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* BrainyBrunette: Smiley enjoys school and grows a full head of brown hair in [=RT1=].
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* TheEnd: The phrase is written in Mr. Kahn and Ms. Cophey's stories in ''Riddle School 4''[='=]s WhereAreTheyNowEpilogue, when they both end up in "WhatCouldPossiblyGoWrong" situations that the stories avoid describing the predictable outcomes of.
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* TheEnd: The phrase is written in Mr. Kahn Kahm and Ms. Cophey's stories in ''Riddle School 4''[='=]s WhereAreTheyNowEpilogue, when they both end up in "WhatCouldPossiblyGoWrong" situations that the stories avoid describing the predictable outcomes of.
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** Looking at the clock in [=RT2=] will have Phil debate if it reads [=5AM=], [=5PM=], or [[VideoGame/OneNightAtFlumptys HAM]].
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* AstralFinale: [[spoiler:All of Riddle School 5, but especially Viz's freezer ship, and Riddle Transfer 2's final segment takes place in space.]]
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* ChildhoodFriendRomance: [[spoiler: The ending to [=RT2=] has Phil confess his love for Smiley.]]
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** [[spoiler:Diz]] in Riddle Transfer 2.
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** [[spoiler:Diz]] [[spoiler:Quiz]] in Riddle Transfer 2.
2, [[spoiler:but his position gets taken by Diz near the end of the game]].
* ChekhovsGunman: [[spoiler:Diz in ''Riddle School4''.4'' and ''Riddle Transfer 2''.]]
* ChekhovsGunman: [[spoiler:Diz in ''Riddle School
* EvilAllAlong: [[spoiler:Diz]].
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* HeelFaceTurn: [[spoiler:Quiz in [=RT2=] tries to take over the school when Phil confronts him with a quiz quiz, causing him to cry break down and give up being evil.trying to continue Project Vizion.]]
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* AliensSpeakingEnglish: [[spoiler:Viz and Diz.]]
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* AliensSpeakingEnglish: [[spoiler:Viz [[spoiler:Viz, Diz and Diz.Quiz.]]
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* BigBad: Viz.BigBad:
** Viz in Riddle School 5.
** Viz in Riddle School 5.
** [[spoiler:Diz]] in Riddle Transfer 2.
* ChildhoodFriendRomance: [[spoiler: The ending has Phil confess his love for Smiley.]]
* TheGenericGuy: Phred. When giving the characters last names, [=JonBro=] just gave him Whistler since he had no real personality and was only known for having a whistle in on.
* HeelFaceTurn: [[spoiler:Quiz in [=RT2=] tries to take over the school when Phil confronts him with a quiz causing him to cry and give up being evil.]]
* NostalgiaLevel: The elementary school from the first Riddle School is the setting for [=RT2=].
* OfficialCouple: [[spoiler: Phil and Smiley at the end of the series. The ending shows them growing up together.]]
* OfficialCouple: [[spoiler: Phil and Smiley at the end of the series. The ending shows them growing up together.]]
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* NiceJobBreakingItHero: If Phil hadn't [[spoiler:escaped school early on the day he had way back in [=RS1=]]], the entire series's overarching plot would've been nullified.
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* NiceJobBreakingItHero: If It's not revealed until [=RS5=], but if Phil hadn't [[spoiler:escaped school early on the day he had way back in [=RS1=]]], the entire series's overarching plot would've been nullified.
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* ArmorPiercingQuestion: Phil invokes this [[spoiler:while interrogating Quiz]] towards the climax of [=RT2=]. [[spoiler:He challenges Quiz to a quiz, and asks several of these questions in a row, every single one of them one of these, to illustrate just how much he suspects about Quiz's motivation.]]
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* HeroicSacrifice: [[spoiler:Quiz, to stop the planet-freezing ray]] in [=RT2=].
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Riddle Schools 2, 3, and 4 have practically the same mechanics to the first and follow a very similar plot line with our titular main character finding his way out of middle school, high school, and college, respectively. Riddle School 5 changes the stage from school to an alien space ship in an unexpectedly complicated series of events. Riddle Transfer sets up the stage to a {{sequel series}} of games by [=JonBro=], but instead, to this date, it marks the end to the Riddle School games.
