Riddle thirty

Riddle thirty: Imitation is the highest form of flattery, or is it?

Difficulty: 7
Interest: 2

It's anyone's guess what the picture represents. It seems to be irrelevant to the riddle.

Look at the source, and you will find a hint of something. Use the 'imitation' hint in the title to figure out something that imitates it, and that will be your answer.

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The image name is "Gonna solve 'em all". Yeah, the answer is something similar to pokemons. Think digital.

Riddle twenty-nine

Riddle twenty-nine: Part 1 and 2

Difficulty: 4
Interest: 7

This one is actually in two parts. The first one has you analyzing an image named "unicode.jpg". What you are looking for is shadows subtly printed over the image. You don't see the full character, but what you see is enough to guess what it is. Then you figure what unicode is.

The second part has you looking at a little animated gif. It seems to link that accentuated character to the symbol shown previously. You might need to look at languages other than english to find that accent (French, among others, uses it). Then you simply proceed as before.

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The Part 1 symbol displayed is also known as an arrobe.
The second part will need you to type a capital letter in the address bar.

Riddle twenty-eight

Riddle twenty-eight: Take me back

Difficulty: 9
Interest: 4

This one gives you little to work from, so you will have to guess a lot. The word "HINTS?" inside the lens flare, is in Google's color-scheme. The title, "Take me back", refers to an archive service (you can google for it).

The name of the image is a date.

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Just google for 'take me back', it should be the first result.
On that site, search for Google on the date provided by the image.
"word 7 ^-1", found in the page source, means it's the 7th word from the end.
PS: @2001 is not a word.

Riddle twenty-seven

Riddle twenty-seven: 7 Years After the First

Difficulty: 4
Interest: 5

The title, applied to the image, basically gives the answer. As usual, last name only, all in lowercase.

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Look in the history of the bill represented on the image, seven years after the first. Wikipedia is a good place for things like this.

Riddle twenty-six

Riddle twenty-six: John

Difficulty: 6
Interest: 3

The picture depicts five pennies. The fact that they are pennies is not important. There is no word hidden in the picture. The title does not seem to refer to anything. The source won't reveal anything.

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The image is in fact two groups of circles.

Use your fingers. Or at least, that's how the code in the image should be read.

Riddle twenty-Five

Riddle Twenty-Five: Sate Me

Difficulty: 8
Interest: 2

The audio file has been updated again. Make sure you have the latest version.

If you slow it down, you should hear it fine.

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The words form an acronym.

"Sate" is translated into 'satiate', which means the answer is a food product, possibly one you never even heard of.

Riddle twenty-four

Riddle twenty-four: sdrawkcaB

Difficulty: 5
Interest: 7

This one has you looking at the source to find why the image won't display; it's because it's sdrawkcaB­. Write it correctly to find it.

There is more information in the sources too, which refers to coordinates. Use the image and this information to find the correct location.

Remember, lowercase only.

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There is more backwardness in the coordinates.

Riddle twenty-three

Riddle twenty-three: Networking News Cables

Difficulty: 7
Interest: 8

This one gives you only a series of hints. Don't look elsewhere, this is all you get. The answer is not the date, but rather the last person mentionned in the text. The title refers to the job of the other person in the text.

Oh, and remember, all lowercase, as usual.

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- You might have to try a lot of answers before getting the right one.
- The title implies that someone mentionned in the text is a lead anchor for a popular network.
- The answer is *not* the day. Capitalization in the text does matter. The founder of a company mentionned has founded more than one company. Make sure you have the right one.
- Find something that happened on the date given, involving the anchor mentionned.
- This concerns the person in question, who's role is also given at the end of the text.
- The easiest way to find him is to simply look for all occurences of his title, and try the last name of all those you can find in the transcript of interviews this anchor did on that particular day in the context mentionned.

Riddle twenty-two

Riddle twenty-two: Looks Like Another Lesson in Zoology

Difficulty: 9
Interest: 7

Practice your 1337-speak. The title implies that the answer refers to zoology. The image also contains a shirt with a logo referring to the answer.

Words in the image can be upside-down, and they can also be mirrored. Most of these words refer to a recent military conflict. Ignore them. Some other words, however, have more of a lexical link between them. Find out what that link is.

