3 Metaphors for riddles

We all remember an innocent riddle of our childhood"Why was the elephant the last animal to get into the Ark?"to which the answer was, "Because he had to pack his trunk."

Mr. Riddle was a partner in the Visiter, and engaged a woman.

Cowley's Love's Riddle, published in 1638, but written two or three years earlier, is the work of a boy of sixteen, and though it serves amply to prove the precocity of its author, it does not therefore follow that it is itself possessed of any conspicuous merit.

3 Metaphors for  riddles