This decidedly cryptic riddle is a word game taken from a New Collection of Enigmas, Charades, Transpositions, and &c., published in London in 1806. This particular puzzle is a charade-style game, and ...

The New York Times’ most popular piece of content in 2013 wasn’t an article — it was, of course, its now famous dialogue quiz. The quiz, published Dec. 21 of that year, was also the paper’s third most ...

The book contained several hundred riddles, acrostic puzzles, and other word games, including dozens of poetic “charades”—riddling challenges in which the reader is tasked with identifying a word when ...