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"Riddles Wisely Expounded" is a traditional English song, dating at least to 1450. It is Child Ballad 1 and Roud 161, and exists in several variants. [ 1 ] The first known tune was attached to it in 1719.
Title page of the riddles of Symphosius, from the late tenth- or early eleventh-century London, British Library, Royal MA 12 c xxiii folio 104r Symphosius (sometimes, in older scholarship and less properly, Symposius ) was the author of the Aenigmata , an influential collection of 100 Latin riddles , probably from the late antique period. [ 1 ]
Riddle-tales are traditional stories featuring riddle-contests. They frequently provide the context for the preservation of ancient riddles for posterity, and as such have both been studied as a narrative form in their own right, and for the riddles they contain. [1] Such contests are a subset of wisdom contests more generally.
In the competitive Greek societies, words were a primary locus of competition: there can be no doubt about the popularity of wordplay in the Greek world. Riddles shared in this popularity: sympotic riddles are particularly well attested--it seems there was no symposium without a fair number of riddles. The contest-riddle was a known form of ...
A riddle is a type of puzzle that is purely verbal, with a solution in words. Subcategories. This category has the following 4 subcategories, out of 4 total. F.
The initial members of the Touden Party (from left to right: Senshi, Marcille, Chilchuck, and Laios) as seen in the anime adaptation Laios Touden (ライオス・トーデン, Raiosu Tōden)
The Lorsch riddles, also known as the Aenigmata Anglica, [1] are a collection of twelve hexametrical, early medieval Latin riddles that were anonymously written in the ninth century. The absence of line breaks separating individual verses (among other things) [ 2 ] show that they are possibly of English origin. [ 3 ]
The Hardest Logic Puzzle Ever is a logic puzzle so called by American philosopher and logician George Boolos and published in The Harvard Review of Philosophy in 1996. [1] [2] Boolos' article includes multiple ways of solving the problem.