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Dan Brown is an American Novelist and is one of the most read authors living today. All of his novels are treasure hunts that involve a series of riddles that must be solved in a day's time. All of his books are heavily based on codes, cryptology, and conspiracy theories as well. His most popular novels are focused on Robert Langdon, a professor at Harvard University: Angels and Demons , The Da Vinci Code , The Lost Symbol , and Inferno . In all of these novels he must follow secret societies......read more

Edgar Allan Poe was an American poet, author, and editor. He lived from 1809 to 1849, dying at the young age of 40. He is best known for being a part of the American Romantic Movement. He was also one of the pioneers of short stories and the detective fiction genre. This genre goes hand in hand with riddles, puzzles, and mysteries. Aside from his own writings Poe loved puzzles, ciphers, and really all riddles. He thought of himself as a genius who could solve any kind of puzzle and do it more......read more

Like most people know, World of Warcraft is the largest massively multiplayer online role-playing game by subscribers , but the world of Guild Wars 2 boasts numbers about half of that of WoW . Guild Wars 2 also has another very interesting feature for a MMORPG, the world is responsive to a players action. This is very hard to do because of the huge flexibility needed for such a feature in a MMORPG compared to a single-player game. This continuation of the original Guild Wars is a fun and uniq......read more

The magical world depicted in the Harry Potter series is filled with fantasy and intrigue to keep the readers captivated. Included in the chapters of these novels are riddles and puzzles that act as clues, reveal secrets, and provide whimsy. In Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire, for example, Harry must solve a clue sung to him by an egg he retrieves in the first challenge of the Triwizard tournament. In case you don't have this riddle memorized, here's how it goes: Come seek us where our vo......read more

In our previous post, Riddles of Harry Potter, we discussed some of the cool riddles and riddle-esk puzzles presented in some of the Harry Potter books and films. Well, we found more! For fans of the series, you probably know the answer to most of these, but go ahead and test your knowledge anyway and see how true a fan you really are. In the third book, Prisoner of Azkaban, Professor Trelawney gives a prophecy related to the Dark Lord and the one who will bring him back. The prophecy leaves ......read more

How can somebody be famous throughout the world and be known by almost everybody while still maintaining such mystery around themselves such that nobody even knows when or where they lived. We do think Homer lived in the 8th century BC, although it is possible he lived earlier. Homer, who was the greatest of all of the Greek epic poets, has achieved this level of fame and mystery. He is known for his epics the Iliad and the Odyssey. Even with his work's vast popularity and the large amount of......read more

Jane Austen was an English novelist who has become extremely popular for her novels, including 'Sense and Sensability' and 'Pride and Prejudice'. She wrote these novels between 1811 and 1818. A lesser known fact about her is that she wrote a lot of great riddles. The riddles she wrote could also be called charades; in the past charades could also mean a riddle in verse or prose. Most of the charades she wrote were written one syllable at a time. Each syllable was described separately in the r......read more

Starring Nicolas Cage, National Treasure was released in 2004. It is the story of Ben Gates and his journey to find the national treasure hidden by the Freemasons. Along his way, from the very beginning, his path is laden with difficult riddles that he must solve to find the treasure before his enemies do. When he is a kid his grandfather gives him a riddle to spark his interest in the hunt for the treasure:The secret lies with CharlotteEarly in the movie we find out what this means. Ben goes......read more

National Treasure 2: Book of Secrets is a 2007 film and the sequel to the popular original National Treasure. Although the sequel wasn't originally planned, the first movie of the series did so well that they approved this sequel. The sequel achieved more popularity than the original, out-selling it in just over a month. Ben Gates is back and he has to clear his family's name from their association with the Abraham Lincoln assassination after Mitch Wilkinson reveals an old diary page making t......read more

Neil Gaiman is a popular modern writer of novels, graphic novels, and short stories. He has received a large amount of awards for these works including the Carnegie and Newbery medals for the same novel, The Graveyard Book. He was born in 1960 in Portchester, Hampshire, England. Growing up he was a bright child and learned to read and enjoy books at a very young age. Other than this his education was fairly plain. His great writing skills are the result of years of hard work and practice. One......read more

