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helenislovely
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History of Riddles
« on: Dec 21st, 2005, 10:19am » |
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I posted this in the wrong place before - doh While I have lots of great books listing riddles from logic puzzles to maths, I am really looking for a book which discusses the history and context of riddles. Something with examples from the sphinx through Anglo-Saxon poetic word play on to current lateral thinking web and newspaper puzzles. I've done various google/ amazon searches but can't seem to find anything general/ for the lay reader. Anyone got any suggestions? Thanks
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helenislovely
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Re: History of Riddles
« Reply #2 on: Dec 22nd, 2005, 1:44am » |
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Thanks Towr, you're fab. The first one looks like the one for me and there's a second hand copy available on uk amazon. Also searching with a name helped more than the frustrating results I was getting on 'history' and led me to this: http://www.wgbh.org/pages/pri/spirit/shows/087bibl.html (Just in case you are interested as well as being helpful!) Now I just have to source all the books on that site...
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towr
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Re: History of Riddles
« Reply #3 on: Dec 22nd, 2005, 2:04am » |
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Hehe, that was one fo the first sites I found, and based on that I searched amazon for "mark bryant"
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Wikipedia, Google, Mathworld, Integer sequence DB
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Re: History of Riddles
« Reply #4 on: Jan 20th, 2006, 6:35am » |
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Here is a chronology: http://anduin.eldar.org/~problemi/singmast/recchron.html
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