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In the summer of 1940, just as the World War II blitz is about to begin, Jacob Novis, 19, and his sister, Lizzie, 14, are ...

Each story is filled with various battles, exciting cutscenes and the most random little puzzles that can often ... you need to make sure you answer the riddle correctly as it is also case-sensitive.

In 1915, however, she published a Handbook of Conundrums—a vast anthology of several hundred short question-and-answer-style riddles and logic puzzles. Many of Ordway’s riddles were based on p ...

LeBaron Russell Briggs published a collection called Riddles in Rhyme: Charades Old and New. The book contained over 120 puzzles in the form of verses, each one providing a set of syllable-by ...

In 1796, A Choice Collection of Riddles, Charades [and] Rebusses was ... proving just how popular such puzzles were at the time. The puzzles in this third volume were mainly those known as ...