Thesaurus / riddle
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MANY BUSINESSES THOUGHT THEY WERE INSURED FOR A PANDEMIC. THEY WEREN’T. (EP. 437)STEPHEN J. DUBNEROCTOBER 29, 2020FREAKONOMICSThe riddle was reported August 14 in Physical Review Letters.
THE EXOTIC ‘ATOM’ POSITRONIUM SURPRISES SCIENTISTSEMILY CONOVERSEPTEMBER 23, 2020SCIENCE NEWS FOR STUDENTSJust as the denominator in the original riddle was 53, here it was N3.
CAN YOU BREAK A VERY EXPENSIVE CENTRIFUGE?ZACH WISSNER-GROSSSEPTEMBER 18, 2020FIVETHIRTYEIGHTSounds like the makings of another riddle…Congratulations to Tobias Tapirello of Budapest, Hungary, winner of last week’s Riddler Classic.
CAN THE HARE BEAT THE TORTOISE?ZACH WISSNER-GROSSJULY 17, 2020FIVETHIRTYEIGHTTo solve the riddle, Hofgartner and his colleagues revisited data from the Arecibo Observatory in Puerto Rico, the Green Bank Observatory in West Virginia and the Cassini spacecraft.
FLAT SPOTS ON SATURN’S MOON TITAN MAY BE THE FLOORS OF ANCIENT LAKE BEDSLISA GROSSMANJUNE 16, 2020SCIENCE NEWSMen of science strove to read the riddle of life; to guide and to succour their fellow creatures.
GOD AND MY NEIGHBOURROBERT BLATCHFORDTo him who flees love, its nature is explicable; to you, who are still under its influence, it remains a riddle.
CHAUCER'S WORKS, VOLUME 1 (OF 7) -- ROMAUNT OF THE ROSE; MINOR POEMSGEOFFREY CHAUCERIt was on them that I began to spell out those signs which to the learned reveal a few faint traces of the Mighty Riddle.
MARGUERITEANATOLE FRANCEThe dossier is not complete, but, such as it is, it furnishes a riddle in which the supernatural appears to play a part.
A THIN GHOST AND OTHERSM. R. (MONTAGUE RHODES) JAMESI like secrets—especially those which concern women—well enough to have amused myself by seeking the clue to the riddle.
AT THE SIGN OF THE CAT AND RACKETHONORE DE BALZACWORDS RELATED TO RIDDLE
- abstruseness
- brainteaser
- braintwister
- charade
- chiller
- cliffhanger
- closed book
- conundrum
- crux
- cryptogram
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- sphinx
- stickler
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- thriller
- tough nut to crack
- twister
- whodunit
- why
- abstruseness
- brainteaser
- braintwister
- charade
- chiller
- cliffhanger
- closed book
- conundrum
- crux
- cryptogram
- difficulty
- enigma
- grabber
- inscrutability
- inscrutableness
- mindboggler
- mystification
- occult
- oracle
- poser
- problem
- puzzle
- puzzlement
- puzzler
- question
- rebus
- riddle
- rune
- secrecy
- sixty-four thousand dollar question
- sphinx
- stickler
- stumper
- subtlety
- teaser
- thriller
- tough nut to crack
- twister
- whodunit
- why
- abstruseness
- brainteaser
- braintwister
- charade
- chiller
- cliffhanger
- closed book
- conundrum
- crux
- cryptogram
- difficulty
- enigma
- grabber
- inscrutability
- inscrutableness
- mindboggler
- mystification
- occult
- oracle
- perplexity
- poser
- problem
- puzzle
- puzzlement
- question
- rebus
- riddle
- rune
- secrecy
- sixty-four thousand dollar question
- sphinx
- stickler
- stumper
- subtlety
- teaser
- thriller
- tough nut to crack
- twister
- whodunit
- why
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