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• Dianella: giuochi a premio [in versi] (Tip. E. Ariani, 1916) (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Vademecum dell'enimmista moderno; norme utili a spiegare e comporre enimmi, sciarade, rebus, e giuochi affini. (Tip. Poliglotta, Pecar, 1924), by Andrea Gallina (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Enimmistica : storia dell'enimmistica, guida per risolvere e comporre enimmi, sciarade, anagrammi, logogrifi, giuochi geometrici, rebus, ecc., curiosita enimmistiche (Hoepli, 1926), by Demetrio Tolosani and Alberto Rastrelli (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Devinettes (F. Vieweg, 1877), by Eugène Rolland and Gaston Bruno Paulin Paris (page images at HathiTrust)
• Un indovinello volgare scritto alla fine del secolo VIII o al principio del IX. (Mediaeval Academy of America, 1928), by Pio Rajna (page images at HathiTrust)
• Raccolta di rebus, indovinelli e sciarade per divertisi [i.e. divertirsi] in conversazione (A. Salani, 1897), by Adriano Salani (page images at HathiTrust)

• The Literary Riddle in Italy in the Seventeenth Century (UC Publications in Modern Philology v40; Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, 1962), by Michele De Filippis (page images at HathiTrust)
• Enimmistica : storia dell'enimmistica, guida per risolvere e comporre enimmi, sciarade, anagrammi, logogrifi, giuochi geometrici, rebus, ecc., curiosita enimmistiche (Hoepli, 1926), by Demetrio Tolosani and Alberto Rastrelli (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)

• Indovinelli, dubbi, scioglilingua del popolo siciliano (Forni editore, 1969), by Giuseppe Pitrè (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)

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• A New Riddle Book: or, A Whetstone for Dull Wits (ca. 1790), contrib. by John Drewry
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• Vergleichende Rätselforschungen (3 parts (FF Communications #26-28), in German; Helsinki and Hamina: Suomalaisen Tiedeakatemian Kustantama, 1918-1920), by Antti Aarne
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  • Part I: page images in Germany
  • Part II: page images in Germany
  • Part III: page images in Germany
• Broken Words: A Fifth Century of Charades (Boston and New York: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1911), by William Bellamy (PDF at djm.cc)
• The Canterbury Puzzles, and Other Curious Problems (New York: E. P. Dutton and Co., 1908), by Henry Ernest Dudeney
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• A Century of Charades (1894), by William Bellamy (PDF at djm.cc)
• Maze (electronic edition), by Christopher Manson (illustrated HTML at obs-us.com)
• More Charades (Boston and New York: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1909), by William Bellamy (PDF at djm.cc)
• A Second Century of Charades (1896), by William Bellamy (PDF at djm.cc)
• A Third Century of Charades (1904), by William Bellamy (PDF at djm.cc)
• A Little Book of Poetry for Children (Pittsfield, MA: E. Werden, 1847) (multiple formats at archive.org)
• A second century of charades (Houghton, 1896), by William Bellamy (page images at HathiTrust)
• At the sign of the Sphinx (Duffield & Company, 1906), by Carolyn Wells (page images at HathiTrust)
• The handbook of conundrums. (G. Sully & co., 1915), by Edith B. Ordway (page images at HathiTrust)
• Rätsel ... Herausgegeben vom Kunstwart. (Georg D. W. Callwey, 1907), by Arthur Bonus (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Old English riddles (D.C. Heath & Co., 1912), by A. J. Wyatt (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• The hundred riddles of the fairy Bellaria (T. F. Unwin, 1892), by Charles Godfrey Leland (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Canterbury puzzles, and other curious problems (T. Nelson & sons, 1919), by Henry Ernest Dudeney (page images at HathiTrust)
• Some forms of the riddle question and the exercise of the wits in popular fiction and formal literature (The University press, 1911), by Rudolph Schevill (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Grosser Deutscher Räthselschatz : enthaltend : mehr als 1600 Räthsel, Charaden, Logogriphe, Palindrome, Homonyme, Scherzhaste, Räthselfragen, Figurenräthsel, Rebusse, Kunststücken, arithmetische Räthsel und Räthselmärchen : für die Jugend und gesellige Kreise (Verlag von J. F. Schreiber, 1873), by Wilhelm Rudolf Hoffmann (page images at HathiTrust)
