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Message: <blockquote data-quote="sjmiller" data-source="post: 5381904" data-attributes="member: 17262">Merkuri, those last three you gave are what my group of enigmatologists usually call logic puzzles. The person asking the puzzle is expecting the recipient to ask additional questions to come to a logical conclusion. For us, riddles are where a person gives an enigmatic or obscuring description of something and the recipient of the riddle should be able to garner the answer just from the description in the riddle. The riddle does not have to rhyme, though many of the famous ones do. A riddle is generally self contained, needing no further information.Here's an example of a classic rhyming riddle.Old Mother Twitchett had but one eye,And a long tail which she let fly.And every time she went over a gap,She left a bit of her tail in a trap.I will have to dig out my books (we write down all the ones we use) in order to find one that is a classic non-rhyming riddle.</blockquote>