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