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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- every day
- Average duration
- 4 minutes
- Episodes
- 237
- Years Active
- 2025
0575: #57 solved; Week 019 Wrapped with Se'nnightly Synopsis
Yorick's weekend thoughts and the solution to Lorick #57:
See that man - is he jousting with giants?
Nobly horsed? is that steed - noncompliant?
With a fool squire that's wise
and a love idealized...
…
0571: Clue #57, See that man - is he jousting with giants
Does Lorick #57 bedevil you? Read it... and weep!
See that man - is he jousting with giants?
Nobly horsed? is that steed - noncompliant?
With a fool squire that's wise
and a love idealized...
He is …
0570: #56 solved, and Lorick #57 See that man - is he jousting with giants
Lorick #56:
See that man - is he jousting with giants?
Nobly horsed? is that steed - noncompliant?
With a fool squire that's wise
and a love idealized...
He is novel, he's mad, and he's strident…
0561: Clue #56, I'm an agist; my enemy's old
Does Lorick #56 bedevil you? Read it... and weep!
I'm an agist; my enemy's old.
My lost friends all inhabit a hole
I've a shadowy side
and a childish pride;
I've a world, with no mother nor scol…
0560: #55 solved, and Lorick #56 I'm an agist; my enemy's old
Lorick #55:
I'm an agist; my enemy's old.
My lost friends all inhabit a hole
I've a shadowy side
and a childish pride;
I've a world, with no mother nor scold!
But first, we solve #56 - here it …
0551: Clue #55, I'm direct when it comes to current
Does Lorick #55 bedevil you? Read it... and weep!
I'm direct when it comes to current...
And my lab is prolific - that's patent!
In business I'm cruel
The alternates - fools!
I'm inspired, I persp…
0550: Lorick #55, I'm direct when it comes to current
Lorick #55, to confound and confusticate!
I'm direct when it comes to current...
And my lab is prolific - that's patent!
In business I'm cruel
The alternates - fools!
I'm inspired, I perspire, I…
0545: #54 solved; Week 018 Wrapped with Se'nnightly Synopsis
Yorick's weekend thoughts and the solution to Lorick #54:
I swore hatred and marched over mountains
clever leader: I outflank and surround them
empires rise and they fall
in elephantine brawl...
…
0541: Clue #54, I swore hatred and marched over mountains
Does Lorick #54 bedevil you? Read it... and weep!
I swore hatred and marched over mountains
clever leader: I outflank and surround them
empires rise and they fall
in elephantine brawl...
I was g…
0540: #53 solved, and Lorick #54 I swore hatred and marched over mountains
Lorick #53:
I swore hatred and marched over mountains
clever leader: I outflank and surround them
empires rise and they fall
in elephantine brawl...
I was great. I was feared. I was beaten.
But fir…
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 scour…
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 o…
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 si…
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 …
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!…
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! too…
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…
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 mu…
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 …
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 enchantm…