Riddle Game

The Riddle Game is a guessing game, a contest of wit and skill in which players take turns asking riddles. The player that cannot answer loses. Riddle games show up in both ancient mythology as well as in modern books. One example of a riddle-game in mythology is in a Norse myth, where the god Odin challenges King Heidrek to answer his riddles. This was influential on later literature. In J. R. R. Tolkien's The Hobbit, Gollum challenges Bilbo Baggins to a riddle competition for his life. Bilbo breaks "the ancient rules" of the game but is able to escape with Gollum's magic ring. As happens in the Norse tale, although Bilbo asked more of a simple question than a riddle, by attempting to answer it rather than challenging it Gollum accepted it as a riddle; by accepting it, his loss was binding. (Adapted from Wikipedia; Riddles)

Examples:

D. M.

AELIA LAELIA CRISPIS

NEC VIR NEC MULIER

NEC ANDROGYNA

NEC PUELLA NEC JUVENIS

NEC ANUS NEC CASTA

NEC MERETRIX NEC PUDICA

SED OMNIA

SUBLATA

NEQUE FAME NEQUE FERRO

NEQUE VENENO

SED OMNIBUS

NEC COELO NEC AQUIS

NEC TERRIS

SED UBIQUE JACET

LUCIUS AGATHO PRISCUS

NEC MARITUS NEC AMATOR

NEC NECESSARIUS

NEQUE MOERENS

NEQUE GAUDENS

NEQUE FLENS

HANC NEQUE MOLEM

NEC PYRAMIDEM

NEC SEPULCHRUM

SCIT ET NESCIT 

CUI POSUERIT

HOC EST SEPULCHRUM

INTUS CADAVER NON HABENS

HOC EST CADAVER SEPULCHRUM

EXTRA NON HABENS

SED CADAVER IDEM EST

ET SEPULCHRUM SIBI

TO THE GODS OF THE DEAD

Aelia Laelia Crispis,

Not man, nor woman, nor hermaphrodite;

Not girl, nor youth, nor old woman;

Not chaste, nor unchaste, nor modest;

But all [of these]:

Carried off,

Not by hunger, not by sword, nor by poison

But by all [of them]:

Lies,

Not in air, not in earth, not in the waters,

But everywhere.

Lucius Agatho Priscus,

Not her husband, nor her lover, nor her friend;

Not sorrowing, nor rejoicing, nor weeping;

Erecting

This, not a stone-pile, nor a pyramid,

Nor a sepulchre

But all:

Knows, and knows not,

To whom he erects it.

This is a tomb that has no body in it.

This is a body that has no tomb round it.

But body and tomb are the same.

:: The unsolved riddle of Bologna :: The Latin enigmatic inscription illustrated below was discovered, in the sixteenth century, upon a Roman tombstone near Bologna. It has obsessed and exercised the wits of many puzzlers for more than four hundred years to find out its meaning. Mario L. Michelangelo published a 410-page pamphlet on it at Venice, in 1548. In 1683, Count Carlo Cesare Malvasia in his work 'Aelia Laelia Crispis non nata resurgens in expositione legali' enumerates 43 attempted solutions of it. It has been thought to denote: rain, the soul, Niobe, Lot's wife, a child promised in marriage that died before its birth, etc. (source 'Bibliotheca Chemica', John Ferguson) Carl Gustav Jung dedicated a full chapter to this enigma in his 'Mysterium Conjunctionis'. The French writer Gerard de Nerval cited the enigma in two tales: 'Pandora' and 'Le Comte de Saint-Germain'. Until now, no univocal solution to this riddle and its puzzling antitheses has been found.

(Adapted from Ancient Puzzles)

The Sphinx's Riddle:

'What is that animal which in the morning goes on four feet, at noon goes on two, and in the evening goes on three feet?

Directions and Advice:

What is a riddle? A question that hints at the answer but requires ingenuity and logic to figure out.

 Please use at least 2 adjectives: 1 that declines 1st and 2nd declension and one that declines 3rd declension.

Site for advice: http://www.wikihow.com/Make-a-Riddle-About-an-Object

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objective: to practice describing with adjectives