Code and Riddle

code

A set of rules or principles or laws (especially written ones.
- synonyms: codification
A coding system used for transmitting messages requiring brevity or secrecy.
Computer science. ( the symbolic arrangement of data or instructions in a computer program or the set of such instructions)
- synonyms: computer code

Attach a code to.
- usage: "Code the pieces with numbers so that you can identify them later"
Convert ordinary language into code.
- usage: "We should encode the message for security reasons"
- synonyms: encipher, cipher, cypher, encrypt, inscribe, write in code

(n.) A body of law, sanctioned by legislation, in which the rules of law to be specifically applied by the courts are set forth in systematic form; a compilation of laws by public authority; a digest.
(n.) Any system of rules or regulations relating to one subject; as, the medical code, a system of rules for the regulation of the professional conduct of physicians; the naval code, a system of rules for making communications at sea means of signals.

Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary

riddle

Pierce with many holes.
- usage: "The bullets riddled his body"
Set a difficult problem or riddle.
- usage: "riddle me a riddle"
Separate with a riddle, as grain from chaff.
- synonyms: screen
Spread or diffuse through.
- usage: "An atmosphere of distrust has permeated this administration"; "music penetrated the entire building"; "His campaign was riddled with accusations and personal attacks"
- synonyms: permeate, pervade, penetrate, interpenetrate, diffuse, imbue
Speak in riddles.
Explain a riddle. .

(n.) Something proposed to be solved by guessing or conjecture; a puzzling question; an ambiguous proposition; an enigma; hence, anything ambiguous or puzzling.
(n.) A sieve with coarse meshes, usually of wire, for separating coarser materials from finer, as chaff from grain, cinders from ashes or gravel from sand.
(v.t.) To perforate so as to make like a riddle; to make many holes in; as, a house riddled with shot.
(n.) A board having a row of pins, set zigzag, between which wire is drawn to straighten it.
(v.t.) To explain; to solve; to unriddle.
(v.t.) To separate, as grain from the chaff, with a riddle; to pass through a riddle; as, riddle wheat; to riddle coal or gravel.
(v.i.) To speak ambiguously or enigmatically.

Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary