riddle
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When the anonymous clues take a spooky turn, Felix calls on an unlikely ally to help him solve the final riddle and bring the scavenger hunt to a close.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 12, 2026
A 48-46 defeat, settled by a France penalty with the clock in the red, only adds to the riddle.
From BBC ● Mar. 14, 2026
But the cyclops can’t solve the simplest of riddles and the increasingly exasperated maidens, who’ll be free once a riddle is solved, can’t get them to stop approaching the cave or from making terrible guesses.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 8, 2026
John Parker believes he has solved the riddle.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 3, 2026
"Try your luck! Step right up! Answer a simple riddle and win a wind-flower!"
From "Stardust" by Neil Gaiman
And that was before the surf zone became riddled with rocks, logs, rods, pipes and wires.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 22, 2026
Giles Mason, who runs the Take 5 to Stop Fraud campaign at UK Finance which represents the banking and finance industry, said scam emails used to be "riddled with spelling mistakes, poor grammar".
From BBC ● Sep. 18, 2026
The findings show that the system is riddled with procedural obstacles.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 16, 2026
SpaceX’s route to achieving its grand connectivity vision for Starlink is riddled with multibillion-dollar problems and would require decades’ worth of catching up, according to MoffettNathanson analysts.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 25, 2026
Baba’s brain on those pictures looked like cross sections of a big walnut, riddled with tennis ball—shaped gray things.
From "The Kite Runner" by Khaled Hosseini
Ireland wholeheartedly embraced the potato, riddling its soils with a vine that, when it is good, is very, very good, but when it goes bad, dies en masse.
From Seattle Times ● Mar. 8, 2023
He also served as a source for my notorious 1993 article “The Death of Proof,” which reported that “the doubts riddling modern human thought have finally infected mathematics.”
From Scientific American ● Sep. 15, 2019
He’s a difficult poet — allusive, riddling, satirical, strange.
From New York Times ● Nov. 22, 2016
In an attempt to reach out to four first-year cadets who seem particularly vulnerable, Gamache gives them each a copy of the riddling map and challenges them to crack its secrets.
From Washington Post ● Aug. 31, 2016
‘We have a work to do, and this is no time or place for riddling or parleying. Come! Where is the third of your company?’
From "The Two Towers" by J. R. R. Tolkien
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"Macbeth" Vocabulary from Act III
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Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets
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