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 | | Charades are compositions, poetical or otherwise, founded upon words, each syllable of which constitutes a noun, the whole of each word constituting another noun of a somewhat different meaning from those supplied by its separate syllables. |
 | | Enigmas are compositions of a different character, based upon ideas, rather than upon words, and frequently constructed so as to mislead, and to surprise when the solution is made known. |
 | | Upon the principle of the square-words, riddlers form Diagonals, Diamonds, Pyramids, Crosses, Stars, andc. |
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