Word of the Day: Conundrum

[Ruthanne]

conundrum

1. a riddle whose answer contains a pun (Ex.: What's the difference between a jeweler and a jailer? One sells watches and the other watches cells.)
2. any puzzling question or problem

Please give an example

 

[Aunt Marg]

With the roof being the entry point, the jewel thief hung precariously from a rope over the glass cube, but what to do, a serious conundrum he was in, for should he cut a circle in the glass to get at his prize, or should he just smash the glass.

 

[Matrix]

After fighting the Coronavirus conundrum for more than 6 months, we still don't know when and how we can end it.

 

[Kaila]

Figuring out which foods to eat, and which to avoid, when one has medical issues, can quickly seem to turn into a conundrum.
If a food is good for my general health, but bad for my illness....or good for one condition but not for another....Or, when a food is good for my condition, but I cannot digest it well....it becomes a conundrum.

 

[Kaila]

(Note: Although I have been very familiar with this word, I had never known that first meaning given in the OP. Thank you, Ruthanne!)

 

[Aunt Marg]

(Note: Although I have been very familiar with this word, I had never known that first meaning given in the OP. Thank you, Ruthanne!)

The first meaning was a new one for me, too.

 

[Ruthanne]

I am in a conundrum with my health for stress is bad for me and when I do things for stress relief it's bad for my other health conditions so I am in a conundrum.

 

[debodun]

What is the difference between a riddle and what material sandpaper is made from?
One is a conundrum and one is corundum.

 

[Kaila]

Sometimes, trying to tell which spice is in which unlabeled jar, becomes a conundrum.

Is this allspice or ginger, or coriander????? What a conundrum!

 

[Aunt Marg]

Well... what a conundrum this is, I just bought 2 tons of what I thought was corundum from London, only to find out what I actually bought was carborundum.

 

[peramangkelder]

Basically a conundrum is a riddle often with an obscure answer

 

[hollydolly]

Has anyone ever solved the conundrum of how Noah could store enough fresh meat for all the animals on the ark for a year ?