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riddle (RID'l) (noun)
1. A difficult question in a game or statement that requires thought to answer or to understand; a conundrum: Trudy loved to solve at least one riddle everyday.
2. Someone or something which is difficult to understand or to solve: Russell was constantly finding one riddle after another as he examined the history of science.
riddle (RID'l) (verb)
1. To pierce with numerous holes; to perforate: In order to stop the criminal from speeding away in a car, the police had to riddle the tires with bullets.
2. To fill something that is bad or unpleasant: It is obvious that the author did indeed riddle his book with one error after another.

Did the author riddle his riddle with irrational suggestions?

Well, Jacob is convinced that the solution to the riddle had one riddle after another one which resulted in too many false clues.


Here is an example of a riddle: What comes once in a minute, twice in a moment, but never in a thousand years? The letter "m".

Here's another riddle: What goes around and around the wood but never goes into the wood? The bark of a tree.

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(Greek ainigma > Latin aenigma: dark saying, riddle, fable; from ainissesthai, "to speak darkly, to speak in riddles")
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A Scriptural Riddle by Lucy King (dates of birth and death are unknown)
God made Adam out of dust,
But thought it best to make me first.
So I was made before the man,
To answer God's most holy plan.

This body He did make complete,
But without legs or arms or feet;
My ways and actions He did not control,
But I was born without a soul.

A living being I became;
'Twas Adam gave me my name;
When from his presence I withdrew,
I no more of Adam ever knew.

I did my Maker's laws obey;
From them I never went astray.
Thousands of miles I roamed in fear,
And seldom on the earth appear.

But God did something in me see,
And put a living soul in me,
A soul of me my God did claim,
And took from me that soul again.

And when from me that soul had fled,
I was the same as when first made;
And without hands, or feet, or soul,
I travel now from pole to pole.

I labor hard both day and night;
To fallen men I give great light;
Thousands of people, young and old,
May by my death great light behold.

To heaven I shall never go,
Nor to the grave, nor Hell below,
Now as these lines my friend you read,
Just search the Scriptures with great heed,
And if my name you do not find,
It's very strange; I guess you're blind.

More than a century ago, there resided in Beverly, Massachusetts, an elderly lady by the name of Lucy King, who was a student of the Scriptures. In the neighboring town of Taunton lived a merchant who had a reputation for successfully answering the most perplexing riddles.

One day, he offered a prize to Miss King if she could compose a riddle which he could not answer, the subject being taken from the Bible. She created the riddle shown above and won the prize.


—The solution to this riddle can be found by
going to the Bible and reading Genesis 1:21.
This entry is located in the following unit: Poetry, Proverbs, Quotes, and Statements of Faith (page 1)