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« 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?  
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« Reply #1 on: Dec 21st, 2005, 3:48pm »
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Maybe
Riddles: Ancient and Modern
Dictionary of Riddles
They're the closest thing I found so far googling. Unfortunately neither are readily available anymore (although perhaps you can find either in a library)
 
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« 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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« 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" Grin
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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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