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Riddle

A riddle is a statement, question, or phrase having a double or veiled meaning, put forth as a puzzle to be solved. Riddles are of two types: enigmas, which are problems generally expressed in metaphorical or allegorical language that require ingenuity and careful thinking for their solution, and conundrums, which are questions relying for their effects…

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Riddle-contests

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related to In modern literature · 44
Riddle → At, Aum, Batman, Beware, Bilbo, Bilbo Baggins, Blaine, Blaine's, Bran, Caithnard, College, Dark Tower III, Eddie Dean, Glass, Gollum, Gollum's, Hed, In, In Patricia, In Stephen King's The
related to Hebrew, Arabic and Persian · 35
Riddle → Ahikar, Al-Andalus, Arabic, Arabic-speaking, Aramaic Story, Bible, Dunash, Ezra, Hebrew, Immanuel, In, Islamic Persian, Israel Onceneyra, Judah Halevi, Judges, Kings, Labrat, Meanwhile, Moses, Other Hebrew-writing
related to Definitions · 17
Riddle → Alan Dundes, Aristotle, Defining, Dundes, For, Gaston Paris, Georges, In, Nothing, Robert, Robert Petsch, Russian, Some, The, There, Western, Whereas
related to South Asia · 16
Riddle → Accordingly, Atharvaveda, Daṇḍin's, Hymn, It, Kāvyādarśa, Rama's, Rigveda, Sanskrit, Sanskrit Rigveda, Taylor, The, These, Vedic, Vishvamitra, Who
related to Mesopotamia · 15
Riddle → Akkadian, Ancient Sumer, BCE, Due, Edmund, Gordon, Hebrew, In Babylon, Its, Many, Martin Jäger, Some, The, The Sumerian, Theorized
related to Africa · 14
Riddle → Africa, African, Anthropological, Busoga, Grivas Muchineripi Kayange, Hamnett, He, Lessons, Makerere University, Riddle Performance, Riddles, Societal Discourses, Wambi Cornelius Gulere, Yoruba
related to International riddles · 14
Riddle → Antti Aarne, Borrowing, European-focused, Ewe, Key, Kofi Dorvlo, Logba, Many, Marshall Islands, On, Sphinx, The, This, Western
related to Featherless bird-riddle · 12
Riddle → An English, And, Central Europe, Flew, King's, Lord John, Paradise, Perched, The, Took, Up, White
related to In ancient, medieval, and folk literature · 11
Riddle → Aarne, AT, Correspondingly, In, Judge, Not Solve, Outriddling, Such, The Princess Who Can, They, Thompson
see also · 11
Riddle → Anglo-Saxon, Arabic, Chinese, DroodlesMissing, Finnic, Greek, Hebrew, Persian, Riddles, SphinxRumpelstiltskinRiddles, St IvesEnigmata Eusebii

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Riddleis astatement0.90text
Riddleis atraditional verbal expression which contains one or more descriptive elements0.90text
Riddleis akey witness to the linguistic transition from Latin to Romance0.90text
Daṇḍin's seventh- or eighth-century Kāvyādarśa.Early narrative literature also sometimes includes riddlesinstance ofriddles are treated in early studies of Sanskrit poetry0.80text
most notably the Mahabharatainstance ofriddles are treated in early studies of Sanskrit poetry0.80text
which includes the Yaksha Prashnainstance ofriddles are treated in early studies of Sanskrit poetry0.80text
a series of riddles posed by a nature-spiritinstance ofriddles are treated in early studies of Sanskrit poetry0.80text
the Shahnamehinstance ofRiddles are attested in anthologies of poetry and in prosimetrical portrayals of riddle-contests in Arabic maqāmāt and in Persian epics0.80text
meadinstance ofoften musing on complex processes of manufacture when describing artefacts0.80text
a peninstance ofwhile Jonathan Swift composed at least eight verse riddles on themes0.80text
goldinstance ofwhile Jonathan Swift composed at least eight verse riddles on themes0.80text
and the privyinstance ofwhile Jonathan Swift composed at least eight verse riddles on themes0.80text

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