Conundrum vs. Riddle

Conundrumnoun

A difficult question or riddle, especially one using a play on words in the answer.

Conundrumnoun

A difficult choice or decision that must be made.

Conundrumnoun

A kind of riddle based upon some fanciful or fantastic resemblance between things quite unlike; a puzzling question, of which the answer is or involves a pun.

Conundrumnoun

A question to which only a conjectural answer can be made.

Conundrumnoun

a difficult problem

Riddlenoun

A verbal puzzle, mystery, or other problem of an intellectual nature.

Riddlenoun

An ancient verbal, poetic, or literary form, in which, rather than a rhyme scheme, there are parallel opposing expressions with a hidden meaning.

Riddlenoun

A sieve with coarse meshes, usually of wire, for separating coarser materials from finer, as chaff from grain, cinders from ashes, or gravel from sand.

Riddlenoun

A board with a row of pins, set zigzag, between which wire is drawn to straighten it.

Riddlenoun

(obsolete) A curtain; bed-curtain

Riddlenoun

(religious) One of the pair of curtains enclosing an altar on the north and south

Riddleverb

To speak ambiguously or enigmatically.

Riddleverb

(transitive) To solve, answer, or explicate a riddle or question.

Riddleverb

To put something through a riddle or sieve, to sieve, to sift.

Riddleverb

To fill with holes like a riddle.

Riddleverb

To fill or spread throughout; to pervade.

Riddleverb

To plait

Riddlenoun

A sieve with coarse meshes, usually of wire, for separating coarser materials from finer, as chaff from grain, cinders from ashes, or gravel from sand.

Riddlenoun

A board having a row of pins, set zigzag, between which wire is drawn to straighten it.

Riddlenoun

Something proposed to be solved by guessing or conjecture; a puzzling question; an ambiguous proposition; an enigma; hence, anything ambiguous or puzzling.

Riddleverb

To separate, as grain from the chaff, with a riddle; to pass through a riddle; as, riddle wheat; to riddle coal or gravel.

Riddleverb

To perforate so as to make like a riddle; to make many holes in; as, a house riddled with shot.

Riddleverb

To explain; to solve; to unriddle.

Riddleverb

To speak ambiguously or enigmatically.

Riddlenoun

a difficult problem

Riddlenoun

a coarse sieve (as for gravel)

Riddleverb

pierce many times;

Riddleverb

set a difficult problem or riddle;

Riddleverb

separate with a riddle, as grain from chaff

Riddleverb

speak in riddles

Riddleverb

explain a riddle

Riddle

A riddle is a statement, question or phrase having a double or veiled meaning, put forth as a puzzle to be solved. Riddles are of two types: enigmas, which are problems generally expressed in metaphorical or allegorical language that require ingenuity and careful thinking for their solution, and conundra, which are questions relying for their effects on punning in either the question or the answer.