## Metadata - Author: [[Paul Anthony Jones]] - Full Title: Can You Solve This Old-Timey Riddle? #18 - Category: #articles - Summary: In 1864, a popular book called "Santa Claus’ Book of Games of Puzzles" was published, filled with various riddles and puzzles. This book was actually a rehash of an earlier one from 1859 called "Aunt Sue’s Budget of Puzzles." Both books featured tricky challenges that required careful thinking to solve. - URL: https://www.mentalfloss.com/solve-this-riddle-quiz-18?utm_source=RSS ## Full Document Can you figure it out? | MirageC/Moment/Getty Images Proving just how popular riddles and puzzles were as Christmas entertainments over a century ago, in 1864 a vast 100-page [compendium](https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/54508/pg54508-images.html) of “charades, enigmas, rebuses, anagrams, labyrinths, acrostics, etc.” was published in New York, under the decidedly festive title of *Santa Claus’ Book of Games of Puzzles*. And, showing just how keen publishers were to cash in on the festive season, the book was a complete rehash of [another book](https://www.google.co.uk/books/edition/Aunt_Sue_s_Budget_of_Puzzles_a_Collectio/aERAAAAAYAAJ?hl=en&gbpv=1&dq=Aunt+Sue%E2%80%99s+Budget+of+Puzzles&printsec=frontcover), *Aunt Sue’s Budget of Puzzles*, which had been published five years earlier. Whichever title you prefer, both contained some decidedly tricky mathematical and logic-thinking puzzles, requiring more than a little mental gymnastics to figure out. The puzzle below certainly falls into that category. Can you solve it? Some content could not be imported from the original document. [View content ↗](https://www.riddle.com/embed/a/yWTdmgkB?) **Take Our Latest** [**Quizzes**](https://www.mentalfloss.com/quizzes/)**:**