Riddles must contain enough information and have an unambiguous, clearly correct answer. Riddles that have a large number of possible answers often get closed as "too broad". The answer must be unique and clearly fit all the given clues. Riddles must be based on calculation and/or interpretation and not rely on assumption. The tag wiki description already has some good guidelines, which I've copied here (emphasis mine): Riddle is our top tag, so let's start there. I'm not suggesting this list be any sort of definitive statement of what questions are right for this site, but having a pool of ideas about what are good and bad question would go a long way to help in figuring out what should be on the help page: Īnd as Emrakul pointed out, you might just want to define the sort of thing that is off-topic and should be avoided. The examples needn't be questions that have actually been posted, or even theoretical sample question, a broad outline of a type of question will do to get things started. I recommend a separate answer for each on-topic/off-topic pair so people can vote for the categories they agree with. It would help for each example you provide if there can be a counter example of when a similar question strays into off-topic territory. Given that we currently lack a description what is on-topic ( Where is the definition of an on-topic question?) I think maybe we should make a list of things we think should be considered on-topic.
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