Plato was a man of science who lived in the 300's and 400's BC. He was mentored by Socrates and taught Aristotle at his institute for higher learning, simply called the Academy. When tracing back almost any branch of science, literature, philosophy, or mathematics it is hard not to arrive at Plato at some point. The primary modern application of his works is in philosophy though. Like many Greek men of logic, Plato recognized the great importance of riddles in society. He saw that they were a......read more

Since our first Pokémon riddle article was such a success we have decided to make a part two! The first can be found here. In this article we explored the many puzzles and riddles from the Nintendo games, and we didn't forget about the anime.In the 58th episode of the show, entitled "Riddle Me This," Ash, Brock and Misty head to Cinnabar Island to face a gym leader. One of the locals tells them a riddle to find the gym, but when they arrive to the gym it has been shut down. After this disappo......read more

William Shakespeare is often regarded as the greatest writer in the English language. Throughout his career he wrote/co-wrote about 38 plays and acted making a name for himself. Currently his plays are performed more often and in more languages than any other playwright ever. He wrote his plays about a variety of subject matter and themes making them widely relateable. One less known and studied aspects of his plays is the many riddles he tells in them. In many of his plays there are riddles ......read more

Sherlock Holmes is a fictional detective originally from a literary series written by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle between 1887 and 1927. Since the novels and short stories came out the series has spawned several plays, TV series, and movies. Most recently and famously, Sherlock Holmes was played by Robert Downey Jr in the 2011 film Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows. He is probably the most famous and well known detective of our time . Everything he does and the reason he is so great at solving cr......read more

The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim was a massively popular role playing game published by Bethesda Softworks, released on November 11, 2011. It was the fifth installment in The Elder Scrolls video game series. The non-linear game play gives the players and the developers of the game a lot of freedom. Although not extremely important to the story, the game is riddled with riddles.Throughout the game there are several books of riddles that can be picked up. Two of these books are The Yellow Book of Ri......read more

Socrates was a great Greek Philosopher who lived from 469 BC to 399 BC. His life and his ideas mark one of the most drastic transformations in philosophical ideals in human history. Before him there had been an array of other philosophers in Greek society but they all had different ideologies. These varying philosophies did not survive nearly as well as Socrates' own, especially since a lot of his own ideas still survive to this day. The train of thought often regarded as being the first is t......read more

Stephen King is a great contemporary writer of novels like "The Shining" and "Pet Cemetery". He has sold millions of copies of his novels and many of them have been adapted into movies. Aside from writing great novels, he also writes a good riddle. Here is one of his riddles from the Dark Tower series:Not chest or box is now discussed. Money can be held in it, but just as we test its metal, within it there is rust.The answer to this riddle is trust. This riddle is a part of the riddle competi......read more

Riddles have been used throughout history as a test of many of the greatest men, both real and mythical, to prove that they are not only men of great physical prowess and pride; but also that they have mental superiority over their peers. In the bible, like many religious texts, riddles are posed by God and many God-like men to test people and expose their vices. One simple riddle from the bible that is somewhat on the lighter note : Three things are never satisfied; four never say, "Enough":......read more

The Da Vinci Code is a novel from 2003 written by Dan Brown that was adapted into a movie in 2006 starring Tom Hanks and directed by Ron Howard. The story is about Professor Robert Langdon and his search for the Holy Grail. As it goes in the novel and movie, Leonardo Da Vinci was a part of a secret society that was responsible for keeping the Holy Grail safe, but he left many clues to its location in his art. The novel and movie are full of riddles that the professor must solve in order to fi......read more

Ancient Greece was an ancient civilization that lasted from the 8th century BC to the seventh century AD. This civilization flourished and spread for centuries and was a mecca for intellectuals and artists. Most of our modern day philosophy, logic, mathematics, and literature is heavily based on ideas that were conceptualized by citizens of Ancient Greece. One niche aspect of study that these Greeks were enthused about and embraced is riddles. Many great Greeks loved, studied, and wrote riddl......read more