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(Message started by: alien2 on Sep 21^st, 2013, 1:55am)

Title: The Wu Book of Riddles and Puzzles?
Post by alien2 on Sep 21^st, 2013, 1:55am

The RIDDLES SITE doesn't get updated anymore. I stumbled on The Big Book of Riddles, Puzzles and Enigmas. Is there a publishing house interested in publishing a similar book of well-known and newer riddles, which has foothold in Wu forums? Quite a few earthlings and aliens like riddles. Perhaps someone here has certain connections, like William? So he or somebody else could make a selection of riddles for the book, perhaps from various sources, with chapters like on Wu forums (Easy, Medium, Hard, What am I, etc.). Being a bit vain, I guess I would like some of my riddles to be proofread, polished and published. For about 200 copies, somebody would have to pay, I don’t know, minimum $500. So, who would contribute $30 or more? Are there poor riddlers on this forum? If so, a State might fund the book.

Title: Re: The Wu Book of Riddles and Puzzles?
Post by towr on Sep 21^st, 2013, 2:35am

With a print-on-demand service you wouldn't have to deal with a minimum size printing run (though it's a bit more expensive per book).
I think it would probably be an ungodly task to collect and rewrite puzzles from this forum/site for a book, though. Just finding a specific puzzle you're looking for is hard enough, let alone finding the good ones you can't recall.

Title: Re: The Wu Book of Riddles and Puzzles?
Post by goodRiddler on Nov 20^th, 2013, 9:11pm

If Wu got involved in the book he could find all of the riddles that had the most traffic and answers (which might be a good indicator of how good they are).