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I think you mean ones like these https://www.google.com/search?q="my+first+is+in"+riddle https://www.google.com/search?q="my+first+is+in"+riddle ? I've read a

• riffraff 6y ago
  They are different I think. What in italian are called "CRITTOGRAFIE" ("cryptograms") are games where you are given a small sentence, or a single word, and you have to get to a solution either by pure concept association or by "meta" manipulations on the sentence itself. The game always has a "first reading" where you get to an adjacent concept, or rephrasing, and a second reading where the first solution gets reinterpreted. For the first kind you'd get something like "PLOT AT COURT" (for some reason, the games are usually all upcase). The solution can be reached by thinking of a synonym for "plot" and for something that relates to the court idea. Then you get a first reading which is still in the same context, and you can lift it to the second one[0]. For the "meta" ones, I am afraid I am not good enough to come up with an english example, but one in italian would be "CARIE" which gets a first read talking about itself and then reinterpreting the resulting sentence[1]. As senkora pointed out in the sibling comment Cryptic Crosswords seem to be close enough. [0] "queen's gambit" [1] "CARI carpendo l'E", ("<you obtain> CARI, removing E") which gets reinterpreted as "CARI-car pendo-l-E" ("to wind-up pendulum clocks")