| 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, |
| 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 |
| Measure for Measure | MM III.ii.218 | accursed. Much upon this riddle runs the wisdom | accurst: Much vpon this riddle runs the wisedome |
| 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. |