different kind of beverage, smoke different brand of cigar and keep a different pet.

THE QUESTION: WHO OWNS THE FISH?

HINTS

1. The Brit lives in a red house.
2. The Swede keeps dogs as pets.
3. The Dane drinks tea.
4. The Green house is next to, and on the left of the White house.
5. The owner of the Green house drinks coffee.
6. The person who smokes Pall Mall rears birds.
7. The owner of the Yellow house smokes Dunhill.
8. The man living in the centre house drinks milk.
9. The Norwegian lives in the first house.
10. The man who smokes Blends lives next to the one who keeps cats.
11. The man who keeps horses lives next to the man who smokes Dunhill.
12. The man who smokes Blue Master drinks beer.
13. The German smokes Prince.
14. The Norwegian lives next to the blue house.
15. The man who smokes Blends has a neighbour who drinks water.

[One-Way]

Re: Language riddle

Think of all the words that end in -GRY. Hungry and angry are two of them. There are only three words in the English language. What is the third word? The word is something that nearly everyone uses daily. If you paid attention, I already told you what it is.

Language.

Here's one that's just a 'little' more difficult.

ALBERT EINSTEIN'S RIDDLE

ARE YOU IN THE TOP 2% OF INTELLIGENT PEOPLE IN THE WORLD?
ALBERT EINSTEIN WROTE THIS RIDDLE EARLY DURING THE 19th CENTURY. HE SAID THAT 98% OF THE WORLD POPULATION WOULD NOT BE ABLE TO SOLVE IT.

There are no tricks, just pure logic, so good luck and don't give up.

1. In a street there are five houses, painted five different colours.
2. In each house lives a person of different nationality
3. These five homeowners each drink a different kind of beverage, smoke different brand of cigar and keep a different pet.

THE QUESTION: WHO OWNS THE FISH?

HINTS

1. The Brit lives in a red house.
2. The Swede keeps dogs as pets.
3. The Dane drinks tea.
4. The Green house is next to, and on the left of the White house.
5. The owner of the Green house drinks coffee.
6. The person who smokes Pall Mall rears birds.
7. The owner of the Yellow house smokes Dunhill.
8. The man living in the centre house drinks milk.
9. The Norwegian lives in the first house.
10. The man who smokes Blends lives next to the one who keeps cats.
11. The man who keeps horses lives next to the man who smokes Dunhill.
12. The man who smokes Blue Master drinks beer.
13. The German smokes Prince.
14. The Norwegian lives next to the blue house.
15. The man who smokes Blends has a neighbour who drinks water.

I used to know this, but I forgot.

[Anahita]

Re: Language riddle

I hadn't seen the Einstein riddle before. I'm working on it now with a 5x5 grid... if you know the answer, don't tell me yet. Seems like why be our geew so far... let me check that part

It seems like it could be solved without hint #14.

[One-Way]

Re: Language riddle

I cheated and found the answer.

[Anahita]

Re: Language riddle

I cheated and found the answer.

Blah. I stopped awhile ago. So, don't tell me, yet.

[TomServo]

Re: Language riddle

Did you know that actor Albert Brooks was born Albert Einstein?

[Anahita]

Re: Language riddle

Did you know that actor Albert Brooks was born Albert Einstein?

You don't know jack shi...I mean Jack Nicholson. You don't know Albert, either, joker.

[One-Way]

Re: Language riddle

She got you, Tommy.

[TomServo]

Re: Language riddle

You don't know jack shi...I mean Jack Nicholson. You don't know Albert, either, joker.

O rly?

And it was better before the edit.

[Anahita]

Re: Language riddle

I just read this about riddles and it reminded me of not pron (and a little bit of TomServo, too):

"In a true riddle, there's always some sneaky little trick that makes such a straight answer impossible....think of the way magic is performed. The magician does something to divert your attention away from what he is actually up to. If you watch very closely when all those scarves are being waved about, you realize that much of the action on stage is simply a technique to confuse or befuddle you so that you will not catch on to the magician's sly movements. That lovely assistant who parades around in high heels and sequins is there primarily to keep you distracted so you won't figure out the trick."


I edit most every message, better or not. I don't think this won't 'ruin' the game, if you are still playing.

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