Submitted by: Jason Bacot
Are you one of those who loves working on crossword puzzles? If so, more than likely you would get just as much satisfaction out of trying to figure out the answers to tricky riddles. Before you rush off and start tying though, let me warn you that they are not easy, especially if it is your first time trying to solve one.
Just because you happen to be great at getting every answer correct in the crossword puzzles you do every day, does not mean that you will experience the same success when it comes to hard riddles. After all, you have been working on them forever, and you have come to understand what the writers of these highly engaging pieces are looking for.
It would probably be best if you started with the easy riddles, and then gradually tried to work your way up to the real brain teasers. Each riddle, just like each crossword puzzle, presents its own set of difficulties. So, it will take you some time to figure out all the little secretes that there are to solving them.
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To be able to consistently get riddle answers correct, you are going to have to learn how to think like the people that write them. In other words, you are going to have to get inside of their brains, and figure out what makes them tick. Once you do that, you will next have to learn how to read a riddle properly.
When you first start trying to come up with the right answer, you will more than likely not be reading the riddles correctly. Each and every word that is in a riddle is there for a reason, and it is your job to figure what that reason is.
So, when you first start working on them, you have to slow down and read every word very carefully. Next, you then have to come to understand why each word is in the riddle. Finally, you must think about how each word relates to all the other words in it. Only when you are able to accomplish everything mentioned above, will you ever have even the smallest chance of being able to come up with the correct answer for the easiest riddles.
After you are able to overcome most of the simple ones rather quickly, only then will it be time for you move up to the big time and start working on the really difficult ones. The people that write these riddles are smart, some people might even think of them as geniuses, because they are so devious, while at the same time being so straightforward.
If it sounds like trying to solve riddles is a great deal of fun, it is, and there are millions upon millions of people that get their kicks doing it every day. If you have a little free time in the future, why not try your hand at coming up with the answers for these brain teasers. Who knows, you just might be the next one that falls in love with these little beauties from another planet.
About the Author: Jason Bacot – Are the
Riddles
you’re used to solving a little too easy for you? If so, I suggest you check out our newer and harder
Riddle List
online at iRiddles.org, where they are much harder.
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