Tax Your Brain With These 5 Victorian Riddles
The Victorians loved agood sitting room game . Charades and blindman ’s bluff were pop enough in the nineteenth century to find their elbow room intoCharles Dickens ’s novels , and there were always games like Are You There , Moriarty ? and Reverend Crawley to help die time on a rainy English afternoon . But when they were n’t trying to guess who was blot out a slipper behind their back orsnatching some scalding - live raisinsout of a roll of burning brandy , the Victorians also had an appetite for Bible games , brain-teaser , and logical system puzzles , infinite anthologies of which were put out at the time ....