ENIGMAS
1. Self-assassin, a neddy. Saw an ass in an eddy!
2. To get her: Together.
3. A candle.
4. Liquorice.
5. A book.
6. One solver proposes raven, croaking before a storm; once an object of worship; seldom seen; forbidden in Leviticus as food; alone with Noah when its mate was sent forth; weighing about 3 lbs; the name of a small South Carolina island, having as its first and last letters R and N; the Royal Navy.
Another finds in K the key, as that letter with no ar is alone in ark. With much ingenuity he shows that the last line calls for a second letter, and that the letters K and G can be traced throughout almost all Hallam’s “lights;” Kilogram being nearly 3 lbs., and Knot a mile; while either K.G. (Knight of the Garter) or King would fit the final line.
7. The lines become “rank treason” if the corresponding lines of the two stanzas are read together, thus:—
The pomps of Courts and pride of Kings
I fain would banish far from hence,
and so on throughout.
8. A pair of skates.
9. A shadow.
10. A chair.
11. The changes that are rung are one, eno, Noe, neo, eon, on, none.
12. Cares, caress.
13. Echo.
14. Strike.
15. A pair of spurs.
16. A.D.A.M.; Adam; a dam; Adam; a damson; a dam.
17. The CID, the Castilian hero whose fame was at its height in the middle of the eleventh century.
18. A sigh.
19. Coxcomb.
20. Jack and Jill.
21. A man’s felt hat.
22. Measurable.
23. Chair, char, arch.
24. Sala (G.A.S.), which reversed is alas.
25. Page, (p)age.
26. C (sea), A (hay), T (tea).
27. A BROKEN TALE
The deil jumped over the clouds so high
That he bounded almost right over the sky.
Over gates and fields, and under the trees
He dodged, with his tail dragging over all these,
But, alas! made a terrible blunder,
For a twist in his tail hooked under a rail,
And broke that appendage asunder.
28. Yesterday. Most excludes Adam, and ter is half of terror.
29. Donkey.
30. Mental, lament, mantle.
31. His heels.
32. Tares, tears, a rest.
33. Connecticut.
34. Grate, rate, rat, ate.
35. Mary, in fanciful mood, on her thirty-sixth birthday, decorated her pincushion thus—XXXVI.
36. Opinionist.
37. Violin (LVII + on).
38. Trout (tr—out).
39. Post—stop.
40. A pair of scissors in a case.
41. Dog.
42. Mainland.
43. Changed.
44. The name of the Russian nobleman’s third son, the boy who went to sea, was Yvan. As the name of the eldest, Rab, who became a lawyer, was Bar reversed, and that of the soldier son Mary was Army as an anagram, so Yvan’s name resolves itself into Navy, his profession.
45. VIVID.
46. Nothing.
47. London.
48. Rock, cork.
49. Place, lace, ace, lac.
50. a, e, i, o, u, y.
51. The solution of the enigma which begins:—
“Twice six is six, and so
Six is but three;
Three is just five you know,
What can we be?”
is the number of letters of the alphabet used in spelling a number. Thus twice six, or twelve, is composed of six letters, and so on.
52. A button.
53. LEVEL—MADAM.
54. An egg.
55. Vague.
56.
A headless man had a letter to write,
(The letter O, i.e. nothing.)
He who read it had lost his sight,
(He read nothing.)
The dumb repeated it word for word,
(He said nothing.)
And deaf was he who listened and heard.
(He heard nothing.)
57. Highway.
58. A set of false teeth.
59. The “fearful fate” enigma is slaughter; cut off its head and we have laughter; lop off its shoulders and we find aught.
60. Speculation—peculations.
61. The word “united” is “of fellowship the token,” and the requirement “reverse it, and the bond is broken” refers only to the two central letters. When this is reversed the word “untied” is formed.
62. Average.
63. German—manger.
64. Corkscrew.
65. Tar is transformed by Art, and as a sailor is fond of port, and blisters in the sun. When it turns to run it becomes Rat, and when it doubles it is Tartar, and is caught.
66.
A man with one eye two plums must have seen,
One perfectly ripe, the other quite green.
The former he took, and ate it with pleasure,
The other he left to ripen at leisure.
67. A widower who has lost two wives.
68. The grape-vine on the Marquis of Breadalbane’s estate, Killin, N.B., which bears more than 5000 bunches of grapes, of which only 500, properly thinned out, are allowed to mature, so that the fewer and smaller bunches bear finer fruit.
69. Poe, poet, poetry.
70. Theatres. The articles the and a lead on to the other four letters tres, and these form the word rest, if the t is transferred to the end.
71. Scold, cold, old.
72. Justice, (just—ice).
73. A shadow.
74. VI., IV., I.
75. The letter I.
76. The letter V.
77. An army.
78. A rich table; chair, table; charitable.
79. High-low.
80. Orange, pear, date, banana, peach, plum, lime, lemon, mango, apple.
81. Innuendo.
82. Snipe, of which pines is an exact anagram.
83.
None can locate the subject of my riddle,
For all the world would seek its place in vain,
Cut it asunder almost in the middle,
And in our very midst its place is plain
is solved by nowhere, now here.