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A brand new riddle (almost) every Friday since March 7, 1997! Here are the best ones. Riddles not listed were ordinary and have been lost to time, floppy disks and one coffee spill (Wendy, 1998).
| # | posted | riddle | solved by |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 03/07/1997 | What has to be broken before you can use it? | Marbles |
| 13 | 05/30/1997 | What gets wetter the more it dries? | Wendy_86 |
| 19 | 07/11/1997 | I have cities but no houses, forests but no trees, water but no fish. What am I? | Wendy_86 |
| 31 | 10/03/1997 | The more you take, the more you leave behind. What are they? | Sunny |
| 42 | 12/19/1997 | I have keys but open no locks. I have space but no room. You can enter, but you can never go in. What am I? | UNSOLVED |
| 55 | 03/20/1998 | What can travel around the world while staying in a corner? | Marbles |
| 64 | 05/22/1998 | I speak without a mouth and hear without ears. I have no body, but I come alive with wind. What am I? | Echo |
| 71 | 07/10/1998 | What has a neck but no head? | The Librarian |
| 87 | 06/18/1999 | I am the bug everyone was afraid of. I was due at midnight, and I never really came. What am I? | UNSOLVED (posted by RIDDLER.EXE) |
| 88 | 06/25/1999 | What is always in front of you but cannot be seen? | The Librarian (posted by RIDDLER.EXE) |
| 91 | 07/16/1999 | I am not alive, but I grow. I do not have lungs, but I need air. What am I? | Sunny (posted by RIDDLER.EXE) |
| 92 | 07/23/1999 | What breaks and never falls, and what falls and never breaks? | nobody (posted by RIDDLER.EXE) |
| 95 | 08/13/1999 | The one who makes it sells it. The one who buys it never uses it. The one who uses it never knows. What is it? | nobody (posted by RIDDLER.EXE) |
| 97 | 08/27/1999 | What can fill a room but takes up no space? | nobody (posted by RIDDLER.EXE) |
| 99 | 12/17/1999 | I am always coming but never arrive. What am I? | nobody (posted by RIDDLER.EXE) |
| 100 | 12/31/1999 | THE LAST RIDDLE | UNSOLVEDanswered by |
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Two riddles were never answered out loud. Think you know?
Hall of Fame
| year | riddles | top solver | note |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1997 | 43 | Marbles | Wendy solved #31 before anyone finished reading it. |
| 1998 | 38 | Wendy_86 | Null solved a riddle and refused to say the answer out loud. "Figure it out." |
| 1999 | Sunny | ||
| 2000-2025 | 0 | - | The page was frozen. The program was not. |
| 2026 | the original season | Epic, Fakeman, Fluffy Fox | the founders: the original club lived on Dam's server, and they reached seat nine. |
| 2026 | 1 (#100, reposted) | things noticed |
Season 2: the first ones (the club writes down who gets there first)
- nobody yet. be the first.
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