Brain teaser riddles

Category has various types of riddles, which are interesting to work on as well as good way to sharpen the mind. Riddle is basically a statement or question or phrase having a double or veiled meaning, put forth as a puzzle to be solved.

There are two types of riddles:

1. Enigmas: These are problems generally expressed in metaphorical or allegorical language that require ingenuity and careful thinking for their solution
2. Conundrums: These are questions relying for their effects on punning in either the question or the answer.

Riddle puzzle game

The Riddle Game is a formalized guessing game, a contest of wit and skill in which players take turns asking riddles. The player that cannot answer loses.

Riddle games occur frequently in mythology and folklore as well as in popular literature.

For example, a riddle game plays a key role in various versions of Turandot, an Italian opera. The suitors need to answer all three questions to gain the Princess's hand, or else they are beheaded - In Puccini's opera Turandot grimly warns Calaf 'The riddles are three, but Death is one'.

Riddles in poetic form:

Riddles have a distinguished literary ancestry, although the contemporary sort of conundrum that passes under the name of "riddle" may not make this obvious.

Charades:

    I talk, but I do not speak my mind
    I hear words, but I do not listen to thoughts
    When I wake, all see me
    When I sleep, all hear me
    Many heads are on my shoulders
    Many hands are at my feet
    The strongest steel cannot break my visage
    But the softest whisper can destroy me

The answer for the above riddle is "an actor"