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    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...
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  • Riddle-tales are traditional stories featuring riddle-contests. They frequently provide the context for the preservation of ancient riddles for posterity...
    12 KB (934 words) - 09:47, 28 January 2024
  • Heiðreks saga) as part of a riddle-contest in which the god Óðinn, disguised as a man called Gestumblindi, propounds riddles to the saga's protagonist,...
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    the established structure of a riddle contest and ask a virtually impossible yet simply worded question instead of a riddle about an object or mythological...
    8 KB (1,009 words) - 13:55, 8 July 2024
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    Matthew Frederick Riddle (born January 14, 1986) is an American professional wrestler and former mixed martial artist. As of 2023[update], he is signed...
    107 KB (9,778 words) - 15:42, 18 July 2024
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    traditionally believed by Hindus to be the site where the brothers engaged in a riddle contest with the Yakshas, as described in the Yaksha Prashna. Another tradition...
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  • to solve it in under a minute. Due to this he wins the contest and is given a book of riddles as a prize. His cheating rewarded, Edward embraced the mastery...
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  • "Precious". He encountered Bilbo Baggins and lost the Ring to him in a riddle contest. Gollum attempted to murder Bilbo and reclaim the Ring, but Bilbo became...
    43 KB (4,974 words) - 05:25, 18 July 2024
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    the saga, Heiðrekr is killed after a riddle contest with Óðinn (who is disguised as Gestumblindi). The riddles of Hervarar saga ok Heiðreks are all in...
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    Gollum with his sword, and escapes by winning a peaceful battle, a riddle contest; Siegfried is led by Mime to the dragon's den, kills Fafner to save...
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  • question through a riddle-contest. Eighteen riddles follow, some of them true riddles and some wisdom-questions, including one biblical riddle. In Svend Vonved...
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  • intention to derail itself with them aboard unless they can defeat it in a riddle contest. Blaine and Roland's ka-tet speed through the Waste Lands, a radioactive...
    9 KB (1,188 words) - 08:02, 21 May 2024
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    ". Apollonius of Tyana. Bosman, Philip R. (2010). "The Gymnosophist Riddle Contest (Berol. P. 13044): A Cynic Text?". Greek, Roman, and Byzantine Studies...
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  • trip around the world in his "Ultra Riddle Contest" if they answer all five riddles. However most of the riddles are unanswerable and those who fail to...
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    The year-riddle is one of the most widespread, and apparently most ancient, international riddle-types in Eurasia. This type of riddle is first attested...
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    Eclogue 3 (category Riddles)
    A pair of riddles end the contest, which appear to be Virgil's innovation, since there is no parallel to them in Theocritus. These riddles have been much...
    37 KB (4,976 words) - 02:42, 19 March 2024
  • Riddles are historically a significant genre of Arabic literature. The Qur’an does not contain riddles as such, though it does contain conundra. But riddles...
    51 KB (6,439 words) - 19:11, 17 July 2024
  • published as part of a contest to win $10,000. Unlike other puzzle books, each page is involved in solving the book's riddle. Specifically, each page...
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  • narrative literature also sometimes includes riddles. The Mahabharata also portrays riddle-contests and includes riddles accordingly. For example, this portrays...
    13 KB (1,650 words) - 20:43, 26 February 2024
  • Flanken's son Jeffery to host a riddle contest to give away a free new car as publicity for the car lot. The winner of the contest has a username called "Trickster...
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