Reverse riddles are interesting for both young children and adolescents, and even adults. They can be played on the road, at children's parties and youth parties. The main thing is that this intellectual game trains logical and creative thinking; promotes broadening of horizons, enrichment of vocabulary; contributes to the formation of literacy in writing and speaking, as well as a sense of humor.
For preschoolers
Young children from an early age can solve the following folklore upside-down riddles:
We wound the wool into a skein
A silk scarf will come out.
Answer, is it true?
Or:
Because of the forest, because of the mountains
Uncle Yegor is coming.
He's on a gray wagon
On a creaky horse;
Belted with an ax, I tucked my belt over my belt.
You should read the rhyme and ask the child what is the upside-down fiction here.
For preschoolers and younger students
Then there are the following two types of the most interesting game "Riddles-Upside Down". The first is recommended to play for children from about six years of age. The main condition is for the child to already be able to read. The game involves guessing a word that is hidden in another. That is, if you rearrange the letters, you get a different word. For example, the word "pendant". From its letters, if you wish, you can make a "clown". The child should be given a word to read and asked to compose another, denoting a person who makes everyone laugh in the circus.
Another variation of this game will be adding or replacing letters in different words. For example, if the noun "singer" is replaced by one letter, then you get a vegetable called "pepper". Or add the letter "l" to the "dream", the "elephant" will come out.
In the same way, you can remove letters in a word. And the "fly" will turn into a delicious fish soup called "fish soup". And "memory" will turn into the number "five".
Over time, when the child's tasks can already be easily obtained, the task can be complicated by offering the child to replace two letters. A primary school student who is familiar with the rules of spelling words will be able to cope with this task. Let's say the word "password". We must ask the student to turn this word into a regal person. In this case, the student will have to make more effort to remember through which letter the word "king" is written.
For junior and high school students
For older children who are already accustomed to such riddles, you can already come up with more difficult tasks. This is just the second type of game, which is much more fun to play in teams, competing with each other for the number of points. Now it is recommended to turn over the meaning of simple proverbs, sayings, names of TV shows, fairy tales. For example, the famous fairy tale "Kolobok" can be encrypted as "Cube". Who would have thought that "Mouse in Sandals" is the coded "Puss in Boots"? The well-known proverb “Fear has big eyes” can hardly be found in the phrase “The back of the head is small from courage”.
For middle and high school students
Teenagers also enjoy playing upside-down riddles. Especially if you encrypt the names of famous books. Through simple verbal manipulations, the title of the book "Crime and Punishment" turns into the title "Law and Encouragement". And "Gone with the Wind" is simply "Nailed by Calm." The game of teenagers can be complicated by the fact that the teams themselves tried to encrypt the first lines of famous poems, songs, etc. for each other.
Tips for parents
Experts have identified the following problems when playing riddle-changers with children of different ages: inattentive listening to the text, poor memorization of the content, partial misunderstanding of the meaning, incomplete solving the riddle. To avoid these difficulties, parents are advised, together with the child, to come up with upside-down riddles, explaining to him the main algorithm of actions: to compose the opposite of each word. For example, the riddle "100 clothes and all without fasteners" is literally replaced by the phrase "One shoe, and that one with buttons."
The game of riddles-shifters is good because it almost never gets boring, since in it you can fully show your imagination and wit.
