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{{quote|Not fair! not fair! It isn't fair, my precious, is it, to ask us what it's got in it's nassty little pocketsess?

|Gollum|[[The Hobbit]]}}

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== [[Anime]] and [[Manga]] ==

* ''[[Yu-Gi-Oh!]]'' has the Paradox Brothers ("Meikyū Brothers"<ref>Meikyū is Japanese for "labyrinth"</ref> in the English manga) attempt this after losing their duel against Yugi and Joey. Both brothers claim that one of the exits will let them leave the caves, while the other simply leads to an endless maze, before using the [[Knights and Knaves]] routine and challenging them to answer. Yugi realizes that both brothers are actually lying, and have the ability to change which path leads where&mdash;he successfully tricks this knowledge out of them using a [[Two-Headed Coin]], allowing him and his friends to move forward.

== [[Comic Books]] ==

* [[The Riddler]], alias Edward Nygma, naturally tends towards this type of riddle when he really wants to humiliate someone. Unfortunately for him, he often sets his sights on [[Batman]], who he is frequently [[Out-Gambitted]] and humiliated by. Bats ain't the World's Greatest Detective for nothin'.

== [[Literature]] ==

To go to heaven.}}

:The answer? {{spoiler|"The fox burying his grandmother under a hollybush."}} Many scholars conclude that this is Joyce's way of poking run at riddles and the people who take them too seriously; Don Gifford explicitly notes this riddle in his article [https://www.jstor.org/stable/25484873 ''"The Cock Crew": An Answer to the Riddle''] as "unanswerable unless the answer is already known".

== [[Oral Tradition]], [[Folklore]], Myths, Religion, and Legends ==

** Regardless, the Philistines present could not solve it, and instead turned to Samson's wife, who weasels the answer out of him. Samson realized this, but resolved to make good on the bet regardless - by traveling to Ashkelon and [[Disproportionate Restitution|taking the clothes from the thirty Philistines he would murder there]]. This would culminate in a divorce and set in motion a divinely-ordained series of escalating fights between Samson and the Philistines that would define the rest of his account.

* What is [[Rumpelstiltskin]]’s name?

==[[Video Games]]==

'''Riddler''': Easily, Doctor. It’s not my baby.}}<!--https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/ps3/952338-batman-arkham-asylum/faqs/57651-->

:* Also particularly evident in ''[[Batman: Arkham City]]'' when Batman rescues one of his hostages: {{spoiler|using Detective Vision on the [[Shell Game]]-style trap they're in reveals a mechanism designed to swap their position without its viewer noticing}}.

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