Daily Medieval

Medieval philosophers categorized several logic puzzles as insolubilia , unsolvable things. Probably the most common of these was (and stil...

As best we can determine, Symposius was a 4th- or 5th-century author of the Ænigmata , a collection of 100 Latin riddles. The oldest known...

"The Wanderer" in the Exeter Book The Exeter Book was mentioned as the source of two poems about St. Guthlac . It holds much m...

Is there anyone who hasn't heard the puzzle of the fox, the goose, and the bag of corn? A man has to transport these three things across...