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Riddles, like proverbs, have always belonged to the common core of cultures and communities. A treasure house of ideas and practical knowledge, a public forum of everyday entertainment and ritualized performances, the trademark of group belonging - riddles constitute one of the most diverse forms of language behavior which defy the analyst or the theorist. Drawing upon the Wittgensteinian language game and the game-theoretical turn in logic and linguistics the present work offers a unified treatment of riddling while preserving the manifold uses and representations of one of oldest forms of oral heritage.

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László Tarnay is an associate professor of philosophy and teaches film theory at the University of Pécs. He is the co-author of Specificity recognition and social cognition and has translated two books from the French philosopher, Emmanuel Lévinas, Totalité et infini and a volume of essays. His recent work is called Phenomenology and new media.

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