• A second century of charades (Houghton, Mifflin and Co., 1897), by William Bellamy (page images at HathiTrust)
• Sphinx-lore. (E. P. Dutton and company, 1897), by Charlotte Brewster Jordan (page images at HathiTrust)
• Osnabrücker Rätselbüchlein (J.G. Kisling, 1910), by August Brunk (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• L"ubecker spiel- und r"atselbuch. Neue beitr"age zur volkskunde (Gebr"uder Borchers, 1905), by Colmar Schumann (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Nuts to crack: or, Mental gymnastics; practical problems for mental training and entertainment (The Arts Press, 1930), by W. E. Shepard (page images at HathiTrust)
• Das deutsche kinderbuch : Altherkömmliche reime, lieder, erzählungen, uebungen, räthsel und scherze für kinder (Christian Winter, 1800), by Karl Joseph Simrock (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Canterbury puzzles : and other curious problems (Nelson, 1927), by Henry Ernest Dudeney (page images at HathiTrust)
• Studien über das Volksrätsel ... ([Druck von C. Salewski], 1898), by Robert Petsch (page images at HathiTrust)
• A century of charades (Houghton, 1895), by William Bellamy (page images at HathiTrust)
• Conundrums : containing one thousand of the latest and best conundrums, gathered from every conceivable source, and comprising many that are entirely new and original (Penn Pub. Co., 1905), by Dean Rivers (page images at HathiTrust)
• At the sign of the sphinx : a book of charades (Stone and Kimball, 1896), by Carolyn Wells, Claude Fayette Bragdon, and Stone & Kimball (page images at HathiTrust)
• Conundrums, riddles and puzzles; containing one thousand of the latest and best conundrums, gathered from every conceivable source, and comprising many that are entirely new and original. (The Penn Publishing Company, 1903), by Dean Rivers (page images at HathiTrust)
• The juvenile scrap-book for 1849 : a Christmas and New Year's present for young people (D. Appleton ;, 1849), by Grandfather Merryman (page images at HathiTrust)
• Frolics of the sphynx (Munday and Slatter, 1812) (page images at HathiTrust)
• More puniana (Chatto and Windus, 1875), by Hugh Rowley (page images at HathiTrust)
• "Guess if you can!" : a collection of original enigmas and charades, in verse, together with fifty in the French language (David Bogue ..., 1851), by Lady and George Cruikshank (page images at HathiTrust)
• Litauische Forschungen Beiträge zur Kenntniss der Sprache und des Volkstumes der Litauer ... (R. Peppmüller, 1882), by Adalbert Bezzenberger (page images at HathiTrust)
• The fashionable puzzler, or, Book of riddles : a collection of enigmas, charades, rebusses, anagrams, logogriphes, and conundrums (J.E. Betts, 1835), by American lady (page images at HathiTrust)
• Puniana (J. C. Hotten, 1870), by Hugh Rowley and Benno Loewy (page images at HathiTrust)
• Wounded words (Four Seas, 1919), by Cora Berry Whitin (page images at HathiTrust)
• Selections from the Masquerade: a collection of enigmas, logogriphs, charades, rebuses, queries and transpositions. (Baker & Fletcher, 1826) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Aunt Sue's budget of puzzles: a collection of riddles, charades, enigmas, etc. (T.W. Strong, 1859) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Vaderlandsche volksboeken en volkssprookjes van de vroegste tijden tot het einde der 18e eeuw (A.C. Kruseman, 1873), by G. D. J. Schotel (page images at HathiTrust)
• More puniana : or, thoughts wise and other-why's; a new collection of the best riddles, conundrums, jokes, sells, etc., etc. (Chatto & Windus, 1875), by Hugh Rowley (page images at HathiTrust)
• Studio critico sugli indovinelli ... (Giornale di Sicilia, 1897), by Giuseppe Pitrè (page images at HathiTrust)
• Bütün esrara vakıfım! (Zaman Matbaası, 1921), by Marko Mir and A. Nizami (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Das deutsche Rt̃hselbuch (B. Schwabe, 1880), by Karl Joseph Simrock (page images at HathiTrust)
• Sphinx incruenta : or, Two hundred and twelve original enigmas and charades. (A. and C. Black, 1835), by James Glassford (page images at HathiTrust)
• Riddle-rhymes : being LII wit-waking puzzle-poems for children with thinking-caps, invented, versified and arranged for a year of Saturdays by the riddle-rhyme maker (S. E. Cassino & son, 1905), by Charles Stuart Pratt (page images at HathiTrust)
