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  • Professor Egghead's best riddles. Illustrated by Jerry Robinson.

    • Text
    • New York, Simon and Schuster [1973]
    • 1973
    • 1 Item
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Text JFE 74-701Schwarzman Building - General Research Room 315

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  • My first riddles; Compiled by Paul Mathews; illus. by Lindal Mann.

    • Text
    • Sydney, New York, Hamlyn [1974]
    • 1974
    • 1 Item
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Text JFF 77-1210Offsite
  • Nazo nazo / Shibuya Isao hen.

    • Text
    • Tōkyō : Kōdansha, Shōwa 59 [1984]
    • 1984
    • 1 Item
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Text JAY M-1796Offsite
  • Too hot to hoot : funny palindrome riddles / by Marvin Terban ; illustrated by Giulio Maestro.

    • Text
    • New York : Clarion Books, c1985.
    • 1985
    • 1 Item
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Text JFE 86-2209Schwarzman Building - General Research Room 315

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  • Wer will mir mit frischen Backen diese schönen Nüsse knacken? : ein Bilderbuch mit alten Kinderrätseln / herausgegeben von Karl Hobrecker ; Bilder von Helmut Skarbina.

    • Text
    • Oldenburg i. O. : Nürnberger Bilderbücher-Verlag G. Stalling, c1926.
    • 1926
    • 1 Item
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Text *KL 96-720Schwarzman Building - Rare Book Collection Room 328

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  • Viṭukatai viḷaiyāṭṭu / [tokuppu] Maṇipārati.

    • Text
    • Ceṉṉai : Maṅkai Nūlaka Veḷiyīṭu : Kiṭaikkumiṭaṃ Cānti Puks, 1989.
    • 1989
    • 1 Item
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Text *OLB 92-6515Offsite
  • Behind the king's kitchen : a roster of rhyming riddles / compiled by William Jay Smith and Carol Ra ; woodcuts by Jacques Hnizdovsky.

    • Text
    • Honesdale, Pa. : Wordsong, 1992.
    • 1992
    • 2 Items
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Text Berg Coll Smith, WJ B45 1992Schwarzman Building - Berg Collection Room 320

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    Text JFF 93-1771Schwarzman Building - General Research Room 315

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  • Six sick sheep : 101 tongue twisters / compiled by Joanna Cole and Stephanie Calmenson ; illustrated by Alan Tiegreen.

    • Text
    • New York : Morrow Junior Books, 1993.
    • 1993
    • 1 Item
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Text JFE 93-12353Schwarzman Building - General Research Room 315

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  • Hellēnika ainigmata : anti-ainigmata gia mikra paidia / Phaidōn Totskas.

    • Text
    • Thessalonikē : Ḇarmpounakēs, [1993?]
    • 1993
    • 1 Item
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Text JFD 94-25068Schwarzman Building - Main Reading Room 315

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  • The Upside down riddle book / riddles compiled and edited by Louis Phillips ; upside down graphics by Beau Gardner.

    • Text
    • New York : Lothrop, Lee & Shepard, c1982.
    • 1982
    • 1 Item
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Text JFD 95-2459Schwarzman Building - Main Reading Room 315

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  • Swine lake : music & dance riddles / compiled by Charles Keller ; illustrated by Gregory Filling.

    • Text
    • Englewood Cliffs, N.J. : Prentice Hall, 1985.
    • 1985
    • 1 Item
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Text *MGRZ 87-4685Performing Arts Research Collections - Dance

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  • Food for the mind, or, A new riddle-book / compiled for the use of the great and the little good boys and girls in England, Scotland, and Ireland, by John-the-Giant-Killer, Esq.

    • Text
    • London : Leadenhall Press, [189-?]
    • 1890-1778
    • 1 Item
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Text MZC (John-the-giant-killer. Food for the mind)Performing Arts Research Collections - Theatre

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  • La quisicosa : adivinanzas tradicionales para niños / compilación y presentación, Rosanela Alvarez ; [selección, CIDCLI ; ilustraciones, Azul Morris].