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Riddle Schools 2, 3, and 4 have practically the same mechanics to the first and follow a very similar plot line with our titular main character finding his way out of middle school, high school, and college, respectively. Riddle School 5 changes the stage from school to an alien space ship in an unexpectedly complicated series of events. Riddle Transfer sets up the stage to a {{sequel series}} of games by [=JonBro=], [=JonBro=]; the series's original plans were scrapped, but instead, to this date, it marks ended with its second installment on May 25, 2016-- the end to the Riddle School games.
first game's tenth anniversary.
[[http://www.newgrounds.com/portal/view/675171 Play Riddle Transfer 2 here.]]
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* WhamEpisode: Riddle School 4, [[spoiler: when Phil Eggtree 'died'. Made originally as an April Fool's joke to convince others there will be no more Riddle School games, but years later made a few more, with [=RS5=] tying in the significance of the other four games, including #4]]
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* WhamEpisode: Riddle School 4, [[spoiler: when Phil Eggtree 'died'. Made originally as an April Fool's joke to convince others there will be no more Riddle School games, but years later made a few more, with [=RS5=] tying in the significance of the other four games, including #4]]#4]].
* WhereItAllBegan: Most of [=RT2=] takes place in the same school building that the first game did.
* WhereItAllBegan: Most of [=RT2=] takes place in the same school building that the first game did.
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Riddle Schools 2, 3, and 4 have practically the same mechanics to the first and follow a very similar plot line with our titular main character finding his way out of middle school, high school, and college, respectively. Riddle School 5 changes the stage from school to an alien space ship in an unexpectedly complicated series of events. Riddle Transfer sets up the stage to a sequel series {{sequel series}} of games by [=JonBro=], but instead, to this date, it marks the end to the Riddle School games.
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Riddle Schools 2, 3, and 4 have practically the same mechanics to the first and follow a very similar plot line to the first with our titular main character finding his way out of middle school, high school, and college, respectively. Riddle School 5 changes the stage from school to an alien space ship in an unexpectedly complicated series of events. Riddle Transfer sets up the stage to a sequel series of games by JonBro
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Upon release, the first game was met with positive reception, and requests for more games followed, with Jonbro obliging and creating Riddle School 2 & 3. After requests for a fourth got to be too much, Riddle School 4 was released as a joke. The day after, Riddle School 5 was released, which explained the fourth game's shortness and was supposed to have concluded the series.
Even though Jonbro had no plans to make more, he eventually gave in to fan requests and made Riddle Transfer, which was supposed to be the start of a SequelSeries. Unfortunately, Jonbro suffered creative burnout after that and cancelled all the games after Riddle Transfer 1.
Even though Jonbro had no plans to make more, he eventually gave in to fan requests and made Riddle Transfer, which was supposed to be the start of a SequelSeries. Unfortunately, Jonbro suffered creative burnout after that and cancelled all the games after Riddle Transfer 1.
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* [[WhamEpisode Wham Game]]: WhamEpisode: Riddle School 4, [[spoiler: when Phil Eggtree 'died'. Made originally as an April Fool's joke to convince others there will be no more Riddle School games, but years later made a few more, with [=RS5=] tying in the significance of the other four games, including #4]]
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* DoomedNewClothes: Mrs. Mooses's story in ''Riddle School 4''[='=]s WhereAreTheyNowEpilogue:
--> Mrs. Mooses was at a bank and a bank robbery suddenly took place. The robber told her to get down on the ground. She said the ground was awfully dirty and it wouldn't be good for her new dress. She was shot multiple times and her dress was ruined.
* TheEnd: The phrase is written in Mr. Kahn and Ms. Cophey's stories in ''Riddle School 4''[='=]s WhereAreTheyNowEpilogue, when they both end up in "WhatCouldPossiblyGoWrong" situations that the stories avoid describing the predictable outcomes of.
