See the marginal references. Riddles formed one of the amusements of these protracted feasts.

Sheets: Rather “linen shirts;” the “gar…

I will now put forth a riddle to you. — Chidah, “a riddle,” comes from chud, “to knot.” The use of ridd…

And Samson said to them
His thirty companions, very likely on the first day of the feast:

I will …

Samson's riddle literally meant no more than that he had got honey, for food and for pleasure, from the lion, which in its strength and fury was re…