| Play | Key Line | Modern Text | Original Text |
| All's Well That Ends Well | AW I.iii.212 | But riddle-like lives sweetly where she dies. | But riddle like, liues sweetely where she dies. |
| All's Well That Ends Well | AW V.iii.301 | So there's my riddle: one that's dead is quick. | So there's my riddle, one that's dead is quicke, |
| Henry VI Part 3 | 3H6 V.v.26 | His currish riddles sorts not with this place. | His Currish Riddles sorts not with this place. |
| King Lear | KL V.i.37 | O, ho, I know the riddle. (Aloud) I will go. | Oh ho, I know the Riddle, I will goe. |
| Love's Labour's Lost | LLL III.i.69 | Some enigma, some riddle. Come, thy l'envoy – begin. | Some enigma, some riddle, come, thy Lenuoy begin. |
| Love's Labour's Lost | LLL III.i.70 | No egma, no riddle, no l'envoy, no salve in the | No egma, no riddle, no lenuoy, no salue, in thee |
| Macbeth | Mac III.v.5 | In riddles and affairs of death, | In Riddles, and Affaires of death; |
| Measure for Measure | MM III.ii.218 | accursed. Much upon this riddle runs the wisdom | accurst: Much vpon this riddle runs the wisedome |
| The Merry Wives of Windsor | MW I.i.186 | on myself, must I? You have not the Book of Riddles | on my selfe, must I? you haue not the booke of Riddles |
| The Merry Wives of Windsor | MW I.i.188 | Book of Riddles? Why, did you not lend it to | Booke of Riddles? why did you not lend it to |
| A Midsummer Night's Dream | MND II.ii.59 | Lysander riddles very prettily. | Lysander riddles very prettily; |
| Pericles | Per Chorus.I.38 | His riddle told not, lost his life. | His Riddle tould, not lost his life: |
| Pericles | Per I.i.65.2 | THE RIDDLE | The Riddle. |
| Richard III | R3 IV.iv.459 | Hoyday, a riddle! Neither good nor bad! | Hoyday, a Riddle, neither good nor bad: |
| Twelfth Night | TN II.v.107 | A fustian riddle! | A fustian riddle. |