--> Mrs. Mooses was at a bank and a bank robbery suddenly took place. The robber told her to get down on the ground. She said the ground was awfully dirty and it wouldn't be good for her new dress. She was shot multiple times and her dress was ruined.
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* LeaningOnTheFourthWall: In [=RS5=], shortly before the final series of puzzles in the game (and by extension the entire series), [[spoiler:Viz says "Prepare yourself... for the Grand Finale."]]
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* LeaningOnTheFourthWall: In [=RS5=], shortly before the final series of puzzles in the game (and by extension the entire original series), [[spoiler:Viz says "Prepare yourself... for the Grand Finale."]]
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Even though Jonbro had no plans to make more, he eventually gave in to fan requests and made Riddle Transfer, which was supposed to be the start of a SequelSeries. Unfortunately, Jonbro suffered creative burnout after that and cancelled all the games after Riddle Transfer 1.
Even though Jonbro had no plans to make more, he eventually gave in to fan requests and made Riddle Transfer, which was supposed to be the start of a SequelSeries. Unfortunately, Jonbro suffered creative burnout after that and cancelled all the games after Riddle Transfer 1.
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* SelfDeprecation: Several jokes in the series involve the impossibility of Riddle School 4 being released, even within ''Riddle School 4 itself''.
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[[caption-width-right:350:Sweet, sweet freedom.]]
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Riddle School is a {{Newgrounds}} flash game series created by [=JonBro=] following a boy named Phil Eggtree trying to escape numerous grades of school, and later on, a number of environments.
[[http://www.newgrounds.com/portal/view/314680 Play Riddle School here.]]
[[http://www.newgrounds.com/portal/view/349194 Play Riddle School 2 here.]]
[[http://www.newgrounds.com/portal/view/430459 Play Riddle School 3 here.]]
[[http://www.newgrounds.com/portal/view/532044 Play Riddle School 4 here.]]
[[http://www.newgrounds.com/portal/view/532179 Play Riddle School 5 here.]]
[[http://www.newgrounds.com/portal/view/571729 Play Riddle Transfer here.]]
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!!Tropes featured include:
* AirVentPassageway: Very early on in [=RS5=], Phil sips through an air vent to escape his cell.
* AliensSpeakingEnglish: [[spoiler:Viz and Diz.]]
* AllJustADream: [[spoiler:[=RS5=] reveals [=RS2=] through [=RS4=] to have been this.]]
* BlindWithoutEm: Mr. Soggy in [=RS3=]. [[spoiler:You have to knock his glasses off with the rubber band hidden in the vent.]]
* ChekhovsGunman: [[spoiler:Diz in ''Riddle School 4''.]]
* EnterSolutionHere: In Riddle Transfer, you have to enter the codes on Phil and his friends' keypads to set them free. The codes are:
** Phil: [[spoiler:78255. You can see it by clicking on your TV screen.]]
** Phred: [[spoiler:51702. Phred's clue is a piece of paper with the word "Snoz". The letters are actually numbers, bunched up together.]]
** Zack: [[spoiler:12345. The clue he gives you sounds complicated, but it's actually a set of consecutive numbers. It was written on the side of his door.]]
** Smiley: [[spoiler:51333. The agent who locked her up was mumbling it to himself out loud.]]
* FinalExamBoss: [[spoiler:The dream chair]] in [=RS5=] is this in a sense, revisiting the beginnings of the previous three games with different goals: namely, instead of escaping each room you have to [[spoiler:kill your friends]].
* FourTemperamentEnsemble: Phil is choleric, Smiley is sanguine, Zack is melancholic, and Phred is phlegmatic.
* FreezeRay: [[spoiler:This is Viz's ultimate plan: to freeze the planets by harnessing Zack's coldness. Fortunately, it backfires on him thanks to Phil's intervention.]]
* TheGuardsMustBeCrazy: Apparently par for the course where Zone 5.1 (Transfer) is concerned. Not only do they make very little effort to conceal the codes to open the prison cells from the prisoners (see EnterSolutionHere above), but every guard in the facility apparently gets the day off at the same time.
