Early Puzzles
Salve amice, ut vales? Puzzles and riddles are as old as history itself. Ancient Greeks and Latins - from Epimenides ("all Cretans are liars") to Eubulides of Miletus ("this statement is false"), from Archimedes ("Ostomachion puzzle") to Celsus ("posthumous twins" problem) - were ingenious inventors of puzzles and paradoxes. They appreciated particularly simple and neat recreational math problems, playwords and riddles and used them for educational purposes. This page is a tribute to the inventiveness of our ancestors. Some ones of the puzzles presented here are from the late Roman and medieval period.
On this page you'll find a collection of interesting latin rebuses and riddles, pangrams, a vanish puzzle, magic ROTAS squares, Greek and Latin palindromes, chronograms, tongue twisters, famous double-meaning sentences, anagrams, a verbal labyrinth, some jokes, and finally the Archimedes' puzzle (aka 'Stomachion' or 'Ostomachion'). Specta, lege atque delecteris. Vale!
Rebuses/riddles Image may be NSFW.
Clik here to view.Rotas square Image may be NSFW.
Clik here to view.Palindromes Image may be NSFW.
Clik here to view.Chronograms Image may be NSFW.
Clik here to view.Word Labyrinth
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Clik here to view.Double-meanings Image may be NSFW.
Clik here to view.Anagrams Image may be NSFW.
Clik here to view.Ancient jokes Image may be NSFW.
Clik here to view.Ostomachion
