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Riddle

“Riddle me this! I cannot be bought, but I can be stolen with one glance. I'm worthless to one
but priceless to two.”

The Riddler (Mad City : New Day Rising)

You’ve probably heard of this if your familiar with the fictional character Batman. One of
Batman’s rival is very obsessed with riddles, which fits his villainous identity which is The
Riddler. He’ll make an obscene and horrifiying where Batman has to guess the riddles he had
made or else something unwanted will happen.

Definiton
But what is this so called riddle??
A riddle is a mystifying, misleading, or puzzling question posed as a problem to be solved or
guessed. Most of the times riddles is used amongst kids as entertainment, but it does have
some appeal to it even if you aren’t a kid.

Riddles can be a question with a quick witty answer. They can be just a sentence that makes
you have a sudden realization. A riddle could also be defined as a statement, question, or
phrase that has a double meaning.

Types
There are 2 type of riddles, such as :
An enigma is a problem in which the solution is expressed metaphorically. You have to
carefully think about the riddle to come up with the solution.

A conundrum is a question that opens either the question or the answer.

A riddle, however, doesn’t need to be classified as one of these types. As long as it is difficult
to figure out and has an answer or a meaning to it, it can be classified as a riddle. Today
riddles aren’t used as much as they were in ancient times, but they remain a definite way to
get your mind working.
History
Riddles came from old English poetry. Their literary ancestry dates all the way back
to Plato and Aristotle. In ancient Greece, riddles were used as a cunning tool, to demonstrate
wit and wisdom.

Writers in poetry also began expressing themselves through riddles. When a poem contains a
riddle, the reader’s mind can be stimulated and the writer can successfully get their message
across in a more interesting way. Some poetry even has answers to it that you had to riddle
out.

Examples

1. Three eyes have I, all in a row; when the red one opens, all freeze.” The answer is
traffic light.
2. “What animal walks on all fours in the morning, two in the afternoon and three in the
evening?” The answer is man, since he crawls as a child then walks and uses a cane
when he gets older.
3. What does “Mill + Walk + Key=” The answer is Milwaukee.
4. “What gets wetter and wetter the more it dries?” A towel of course.
5. “No sooner spoken than broken. What is it?” It is silence.