A question or statement intentionally phrased to require ingenuity in ascertaining its answer or meaning, frequently used as a game or pastime; an…
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| 释义 | society > leisure > entertainment > toy or plaything > puzzle > [noun] > other word puzzles (22) riddleOE A question or statement intentionally phrased to require ingenuity in ascertaining its answer or meaning, frequently used as a game or pastime; an… logogriph1598 A kind of enigma, in which a certain word, and other words that can be formed out of all or any of its letters, are to be guessed from synonyms… rebus1605 A cryptic representation of a word or phrase by pictures, symbols, arrangement of letters, etc., which suggest the word or phrase, or the… name-device1631 a rebus. telesticha1637 A (usually short) poem or other composition in which the final letters of the lines, taken in order, spell a word, phrase, or sentence. Cf. acrostic… lipogram1711 A composition from which the writer rejects all words that contain a certain letter or letters. charade1776 A kind of riddle in which each syllable of a word, or a complete word or phrase, is enigmatically described, or (now more usually) dramatically… conundrum1790 A riddle in the form of a question the answer to which involves a pun or play on words: called in 1769 conundrumical question. logogram1820 = logogriph, n. anagrams?1860 In plural. Any of various games in which players rearrange the letters of a word, phrase, or name to make another word, phrase, or name. acrostic1861 Any of various types of word puzzle in which a word or phrase is formed from certain letters of the answers to several clues; spec. (in later use) =… metagram1867 A word game involving letter-substitution; spec. one in which one word is transformed into another by a series of stages, each of which involves… word square1867 a set of words of the same number of letters arranged in a square so as to read the same horizontally or vertically; a puzzle in which such a set of… verbarian1872 A word game in which players compete to see who can form the most words from the letters of a given word. Obsolete. jumble-letters1899 letters of a word thrown into disorder in order to exercise ingenuity in their proper re-arrangement. word ladder1928 a puzzle in which a given word is to be converted into another by way of a series of words each formed by changing just one letter of its predecessor… Double-Crostic1934 the name for a type of word-puzzle (proprietary in the U.S.) in which the text of a famous quotation or literary passage is built up on a… word search1957 a puzzle in which the object is to find hidden words, typically within a grid of apparently jumbled letters. hangman1961 A game in which one player attempts to guess the word or phrase chosen by the other by proposing one letter at a time, each incorrect letter causing… Subcategories:— specific part (1) — word to be guessed in acrostic poem (1) — propounding of a riddle or riddles (1) |
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