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Not to be confused with [[Riddle for the Ages]].
 
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== [[American Newspapers]] ==
* An article from January 2008 in ''The New York Times'' that explains why fortune cookies are absent from Chinese restaurants in China was titled "Solving a Riddle Wrapped in a Mystery Inside a Cookie."▼
 
== [[Film]] ==
* In Oliver Stone's film ''JFK'', David Ferrie uses the exact phrasing from Churchill's original quote when trying to convince Jim Garrison to drop his investigation into the [[Who Shot JFK?|Kennedy Assassination]] in a paranoia fueled rant.
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== [[Literature]] ==
* ''[[Discworld]]'':
** In ''[[Discworld/The Fifth Elephant|The Fifth Elephant]]'' Lord Vetinari describes Uberwald as "a mystery inside a riddle wrapped in an enigma." Sergeant Colon misinterprets this and later refers to it as "[[Malaproper|a misery wrapped in an enema]]."
** In ''[[Discworld/Men At Arms|Men Atat Arms]]'', the clowns ask Colon to search for their late compatriot's real nose, despite the fact he had one. Vimes, reading the report, reflects that "the whole nose business looked like a conundrum wrapped up in an enigma, or at least in Sergeant Colon's handwriting, which was pretty much the same thing".
* From ''[[Dragaera|Tiassa]]'', two guardsmen conversing, [[Literary Agent Hypothesis|as rendered by]] Paarfi of Roundwood:
{{quote|"An Easterner with an Imperial Title!"
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* Used by Verin Sedai in ''[[The Wheel of Time]]'' (namely, in ''The Dragon Reborn''): "Name hidden within name shrouded by name. Secret buried within secret cloaked by secret."
 
=== [[LiveAmerican Action TVNewspapers]] ===
▲* An article from January 2008 in ''The New York Times'' that explains why fortune cookies are absent from Chinese restaurants in China was titled "Solving a Riddle Wrapped in a Mystery Inside a Cookie."
 
=== [[Magazines]] ===▼
* One white-paper front cover for ''[[Mad Magazine]]'' greatly [[Exaggerated Trope|exaggerated]] this trope [[Played for Laughs|for laughs]].▼
 
== [[Live-Action TV]] ==
* In one episode of ''[[Seinfeld]]'', Elaine and Jerry get into a discussion about the nature of Newman.
{{quote|'''Elaine:''' Maybe he's an enigma--a mystery wrapped in a riddle.
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'''Michael:''' I needed help selling a cover ID; nothing personal. }}
* On ''[[Will and Grace]]'', Grace say to Will: "You know, I thought I knew everything about you. But you're a mystery. Wrapped in a riddle. Surrounded by enigma. Growing boobies." in an early episode (with regards to a protein shake's side effects)
 
▲== [[Magazines]] ==
▲* One white-paper front cover for ''[[Mad Magazine]]'' greatly [[Exaggerated Trope|exaggerated]] this trope [[Played for Laughs|for laughs]].
 
== [[Music]] ==
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Or a fool consumed by fear }}
 
== [[Tabletop RPGGames]] ==
* In [[Werewolf: The Apocalypse]], both the Uktena ([[Magical Native American]]s) and the Stargazers (ascetic Far Eastern monks) have been referred to as such.
 
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