• A thousand and one riddles, with a few thrown in. (D. McKay, 1903) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Book of riddles and five hundred home amusements : containing a choice and curious collection of riddles, charades, enigmas, rebuses, anagrams, transpositions, conundrums, amusing puzzles, queer sleights, recreations in arithmetic, fireside games, and natural magic, embracing entertaining amusements in magnetism, chemistry, second sight, and simple recreations in science for family and social pastime (Dick & Fitzgerald, 1863), by Wiljalba Frikell and Harry Houdini Collection (Library of Congress) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Neueste Charadenlese, gesammelt auf den Gefilden des Witzes und der Laune; eine Auswahl sinnreicher Räthsel, Logogryphen und Charaden der vorzüglichesten Dichter (Müller, 1817), by August Heinrich Julius Lafontaine (page images at HathiTrust)
• Book of conundrums and riddles (Dick & Fitzgerald, 1869), by Clarence J. Howard and Dick & Fitzgerald (page images at HathiTrust)
• A choice collection of riddles,charades,and conundrums. (John Harris, 1835), by Peter Puzzlewell (page images at HathiTrust)
• Ḥevel le-haḥayot : ...ʻinyene hitṿakeḥut be-devar gil ṿe-tugah ben shene anashim...gam meshalim ve-ḥidot. (Bi-defus N. Shrifṭgiser, 1844), by Moses Glogau (page images at HathiTrust)
• The brains of Boston; being selected specimens of the wit of Massachusetts (Boston, 1861), by John Henry Anderson (page images at HathiTrust)
• Every little boy's book. : A complete cyclopædia of in and outdoor games with and without toys, domestic pets, conjuring, shows, riddles, etc. : With two hundred and fifty illustrations. (Routledge, Warne, and Routledge, Farringdon Street; New York: 56, Walker Street., 1864) (page images at HathiTrust)
• The masquerade: a collection of new enigmas, logogriphs, charades, rebusses, queries and transpositions. (G. Wilkie, 1797) (page images at HathiTrust)
• A new collection of enigmas, charades, transpositions, &c. (Printed for Longman, Hurst, Rees, and Orme; and J. Carpenter,, 1806) (page images at HathiTrust)
• The hundred riddles of the fairy Bellaria (T. F. Unwin, 1892), by Charles Godfrey Leland (page images at HathiTrust)
• Puniana (Chatto & Windus, 1902), by Hugh Rowley (page images at HathiTrust)
• Entirely-original collection of charades, riddles, and conundrums (Printed and sold by Munday and Slatter; sold also by Messrs. Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown ... London, 1820), by Kohler Collection of British Poetry (page images at HathiTrust)
• Hadriani ivnii medici Emblemata (Ex Officina Christophori Plantini, 1565), by Hadrianus Junius (page images at HathiTrust)
• Riddle-rhymes; being LII wit-waking puzzle-poems for children with thinking-caps, invented (S. E. Cassino & son, 1905), by Charles Stuart Pratt (page images at HathiTrust)
• The American sphinx. (F. M. Reed, 1875), by Frank M. Reed (page images at HathiTrust)
• Folklore argentino. (Impr. de Coni hermanos, 1911), by Robert Lehmann-Nitsche and Francisco Esteban Acuña de Figueroa (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Riddles in German and English folk songs (1910), by Mary Louise Gay (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• A little book of poetry for children. (Published by E. Werden, 1847), by Elias Irish Werden (page images at HathiTrust)
• Sagen und schwänke aus Niederösterreich (Wien, 1922), by Wiener pädagogischen gesellschaft (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Conundrums, riddles and puzzles : containing one thousand of the latest and best conundrums, gathered from every conceivable source, and comprising many that are entirely new and original (Penn Pub. Co., 1900), by Dean Rivers (page images at HathiTrust)
• Riddles, epitaphs, & bon mots (Bedale, 1873), by C. Grace Beresford Peirse (page images at HathiTrust)
• Riddles of Symphosius (Elm Tree Press, 1912), by Caelius Firmianus Symphosius, Elizabeth Hickman Du Bois, and Elm Tree Press (page images at HathiTrust)
• Die räthsel des Exeterbuches und ihr verfasser (Mayer & Müller, 1890), by Georg Herzfeld (page images at HathiTrust)
• New England feathered songsters : with a miscellaneous second part (Press of the Essex County Mercury, 1879), by Gilbert Conant (page images at HathiTrust)
