Charade (syllable puzzle)
Scharade (or Charade ) is a riddle in verse , where both the meaning of the individual syllables (or sub-words) of a hidden word is indicated circumscribing as well as those of the entire word.
A charade by Gustav Theodor Fechner may serve as an example :
- The first syllable eats
- eats the other syllable,
- the third is eaten,
- the whole is eaten. (Solution: Sauerkraut → Sauerkraut)
Charades are usually found together with similar game forms such as aenigma, anagram , letter and number puzzles , homonym , logogryph, pägnion or palindrome . Depending on the number of syllables, a distinction is made between two-, three- and four-syllable charades. In addition to the word charades, there are also picture and silhouette charades in which the syllables and the word formed by them are replaced by pictures or silhouettes . Of survivors charades or pantomime is when the meaning of the syllables of a word and the meaning of the whole word are shown in pantomime or dramatic scenes. The numerous word compositions in German favor charades. Well-known writers who made charades include Castelli , Goecking , Theodor Hell , Johann Friedrich Kind , Theodor Körner and Elise Sommer .
From these rather literary puzzles, the syllable puzzles, which are still often found in magazines, newspapers and puzzle magazines, developed in the 19th century. Meaningful words are to be found and formed from individual existing syllables. If these are written down one below the other, their first letters usually result in a solution word or a motto.
literature
- Gero von Wilpert : Subject dictionary of literature. 8th, improved and enlarged edition. Kröner, Stuttgart 2001, ISBN 3-520-23108-5 , article: Charade .
Web links
- Picture puzzles and charades Goethe time and 19th century
Individual evidence
- ↑ Franz Fühmann : The steaming necks of the horses in the tower of Babel. Luchterhand Collection, February 1984, ISBN 3-472-61474-9 , pp. 49-89.