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Riddles are a global phenomenon. Riddles form a very important aspect of oral literature. You wouldn't know it if you read this article in its present state, hence the {{ limitedgeographicscope}} tag. — mark ✎ 22:14, 30 October 2005 (UTC)
I fleshed out the function of irddles in Anglo-Saxon culture. -MadMax —Preceding unsigned comment added by MadMaxBeyondThunderdome ( talk • contribs) 06:56, 5 October 2007 (UTC)
I don't understand the Boxers or Briefs?. Why is "Depends" wrong?
Didn't the queen of Sheba test Solomon with riddles? And there is also another by Samson.
There is indeed a riddle by Samson. But the Queen of Sheba came to test Solomon's wisdom with "hard questions," which may not be the same. Smerdis of Tlön 16:11, 14 Aug 2004 (UTC)
Can we be adult enough to not joke about homosexuality being something shameful or something to hide?
Trick question redirects to "riddle". This should not be the case, or at least the definition should be changed. A trick question is a very different thing from a riddle (not to mention a very different thing from a question designed to merely trick the one it's asked to). A riddle is a question designed to test the answerer's ability to see through confusing or disguised logic. A trick question is a question that, to be able to answer, one must automatically assume that a false statement is true, thus making the question impossible to answer correctly. Does anyone else think this way, or am I just making a fool of myself here? VolatileChemical 01:14, 17 March 2006 (UTC)
There's a note in a comment in the External links section that says external links are being reviewed on the discussion page, but I didn't see anything about them so went ahead and added one. Hope no one minds. -- Bookgrrl 04:55, 29 December 2006 (UTC)
The riddle on this page "A similarly deceptive riddling contest features prominently in Stephen King's The Dark Tower series, in which the protagonists win by asking the difference between a truck full of bowling balls and a truck full of woodchucks." doesn't offer the answer to the riddle, which is you can't use a pitchfork to unload the bowling balls. It seems sort of unfair on the reader to present the riddle but not answer it. While I know it is meant to be a trick riddle, because the answer is not at all obvious, but the riddle does have an answer and it seems to me that on a page about riddles that the answer should be put there. What do you guys think? JayKeaton 05:08, 17 May 2007 (UTC)
JoshuaCruzPhilippines 12:23, 12 August 2009 (UTC) —Preceding unsigned comment added by Mjcruz ( talk • contribs)
Both prophecy and sensus plenior are types of riddles wherein the literal meaning is not the intended meaning, where the intended meaning is hidden in double entendre and pun and where the answer must be known to discern the riddle rather than being able to solve it from the information contained in the riddle. Do you want examples? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 166.70.15.234 ( talk) 22:02, 25 October 2009 (UTC)
In the Ancestry section there is a reference to a work by Athenaeus called "epitome." This is not correct. An epitome is an abridgment of a work, in this case of a book of the Deipnosophistae. It is not a title.
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