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What reads and lives in apples? Bookworms
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What riddles are worth solving when you're bored or tired? We should recommend you a section of short, funny and even easy riddles to relax and enjoy!
What is the easiest way to solve a riddle? There is hardly a universal method, but we recommend engaging two hemispheres of the brain at once and looking at the picture from a different angle, even if they are already over.
How riddles are structured? A good riddle is an upside-down question with a very simple answer behind a deliberate misconception.
How can I make up a riddle on my own? It is necessary to do it in such a way that no one knows the answer beforehand. Especially when riddles are given to children, it is important that they come up with the answer themselves, without “reading” them from your emotions!
How do riddles develop speech? Experts say that riddles contribute to the training of diction, because you need to know exactly when to show your interlocutor an emotion, so that he thinks for a long time about the answer. And sometimes you have to show your acting skills to make it look spectacular.
Who composes the riddles? Some of the riddles are folklore from various cultures, while others were written by our team.
How are riddles riddled? It is necessary to do it in such a way that no one knows the answer beforehand. Especially when riddles are given to children, it is important that they come up with the answer themselves, without “reading” them from your emotions!
Can riddles make you smarter? Absolutely! First, you train your brain when you memorise riddles and second, when you guess them, because you make both hemispheres of your brain work.
How do riddles develop speech? Experts say that riddles contribute to the training of diction, because you need to know exactly when to show your interlocutor an emotion, so that he thinks for a long time about the answer. And sometimes you have to show your acting skills to make it look spectacular.
Is it possible to solve a riddle when drunk? Of course! You can solve riddles in any state, especially when you're tipsy. Our riddles for adults section has a huge collection of riddles with fun answers for different companies!
Can children solve riddles for adults? Yes, yes, and yes again! Children can't see anything confusing, so they'll give the right answer pretty quickly, unlike adults...
Dirty, so it needs to be washed? Not at all! Go to the adult riddles section and you'll see that it's already clean!
What categories of riddles has the “what is it riddles” section? In this section you can find riddles on various topics, from riddles about pizza to riddles about the weather.
Who composes the riddles? Some of the riddles are folklore from various cultures, while others were written by our team.
Can I make up riddles? Sure! To do this, it is important to think of and think through the answer and all the different variations of that answer, and then write in veiled language to come up with the question. Train your brain and success awaits you!
In August 2020, Warner Bros shared the first trailer for Robert Pattinson’s debut as the caped crusader at DC FanDome. Attentive fans noticed that during that trailer, the Riddler carefully wrapped up a greeting card for Batman, posing an initial challenge: “What does a liar say when he’s dead?” The card went on to say “Haven’t a Clue? Let’s Play a Game, just Me and You…” before devolving into a series of nonsensical characters. Nonsensical, at least, until a fan decoded the script to complete the macabre puzzle: HE LIES STILL. A fun, throwaway easter egg that has since returned, launching what looks suspiciously like a new alternate reality game leading up to the March 4th release of The Batman. Known cipher letters: EHILST Image by @Bat_Source on Twitter – (full resolution image on their account)The Batman (Cipher) Returns: Finding the Rabbit Hole Known cipher letters: ADEHILORSTUY A New Round of Riddles
While the chatbot serves a highly utilitarian process in the experience, it hides more than a few delightful surprises to taunt players who try and get creative with the challenge. Checking the source code reveals a console.log message “Nice try. You won’t find anything here”, while navigating away from the page triggers lighthearted taunts: upon return, you might be greeted with the message “you scour the internet for truth, but you still need to answer me”, or “you search for the right answers, but you need to look deeper.” Wrong answers can lead to even harsher admonishments, with the chatbot’s chiding going so far as to say “with answers like that, no wonder Gotham suffers. Once all three riddles are answered, the site’s chatbot rewards visitors with a JPG featuring a series of three sketches Pattinson’s Batman, with the beginning of an additional coded message hidden in the URL. Returning to the site, visitors are posed with a new question: “Have you ever been to the Iceberg Lounge?” Whatever the response, visitors are given the link to one