An enigma is some sort of a brain-teaser. It is usually presented in the form of a text formulating a problem that someone has to solve.
Most of the time, the text was written so as the reader is guided toward the wrong solution. But, as a matter of fact, usually the solution is almost always included in the text.

The art of solving enigmas is far from being new. In fact, it dates from Antiquity. The most famous enigma is, without any doubt, the one concerning the myth of the Sphinx in which we see Oedipus confronted to an enigma of which everybody knows the answer. "What walks on four feet in the morning, two in the afternoon and three at night?". The man.
Enigmas may be presented in various forms. Indeed, they are not only expressed in the form of a problem to be solved, but also as a rebus, a riddle, a crossword puzzle, an arrow crossword, and more recently, as a Sûdoku.

There are also forms of enigmas involving the resolution of mathematical problems. In fact, most of them implie mathematics.

There are many different games involving the resolution of enigmas in video games and in board games, notably Scrabble, and Trivial Pursuit. All of them are enigma-based games.

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