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...
0531: Clue #53, A circle of light hit the earth
Does Lorick #53 bedevil you? Read it... and weep! A circle of light hit the earth A call for repentant rebirth! The scales were removed - the zealot - improved! A champion emerged from the scourge! Hint: Faith follows the fall?!
May 22, 2025
46 sec
0530: #52 solved, and Lorick #53 A circle of light hit the earth
Lorick #52: A circle of light hit the earth A call for repentant rebirth! The scales were removed - the zealot - improved! A champion emerged from the scourge! But first, we solve #53 - here it is one last time: There is nothing that I cannot say Three millennia and more I've held sway I'm a marker of order I'm a tool of recorders Used in books and on signs and in plays
May 21, 2025
8 min
0521: Clue #52, There is nothing that I cannot say
Does Lorick #52 bedevil you? Read it... and weep! There is nothing that I cannot say Three millennia and more I've held sway I'm a marker of order I'm a tool of recorders Used in books and on signs and in plays Hint: I'm a lover of type and of digital life... but could it be I have seen my heyday?
May 20, 2025
48 sec
0520: Lorick #52, There is nothing that I cannot say
Lorick #52, to confound and confusticate! There is nothing that I cannot say Three millennia and more I've held sway I'm a marker of order I'm a tool of recorders Used in books and on signs and in plays
May 19, 2025
1 min
0515: #51 solved; Week 017 Wrapped with Se'nnightly Synopsis
Yorick's weekend thoughts and the solution to Lorick #51: Got a girl in a tower -- she's mine. she can sing, and her hair is *de vine* it's such an old story: a boy found her - boring! cast her out! took his sight! love is blind!
May 18, 2025
22 min
0511: Clue #51, Got a girl in a tower -- she's mine
Does Lorick #51 bedevil you? Read it... and weep! Got a girl in a tower -- she's mine. she can sing, and her hair is *de vine* it's such an old story: a boy found her - boring! cast her out! took his sight! love is blind! Hint: As an older woman, I decided to adopt, but caregiving is not a strength.
May 17, 2025
57 sec
0510: #50 solved, and Lorick #51 Got a girl in a tower -- she's mine
Lorick #50: Got a girl in a tower -- she's mine. she can sing, and her hair is *de vine* it's such an old story: a boy found her - boring! cast her out! took his sight! love is blind! But first, we solve #51 - here it is one last time: Imperial prophet and healer a lover, a mystic, a schemer feared and poisoned, gunned down, thrown in river - and bound so vital, so tricky to murder!
May 16, 2025
4 min
0501: Clue #50, Imperial prophet and healer
Does Lorick #50 bedevil you? Read it... and weep! Imperial prophet and healer a lover, a mystic, a schemer feared and poisoned, gunned down, thrown in river - and bound so vital, so tricky to murder! Hint: A Russian rags to riches to riverbottom story
May 15, 2025
50 sec
0500: #49 solved, and Lorick #50 Imperial prophet and healer
Lorick #49: Imperial prophet and healer a lover, a mystic, a schemer feared and poisoned, gunned down, thrown in river - and bound so vital, so tricky to murder! But first, we solve #50 - here it is one last time: I'm a lady, both cunning, and fey; Femme fatale? Yes, I curse and betray... Stole the scabbard and sword From my half-brother lord... With enchantments I lead knights astray!
May 14, 2025
9 min
0491: Clue #49, I'm a lady, both cunning, and fey
Does Lorick #49 bedevil you? Read it... and weep! I'm a lady, both cunning, and fey; Femme fatale? Yes, I curse and betray... Stole the scabbard and sword From my half-brother lord... With enchantments I lead knights astray! Hint: My sister and nephew and me, we are biting and deadly - all three!
May 13, 2025
46 sec
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