Conundrum

Scottish Country Dance Instruction

1- 8 All set, turn 2H and 1s+2s also 3s+4s circle 4H round left
9-16 All circle 8H round and back
17-24 All set twice, turn 2H (1s+2s twice, 3s+4s 1½ times)
25-32 All dance 2 couple Interlocking Allemandes:
 1s and 2s dance normal Allemande but end in 3rd/1st places while 3s+4s Allemande (down) ending in 4th/2nd places then 1s and 3s cross passing RSh to own side. 2413

(MINICRIB. Dance crib compiled by Charles Upton, Deeside Caledonian Society, and his successors)

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Conundrum is a word of unknown origin, probably coined in burlesque imitation of scholastic Latin, as "hocus-pocus" or "panjandrum", originally a term meaning whim, fancy or ridiculous idea; later applied to a pun or play upon words, and thus, in its usual sense, to a particular form of riddle in which the answer depends on a pun. In a transferred sense the word is also used of any puzzling question or difficulty.

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