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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- Update frequency
- every day
- Average duration
- 4 minutes
- Episodes
- 237
- Years Active
- 2025
0401: Clue #40, All labour, no play, would be wrong
Does Lorick #40 bedevil you? Read it... and weep!
All labour, no play, would be wrong.
It is time to compete for the throng!
There is boxing and wrestling,
their athletics they're testing...
swe…
0400: Lorick #40, All labour, no play, would be wrong
Lorick #40, to confound and confusticate!
All labour, no play, would be wrong.
It is time to compete for the throng!
There is boxing and wrestling,
their athletics they're testing...
sweaty men ch…
0395: #39 solved; Week 013 Wrapped with Se'nnightly Synopsis
Yorick's weekend thoughts and the solution to Lorick #39:
An eponymous epic am I;
With marsh mother and monster I vie
Hailed as hero -- their bane --
Become king, long I reign
Dealt draconic def…
0391: Clue #39, An eponymous epic am I
Does Lorick #39 bedevil you? Read it... and weep!
An eponymous epic am I;
With marsh mother and monster I vie
Hailed as hero -- their bane --
Become king, long I reign
Dealt draconic defeat, so …
0390: #38 solved, and Lorick #39 An eponymous epic am I
Lorick #38:
An eponymous epic am I;
With marsh mother and monster I vie
Hailed as hero -- their bane --
Become king, long I reign
Dealt draconic defeat, so I died.
But first, we solve #39 - her…
0381: Clue #38, I am known for my hair, once so fine
Does Lorick #38 bedevil you? Read it... and weep!
I am known for my hair, once so fine!
Through injustice was made serpentine!
Thence my looks petrified -
I gave birth as I died -
my head bagged…
0380: #37 solved, and Lorick #38 I am known for my hair, once so fine
Lorick #37:
I am known for my hair, once so fine!
Through injustice was made serpentine!
Thence my looks petrified -
I gave birth as I died -
my head bagged, and despoiled, and enshrined!
But first…
0371: Clue #37, I am stricken by loss, so it's told
Does Lorick #37 bedevil you? Read it... and weep!
I am stricken by loss, so it's told
my mad grieving a thing to behold
of my friends I'm uncertain
i hear spies behind curtains
And it's vengeance, n…
0370: Lorick #37, I am stricken by loss, so it's told
Lorick #37, to confound and confusticate!
I am stricken by loss, so it's told
my mad grieving a thing to behold
of my friends I'm uncertain
i hear spies behind curtains
And it's vengeance, not grief…
0365: #36 solved; Week 012 Wrapped with Se'nnightly Synopsis
Yorick's weekend thoughts and the solution to Lorick #36:
I spoke for the people, oppressed;
The assembly I sternly addressed!
Oratoric tirades
led to purity's blade --
and my zeal died at common be…
0361: Clue #36, I spoke for the people, oppressed
Does Lorick #36 bedevil you? Read it... and weep!
I spoke for the people, oppressed;
The assembly I sternly addressed!
Oratoric tirades
led to purity's blade --
and my zeal died at common behest
…
0360: #35 solved, and Lorick #36 I spoke for the people, oppressed
Lorick #35:
I spoke for the people, oppressed;
The assembly I sternly addressed!
Oratoric tirades
led to purity's blade --
and my zeal died at common behest
But first, we solve #36 - here it is…
0351: Clue #35, A charlatan's life: it's a living
Does Lorick #35 bedevil you? Read it... and weep!
A charlatan's life: it's a living...
My gifts with great ease I am giving.
It's for magic I'm known;
with hot air I am blown.
When my subjects c…
0350: #34 solved, and Lorick #35 A charlatan's life: it's a livin
Lorick #34:
A charlatan's life: it's a living...
My gifts with great ease I am giving.
It's for magic I'm known;
with hot air I am blown.
When my subjects catch on, they're forgiving :)
But fir…
0341: Clue #34, Left is Right, Right is Wrong, I contended
Does Lorick #34 bedevil you? Read it... and weep!
Left is Right, Right is Wrong, I contended
In celestial scorn I descended
Vanquished and lost
Endless the cost
Dominating but darkness... extended…
0340: Lorick #34, Left is Right, Right is Wrong, I contended
Lorick #34, to confound and confusticate!
Left is Right, Right is Wrong, I contended
In celestial scorn I descended
Vanquished and lost
Endless the cost
Dominating but darkness... extended.
0335: #33 solved; Week 011 Wrapped with Se'nnightly Synopsis
Yorick's weekend thoughts and the solution to Lorick #33:
All the heros and kings were involved
in a siege that went long unresolved...
I'm a towering steed
born of cunning misdeed;
of my ill-ea…
0331: Clue #33, All the heros and kings were involved
Does Lorick #33 bedevil you? Read it... and weep!
All the heros and kings were involved
in a siege that went long unresolved...
I'm a towering steed
born of cunning misdeed;
of my ill-earned succe…
0330: #32 solved, and Lorick #33 All the heros and kings were involved
Lorick #32:
All the heros and kings were involved
in a siege that went long unresolved...
I'm a towering steed
born of cunning misdeed;
of my ill-earned success -- unabsolved!
But first, we sol…
0321: Clue #32, I'm a symbol of deadly intent
Does Lorick #32 bedevil you? Read it... and weep!
I'm a symbol of deadly intent
like a Bill to a Bone I was sent
Him I killed just through fear
But I can't beat a jeer;
So against Silver's tongu…