Riddle from the Show «Greizie rati»: What Blooms Only in the Dark?
A quiz built from riddles of the radio programme «Greizie rati» poses the question «What blooms only in the dark?». The Zvaigznīte family from Mangaļsala tries to solve it.
The Latvian public media portal LSM has published a quiz based on riddles from the programme «Greizie rati», intended for parents and children to solve together. One of the riddles asks: «What blooms only in the dark?»
The riddle was sent in by Paula Feldmane, one of the listeners who contributed riddles to the programme. In the quiz it is guessed by the Zvaigznīte family from Mangaļsala, a neighbourhood of Riga. The family consists of mother Zanda and her daughters: Nikola, aged nine, and Sofija, aged seven.
How the quiz works
The format has a family try to answer riddles submitted by listeners. This time the guessers are a mother and her two daughters, which makes the riddle a shared task for all three. The excerpt does not give the answer, so readers can look for it in the full material on the portal or think it over together with their children.
The piece appears in the LSM section for parents and children, which offers ideas for everyday family activities. Guessing riddles is one way of spending time together.
