Riddle me this

My friend and I that plays together all the time always search the island when doing the riddles. We would usually find a chest or two just lying around or a skull along with crates. Yes they are riddles but if one guy solves it then the rest search the island, you will most likely walk away with more chest. We even found chest of sorrows sitting in a cave .

@mad-jack-ketch that's a good question perhaps Rare can fix that for me one day, guess I dont post enough join me on the seas and I'll show you!

I don't get it. I'm no genius but it rarely takes me a few minutes to solve a riddle. At worst there's a handful of steps at that. I rather appreciate the riddles to be honest, they're quick and easy, and the fastest stops during an Athena's to boot thanks to the lack of needing to dig 4+ chests...

I'm not attempting to be antagonistic. But I really don't see the weight to this thought?

I'm more in line with @SALEMREAPER999 here... one person solves the riddle... the other(s) load up supplies and scavenge for rando loot.

As a matter of note: I've never failed a riddle... are these things really bothering people?

Again, not trying to be sly or insulting here.. i'm just rather surprised to see any vocalization of this sort of opinion. At most i'd say perhaps elevate the reward scale for riddles since only one item is gained... it's nice to get better loot from them when one considers that's the only primary reward is a single item. Particularly when in some cases a riddle may be the only part to a voyage.

@blooddoll22 yes. Some are difficult. It's the riddles that have you looking for an obscure item such as the fisherman's camp that doesnt look like a camp at all. It's just netting tied up to wood. There is also the raise your lantern, read the map, or play music at a specific spot. You found the spot but you have to try it from all angles to trigger it. By this point skeletons spawn which add on to the time spent trying to finish the riddle.

@d-jaguar Yea, i'll give you the trigger location issue. Have encountered that back in the day. Such as Cannon cove the grove beneath the peak is pretty darn finicky.

Guess I never considered the riddles overly challenging though I wouldn't mind seeing an escalation in the reward tier for the chests on them, even if it was in favor of higher rng for what was found or a greater cursed chest % or something. Since a single chest reward is kind of lame.

Exactly. I’m a Pirate Legend and when I do my Riddles, I have gotten Sea Fahrer chest. Like lol.

@lumberjack0027 said in Riddle me this:

As someone who has been playing since the technical Alpha, I find so many people failing to complete voyages because of riddles. Given that the effort to reward ratio is so low, I truly believe these need to be re-worked. Perhaps they could be redesigned to provide more unique chest like sorrows or grog ( maybe even a few new ones), or perhaps a chest can be dug up at each point of the riddle so that a voyage can walk away with 2-4 chest depending in how many points you need to solve. Regardless of this I truly believe they need some TLC stat as it continues to plague the community from fully committing to voyage competition (other than for Athena of course). Thanks for hearing me out!

I have to somewhat agree with this. I enjoyed the riddles even though sometimes I would run into one that was hard to solve but now that i have done lots I tend to skip them and go for the digs. If it had a higher chance for better chest like the chest of sorrows then I would probably do more.

@blooddoll22

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@lumberjack0027 said in Riddle me this:

As someone who has been playing since the technical Alpha, I find so many people failing to complete voyages because of riddles. Given that the effort to reward ratio is so low, I truly believe these need to be re-worked. Perhaps they could be redesigned to provide more unique chest like sorrows or grog ( maybe even a few new ones), or perhaps a chest can be dug up at each point of the riddle so that a voyage can walk away with 2-4 chest depending in how many points you need to solve. Regardless of this I truly believe they need some TLC stat as it continues to plague the community from fully committing to voyage competition (other than for Athena of course). Thanks for hearing me out!

Before reading your full post, I had already typed the following:

People write off riddles as being terrible... but I have gotten MOST of my Sorrow and Grog chests from riddles. They also take very little time to do...

It would also help if random loot was more abundunt like it seemed to be during sunken curse. There seemed to be loot everywhere for that. You’d go to an island for a riddle and get 3 statues and 5 or 6 pieces of random loot laying around

I was not going to advertise this until I had got closer to getting all the screenshots I need, but my Sea of Thieves fansite now includes a database of about 150 riddle clues over 20 different islands.

It is at http://surveyorpete.fun/Tools/Riddles

I know there are many more riddles to be added, and those that are listed are not yet fully mapped and illustrated; but I am working on it. But, it may be of use to someone.

@nessiroj

why not ask the community to help with the missing screenshots?

I prefer to do my own photography. Like a real photographer, I often find myself sitting out a storm, and waiting for the sun to get in just the right position for the best light. :-)

But, I will be asking for clues that I don't have.

I will have to do something about just-in-time loading of pics, to speed things up.

I absolutely love doing the riddles, however as said before the work/reward ratio needs to be gone over.