The vault
Every mystery, free to play, in any order. Nothing here is locked and nothing costs anything — the daily one is just the one everybody is doing today.
#1I am the reason you are late, and I have never once moved.five clues
#2I am often the first decision of your day, and rarely a di…five clues
#3I am slowly leaving you — about four centimetres every yea…five clues
#4I never spoil. Not in a year, not in a thousand.five clues
#5I am fifteen centuries old and I have not changed my mind …five clues
#6I was built to be temporary. I am still here.five clues
#7I am the only thing that shows you your own face, and I ge…five clues
#8I wear formal dress and have never once attended a wedding…five clues
#9I was once currency. People paid their taxes in me.five clues
#10My whole purpose is to be avoided.five clues
#11No two people have ever seen the same one of me.five clues
#12I am named after a battle, not a race.five clues
#13I am named after a Roman blacksmith god.five clues
#14I was invented for the sun, not for the rain.five clues
#15I am a time machine, and I only look backwards.five clues
#16I dissolve completely before I become myself.five clues
#17I am one of the last indoor places that wants nothing from…five clues
#18My name is two Danish words meaning play well.five clues
#19I always agree with you about which way is forward, and I …five clues
#20Wars were fought over me. Roads were built for me.five clues
#21I have eighty-eight of something, and they are not all whi…five clues
#22I am not white. I only look it.five clues
#23I was written as a bundle of letters, diaries and newspape…five clues
#24I turn a flat thing into a solid thing, with no cutting an…five clues
#25I am the most efficient machine ever built for moving a hu…five clues
#26I invented, or first wrote down, around seventeen hundred …five clues
#27I began as a way to preserve fish, and the rice was thrown…five clues
#28I was the tallest thing humans had built for three thousan…five clues
#29I have a neck, a body and a waist, and I am not alive.five clues
#30I only ever repeat, and never once agree.five clues
#31I am not one thing. I am many things, built by people who …five clues
#32I am the second most drunk thing on the planet, and the fi…five clues
#33I was found because somebody did not tidy up before going …five clues
#34I was invented by a man walking his dog.five clues
#35I was discovered because a chocolate bar melted in somebod…five clues
#36I was invented to be wallpaper, and absolutely nobody want…five clues
#37For most of human history I did not exist, and arithmetic …five clues
#38My heart weighs about as much as a small car, and while I …five clues
#39No two people have ever been found to share me, identical …five clues
#40I store sound as one continuous scratch.five clues
#41I was work clothing for miners, and nobody wanted to be se…five clues
#42I contain no lead, and I never have.five clues
#43My hump is not full of what you think it is.five clues
#44Salt is the secret, and none of it ends up in me.five clues
#45I am a request rather than a right. I ask other countries …five clues
#46I grow a few millimetres every year, and an earthquake onc…five clues
#47My thread is stronger than steel of the same weight, and n…five clues
#48The first of me was installed before cars existed, and it …five clues
#49I say the same thing three times, and that is the entire r…five clues
#50Six thousand years ago I was green, with lakes in me and h…five clues
#51I cannot move my eyes at all, so I move my whole head inst…five clues
#52I do not really kill anything. I simply refuse to let the …five clues
#53I am older than farming. People baked me before anyone tho…five clues
#54I began as the sap of a Central American tree.five clues
#55I was a gift, and the two countries involved argued at len…five clues
#56I was drawn in the sand on a beach, as Morse code pulled d…five clues
#57I was patented as a fairground amusement, not as transport…five clues
#58I have killed more people than every war put together, and…five clues
#59I am not a stone. I am sap that waited forty million years…five clues
#60For a fraction of a second I am five times hotter than the…five clues
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Each mystery also has its own page with all five clues written out and the answer at the bottom: #1, #2, #3, #4, #5, #6, and so on.