The Good Child’s Amusing Riddle-Book was a collection of rhyming verse puzzles published in England in 1807.

Only 10% of people can figure out the missing word in this 1% Club riddle. We love nothing better than to sit down and yell at the TV when playing along with a quiz show, and none can be as ...

The verse below is another puzzle taken from Riddles in Rhyme, a 1927 collection of “charades old and new” by the American author (and former Harvard College dean) LeBaron Russell Briggs.