Nothing can beat puzzles when you want a productive way to pass time. It not only gives you the ability to test your worth but also helps to keep your mind sharp and keep your though process clear. For the interested people, the world is full of riddles, teasers and problems. Depending on your choice, you get various levels of puzzles starting form easy to simply unsolvable.

Riddles are a special subset of puzzles involving words. They are often posed as statements or phrases with concealed and hazy significance. Together, they will indicate a mystery which can be solved by evaluating and carefully interpreting the hidden meanings, double meanings, metaphors and puns. The abstractness and the deviation from the normal way of thinking make the riddles very difficult to solve. The interesting part is that sometimes the solution just comes out of you spontaneously. If it doesn’t happen this way, you need to do a lot of guesswork, elimination sequences and permutations to arrive at the solution. The second method is time consuming and mind bending and people generally give up much before the solution is found out.

Another important part is how you approach the problem or the mystery. Once you are regular in the world of riddles, your mind is taught to evaluate the things in a different way. They get introduced to sequences and patterns and they tend to identify the keywords from the whole set of the words. This guides them towards the right path. Riddles are the art of thinking outside the box. You need to evaluate the words and the meanings from a different paradigm.

With the above information in mind, you are invited to test your problem solving skills with a set of 12 interesting riddles. The degree of difficulty varies from easy to difficult. Whatever they may be, they are guaranteed to give your brain a good exercise.

If you liked the riddles, please share this with your near and dear ones to see if they are able to solve these riddles.

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Author: Technology and Beyond