10 old puzzles that are difficult and interesting to solve

2024 Author: Malcolm Clapton | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-17 03:44

Famous proverbs are encrypted in the pictures. Try to recognize them!

All puzzles for this material are taken from the 1858 book The Illustrated Sphinx, or Collection of Various Russian Mysteries, in Paintings on Wood.

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One head is good, but two are better. The key to the pictures is this: one head, chorus, osh, hell in "E", ray, she.

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The wolf's legs are fed. The key to the pictures is this: a wolf in "A", legs, food (for a horse in a sack), yat (in pre-revolutionary spelling, all words ending in a consonant were necessarily written with a hard sign).

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Found a scythe on a stone. The key to the pictures is this: nash (in the pre-revolutionary alphabet the letter "N" was read that way), varnish, wasp, on "K" less.

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There is nothing like leather. The key to the pictures is as follows: in "sya" k, kul, x, howl, e, bo, loto, x, shaft, it (in pre-revolutionary spelling, all words ending in a consonant were necessarily written with a hard sign).

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Having taken off their head, they do not cry through their hair. The key to the pictures is as follows: s, nya in shi, gol (that is, a naked person), o in u, po, ox, wasp, me, cry.

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Every day is not Sunday. The key to the pictures is this: not everything, cat, y, Shrovetide (this was the name of the barrel for churning cow butter earlier).

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Murder will out. The key to the pictures is as follows: w, silt, "A" in a bag, not Ut (until the 17th century, the note do was called "ut"), ai (part of the name on the bottle), sh.

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No matter how much you feed the wolf, he keeps looking into the forest. The key to the pictures is as follows: s, count, b, horse, e, kor, mi, wolf, ka, on (in the pre-revolutionary alphabet the letter "O" was read this way) in "C", in, forest, gl, poison, it …

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Expensive and sweet, cheap and rotten. The key to the pictures is: do, horn, ode, mi, lo, d, she, water, g, Nile, o.

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Where there is one sheep, the whole herd goes there. The key to the pictures is: k, oud, one, ram, t, oud, and, in "C" the herd.

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