** To be fair, having the prisoner know the code to his or her cell door is slightly less of an issue when they can't see or reach the dialpad.
** The staff in the schools Phil has gone to aren't much different. In [=RS2=], [[spoiler:Phil enters the principal's office, takes the key to the front door, and bolts... all ''directly in front of the principal'', who ''just stands there the whole time'']]. In [=RS3=], [[spoiler:the principal is too busy playing video games to notice as Phil swipes the key.]]
* HighSchool: The setting of [=RS3=].
* HoistByHisOwnPetard: [[spoiler:Viz's defeat]] in a nutshell.
* JuniorHigh: The setting of [=RS2=].
* LeaningOnTheFourthWall: In [=RS5=], shortly before the final series of puzzles in the game (and by extension the entire series), [[spoiler:Viz says "Prepare yourself... for the Grand Finale."]]
** Similarly, during the introductory cutscene to Riddle Transfer, Phil makes a comment about a "new beginning".
* MythologyGag: The combination to Richy's locker in [=RS3=] is "BLOBBLES". [[spoiler:It's actually 53788078. Read it upside-down.]] Blobbles is the name of the protagonist of some early Flash animations [=JonBro=] made.
* NiceJobBreakingItHero: If Phil hadn't [[spoiler:escaped school early on the day he had way back in [=RS1=]]], the entire series's overarching plot would've been nullified.
* NonIndicativeName: Past [=RS4=], the series has very little to do with school.
* PaintingTheFourthWall: [[spoiler:The aliens]] have colored speech bubbles that match their skin color.
* ThePollyanna: Smiley to a T.
* ShoutOut: Too many to list, to other popular users, games, and animations on {{Newgrounds}}.
* SpaceWhaleAesop: [[spoiler:Stay in school.]]
* StockNessMonster: One of the five animal residents of Zone 5.1 (Transfer) is [[AddedAlliterativeAppeal Messie, the Mock Mess Monster]].
* StuffedIntoALocker: Richy in [=RS3=]. It's not at all clear how he actually got in there in the first place; maybe he did it to himself by accident.
* TertiarySexualCharacteristics: Smiley has a ''mouth'' as her characteristic. As a style choice, [=JonBro=] made all the children bald and gave all the adults hair. Since Smiley didn't have the usual TSC of hair, he tried giving her a mouth instead. It didn't work: The special features section in ''Riddle School 5'' lists "Smiley is a guy" as the biggest misconception about the series.
** Come Riddle Transfer, Smiley did indeed get hair.
* WellIntentionedExtremist: [[spoiler:Viz. Technically, he ''was'' trying to eradicate evil. He was just a little misguided about where he could find it.]]
* [[WhamEpisode Wham Game]]: [[spoiler: Riddle School 4, when Phil Eggtree 'died'. Made originally as an April Fool's joke to convince others there will be no more Riddle School games, but years later made a few more, with [=RS5=] tying in the significance of the other four games, including #4]]
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Riddle School is a {{Newgrounds}} flash game series created by [=JonBro=] following a boy named Phil Eggtree trying to escape numerous grades of school, and later on, a number of environments.
[[http://www.newgrounds.com/portal/view/314680 Play Riddle School here.]]
[[http://www.newgrounds.com/portal/view/349194 Play Riddle School 2 here.]]
[[http://www.newgrounds.com/portal/view/430459 Play Riddle School 3 here.]]
[[http://www.newgrounds.com/portal/view/532044 Play Riddle School 4 here.]]
[[http://www.newgrounds.com/portal/view/532179 Play Riddle School 5 here.]]
[[http://www.newgrounds.com/portal/view/571729 Play Riddle Transfer here.]]
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!!Tropes featured include:
* AirVentPassageway: Very early on in [=RS5=], Phil sips through an air vent to escape his cell.
* AliensSpeakingEnglish: [[spoiler:Viz and Diz.]]
* AllJustADream: [[spoiler:[=RS5=] reveals [=RS2=] through [=RS4=] to have been this.]]
* BlindWithoutEm: Mr. Soggy in [=RS3=]. [[spoiler:You have to knock his glasses off with the rubber band hidden in the vent.]]
