Lorick: Riddles and Lore
Lorick: Riddles and Lore
Yorick
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...
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.
Jan 18
14 min
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
Jan 17
1 min
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!
Jan 16
6 min
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
Jan 15
45 sec
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!
Jan 14
5 min
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
Jan 13
43 sec
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!
Jan 12
1 min
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
Jan 11
8 min
1531: Clue #153, a carpenter, thatcher, and mason
Does Lorick #153 bedevil you? Read it... and weep! 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 Hint: a story with structural salience
Jan 10
47 sec
1530: #152 solved, and Lorick #153 a carpenter, thatcher, and mason
Lorick #152: 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 But first, we solve #153 - here it is one last time: he's a guardian who never asks why ...likes a bone and a nice lullaby he has multiple heads; keeps the live from the dead... his a labour not many would try!
Jan 9
4 min
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