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- I visit the young, the old, the happy, and the sad, creeping in the silence of the night. I never miss my appointment, and yet no one wants to meet me.
- I am not a king, but I wear a crown. In a dark alley or in open ground, I lay claim to the mighty and the low. What am I?
- I stand tall for those who have fallen, a silent sentinel. People pass me with somber faces, but seldom stop to say hello. What am I?
- Born from emotion, I grow stronger with time. Some fear me, some embrace me, but in the end, I embrace all. What am I?
- Caitlin Willow Greyling
- The Most Ancient of all Riddles! This ancient Sumerian riddle has stood the test of time, putting noggins to the test for thousands of years! It’s also one of the oldest written riddles known to humankind.
- The Allfather’s Riddles. This ancient riddle hails from the legends of Norse mythology. It is said that Odin made this riddle up, amongst other ancient riddles, to fool King Heidrek.
- Odin Outsmarts the King. Here is another of the ancient riddles with which Odin challenged King Heidrek. “Mankind it mars, speech it hinders, yet speech it will inspire.”
- Lord of the Mysteries. J.R.R Tolkien is known for his literary prowess. Among creating whole fictional languages, writing poetry, and various novels, he was also adept at creating riddles.
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One of these such ways is with the use of riddle. From ancient and modern African societies to modern civilizations in the East and West, riddles about death have truly left an impression on the ways that we all view and rationalize death.
Feb 5, 2024 · Brace yourself for a deadly challenge with our collection of 101+ chilling death riddles that will test your wit to the grave—and beyond! Don't worry, we've dug up the answers for you too! Cryptic Conundrums: The Ultimate Death Riddles Collection (Editor's Pick) Riddle: Rows of stones and silent homes; under sun and moon, they rest alone ...
- A Hobbit Head Scratcher
- The Mad Hatter's Dirty Trick
- Oedipus's Complex Problem
- A Harry Potter Puzzler
- Guarded Truths
- James Joyce Goes Deep
- The One That Started It All
- Think Hard
- Plato's Ancient Head-Scratcher
- Einstein's Fishy Puzzle
Anyone who’s gotten lost in Middle-earth knows that J.R.R. Tolkien loved a logic puzzle. The riddle competition between Bilbo Baggins and Gollum inThe Hobbitserves up several mind-bending morsels, the trickiest of which might be:
One of the most famous literary riddles in literature is also the most frustrating ... because it came without an answer! In Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, the Mad Hatter poses this puzzle to Alice:
In Sophocles’s Oedipus Rex, the title character must answer to the Sphinx to save his own life and continue his journey to Thebes. Spoiler: he nails it. The monster asks:
The Harry Potter series is teeming with playful language and cleverness, so it’s only right that a juicy riddle made its way into the series. In The Goblet of Fire, J.K. Rowling gives a nod to the Sphinx by putting one in the maze during the Triwizard Tournament. Harry is tasked with cracking this puzzle:
The riddle was coined by mathematician Raymond Smullyan and goes by many names—“A Fork in the Road,” “Heaven and Hell,” and “The Two Doors,” among them. It is probably most well known for having a role in the 1986 movie Labyrinth. Here’s the basic idea: You’re met with a choice between two identical doors with an identical guard at each. One door l...
In Ulysses, Stephen Dedalus poses a riddle to his pupils. A word to the wise: Don’t spend too much time trying to work this one out.
There is debate over who wrote the first riddle, but the ancient civilization of Sumer is certainly responsible for one of them. Sumerians’ contribution to the legacy of logic problems:
Another oldie-but-goodie originated in 18th-century England, though you might know it from Die Hardwith a Vengeance.
In The Republic, the philosopher Plato referencesa famous Greek riddle credited to someone named Panarces:
The so-called “Eistein’s Riddle” asks a simple question: “Who owns the fish?” It may not have been written by Einstein—sometimes it’s attributed to Lewis Carroll, and it’s highly likely that neither of them wrote it at all. Occasionally, some versions feature other animals, like zebras, instead of fish. But regardless of its origins, this riddle is...
Aug 20, 2014 · By Dr Oliver Tearle (Loughborough University) One of the most celebrated tragedies of ancient Greece was Oedipus Rex, Sophocles’ play about the Theban king who unwittingly killed his father and married his mother. In order to become King of Thebes, Oedipus had had to solve a famous riddle – or should that be riddles? Oedipus was…
Most surviving ancient Greek riddles are in verse. Though there may already have been anthologies of riddles written down in the Hellenistic period, these do not survive. [4] By far the largest extant collection of Antique Greek riddles is Book 14 of the Greek Anthology , as preserved in Codex Parisianus suppl. Graecus 384, which contains about ...
