Conundrum

Conundrum may refer to:

• A riddle, whose answer is or involves a pun or unexpected twist, in particular
  • Riddle joke, a riddle that constitutes a set-up to the humorous punch line of a joke
• A logical postulation that evades resolution, an intricate and difficult problem.

Literature

• Conundrum (Lyons novel), a 1994 Doctor Who novel by Steve Lyons
• Conundrum (Dragonlance novel), a 2001 Dragonlance fantasy novel by Jeff Crook
• Conundrum (Morris memoir), a memoir written by Jan Morris
• Conundrum Press (disambiguation), two book publishing companies in North America
• Conundrum, a supervillain who appeared in the Spider-Man comic books

Other fields

• "Conundrum" (song), an instrumental song by Jethro Tull on their album Bursting Out
• "Conundrum" (Dallas), the two-hour series finale of primetime soap opera Dallas
• "Conundrum" (Star Trek: The Next Generation), a 1992 fifth-season episode of Star Trek: The Next Generation
• The Conundrum, a mountain unicycle made by Surly Bikes
• Conundrum, an NSA code word for Chrononaut Frank B. Parker in the television series Seven Days
• HMS Conundrum, the unofficial name of floating drums used to lay undersea oil pipelines between England and France during World War II

See also

• Hidden faces, the perception or recognition of faces in something essentially different
• Mechanical puzzle, a puzzle presented as a set of mechanically interlinked pieces
  • Disentanglement puzzle, a type of mechanical puzzle that involves disentangling one piece or set of pieces