final reward: a final ciphered message from the Riddler, along with a message: “That’s all I have for now. I’ll be back with more soon. Just stay vigilant.” The message doubled as promise of more to come and decoder ring for the final puzzle, as those final words were the key to unlocking more letters of The Riddler’s cipher. Around the same time RataAlada.com went live, DC’s Twitter account shared an animated gif that translated the site’s opening prompt of “Let’s play a game just me and you” into the Riddler’s cipher text. The looped gif only replaced previously identified letters, but served as additional reinforcement for prior solutions. Known cipher letters: ADEHILNORSTUVY Does This Mean We Finally Have a New Batman ARG? It may not be as expansive as Why So Serious‘ multi-year campaign leading up to the release of The Dark Knight in 2007-2008 – their ability to do everything from a live event enlisting SDCC attendees into the Joker’s heist crew to holding Harvey Dent campaign rallies and hiding burner phones inside cakes was predicated on having over a year to roll out the narrative beats, and the release of The Batman isn’t too far off. But it does look like Warner Bros is returning to familiar ARGish territory to help welcome Robert Pattinson into the cinematic Bat Family, and the experience has promised more to come in some form. So stay vigilant, and keep your eyes peeled for more signs and ciphers of things to come, on RataAlada.com and other dark corners of the world (both real and virtual). After all, with prior entries coming from both official trailer and in-theater promotional materials, who knows where we might next find the Bat’s signals? Updated 1/27/2022 to add: The RataAlada.com website has been updated, with three new questions (answers in ROT-13, easily readable through websites like Rot13.com):
Answering those three questions unlocks an additional image from the film, as well as another block of cipher text adding the letters B, M, and W to the Riddler’s alphabet. Thanks to JC Denton in the comments for flagging the update! Updated 1/30/2022 to add: The update frequency has increased, with an additional batch of questions:
This unlocked yet another image, as well as a new block of cipher text introducing the letters “F”, “P”, and “X”. Updated 2/18 to add: A new batch of questions dropped:
Yet again, this unlocked a new image and block of cipher text, introducing the letter “Q”. Earlier in the month, a new set of movie posters introduced the letter “K” to the list. Updated 2/25 to add: One more batch of questions:
You know the drill – new image, new cipher text, new cipher text, and the introduction of the letter “C” to the Riddler’s almost-complete alphabet. Updated 3/2 to add: With this potentially final round, things got a little more complicated. The first step: solving an initial batch of questions:
After solving those three riddles, a password protected file named What_Am_I.zip is provided. To open it, players must solve a final riddle, contained in the URLs of all the prior files: I’m not an imposer Players solved the riddle last week, and using that password unlocks a short video, Thomas_Wayne_Lies.mp4, featuring a defaced campaign ad from Thomas Wayne’s mayoral run. An excerpted image from Thomas_Wayne_Lies.mp4A final coded message provided the letter “Z”, leaving only the letter “J” unidentified for the full cipher alphabet. Updated 3/6 to add: After the film’s official premiere on Friday March 4th, the website was updated with traceroute-based references to past Batman comics, a new block of cipher text and a “loading bar” incrementing approximately once every 2 hours. The loading should be completed at some point around Friday March 11th. Updated 3/11 to add: Once the loading bar hit 100%, the site was updated with a file download for know_what_i_know.zip, containing images from the Riddler’s surveillance as well as an excerpt from his journal. The new block of cipher text that came along with it should be a familiar teaser, for fans who watched the film. Updated 3/18 to add: We’re back to traditional riddles, with a new round of questions:
This unlocked an illustrated image of the phrase The Riddler – Year One (a new comic coming to DC) framed by a pair of spectacles, paired with a countdown to six days from now. It also led to an additional block of cipher text, providing the final letter of the Riddler’s cipher (as well as a second, barely legible message on the bottom of the page). Updated 3/24 to add: After the countdown finished, a new set of questions popped up, with a strong theme running across the questions:
Completing this round of riddles unlocked a deleted scene from the film. If this really is the end for Rata Alada, there’s a certain narrative resonance. Why So Serious‘ alternate reality game opened with a pixel-by-pixel reveal of Heath Ledger’s face as the Joker, before launching into a months-long campaign that brought players into the world of Gotham. So having Rata Alada close out events with a deleted scene introducing Barry Keoghan’s Joker to DC fans brings things full circle, in a way. |