Rhymes and riddles

The Verse Room

Rhyme as a way of remembering. A riddle a week, an alphabet, couplets to finish, old sayings weighed, and five riddles hidden round the site.

On a keyboard: with the pointer over a machine, the left and right arrows move its slider and Enter presses its main button.

The weekly riddle

Three clues, one a day.

Harder than the daily one. A clue on Monday, a second on Tuesday, the last on Wednesday. Answer when you dare.

The daily riddle

This week’s riddle appears once the page has loaded.

The trader’s alphabet

From Ask to Zigzag.

Twenty-six words, a couplet for each and a small picture of what it means.

The glossary

A is the Ask, the seller’s say:to buy at once, it’s what you pay.

Finish the rhyme

The first line is given.

One of three lines completes it. All 152 glossary couplets are in the pack.

The flashcard duel

A couplet is dealt once the page has loaded.

The proverb wall

Old sayings, turned over.

Nine things traders have said for generations. Turn each over for a verdict: does it hold?

The Academy

The riddle hunt

Five riddles, hidden.

Each is behind a small question mark near the foot of a page. Find and solve all five and your passport is stamped.

Your passport

0 of 5 found. Each is behind a small “?” near the foot of a page.

What you have found is kept in this browser only, with the riddle run and the passport.

The sonnet of the month

Fourteen lines on one idea.

A longer poem, a new one each month.

The Academy

On the stop

Before the trade, while judgement still is clear,decide the price at which the thought is wrong,and set it there, and let it stay, though fearwill later beg you: move it, just along.For what is moved once will be moved again,and small, agreed-on loss turns into great;the plan was made by you in calmer veinthan you who now would bargain with the gate.A stop is not a wall against all ill:a gap can leap it, and the fill be worse.It is a promise kept against your will,a shorter line to close a longer verse.Set it in quiet; leave it in the storm.The calm self chose. Let that self keep its form.

Fourteen lines on one idea. A new sonnet each month. A way to remember, not advice.

Readers’ riddles

Sent by readers. Read by us first.

Riddles that visitors have written. Send your own: a member of staff reads every one before it appears, and not every one is published.

The glossary

No reader’s riddle has been published yet. Yours could be the first: the form is below.

Two lines that describe one word from the glossary, without naming it. It is read by a member of staff before it appears, and not every riddle is published. Please do not include your name in full, contact details or anything about an account.

First line

Second line

The answer

Initials (optional, shown with it)

Only the two lines, the answer and the initials are kept. No e-mail address is asked for.

Trading foreign exchange on margin carries a high level of risk, and may not be suitable for all investors. The high degree of leverage can work against you as well as for you. Before deciding to trade foreign exchange you should carefully consider your investment objectives, level of experience, and risk appetite. The possibility exists that you could sustain a loss of some or all of your initial investment and therefore you should not invest money that you cannot afford to lose.

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