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Word games usually reflect the society and the times of their existence, as Augarde (1986) points out in the Oxford Guide to Word Games. They also can inform us about ourselves and our way of thinking. The oldest and most common word game is the "riddle". An example of this in contemporary times is "What has legs but cannot walk?" The answer is a "table" or a "chair". Archer Taylor is an American expert who claims that the oldest documented riddles are Babylonian school texts which are crudely written. He cites the example "Who becomes pregnant without conceiving, who becomes fat without e...