Hmmmmmm........ okay, so I don't know for sure what the answers may be, but I'll give a couple of them a shot.

I'm in for something new.

Oh, and I suppose you think that the Joker must be a great criminal mastermind, just because you've heard of him?  Just because he gets all the press and the hot girlfriend and the Academy Award-winning documentary – which wasn't even that accurate, by the way – he's suddenly the Napoleon of crime?   Well, some of us don't need clown makeup to put on a show.  I put on my performances in the theater of the mind.  And there is only one impresario.  Me!

As insulted as I am that you haven't heard of me, I promise not to hold it against you.  You can solve all of my riddles without knowing the first thing about Gotham City.  Any exceptions will be as clear as crystal.

Stop it, Jim Carrey. Threatening the forum? It seems your career objectives have taken a turn for the worse.

Edit: Well, a worse turn, anyway...

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...I wonder where I can find a Lost Driver for this Gaia Memory? You know, the one that says "SKULL" on it... ;)

(IRL? HA! I *wish*!)

Eh, I've always been a fan of Oswald Cobblepott.

The Riddler wrote:

Oh, and I suppose you think that the Joker must be a great criminal mastermind, just because you've heard of him?  Just because he gets all the press and the hot girlfriend and the Academy Award-winning documentary – which wasn't even that accurate, by the way – he's suddenly the Napoleon of crime?   Well, some of us don't need clown makeup to put on a show.  I put on my performances in the theater of the mind.  And there is only one impresario.  Me!

As insulted as I am that you haven't heard of me, I promise not to hold it against you.  You can solve all of my riddles without knowing the first thing about Gotham City.  Any exceptions will be as clear as crystal.

And some of us don't need to hold a whole forum hostage for a show, but even then, no one's crazy enough to pull such stunts to get such attention.

And to be fairly honest, clown makeup interests and attracts some people.

Hi satyr,

I actually enjoyed the puzzles and would like to keep going.

But, lately it's just been a very busy time of the year for me, and I do need to reserve my brain juice for other pressing matters in life right now, so maybe later in the year I will be able to participate more often in the puzzles.

As far as difficulty is concerned, it is a little hard for me to figure some things out (I wasn't completely sure about the one-less/one-more letter thing in crossword) Maybe start off with something simpler, so we get a feel for it before going for the hard stuff.

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Hiraku wrote:

I actually enjoyed the puzzles and would like to keep going.

This is really all I needed to know.   I don't want to make anyone feel obliged to participate, but at the same time I don't want to post into a void.

OnlyInThisLight wrote:

I was also afraid of over-posting in the Riddler threads and annoying other forum members with my half-baked observations.

Half-baked my ass.  Ivy is practically solved. 

OnlyInThisLight wrote:

The only thing I would add to the Riddler puzzles is a way of confirming if we are correct.  Say, if someone answers with the correct word on the Ivy puzzle to go ahead and edit that answer into the first post.  You don't have to say WHY it was correct, for example, but it would be a clue in its own way for us to work off of.

This is a great idea.  That seems like a good way to let you know when you're onto something.  The only thing is that I don't want to give spoilers to people who might come along later, and it might not be equally applicable to all puzzles.  So for Ivy I'll post a grid with the correctly guessed answers to the end of the current thread as encouragement; for Catwoman I'll tell you who's thinking along the right lines and how far e got; and for upcoming puzzles we'll play it by ear.

Ah, okay!  Little busy this upcoming week (School is all like, do stuff Katelyn, do stuff forever, and they keep scheduling me to work every single day despite my requests from last Spring that I take less hours so I can devote myself to lurnin' which sucks because I really wanna sign up for a service learning opportunity through CASL and just :C) so I might be a bit scarce on these Riddles. 

If only super muscly and mysterious hero could find some way to interfere with the Riddler's internet connection or force him in some way to lengthen our deadline! 

satyreyes wrote:

Hi all!  I'm unmasking myself -- to no one's great surprise, I am the Riddler!  I'm fessing up because no one's posted to the puzzle threads in nearly three days, which tells me that the puzzles are too hard, not fun enough, or both. 

I wrote the riddles to resemble the ones in the MIT Mystery Hunt, an annual long weekend of born-original puzzles, presented without instructions, relying on a lot of lateral thinking.  Hunt puzzles are tough even for veterans of the event.  To make matters worse, this was my first time writing this kind of puzzle -- so I'm an inexperienced constructor writing puzzles for a crowd that's largely never seen this kind of thing before.  I knew it was risky going in.  I'm glad some of you have managed to have some fun with it anyway.

What I want to know is: do you want to keep going?  I can give hints now if need be, without having to couch them in the Riddler's insulting arrogance or get my lovely assistant bella to write Harley for me.  But we can also just call the whole thing off.  I would love to share my work with you, but I don't want to try the forum's patience.  Thoughts?  Feelings?

At the risk of sounding contrary, is there a reason the puzzles aren't in the Shaved Ice  area with the rest of the games?

I'd prefer them here, if only because there is a theme to them.  It feels like a forum event, if that makes any sense.