You want riddles? Check out The Riddles Podcast for a sample of over 1,000 riddles, anagrams, conundrums, rebuses and charades found in a late 19th century British riddle book. Time has made a few of them into some real head-scratchers and groaners, but you’ll also find dozens of funny ageless riddles and some unique word games. There are even a few short plays! We have the link to this eccentric charmer in the podcast. I hope you like this episode! Please visit anchor.fm/riddles/support if you’d like to support the podcast and I’d be happy* to give you a mention. *Assuming you’re a nice person not selling weapons grade plutonium for bitcoin, etc.

Hello there! We’re putting the final touches on Episode 2. Have you ever heard of a numbered charade? You may have seen them around as a generic riddle. The riddle is made of one large word to guess along with smaller words that reuse the large word’s letters. For example, take the word STEAK. Its letters have numbers 1 through 5. 1 would be S, 2 would be T and so on. In addition to the actual riddle about steak, you might also get riddles about TEAK (for example, 2 3 4 5 is a rare wood) and SAKE (For heaven’s 2 4 5 3). If you can’t guess the main word outright, riddles about the smaller words can add to the fun. The source of this riddle is a SPRAWLING 1879 collection of all sorts of word games. Join our upcoming podcast (optionally at anchor.fm/riddles) and we’ll have the link for it. If you like you can write down the main word for this riddle ahead of time (123456789) as well as 123459, 867, 1678, 12679, and 93451. If you’d like to support the podcast please click Support at anchor.fm/riddles/support. Thanks!

What fits in a phone, can be heard all alone, puts you in the zone and may make you groan? Why, this first episode of the Riddles Podcast! In this debut episode we present a brilliant little riddle that requires no special education or knowledge to solve. The answer may leave you trying to stump your friends too. The podcast starts right with the riddle so you can send them right to anchor.fm/riddles without having to say “um, so there’s like this riddle...”