    • Text
    • México, D.F. : CIDCLI, 1999.
    • 1999
    • 1 Item
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Text JFF 01-1163Schwarzman Building - Main Reading Room 315

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  • Merlin's puzzle pastimes / edited by Charles Barry Townsend.

    • Text
    • New York : Dover, 1986.
    • 1986
    • 2 Items
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Text MZC 01-7232Offsite
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Text MZC 01-7232Performing Arts Research Collections - Theatre

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  • Qué animal es? / Rafael Olivares Figueroa ; ilustraciones de Nieves Barreto.

    • Text
    • Caracas, Venezuela : Monte Ávila Editores Latinoamericana, 1998.
    • 1998
    • 1 Item
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Text JFD 01-19214Schwarzman Building - Main Reading Room 315

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  • Aḥudah-na [microform] : sefer ḥidot, beʻayot u-sheʼelot-shaʻashuʻim le-ḳaṭon ule-gadol / sudar ṿe-neʻerakh bi-yede A. Even-Shoshan ṿe-Y. Baḳ.

    • Text
    • Yerushalayim : ʻEver, [1944]
    • 1944
  • Mi zeh? [microform] : ḥidot la-yeladim / me-et Leṿin Ḳipnis.

    • Text
    • Tel-Aviv : Devir, [19--?]
    • 19
  • Mi-zeh? [microform] : ḥidot la-yeladim / me-et Leṿin Ḳipnis.

    • Text
    • Tel-Aviv : Devir, [19--?]
    • 19
  • Adivinancero escolar y familiar / Eduardo Soler Fiérrez.

    • Text
    • Madrid : Ediciones Internacionales Universitarias, 2003.
    • 2003
    • 1 Item
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Text JFD 04-4508Offsite
  • Mīklupanti / Jānis Baltvilks ; māksliniece, Ilze Ramane.

    • Text
    • Rīgā : Apgāds "Daugava", c2002.
    • 2002
    • 1 Item
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Text JAX S-2356Offsite
  • The carsick zebra and other animal riddles / by David A. Adler ; illustrations by Tomie de Paola.

    • Text
    • New York : Holiday House, c1983.
    • 1983
    • 1 Item
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Text J 818 ADLEROffsite
  • A book of nursery riddles / Jane Johnson.

    • Text
    • Boston : Houghton Mifflin, 1985, c1984.
    • 1985
    • 1 Item
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Text J 398.8 JOffsite
  • Mince pies for Christmas, and for all merry seasons : consisting of riddles, charades, rebuses, transpositions and queries : intended to gratify the mental taste, and to exercise the ingenuity of all sensible masters and misses / by an old friend.

    • Text
    • London : Printed for Tabart and Co. at the Juvenile & School Library ..., 1807
    • 1807
    • 1 Item
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Text *KH 1807 Old 11-63Schwarzman Building - Rare Book Collection Room 328

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  • Elton's cent Riddle book.

    • Text
    • N.Y. : Robert H. Elton, 104 Nassau Street, [between 1838 and 1841?]
    • 1838-1841
    • 1 Item
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Text *KH 1838 Eltons 12-461Schwarzman Building - Rare Book Collection Room 328

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  • Games for everybody / by May C. Hofmann.

    • Text
    • New York : Dodge Publishing Co., c1905.
    • 1905
    • 1 Item
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Text MZ (Hofmann, M.C. Games for everybody)Schwarzman Building - General Research Room 315

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  • Setswana riddles : translated into English / Barolong Seboni.

    • Text
    • Gaborone : Petlo Literary Arts Trust, 2011.
    • 2011
    • 1 Item
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Text Sc D 13-378Schomburg Center - Research & Reference

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  • Youth's keepsake : a Christmas and New Year's gift for young people.

    • Text
    • Boston : T.H. Carter and Company, [1844]
    • 1844
    • 1 Item
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Text *KH 1844 Youth's 14-79Schwarzman Building - Rare Book Collection Room 328

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  • Eight ate : a feast of homonym riddles / by Marvin Terban ; illustrated by Giulio Maestro.

    • Text
    • New York : Clarion Books, c1982.
    • 1982
    • 1 Item
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Text JFE 14-4099Schwarzman Building - Main Reading Room 315

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  • A choice collection of riddles, charades, rebusses, &c. [electronic resource] : chiefly original. By Peter Puzzlewell, Esq.

