This article was originally published on mentalfloss.com as Can You Solve This Old-Timey Riddle? #9.

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Prince Harry and Meghan Markle were recently at the centre of a scathing article from Vanity Fair, which included a number of brutal allegations. But perhaps the most shocking was the claim that a ...

The 400-year-old jail is offering a variety of experiences, including a self-guided tour with a free 'Catch the Convict' challenge.

This short scene conceals the names of 13 books published in the middle decades of the 20th century. See if you can find them ...