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* FiveAcesCheater: In the Cheating Royal riddle, the king makes his 4 children play a game of dice to determine which of them will become his heir, has them each record their own scores and tasks the protagonist with analysing them. On closer inspection, it turns out that this trope is in play for 3 of the 4 scores submitted: [[spoiler: 2 of the children logged scores that were impossible - Bertram declares a score of 840 when the maximum possible score for the game is 700, and Draco claims to have rolled 423 on dice where every combined score should be a multiple of 5. A third player, Cassandra, declares 700, which would have required her to roll the highest score on her dice 40 times in a row, at odds of 1 in 13 nonillion - improbable enough that, under the rules laid down by the king, it's reasonable to assume she either cheated or miscounted, and disqualify her.]]

* BalefulPolymorph: In the crystal riddle, the apprentices are in danger of transforming into uncontrollable elemental spirits because they swallowed the elemental crystals.

* FiveAcesCheater: In the Cheating Royal riddle, the king makes his 4 children play a game of dice to determine which of them will become his heir, has them each record their own scores and tasks the protagonist with analysing them. On closer inspection, it turns out that this trope is in play for 3 of the 4 scores submitted: [[spoiler: 2 of the children logged scores that were impossible - Bertram rolled 840 when the maximum possible score for the game is 700, and Draco rolled 423 on dice where every combined score should be a multiple of 5. A third player, Cassandra, logged 700, which would have required her to roll the highest score on her dice 40 times in a row, at odds of 1 in 13 nonillion - improbable enough that, under the rules laid down by the king, it's reasonable to assume she either cheated or miscounted, and disqualify her.]]

* FiveAcesCheater: In the Cheating Royal riddle, the king makes his 4 children play a game of dice to determine which of them will become his heir, has them each record their own scores and tasks the protagonist with analysing them. On closer inspection, it turns out that 2 of the children logged scores that were impossible - Bertram rolled 840 when the maximum possible score for the game is 700, and Draco rolled 423 on dice where every combined score should be a multiple of 5. A third player, Cassandra, logged 700, which would have required her to roll the highest score on her dice 40 times in a row, at odds of 1 in 13 nonillion - improbable enough that, under the rules laid down by the king, it's reasonable to assume she either cheated or miscounted, and disqualify her.

* FiveAcesCheater: In the Cheating Royal riddle, the king makes his 4 children play a game of dice to determine which of them will become his heir, has them each record their own scores and tasks the protagonist with analysing them. On closer inspection, it turns out that 2 of the children logged scores that were impossible - Bertram rolled 840 when the maximum possible score for the game is 700, and Draco rolled 423 on dice where every combined score should be a multiple of 5. A third player, Cassandra, logged 700, which would have required her to roll the highest score on her dice 40 times in a row, at odds of 1 in 13 nonillion - which, under the rules laid down by the king, is reasonable grounds to assume she either cheated or miscounted, and disqualify her.

* BunglingInventor: Slate Kanoli, the protagonist's uncle in the Death Race riddle (and a DistressedDude), is an inventor whose inventions include a snow speedo, a portable cloud, and the Coil Runner, a vehicle where messing with the emergency turbo thrusters can cause any of three catastrophic failures. Subverted in the ''Human Cannonball'' riddle, where the cannon he made fails due to being sabotaged.

* YouCantMakeAnOmelette: The egg drop riddle ends with the narrator saying “Like the old saying goes, you can’t pull off a heist without breaking a few eggs.”

* VillainProtagonist: The egg drop riddle stars a PhantomThief who wants to steal a valuable egg from the egg museum.

* LoonyLaws: The city of Duonia from the Penniless Pilgrim riddle taxes people based on what direction they walk through the city. Walking right adds 2 pieces of silver to the tax, walking downward multiplies it by 2, walking left subtracts 2, and walking up divides it by 2.

* ButtMonkey: The protagonist of the ''Dragon Jousting'' and ''Fantasy Election'' riddles keeps getting into situations where he has to deduce true information based on falsehoods, or else be executed.

* CaptainColorbeard: One riddle has you trying to find where the pirate Captain Greenbeard buried his treasure.

* BunglingInventor: Slate Kanoli, the protagonist's uncle in the Death Race riddle (and a DistressedDude), is an inventor whose inventions include a snow speedo, a portable cloud, and the Coil Runner, a vehicle where messing with the emergency turbo thrusters can cause any of three catastrophic failures.

** FoxChickenGrainPuzzle: The 4 persons crossing a bridge variant is used in one riddle, where you and your three coworkers must escape a remote lab before zombies get you.