The text implies that you should look for the last word of that family as an answer. This is slightly misleading though. There are many words missing from that family, but only a few of them concern zoology, and only one fits with both zoology and the image on the shirt. Find that word.

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The lexical link is the ending of these words. Find discussions about these rare words, and you should soon find a more accurate list, which contains the answer. This one can be tricky, as there are many lists *without* the answer.

Riddle twenty-one

Riddle twenty-one: Better thrown down that ________, Elwood

Difficulty: 5
Interest: 3

The title contains a lot of information about this one, as does the image. This is not a reference to the Blues brothers, but rather to the creator of a card game.

Fill in the missing word from the title to get your answer.

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Wikipedia is your friend for this one. Add the word 'card' along with his name if you can't find him otherwise. Once you find the game, find how they call a card that does not fit in this hand in that game. You've got your answer.

Riddle twenty

Riddle Twenty: Recollection

Difficulty: 2
Interest: 5

Before you got to this level, there was some text congratulating you and redirecting you here. Go back there, and read the quote.

The quote you read from the last page is effectively quite familiar. Simply answer the question to get the answer

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Google is your friend here. You should find the answer in a matter of seconds.

Riddle nineteen

Riddle ninteen: .what? -1

Difficulty: 7
Interest: 1

Read the title carefully. The instructions are in there.

Don't waste your time trying to fix the image. The answer is in the URL and the title.

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.what?-1 simply implies that you must remove the last letter from the .html extension. Voilà, problem solved.

Riddle eighteen

Riddle eighteen: Sinner

Difficulty: 3
Interest: 7

Those are greek symbols. Using the text, you can find the answer.

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Only one of these is actually not a sin. Thus, you are innocent of it.

Riddle seventeen

Riddle seventeen: The Apocalyspe of John

Difficulty: 6
Interest: 2

Ugh. Another of those problem that requires proper monitor calibration and careful analysis. When you find it, solve the anagram to get the answer.

The title, text and even the image are all misleading. Don't waste your time reading religious texts and trying to find cleverly hidden clues.

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There is a very pale pentagram on the image. On each of its point, there is a letter. Form a word with these letters to proceed to the next riddle.

Riddle Sixteen

Riddle sixteen: Antigod
Difficulty: 8
Interest: 3

Some events occurred at the location designed. Follow the instructions in order. The page source will reveal some hidden text.

The image seems to be rather useless.

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Antigod implies that the answer is the opposite of god.

The text is the description of the event that you must find. It was a hurricane (implied by the level 5 current) and it has a name. That name is the answer. The one we are looking for is the fourth of that year. The text also implies that it is not a recent event.

There were two other hurricanes with this one. Three hurricanes at the same time is a rare occurance. It happened once in the region mentionned, and only six more times in the Atlantic.

Riddle fifteen

Riddle fifteen: It's Right Now

Difficulty: 0
Interest: 0

There is a link. Seriously. Click the link. If you want to do it the hard way, find what the image represents and you are done. We still don't get the title though, unless it is an obscure Matrix reference.

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Riddle Fourteen

Riddle Fourteen: Opposition Scheme

Difficulty: 4
Interest: 0

We do not get what the title refers to. The source code contains no help. You'll have to work with the image alone.

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The answer is written in pale yellow somewhere on the scissors. This could be very hard if your monitor is badly calibrated, but it is otherwise completly boring and rather easy.

Riddle thirteen

Riddle Thirteen: Itchy Knees Son

Difficulty: 5
Interest: 5

This kind of problem has become very common in recent days, especially in newspapers. Finish the problem and solve the equation.

Write the answer as a plain number.

The title is an homophone of 'ichi ni san', which means 'one two three' in Japanese.

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This is effectively a sudoku puzzle. You can either do it manually, or search google for a sudoku solver. Solve the equation by adding each number in the diagonal line from top left to bottom right. Write the two digits and .html to go to the next puzzle.

Riddle twelve

Riddle twelve: Mathematical Art

Difficulty: 9
Interest: 7

Take out your calculator and favorite paint program, and follow the instructions. It's not as easy as it looks, but with perseverance, you should be able to do it.

