Can You Solve This Old-Timey Riddle? #31
The book might have been intended for children, but some of the riddling poems it contained were surprisingly complicated, ...
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‘Isle of Ever’ Review: An Inheritance, a Puzzle and Pirates Too
When 12-year-old Everly Benedict (Benny ... In Jen Calonita’s “Isle of Ever,” Benny has two weeks to solve a series of riddles left by an ancestor from the 1800s; otherwise she will lose ...
The Washington Post14d
An adventure tale for puzzle lovers and Indiana Jones fans alike
It’s not the first time a burning desire to comprehend millennia-old writing has led to a heated contest. Joshua Hammer’s engaging new book, “The Mesopotamian Riddle,” chronicles the 1857 ...
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Can You Solve This Old-Timey Riddle? #30
In 1876, a collection of Puzzles and Oddities was published in New York, compiled by the author Mary Dawson. The book was a compilation of brainteasers that had either been previously published in ...