The New York Times’ most popular piece of content in 2013 wasn’t an article — it was, of course, its now famous dialogue quiz. The quiz, published Dec. 21 of that year, was also the paper’s third most ...

This decidedly cryptic riddle is a word game taken from a New Collection of Enigmas, Charades, Transpositions, and &c., published in London in 1806. This particular puzzle is a charade-style game, and ...

The book contained several hundred riddles, acrostic puzzles, and other word games, including dozens of poetic “charades”—riddling challenges in which the reader is tasked with identifying a word when ...