Lantern Riddles Lantern riddles are, as their name implies, riddles stuck on the surface of lanterns for people to guess while enjoying the Lantern Festival displays. The key to the riddle may be found in a single word, a line taken from a poem, the name of a place or an object. Since guessing the riddles can be as hard as shooting a tiger, these brain-teasers have been nicknamed "lantern tigers." Lantern riddles today cover a wide range of topics and come in a plethora of different forms, and provide stimulating, entertaining, and interesting lantern festival activities. Newspapers, magazines, and department stores all come up with riddles for the public to solve. Together with the lantern riddle parties held at temples on the night of Lantern Festival, these activities add to the air of festivity on this occasion.