Conundrum

A Conundrum is a puzzling question. In one variety of conundrum, the question is posed as a riddle and the answer is or involves a pun. More broadly, a conundrum is any problem where the answer is very complex, possibly unsolvable without deep investigation. A mystery or paradox can often be phrased as a conundrum.

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• The "Countdown Conundrum" is the last round in Countdown, a British game show.
• Conundrum is an episode of
• The ever-popular book Alice's Adventures in Wonderland is grandiosely full of conundrums.
• Federal Reserve chief Alan Greenspan famously remarked that falling long-term rates at a time when he was raising short-term rates were a conundrum.
• Conundrum is the password used in the TV series Seven Days. Upon returning to the past, Lt. Frank Parker (Jonathan LaPaglia) would use this password to get in touch with his branch of the NSA.
• In "Phil of the Future", a TV show, a class is shown a huge, complicated problem called "Foucalt's Last Conundrum", and if they solved it, they wouldn't have homework for a semester. The answer turned out to be 4.

Mystery: In modern colloquial English, a mystery is a subgenre of detective fiction (see mystery fiction).Mystery! is a PBS program showing British detective fiction series.Also in modern colloquial English, a mystery is something which is unknown.Originally mystery was a religious term. Thus the Sacred Myst...

Paradox: A paradox is an apparently true statement or group of statements that seems to lead to a contradiction or to a situation that defies intuition. Typically, either the statements in question do not really imply the contradiction, the puzzling result is not really a contradiction, or the premises them...