You need four words which will lead to the solution after a little wikipedia or google search.

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One of the four words might not be familiar, as it is actually the name of a piece of art. Once you spell it right, the answer is obvious.

You have to draw a circle to find the letters. It might be hard to get it right though, and you have to read them counter-clockwise. This one really isn't easy.

Riddle eleven

Riddle eleven: Capital Intersection

Difficulty: 5
Interest: 2

The page source will mention a standard; it is a standard used to name countries. Find out how it's used, then do what the title says. Google Map will help greatly here.

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The coordinates given represent countries. As the source says, zero just means 0.

As the title refers to, find the intersection between the capitals of these countries, and you will find the answer.

Riddle ten

Riddle ten: Pat's my favorite

Difficulty: 3
Interest: 2

The text and title are all you need to figure this one out. Google for it, and you're done.

Remember, always use lowercase.

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The title refers to Pat, one of the author for this piece. The phrase 'but he wasn't alone' implies that the complete name of the second author is the answer.

Riddle nine

Riddle nine: NOT T9

Difficulty: 4
Interest: 3

Another telephone pad number. This one has a little twist though, and you might not get it if you never used text messages on a cellphone.

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The 5 fours in a row effectively mean the sequence 44 and 444 respectively.

Riddle Eight

Riddle Eight: For Mein Fraulein

Difficulty: 9
Interest: 3

Apparently, the title refers to some encrypted message called For Mein Fraulein. This message is very similar, with the music at the beginning, except that the sequence of digits probably do not mean anything.

It might also refer to Number Stations

According to the page source, there is some text hidden 'in plain site'. This isn't in the rest of the source or the title, so you'll have to take it from the image (no need for any image manipulation).

This will lead you to an audio clip. The weird sound you might not understand means zero. Find the right sequence.

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The image has some text written at the bottom-right. For those who have difficulty reading it :
audio/212-796-0735.wav

Find the sequence that differs from the others, and write it this way: xxxxx.html

Riddle Seven

Riddle Seven: E #D E #D E B D C A

Difficulty: 6
Interest: 9

A piano! Those who are musically inclined might recognize the notes in the title as the beginning of the Für Elise by Beethoven. However, the flavor text mentions that 59 is not the one. This could be useful.

The text also mentions marriage and Nohl, which is also a reference to the answer you are looking for.

The references to Alex and the orange clock effectively refers to the movie "A Clockwork Orange", which brings more references to Beethoven, in case you did not get the title.

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Für Elise is also known as the WoO 59, meaning that another WoO might contain the answer.

The reference to the marriage and Nohl is that Elise was not a real person, but rather a romantic nickname (or simply mistranscribed handwritings) refering to the lady he dedicated this piece to.

Riddle Six

Riddle Six: Speed Dial

Difficulty: 2
Interest: 2

The image means there is something to do with a phone, but since a phone number is given, that was pretty obvious. Don't mind the fact that the number five is in orange on the phone. Don't call the number either, it's the L.A. Abandoned car service.

Hint : a phone number has a dash, don't forget it!

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xxx-xxxx.html

Riddle Five

Riddle Five: Put On Your Orange Glasses!

Difficulty: 3
Interest: 6

The title says to put on orange glasses. That would effectively make the orange text virtually invisible, so it's safe to assume that the orange text is not useful.

The flavor text says he is flippin' out, so that might have something to do with it. You can solve this problem by yourself, but using an image editing program with some flippin' might make it easier.

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There is some black text in the image that is written four times, and is upside down. Flipping the image would make it readable. There are also some repeated letters in each sequence, so just ignore those. You are looking for two words and eight characters total.

Riddle Four

Riddle Four: 9. 16. Addresses

Difficulty: 8
Interest: 4

There is a hint to this one in the page source, which includes the title. The title mentions 9 and 16, which are the positions of the letters I and P in the alphabet.

Basically, what you have to do is translate the slashes and backslashes (count them) to numbers and type those numbers in the address bar. This will lead you to different websites. You will then need to find an acronym which will be the correct answer.

