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[Randomeis]

sparkrent

[Caterpillar]

[Glecius]

The entire "riddle" or "puzzle" over the -gry idea is a lot more involved. The 3rd word doesnt exist, its a play on words, making each answer different depending on the wording of the puzzle used. I delved further into it because while what I found seemed to "fit", it wasnt making me comfortable it was the answer either.

From my scouring around the different wordings of this conundrum it seems the original wording of the debate was worded as such that "three" was the answer. I'll go back and get the URL for that as well to help everyone understand better, but at this point it was all I could wrap my head around. I was actually hoping someone would come behind me and say "Nope, I did blah blah blah and it comes out like this", but I havent seen it. I hadnt edited the previous post b/c I wanted to make sure I had a reason to, but I do agree it doesnt seem to "add up"

*EDIT*
Here is the riddle:
This version is usually stated with certain words capitalized, for no
apparent reason but historical accident:

There are three words in the English language that end in "gry." ONE
is angry and the other is hungry. Every ONE knows what the third ONE
means and what it stands for. Every ONE uses them every day. And if
you listened carefully I've given you the third word. What is it?

The answer is "three," the third word in the paragraph. The rest of
the paragraph is a red herring.

[Puppy_Zwolle]

so.. gry is 2, asking for 3 (3rd) or 1/10 (line?) or 1/120 or 0.212 (inch, mm)

Now just extrapolating 'the riddle' to make it fit with 4 is no logical step I can make.

As we were told numbers are important, my guess is the answer is in the measure not in the riddle.

[Glecius]

[Caterpillar]

Far be it from me to stick my head into this, cuz I have no idea what it all means, and having read through the entire thread I'm still trying to wrap my brain around the info contained therein....just trying to help.

http://www.snopes.com/language/puzzlers/gry.asp

[Puppy_Zwolle]

[Glecius]

ROT-16 comes out as "who". Could be the beginning to a question.

[Delusional]

We Have source update.

[Glecius]

ran a decryption and came out with these options

[Delusional]

Just curious Glecius. what kind of decryption did you use?

[Glecius]

[Maria Cottrell]

Glecius said:

[cs178]

I'm not sure, but something is odd with the last source update. All the other updates happened around midnight of this guys timezone (given that he lives in japan or so [+9 GMT]).

The last update was in the middle of the *same* day, WHY?

Does that mean, that this update is unrelated to the countdown?

[mj]

I also got a message from sparkrent:

A MESSAGE FROM WE TO QU13E:

What happens when all the time you've killed comes back to haunt you?

Clockstop the Whys will soon learn.