• Deutsches räthselbuch : Eine vollständige sammlung der besten deutschen räthsel, charaden und logogriphen : Unterhaltungsbuch für gebildete gesellschaften. (Halle, 1812) (page images at HathiTrust)
• A second century of charades (Houghton, Mifflin and Company, 1897), by William Bellamy (page images at HathiTrust)
• Charades (C.W. Sever, 1902), by Delta (page images at HathiTrust)
• Riddles in rhyme (The Gorham Press, 1916), by Marion Lucinda Cadwell Clarke (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Canterbury puzzles, and other curious problems (E. P. Dutton and co., 1908), by Henry Ernest Dudeney (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Columbain prize charades (Lee and Shepard Publishers, 1897), by Herbert Ingalls (page images at HathiTrust)
• Sphinx lore. (E.P. Dutton and Company ..., 1900), by Charlotte Brewster Jordan (page images at HathiTrust)
• Nuts to crack ... (J.M. Truitt, 1902), by George Schorb (page images at HathiTrust)
• The green guess book (Dodd, Mead and company, 1897), by Susan Hayes Ward and Mary L. McL. Watson (page images at HathiTrust)
• Food for the mind (New York : Charles Scribner's Sons, 153-157 Fifth Avenue, 1899), by John-the-Giant-Killer, Julian I. Edison, Marshall Simpkin, Leadenhall Press, Charles Scribner's Sons, and Julian I. Edison Collection of Miniature Books (page images at HathiTrust)
• Satzbau und Wortschatz der altenglischen Rätzel des Exeterbuches : ein Beitrag zur Lösung der Verfasserfrage. ([publisher not identified], 1913), by Robert Schneider (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Humoristisches Museum : Eine Auswahl der neuesten und besten komischen Gedichte und humoristischen Aufsa tze in Prosa, welche sich besonders zu vortra gen in geselligen Kreisen, sowie zu Selbst-Unterhaltung eignen : Nebst einem Anhange : soherzhafte Ra thselfragen enthaltend. (Berlin, in the 1870s) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Fifteen hundred riddles : a choice collection : comprising riddles, conundrums, charades and curious epitaphs (J.S. Ogilvie, 1904), by Nellie Greenway (page images at HathiTrust)
• Puzzledom. An original collection of charades, conundrums, puzzles, and games ... (W.P. Hazard, 1854), by Willis P. Hazard (page images at HathiTrust)
• Excursions into puzzledom; a book of charades, acrostics, enigmas, conundrums, &c. (Strahan and company limited, 1879), by Tom Hood and Frances Freeling Broderip (page images at HathiTrust)
• Riddles and conundrums; including charades, enigmas, paradoxes, anagrams, missing word puzzles, magic squares and other diversions for all occasions (E.J.Clode, 1924), by Paul William Kearney (page images at HathiTrust)
• Sphinx und Harmonia oder Sammlung noch nirgends abgedruckter Räthsel, Charaden, Logogriphen und Anagrammen nebst einem Blumenkranze für Stammbücher (Berlin : C. G. Petsch, 1813., 1813), by Friedrich Zuckschwerdt (page images at HathiTrust)
• Riddles and drawing-room magic : humor for quick and dull wits (Laird & Lee, 1907), by George Schorb (page images at HathiTrust)
• Is there a hole in your head? (I. Obolensky, 1963), by Neil Appelbaum (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Conundrums, riddles, puzzles and games (G.M. Hausauer & Son, 1902), by Sarah J. Cutter (page images at HathiTrust)
• 100 riddles and 101 things to do (Grosset & Dunlap, 1928), by Mrs K. H. (Kenneth Horan) and M. B. H. (Marcella Burns Hahner) Mrs (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Nuts to crack ; try one, you can crack them with your head, and the thinner your skull the better : a whetstone for dull wits : the popular "riddle book" ; four hundred new and selected riddles. (Chicago : J.M. Truitt, 1903., 1903), by George Schorb (page images at HathiTrust)
• Conundrums sent in to compete for the valuable service of silver, consisting of a silver tea kettle, silver tea pot, cream ewer, water and sugar bowls, five pieces, value, four hundred dollars, presented by Professor Anderson, the Great Wizard of the North, for the best original one adjudged by a disinterested jury of thirteen, selected from and by the audience, on his great Conundrum Night given at the Metropolitan Hall, on Friday evening, February 6th, 1852. (Baker, Godwin & Co., 1852), by J. H. Anderson (page images at HathiTrust)
• Ainu meishū (Tsuruoka Shinji, 1911), by Frederick Starr and Zenʼichirō Oyabe (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• "Dame Curtsey's" book of guessing contests (A.C. McClurg & Co., 1920), by Ellye Howell Glover (page images at HathiTrust)
