Lorick: Riddles and Lore
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!
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- Years Active
- 2025
0920: #91 solved, and Lorick #92 A life unexamined? A waste
Lorick #91:
A life unexamined? A waste!
To question all things is my taste
For my feared elocution
you prescribe execution??
Fine. Western thinking, on mine, will be based!
But first, we solve …
0911: Clue #91, I'm no craftsman, though I hammer - my way
Does Lorick #91 bedevil you? Read it... and weep!
I'm no craftsman, though I hammer - my way!
Not forgotten: I'm known by my day.
I'm as strong as can be
(my dad's wiser than me);
in a fight, I'…
910: Lorick #91, I'm no craftsman, though I hammer - my way
Lorick #91, to confound and confusticate!
I'm no craftsman, though I hammer - my way!
Not forgotten: I'm known by my day.
I'm as strong as can be
(my dad's wiser than me);
in a fight, I'll be firs…
0905: #90 solved; Week 030 Wrapped with Se'nnightly Synopsis
Yorick's weekend thoughts and the solution to Lorick #90:
We are each of us split in two parts;
Though conjoined in one body -- to start!
But by moral defiance
and alchemical science
I give reign …
0901: Clue #90, We are each of us split in two parts
Does Lorick #90 bedevil you? Read it... and weep!
We are each of us split in two parts;
Though conjoined in one body -- to start!
But by moral defiance
and alchemical science
I give reign to my …
0900: #89 solved, and Lorick #90 We are each of us split in two parts
Lorick #89:
We are each of us split in two parts;
Though conjoined in one body -- to start!
But by moral defiance
and alchemical science
I give reign to my inner black heart!
But first, we solve …
0891: Clue #89, My interest in ladies is sanguine
Does Lorick #89 bedevil you? Read it... and weep!
My interest in ladies is sanguine
and those I seduce becom languid.
I choose whom to infect --
I'm not one to reflect;
my gift, ill received, ca…
0890: #88 solved, and Lorick #89 My interest in ladies is sanguine
Lorick #88:
My interest in ladies is sanguine
and those I seduce becom languid.
I choose whom to infect --
I'm not one to reflect;
my gift, ill received, can bring anguish
But first, we solve #…
0881: Clue #88, a hedon is happy with beauty
Does Lorick #88 bedevil you? Read it... and weep!
a hedon is happy with beauty
pursuit of sensation my duty
(if all art is quite useless
how when art keeps you youthful?)
lose your soul or grow …
0880: Lorick #88, a hedon is happy with beauty
Lorick #88, to confound and confusticate!
a hedon is happy with beauty
pursuit of sensation my duty
(if all art is quite useless
how when art keeps you youthful?)
lose your soul or grow old? don…
0875: #87 solved; Week 029 Wrapped with Se'nnightly Synopsis
Yorick's weekend thoughts and the solution to Lorick #87:
Great-nephew of him who was great
All power in me concentrates
Not a king, not as such...
I doth protest too much!
As for fame: I've cal…
0871: Clue #87, Great-nephew of him who was great
Does Lorick #87 bedevil you? Read it... and weep!
Great-nephew of him who was great
All power in me concentrates
Not a king, not as such...
I doth protest too much!
As for fame: I've calendrical…
0870: #86 solved, and Lorick #87 Great-nephew of him who was great'
Lorick #86:
Great-nephew of him who was great
All power in me concentrates
Not a king, not as such...
I doth protest too much!
As for fame: I've calendrical weight
But first, we solve #87 - here …
0861: Clue #86, So a heart and a brain can be filled
Does Lorick #86 bedevil you? Read it... and weep!
So a heart and a brain can be filled;
To find home, and feel courage instilled;
At my base, occidental
By my flaw, elemental
I found end as I ou…
0860: #85 solved, and Lorick #86 So a heart and a brain can be filled
Lorick #85:
So a heart and a brain can be filled;
To find home, and feel courage instilled;
At my base, occidental
By my flaw, elemental
I found end as I ought: to be killed!
But first, we solv…
0851: Clue #85, An award to whom war is inimical
Does Lorick #85 bedevil you? Read it... and weep!
An award to whom war is inimical
My assignment: a judgment—political!
Compared to four siblings
(Or five—don't be quibbling!)
I'm most prized, a…
0850: Lorick #85, An award to whom war is inimical
Lorick #85, to confound and confusticate!
An award to whom war is inimical
My assignment: a judgment—political!
Compared to four siblings
(Or five—don't be quibbling!)
I'm most prized, and in tr…
0845: #84 solved; Week 028 Wrapped with Se'nnightly Synopsis
Yorick's weekend thoughts and the solution to Lorick #84:
Enlightened I stand, verdigris...
a gift from the free to the free
I'm a lady encrowned
imagined half-drowned
my lamp guides the masses …
0841: Clue #84, Enlightened I stand, verdigris
Does Lorick #84 bedevil you? Read it... and weep!
Enlightened I stand, verdigris...
a gift from the free to the free
I'm a lady encrowned
imagined half-drowned
my lamp guides the masses to me!
…
0840: #83 solved, and Lorick #84 Enlightened I stand, verdigris
Lorick #83:
Enlightened I stand, verdigris...
a gift from the free to the free
I'm a lady encrowned
imagined half-drowned
my lamp guides the masses to me!
But first, we solve #84 - here it is o…