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  1. riddles

    A riddle is a statement, question or phrase having a double or veiled meaning, put forth as a puzzle to be solved. Riddles are of two types: enigmas, which are problems generally expressed in metaphorical or allegorical language that require ingenuity and careful thinking for their solution, and conundra, which are questions relying for their effects on punning in either the question or the answer. Archer Taylor says that "we can probably say that riddling is a universal art" and cites riddles from hundreds of different cultures including Finnish, Hungarian, American Indian, Chinese, Russian, Dutch and Filipino sources amongst many others. Many riddles and riddle-themes are internationally widespread. In the assessment of Elli Köngäs-Maranda (originally writing about Malaitian riddles, but with an insight that has been taken up more widely), whereas myths serve to encode and establish social norms, "riddles make a point of playing with conceptual boundaries and crossing them for the intellectual pleasure of showing that things are not quite as stable as they seem" — though the point of doing so may still ultimately be to "play with boundaries, but ultimately to affirm them".

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  1. Riddles

    "Riddles" is the 126th episode of Star Trek: Voyager, the sixth episode of the sixth season. Roxann Dawson makes her directorial debut.

Surnames Frequency by Census Records

  1. RIDDLES

    According to the U.S. Census Bureau, Riddles is ranked #32396 in terms of the most common surnames in America.

    The Riddles surname appeared 710 times in the 2010 census and if you were to sample 100,000 people in the United States, approximately 0 would have the surname Riddles.

    72.1% or 512 total occurrences were White.
    21.8% or 155 total occurrences were Black.
    2.6% or 19 total occurrences were American Indian or Alaskan Native.
    1.6% or 12 total occurrences were of two or more races.

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Numerology

  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of riddles in Chaldean Numerology is: 4

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of riddles in Pythagorean Numerology is: 8

Examples of riddles in a Sentence

  1. Amit Re’em:

    We’re asking to continue excavating, this is a place with a lot of riddles.

  2. Nicholas Negroponte:

    Marvin talked in riddles that made perfect sense, were always profound and often so funny that you would find yourself laughing days later, his genius was so self-evident that it defined 'awesome,'.

  3. Gregory Nunn:

    A writer is a person who has solutions for which there are no riddles.

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