riddle
noun
a question or statement so framed as to exercise one's ingenuity in answering it or discovering its meaning; conundrum.
riddler
-
a word derived from
riddle.
Example Sentences
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The Anglo-Latin riddler Tatwine — whose day job was archbishop of Canterbury — wrote these kinds of proto-cryptic aenigmata.
From New York Times ● Sep. 9, 2021
Johns is a riddler, even—or especially—when his themes are blatant.
From The New Yorker ● Feb. 25, 2019
Having toughened up and let his guard down a little more these days, The Wirral riddler is aiming to deliver some knockout performances this summer.
From BBC ● May 23, 2018
Indeed, the riddler is eventually referred to as the Riddler, with no apparent irony or pop-cultural enthusiasm.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 23, 2018
Each cygnet sweet, of Bath and Tunbridge race, Whose tuneful whistling makes the waters pass: Each songster, riddler, every nameless name, All crowd, who foremost shall be damn'd to fame.
From The Poetical Works of Alexander Pope, Volume 2 by George Gilfillan
