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* CrossoverEpisode: The ''Magic Maze'' riddle serves as this for the ''Dragon Jousting'' series and the ''Moldevort'' series of riddles, [[TheBusCameBack with the return of Magnificent Marigold's Magical Macademy from the]] ''[[TheBusCameBack Sorting Hat]]'' [[TheBusCameBack riddle and both Newt-Niz and Leib-Ton schools from]] ''[[TheBusCameBack Wizard Standoff]]'' added in the mix.

* WritersCannotDoMath: [[spoiler:The solution to the riddle relies on the fact that the numbers 7, 11, and 13 multiply to 1001. However, the actual number of creatures is 917[[labelnote:Math]] 7 leviathons + (10 kraken * 7 leviathons) + (12 mermites * 10 kraken * 7 leviathon) = 7 + 70 + (120 mermites per kraken * 7) = 7 + 70 + 840 = 917) [[/labelnote]]. Thus, unless the number of pearls happens to be ''exactly'' 917,917, the "correct" chest cannot save the city.]]
** [[spoiler:It gets worse. The shares that the leviathan keep are ''never'' divided any further, while the shares they distribute to the kraken ''are.'' Thus, it's easy to see that unequal shares, which the riddle deems fatal, are impossible to avoid. This means that not only do none of the five chests have the correct number of pearls to save the city, there is '''NO''' correct number of pearls, and Atlantarctica is doomed to sink.]]

*** In the Secret Werewolf Bonus Riddle, the Detective (a Literature/SherlockHolmes lookalike) travels to a werewolf village, with the stipulation given that werewolves always lie while humans always tell the truth. [[spoiler:Since all 100 village inhabitants say that there is at least 1 human among them, the only solution is that all 100 inhabitants are werewolves since at least 1 werewolf must exist in the village.]]

* StockLateralThinkingPuzzle: The Time-Travelling Car riddle is actually a variant of the 'What color is the bear?' riddle, with the twist that you need to find two separate places at least 100 miles apart where you can travel a mile south, then a mile east, and a mile north and end up back at your starting point.[[spoiler:In any case, the answer is still the poles. One time-traveller pulls the classic trick at the north pole, while the second starts a mile north of a 1 mile circumference circle around the South Pole.]]

* ButtMonkey: The protagonist of the ''Dragon Jousting'', ''Fantasy Election'', and ''Ice and Fire Dragons'' riddles keeps getting into situations where it's either solve riddles, or be executed.

* SetRightWhatOnceWentWrong: In the intro to the "Time Travelling Car" riddle, the time traveller's shenanigans cause the school bully to become a world dicator, and the journey that causes the main part of the riddle is them preventing that from happening.

** GameOfNim: You play a variant of this game against the rogue AI Nim, where you start on top of 25 meters of electrified water, Nim starts at the bottom, both players must lower the water level to exactly 0 on their turn, and can only lower the water levels by 1, 3, or 4 levels.

** KnightsAndKnaves: The Three Gods puzzle appears, with the player a crashed astronaut who must figure out the identities of three alien overlords, one of whom is always truthful, another is always false, and a third whose answers are random, using three yes-or-no questions. And to make matters worse, they don't know which of the words Ozo or Ulu means yes, and which means no.

* TheEmperor: The counterfeit coin riddle features an emperor who jails the protagonist just for speaking out against his taxation policies.

** TwelveCoinsPuzzle: Shows up with the protagonist having to determine which coin amongst twelve is counterfeit- but, because the ruler is not at all patient, can only use the set of scales three times.

* MeaningfulName: Each of the four apprentices in the crystal riddle have a name corresponding to the elemental crystal they ate, which serves as an alternate way to solve the riddle:
** Rikku = [[spoiler:Riku(陸), Japanese for 'Land' or 'Continent' ('Earth')]]
** Sumi = [[spoiler:Sum(숨), Korean for 'Breath' ('Air')]]
** Bella = [[spoiler:Latin for war ('Fire')]]
** Jonah = [[spoiler:From Jonah and the Whale. Jonah was swallowed by a whale, a fish of the sea. ('Water')]]

** In the Alien Probe riddle, the probe is given three different coatings to protect it from the extreme conditions it will encounter on its journey - extreme cold from the vacuum of space, extreme heat ehn it enters a planet's atmosphere, and electrical storms on the planet's surface.

* FireIceLightning: The Fire and Ice Dragons riddle involves solving the territorial issues of Fire and Ice dragons in the protagonist's home kingdom. After that, the protagonist is sent across the Western Sea to a land with even worse territory issues, now including Lightning dragons too.

* BizarreAlienReproduction: In the Cuddly Duddly Fuddly Wuddly riddle, the ''Wuddly'' species consists of the RidiculouslyCuteCritter Cuddly, the terrifying Duddly, and the hideous Fuddly. A new member of this species is created via mixing 100 eggs together, two at a time, with red + blue giving a purple egg, purple + blue giving a red, and red + purple giving a blue. The last remaining egg then hatches into a Cuddly, Duddly, or Fuddly if it's blue, purple, or red respectively.

* RidiculouslyCuteCritter: The Cuddly in the Cuddly Duddly Fuddly Wuddly riddle is said to be the cutest creature in all of creation, and the protagonist's child wants one for a pet as a birthday present.

* ExplosiveBreeder: The Multiplying Rabbits riddle has "nano-rabbits" that breed quickly with those in its adjacent habitat, producing offspring equal to the product of both habitats in the habitat below. These mature in minutes and continue the process. The protagonist's job is to find out whether the bottom habitat can contain 10[[superscript:80]] nano-rabbits and decide to continue or abort the experiment, with the risk of the rabbits breaking out and cause a GreyGoo apocalypse. To make matters worse, a rival company has sabotaged the protagonist's nano-rabbit company and removed the trailing zeroes from all his calculations.