Mga Bugtong

(Riddles)

A riddle is a statement or question having a double or veiled meaning, it belongs to the large class of enigmatic and puzzling questions expressed memorably. Whatever the occasion, and whoever the participants (children, young people, old people), riddling is always done for entertainment among the Filipinos. Here's a bilingual version of some of the well-known Filipino Riddles. English translation are given in order to make them accessible to an international readership.