The three very common English words that end with G, R, and Y, are ANGRY, HUNGRY, and ...?

(In reply to What I read about this problem once: by Waldo Pepper)

If you google this puzzle, you'll find that this is a bit of an infamous riddle that has a trick solution.  The way the riddle is usually stated, there is no solution, because some people repeated it inaccurately without ever realizing it was a trick.  Now, depending on your source, a different trick was involved in the original riddle.  I most often hear that the trick was that it was actually asking for the third word in "the English language" (a less than fair trick if you ask me).

Federico K, of course, knows all about this riddle, and has decided to employ a different little trick.

Posted by Tristan on 2005-12-02 18:34:36