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Here are the web sites you will get if you follow the IP adresses:
Google, O2 D-Link, J Sainsbury plc, O2, B. Braun Melsungen AG

It's not really a word, but rather two words. If you still can't solve it, you better read about acronyms right now to make sure you do not confuse it with an anagram or something of that nature.

Riddle Three

Riddle Three: Local Weather Forecast

Difficulty: 6
Interest: 7

The title in this one is useless and can be misleading. The image is also completly irrelevant, which leaves us only with the text and the page source. A hint can be found in the page source, as to what some numbers might represent.

The important part in this one is the 'patriarchal city'. By itself, it won't get you any closer to the answer. The remaining two pairs of numbers (41, 29 and -667, 1453) each hold enough information to get you to what you seek. Don't forget to always use lowercase in this game.

The Keanu reference implies that the answer is linked to a movie that Keanu Reeves starred in.

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The first pair refers to the location of Istanbul, which is the city we are looking for. However, it used to be called something else. The second pair refers to the date which mark the creation and the fall of the patriarchal city. This is what the hint 'time flies' in the source refers to.

The movie in question is "Constantine".

Riddle Two

Riddle two: I don't do binary

Difficulty: 4
Interest: 4

The title indicates that the ones and zeroes are not binary computer data. Find another type of code that uses only two values to transmit data. The image represents a telegraph. In the source code, there is a hint toward what type of code you might want to use to translate this sequence.

You should use Google to find a translator, or the correct code and translate it manually.

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The sequence is effectively Morse code. Translate the following sequence to get the answer:
.-- . .- - .... . .-. -.. --- - .... - -- .-..

Riddle One

Riddle One: Times have changed...

Difficulty: 2
Interest: 2

The title in this one has only one important word: Times. This is a reference to the font 'Times New Roman'. The image is completly useless, and we do not know what it refers to.

Riddle one is, of course, quite easy. There are many ways to solve it, and none of them include deciphering that gibberish.

Simply change the address bar to [the word].html to solve it.

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You can check the page source to spot the important word(s) in a different font. Alternatively, you can use the Alt + a trick to select all the text, which would make the lines with text in a different font easier to spot.

Getting started

This site serves as an helper to solve the really cool game Antiriddle. Direct answers won't be posted, unless we do not understand the answer, or if the puzzle is otherwise rather boring.

If you've never tried a site like Antiriddle before, you should start by doing their tutorial. They will tell you a few interesting tricks to get started. Basically, you can find hints in four places: The sources, the image, the text below it, and the page title. Some are quite misleading, while some are so obvious you might not even think about it.

This place was made with a single goal in mind: to make the Antiriddle experience as good and as entertaining as it can be. With this in mind, here are a few more tricks to help you along your journey.

First, if you are not already using a good browser, get one now. We recommend Firefox (follow the link in the sidebar to the right). The tips and keyboard shortcuts we give will all be for this browser in Windows, even though they will likely work in every decent browser out there.

Second, here are a few shortcuts you will need:
Ctrl+u : View Page Source
Alt+a : Select all
Ctrl+t: Open a new tab
Ctrl+f: Search in page

For the best experience when playing this game, you should not try to do everything on your own. Otherwise, you might spend hours on a problem you already solved, but you simply forgot a dash, or you mistyped the answer when you tried it. It can get very frustrating, very fast, and this is a game you should enjoy.

Finally, here are some general guidelines to help you along the way:
- URLs are case sensitive. This means that levels/antiriddle.html is not the same as levels/AntiRiddle.html. Answers in these riddles are always in lowercase.
- When commenting on this site, never post the answer or a link to a riddle. We want to help, not ruin this puzzle.
- Always start by looking at the riddle Title, then the page source. The title almost always gives hints as to how to solve the riddle, and the page source usually contain additional comments about it.
- Try to figure the puzzle out on your own before reading the hints and spoilers on this site. It always feels more satisfying to solve a riddle on your own. When you feel like giving up, look at the first few lines of a post. If you simply read every comment before trying the riddle, you're not really playing anymore.
- Check the spoilers section only once you've given up, or when you want to see if there were other ways to get the answer. It is recommended to copy and paste this text into a NotePad to read it.

Now that we've gone through the basic, let's get started!