How to come up with a riddle on your own?

2024 Author: Leah Sherlock | [email protected]. Last modified: 2024-01-17 12:35

The riddle is a brilliant invention of the human mind. It helps to look for and find connections between objects, show attention to details, look at familiar things from a different angle. This tiny puzzle teaches us to think, to feel the subtle language and to understand the world around us more deeply. Most adults are convinced that riddles are fun for kids. However, you should train the brain at any age - at least for the prevention of senile dementia. How many folk puzzles can you remember right off the bat? ten? twenty? For sure, these will be the most famous. But there are thousands of mysteries! You can also compose them yourself.

How to come up with a riddle? Let's give some advice.

Learning

For starters, we recommend accumulating material for observations. To start creating yourself, you need to familiarize yourself with how other authors do it. Grab a collection of riddles on a long journey to the sea or to the country. Solve them with the whole family, discuss how successful they are, admire folk (or literary) wisdom, good comparisons.

• The crawler crawls, the needles are lucky. (Hedgehog).
• Copper demon climbed on the table. (Samovar).
• I feed everyone willingly, but I myself am without a mouth. (Spoon).

Please note that the same object or phenomenon can be described in completely different ways. For example, sleep.

• And the army, and the voivode - knocked them all down.
• What is the sweetest thing in the world?
• Won't knock, won't rattle, but will suit anyone.

How to come up with a comparison riddle?

To compose the simplest puzzle, you need to learn how to find the properties of an object and compare it by these qualities with other objects (phenomena). It is very convenient to fill in a small table.

Sun
What?	What does it look like?
roast	on the stove
gold	apple, dandelion
round	on the ball, wheel, pebble, ball, head
bright	on fire

You can combine the received data like this:

Roast like a stove

Gold like a dandelion

Round like a wheelBright like fire

Try it - it's fun!

How to come up with a riddle if an object or phenomenon does not have clearly defined features? Ask yourself, “What can he do? Who else does this?”

Wind
Doing what?	What (who) does he look like?
howling	on the wolf
flies	on the bird
oppressive trees	on a giant
whistling	on Nightingale the Robber

This is what happened:

Flies like a bird.

Howls like a wolf.

Whistles like a Nightingale the Robber. Breaks like a giant.

Another option is to use adversative conjunctions and negations:

Flies, but not a bird.

Howls, but not a wolf.

Whistles, but not the Nightingale the Robber. Oppresses the trees, but not a giant.

How to come up with a reverse puzzle?

We will continue to draw verbal pictures, but in addition to similarities, we will find characteristic differences between the object or phenomenon under consideration from others. For example, a cloud is white, like cotton wool, but you can’t take it in your hands. The fog is gray-haired, like an ancient old man, but he won’t tell a fairy tale. The moon is delicious, like a cheesecake, but you won’t bite.

Beetle
Which one?	What (who) does he look like?	What can it do?	What's different?
winged	on the bird		yes no tail
horned	on a ram		don't gore
	on the plane	flies	yes sits on the leaves of trees
	on a bee	buzzing	don't bite

Possible option:

Winged like a bird, but without a tail.

Horned like a ram, but does not gore.

Flies like an airplane, but sits on the leaves of trees. Buzzing, like a bee, let it not bite.

Consider the parts and the whole

What could be a harder riddle? Let's use math to help! Consider the human body. What parts does it consist of? One tongue, lips, one mouth, two eyes, an ear, a pair of arms and legs. How did the people reflect this in folklore?

One chatterer, Another whistler

And a third one.

Two brothers are vikaki, And two are hearers, Two runners, Yes, two grip brothers.

And now, according to this principle, we come up with riddles ourselves.

Bicycle
Names of parts	How many?	What do they look like? What is the same?
wheel	2	ring, plate, drying, saucer, sun
steering wheel	1	pitchfork, grip, horns
saddle	1	camel hump, chair
pedal	2	footboard, stirrup, step

I am sitting on a chair myself, feet on the steps, Hands on the pitchforkOn two saucers, like a rocket, I rush.

We have given just a few examples. Of course, most of them are unlikely to ever get into folklore or author's collections, but we do not pretend to be. The main thing is that this fun entertainment will be extremely useful for both kindergarteners and younger students. Surely, in the process of playing together with a child, you will develop your own techniques and artistic finds.