    • Text
    • London : printed for E. Newbery, Corner Of ST. Paul's Church-Yard, 1792.
    • 1792
    • 1 Resource

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    http://find.galegroup.com/ecco/infomark.do?contentSet=ECCOArticles&docType=ECCOArticles&bookId=0149401800&type=getFullCitation&tabID=T001&prodId=ECCO&docLevel=TEXT_GRAPHICS&version=1.0&source=library&userGroupName=nypl
  • A choice collection of riddles, charades, rebusses, &c. Part third. [electronic resource] : By Peter Puzzlewell, Esq.

    • Text
    • London : printed for E. Newbery, Corner Of ST. Paul's Church-Yard, 1796.
    • 1796
    • 1 Resource

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    http://find.galegroup.com/ecco/infomark.do?contentSet=ECCOArticles&docType=ECCOArticles&bookId=0947900100&type=getFullCitation&tabID=T001&prodId=ECCO&docLevel=TEXT_GRAPHICS&version=1.0&source=library&userGroupName=nypl
  • A pretty riddle book, [electronic resource] : being a choice whetstone for the wit of young children, by Mr. Christopher Conundrum, Riddle Maker in Ordinary to the King and Queen of the Fairies. Adorned with cuts.

    • Text
    • London : printed by R. Bassam, No. 53, St. John's Street, West Smithfield, [1785?]
    • 1785
    • 1 Resource

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    http://find.galegroup.com/ecco/infomark.do?contentSet=ECCOArticles&docType=ECCOArticles&bookId=1010300600&type=getFullCitation&tabID=T001&prodId=ECCO&docLevel=TEXT_GRAPHICS&version=1.0&source=library&userGroupName=nypl
  • Christmas amusement [electronic resource] : or, the happy association of mirth and ingenuity: being an elegant collection of original riddles, charades, &c. Culled from the vase of fancy, at Conundrum Castle. By Peregrine Puzzlebrains.

    • Text
    • London : printed for E. Newbery, Corner of St. Paul's Church Yard, 1799.
    • 1799
    • 1 Resource

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    http://find.galegroup.com/ecco/infomark.do?contentSet=ECCOArticles&docType=ECCOArticles&bookId=0685400500&type=getFullCitation&tabID=T001&prodId=ECCO&docLevel=TEXT_GRAPHICS&version=1.0&source=library&userGroupName=nypl
  • A choice collection of riddles, [electronic resource] : charades, rebusses, &c. chiefly original. By Peter Puzzlewell, Esq.

    • Text
    • London : printed for E. Newbery, Corner of St. Paul's Church-Yard, 1794.
    • 1794
    • 1 Resource

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    http://find.galegroup.com/ecco/infomark.do?contentSet=ECCOArticles&docType=ECCOArticles&bookId=0685200300&type=getFullCitation&tabID=T001&prodId=ECCO&docLevel=TEXT_GRAPHICS&version=1.0&source=library&userGroupName=nypl
  • The American girl's book, or, Occupation for play hours / by Miss Eliza Leslie.

    • Text
    • New York (770 Broadway) : R. Worthington, 1881.
    • 1881
    • 1 Item
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Text *KH 1881 Leslie 15-1021Schwarzman Building - Rare Book Collection Room 328

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  • Halloween jokes + riddles / Craig Yoe.

    • Text
    • New York, NY : Price Stern Sloan, ©2003.
    • 2003
    • 1 Item
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Text JFC 15-306Schwarzman Building - Main Reading Room 315

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  • Thanksgiving jokes + riddles / [Craig Yoe].

    • Text
    • New York : Price Stern Sloan, ©2003.
    • 2003
    • 1 Item
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Text JFC 15-308Schwarzman Building - Main Reading Room 315

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  • Valentine's Day jokes & riddles / Craig Yoe.

    • Text
    • New York, N.Y. : Price Stern Sloan, ©2003.
    • 2003
    • 1 Item
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Text JFC 16-309Schwarzman Building - Main Reading Room 315

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  • Mystet︠s︡tvo v movnykh zahadkakh / Petro Shcherbak.