• Risposte curiose che si danno ad ogni quesito in piu sort de' versi italiani, e latini : invenzione numerica (Presso Leonardo Pittoni padre dell' inventore, 1715), by Giovanni Battista Pittoni and Leonardo Pittoni (page images at HathiTrust)
• Tangledom; a volume of charades, enigmas, problems, riddles and transformations (De Wolfe, Fiske and Company, 1904), by Charles Rollin Ballard (page images at HathiTrust)
• Doncaster recipes collection : MSG 1230. (1780), by McGill University. Department of Rare Books and Special Collections (page images at HathiTrust)
• Table setting riddles (1805), by Eliza Smithson (page images at HathiTrust)
• Riddle-de-quiz (M.S. Mill co., inc., 1944), by Helen Stevens Fisher (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Bill of fare for a dinner. (1860), by Margaret Chapman (page images at HathiTrust)
• Supper : Wednesday February First, 1893 (1893) (page images at HathiTrust)
• The world's best conundrums and riddles of all ages (Harper & Bros., 1924), by J. Gilchrist Lawson (page images at HathiTrust)
• Conundrums, riddles and puzzles : containing one thousand of the latest and best conundrums, gathered from every conceivable source, and comprising many that are entirely new and original (Penn, 1901), by Dean Rivers (page images at HathiTrust)
• Six hundred and thirty-one good conundrums (Dean, 1872), by S. P. Hincks (page images at HathiTrust)
• The booke of merry riddles, together with proper questions, and witty proverbs, to make pleasant pastime. (Printed [for the editor, by Whittingham and Wilkins, at the Chiswick Press], 1866), by J. O. Halliwell-Phillipps (page images at HathiTrust)
• A collection of riddles, compiled for youths and boys. (Behar-Bandhu Press, 1888), by Lakshminatha Upasani (page images at HathiTrust)
• Enigmas of every variety : the ancient form of riddle, and the most interesting and puzzling (Dean, 1872), by I. S. Olveall (page images at HathiTrust)
• At the sign of the sphinx; a book of charades. (Stone, 1896), by Carolyn Wells (page images at HathiTrust)
• 1001 riddles for children (Platt & Munk, 1949), by George Carlson (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• "Dame Curtsey's" book of guessing contests (Chicago : A.C. McClurg & Co., 1927., 1927), by Ellye Howell Glover (page images at HathiTrust)
• Puzzles and oddities : Found floating on the surface of our current literature, or tossed to dry land by the waves of memory, ed. by Mary A. A. Dawson (Gutenberg ebook)
• Nuts to crack: A galaxy of puzzles, riddles, conundrums, etc. (Gutenberg ebook)
• The Santa Claus' Book of Games and Puzzles: A Collection of Riddles, Charades, Enigmas, Rebuses, Anagrams, Labyrinths, Acrostics, etc. With a Hieroglyphic Preface, contrib. by J. H. Tingley (Gutenberg ebook)
• Conundrums, Riddles and Puzzles: Containing one thousand of the latest and best conundrums, gathered from every conceivable source, and comprising many that are entirely new and original, by Dean Rivers (Gutenberg ebook)
• At the Sign of the Sphinx. Second series, by Carolyn Wells (Gutenberg ebook)
• Classical Enigmas, Adapted to Every Month in the Year: Composed from the English and Roman Histories, Heathen Mythology and Names of Famous Writers: Meant to Amuse Youths of All Ages, and at the Same Time Exert Their Memories, by Calling to Mind What They Have Read at Different Times, by Mrs. Ritson (Gutenberg ebook)
• How to Solve Conundrums: Containing All the Leading Conundrums of the Day, Amusing Riddles, Curious Catches, and Witty Sayings (Gutenberg ebook)
• The Handbook of Conundrums, by Edith B. Ordway (Gutenberg ebook)
• The Canterbury Puzzles, and Other Curious Problems, by Henry Ernest Dudeney (Gutenberg ebook)
• A Book of merry riddles very meet and delightful for youth to try their wits. (London : Printed by E.C. for J. Wright ..., 1672) (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• The booke o[f] merrie riddles Together with proper questions, and witty prouerbs,to make pleasant pastime. No lesse vsefull then behoouefull, for any young man or childe, to knowe whether he be quick-witted or no. (London : Printed [by J. Beale?] for Roger Iackson, and are to bee sold at his shop neere Fleet-street Conduit, 1617) (HTML at EEBO TCP)

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