Lorick: Riddles and Lore

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Think you can solve thrice-weekly riddles from mythology, folklore, history, and literature? Try this Lorick on for size: A tempestuous prince was misled by incestuous king, hast'ly wed there's a ghost, and a play, and soliloquies fey... in the end, nearly everyone's dead! Hint: his father ghosted him. Answer: Hamlet! Get it? Lorick's host? Me, Yorick! Most soliloquized skull of all time! If you're ready to match wits with a skeletal skald who wields riddles ranging from Alice to Apollo, Homer to Herodotus, and from Rapunzel to Ragnarok - then listen! E'en subscribe! If you dare...

  1. 18 JAN

    1565: #156 solved; Week 052 Wrapped with Se'nnightly Synopsis

    Yorick's weekend thoughts and the solution to Lorick #156: I'm polluted by mad filicide I cheat death, I make sons... wear a hide! Giants? I kill them. Pillars? I build them. I'm too strong for this world! - Deified.

    14 min

  2. 17 JAN

    1561: Clue #156, I'm polluted by mad filicide

    Does Lorick #156 bedevil you? Read it... and weep! I'm polluted by mad filicide I cheat death, I make sons... wear a hide! Giants? I kill them. Pillars? I build them. I'm too strong for this world! - Deified. Hint: A promethean saviour, I'm known for my labour

    1 min

  3. 16 JAN

    1560: #155 solved, and Lorick #156 I'm polluted by mad filicide

    Lorick #155: I'm polluted by mad filicide I cheat death, I make sons... wear a hide! Giants? I kill them. Pillars? I build them. I'm too strong for this world! - Deified. But first, we solve #156 - here it is one last time: The fruit of industrialisation: subjugation and appropriation! Class-based antagonisms... Erase nationalisms! UNITE! And throw off exploitation!

    7 min

  4. 15 JAN

    1551: Clue #155, The fruit of industrialisation

    Does Lorick #155 bedevil you? Read it... and weep! The fruit of industrialisation: subjugation and appropriation! Class-based antagonisms... Erase nationalisms! UNITE! And throw off exploitation! Hint: A spectre is haunting Europe

    1 min

  5. 14 JAN

    1550: #154 solved, and Lorick #155 The fruit of industrialisation

    Lorick #154: The fruit of industrialisation: subjugation and appropriation! Class-based antagonisms... Erase nationalisms! UNITE! And throw off exploitation! But first, we solve #155 - here it is one last time: I've done a miraculous thing! Not suspicious at all, it would seem! My son's a big deal (even though a third wheel!) and my partner deferred to the King!

    5 min

  6. 13 JAN

    1541: Clue #154, I've done a miraculous thing

    Does Lorick #154 bedevil you? Read it... and weep! I've done a miraculous thing! Not suspicious at all, it would seem! My son's a big deal (even though a third wheel!) and my partner deferred to the King! Hint: I don't say a lot but my aid's oft besought

    1 min

  7. 12 JAN

    1540: Lorick #154, I've done a miraculous thing

    Lorick #154, to confound and confusticate! I've done a miraculous thing! Not suspicious at all, it would seem! My son's a big deal (even though a third wheel!) and my partner deferred to the King!

    2 min

  8. 11 JAN

    1535: #153 solved; Week 051 Wrapped with Se'nnightly Synopsis

    Yorick's weekend thoughts and the solution to Lorick #153: a carpenter, thatcher, and mason of the three, two were murderously chastened but their big wily foe, when it had a third go, learned too late 'twas its own death it hastened

    9 min
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Think you can solve thrice-weekly riddles from mythology, folklore, history, and literature? Try this Lorick on for size: A tempestuous prince was misled by incestuous king, hast'ly wed there's a ghost, and a play, and soliloquies fey... in the end, nearly everyone's dead! Hint: his father ghosted him. Answer: Hamlet! Get it? Lorick's host? Me, Yorick! Most soliloquized skull of all time! If you're ready to match wits with a skeletal skald who wields riddles ranging from Alice to Apollo, Homer to Herodotus, and from Rapunzel to Ragnarok - then listen! E'en subscribe! If you dare...

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