    • Text
    • Kyïv : Vydavnyt︠s︡tvo "Dovira", 1998.
    • 1998
    • 1 Item
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Text ReCAP 16-8361Offsite
  • Devinettes / Elisabeth Ivanovsky.

    • Text
    • [Belgium] : Petites éditions des artistes, [1942]
    • 1942
    • 1 Item
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Text *KH 1942 Collection 15-1409Schwarzman Building - Rare Book Collection Room 328

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  • Opposites [electronic resource] : front and back / Luana K. Mitten.

    • Text
    • Vero Beach, FL. : Rourke Pub., 2008.
    • 2008
    • 1 Resource

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    http://WU9FB9WH4A.search.serialssolutions.com/?V=1.0&L=WU9FB9WH4A&S=JCs&C=TC0000692062&T=marc&tab=BOOKS
  • Silly school riddles / by Lisa Eisenberg ; pictures by Elwood H. Smith.

    • Text
    • New York : Dial Books for Young Readers, c2008.
    • 2008
    • 1 Item
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Text J E EOffsite
  • Six sick sheep : 101 tongue twisters / compiled by Joanna Cole and Stephanie Calmenson ; illustrated by Alan Tiegreen.

    • Text
    • New York : Morrow Junior Books, c1993.
    • 1993
    • 1 Item
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Text J 818.08 COffsite
  • A very mice joke book / by Karen Jo Gounaud ; illustrated by Lynn Munsinger.

    • Text
    • Boston : Houghton Mifflin, c1981.
    • 1981
    • 1 Item
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Text J 818 GounaudSchwarzman Building - General Research Room 315

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  • ¿Cala chúxìn ndárá xè Xjuanì? : = ¿A qué no me dices qué es? : adivinanzas y números Ixcatecos = Can you guess what it is? : Ixcatec riddles and numbers / Rafael Alarcón Montero ; ilustración: Julián Cicero ; textos en ixcateco/Ixcatec text: Don Cipriano Ramírez Guzmán ; traducción al inglés/English translation: Adam Critchley.

    • Text
    • México : Resistencia, [2022]
    • 2022
    • 1 Item
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Text JX 23-6810Schwarzman Building - General Research Room 315

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  • Setswana riddles : translated into English / Barolong Seboni.

    • Text
    • Gaborone : Petlo Literary Arts Trust, 2011.
    • 2011
    • 1 Item
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Text PN6377.T73 S43 2011gOff-site
  • Asbak : asal tebak : kumpulan pilihan naskah asbak majalah anak-anak Kawanku / dikumpulkan oleh Om Asbak.

    • Text
    • Jakarta : Iron Damwin, 1989-1990.
    • 1989-1990
    • 1 Item
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Text PN6377.I64 A73 1989gOff-site
  • Magyar gyermekjáték-gyűjtemény : bibliográfiai függelékkel / Kiss Áron.

    • Text
    • Budapest : Könyvértékesítő Vállalat, 1984.
    • 1984-1891
    • 1 Item
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Text GV1204.68.H9 M34 1984Off-site
  • Gåtor och skämt : en undersökning om vardagligt berättande bland skolbarn / Per Peterson.

    • Text
    • Uppsala : [Universitetet], 1985.
    • 1985
    • 1 Item
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Text GR475 .P48 1985xOff-site
  • Twisters, Teasers,(Reverse order of first two words in title) stumpers : a bookful of tricky Torah riddles / by Yaffa Ganz; design/ illustration Harvey Klineman.

    • Text
    • Jerusalem ; New York : Feldheim, 1989.
    • 1989
    • 1 Item
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Text BM573 .G37 1989Off-site
  • Aḥudah-na : sefer ḥidot, beʻayot u-sheʼelot shaʻashuʻim le-ḳaṭonule-gadol / sudar ṿe-neʻerakh bi-yede A. Ben-Shoshan ṿe-Y. Baḳ ; ha-tsiyurim maʻaśe yede M. Kohen.

    • Text
    • Yerushalayim : ʻEver, 1956.
    • 1956
    • 1 Item
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Text Heb 42707.323Off-site

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