Has anyone found any good collections of these? Whenever I try to search for riddles online, I end up with mostly results containing wordplay riddles like "what has a mouth but doesn't eat, ..."
Teh Guardian used to (?) publish puzzles by Chris Maslanka which were like this, and, as i recall, pretty good. There are a couple of books collecting them:
Before publishing I found this while trying to see if there was a already a riddle like it out there (closest I could find was the 1000 barrels of wine riddle mentioned at the beginning): https://puzzles.nigelcoldwell.co.uk/
You can also think of this riddle as a very symmetric version of Wordle, where instead of trying to solve for a permutation of letters you're solving for a permutation of years.
Has anyone found any good collections of these? Whenever I try to search for riddles online, I end up with mostly results containing wordplay riddles like "what has a mouth but doesn't eat, ..."