| A world like ours needs a smile from time to time, | | | | competence, crowning the winners with laurel. |
| and there is nothing better that spending our leisure | | | | Throughout time, riddles and puzzles have been |
| hours with fun and entertaining activities, such as | | | | spread widely all over the world by one means or |
| puzzles, riddles and trivia solving.Puzzles come from | | | | another.Nevertheless, trivia also contributed to fun in |
| ancient times, and archaeologists have found | | | | communal gatherings and family reunions often |
| evidence of puzzles with a history that can be traced | | | | associated with tongue-in-cheek riddles to make the |
| back thousand of years. In Persia, puzzles were part | | | | events more fun and entertaining. There is reference |
| of mystical practices and religions.Temples in Tibet, | | | | of riddle tournaments held in remote places such as |
| China and Japan have been found with engraved | | | | the Fiji islands were the losers were placed laying on |
| puzzles that reveal mathematical formulas engraved | | | | a feast for the champions.Trivia and puzzles in Africa |
| on the walls by monks. However, puzzles were also | | | | were used as ritual for young people that could not |
| used as trivia to pass time and the origin of board | | | | be considered an adult if they failed to solve them. In |
| games such as chess.On the other hand, riddles are | | | | the Middle East, trivia and riddles were used as |
| considered a modern entertainment form, but | | | | oracles consultation so women could find if they |
| because they are more likely associated with the | | | | were meant to marry with the man of their |
| bards of the Middle Ages. The format of riddles, | | | | dreams.The history of puzzles, riddles and trivia also |
| forming a question to be solved by guessing, | | | | fascinate authors, painters and artist of all times that |
| facilitated their job as traveling entertainers.Riddles | | | | has contributed to the preservation this form of |
| were also a sort of trivia, passing messages on | | | | entertainment until today.Natalie Aranda writes on art, |
| between people needing to share information that | | | | recreation and entertainmet. A world like ours needs |
| others could not understand, often compared with | | | | a smile from time to time, and there is nothing better |
| "undercover information."Puzzles, riddles and trivia | | | | that spending our leisure hours with fun and |
| were, in fact, the way to go when justice was | | | | entertaining activities, such as puzzles, riddles and |
| behind dreamers wanting a better world, fighting | | | | trivia solving. On the other hand, riddles are |
| against governments and rulers that otherwise would | | | | considered a modern entertainment form, but |
| quiet their voice.However, researchers consider that | | | | because they are more likely associated with the |
| both puzzles and trivia have a common origin in | | | | bards of the Middle Ages. The format of riddles, |
| religion, running parallel one to another. Many biblical | | | | forming a question to be solved by guessing, |
| verses and prophecies were written as a sort of | | | | facilitated their job as traveling entertainers. Puzzles, |
| guessing game, and you can easily find these riddles | | | | riddles and trivia were, in fact, the way to go when |
| in the Torah, the Koran, the Rig-Veda, and even the | | | | justice was behind dreamers wanting a better world, |
| Bible itself.Ancient Greeks liked all the challenging | | | | fighting against governments and rulers that |
| games, celebrating banquets where trivia, puzzles, | | | | otherwise would quiet their voice. |
| and riddles were both entertainment and | | | | |