* ChekhovsGunman: [[spoiler:Diz in ''Riddle School 4''.]]
* EnterSolutionHere: In Riddle Transfer, you have to enter the codes on Phil and his friends' keypads to set them free. The codes are:
** Phil: [[spoiler:78255. You can see it by clicking on your TV screen.]]
** Phred: [[spoiler:51702. Phred's clue is a piece of paper with the word "Snoz". The letters are actually numbers, bunched up together.]]
** Zack: [[spoiler:12345. The clue he gives you sounds complicated, but it's actually a set of consecutive numbers. It was written on the side of his door.]]
** Smiley: [[spoiler:51333. The agent who locked her up was mumbling it to himself out loud.]]
* FinalExamBoss: [[spoiler:The dream chair]] in [=RS5=] is this in a sense, revisiting the beginnings of the previous three games with different goals: namely, instead of escaping each room you have to [[spoiler:kill your friends]].
* FourTemperamentEnsemble: Phil is choleric, Smiley is sanguine, Zack is melancholic, and Phred is phlegmatic.
* FreezeRay: [[spoiler:This is Viz's ultimate plan: to freeze the planets by harnessing Zack's coldness. Fortunately, it backfires on him thanks to Phil's intervention.]]
* TheGuardsMustBeCrazy: Apparently par for the course where Zone 5.1 (Transfer) is concerned. Not only do they make very little effort to conceal the codes to open the prison cells from the prisoners (see EnterSolutionHere above), but every guard in the facility apparently gets the day off at the same time.
** To be fair, having the prisoner know the code to his or her cell door is slightly less of an issue when they can't see or reach the dialpad.
** The staff in the schools Phil has gone to aren't much different. In [=RS2=], [[spoiler:Phil enters the principal's office, takes the key to the front door, and bolts... all ''directly in front of the principal'', who ''just stands there the whole time'']]. In [=RS3=], [[spoiler:the principal is too busy playing video games to notice as Phil swipes the key.]]
* HighSchool: The setting of [=RS3=].
* HoistByHisOwnPetard: [[spoiler:Viz's defeat]] in a nutshell.
* JuniorHigh: The setting of [=RS2=].
* LeaningOnTheFourthWall: In [=RS5=], shortly before the final series of puzzles in the game (and by extension the entire series), [[spoiler:Viz says "Prepare yourself... for the Grand Finale."]]
** Similarly, during the introductory cutscene to Riddle Transfer, Phil makes a comment about a "new beginning".
* MythologyGag: The combination to Richy's locker in [=RS3=] is "BLOBBLES". [[spoiler:It's actually 53788078. Read it upside-down.]] Blobbles is the name of the protagonist of some early Flash animations [=JonBro=] made.
* NiceJobBreakingItHero: If Phil hadn't [[spoiler:escaped school early on the day he had way back in [=RS1=]]], the entire series's overarching plot would've been nullified.
* NonIndicativeName: Past [=RS4=], the series has very little to do with school.
* PaintingTheFourthWall: [[spoiler:The aliens]] have colored speech bubbles that match their skin color.
* ThePollyanna: Smiley to a T.
* ShoutOut: Too many to list, to other popular users, games, and animations on {{Newgrounds}}.
* SpaceWhaleAesop: [[spoiler:Stay in school.]]
* StockNessMonster: One of the five animal residents of Zone 5.1 (Transfer) is [[AddedAlliterativeAppeal Messie, the Mock Mess Monster]].
* StuffedIntoALocker: Richy in [=RS3=]. It's not at all clear how he actually got in there in the first place; maybe he did it to himself by accident.
* TertiarySexualCharacteristics: Smiley has a ''mouth'' as her characteristic. As a style choice, [=JonBro=] made all the children bald and gave all the adults hair. Since Smiley didn't have the usual TSC of hair, he tried giving her a mouth instead. It didn't work: The special features section in ''Riddle School 5'' lists "Smiley is a guy" as the biggest misconception about the series.
** Come Riddle Transfer, Smiley did indeed get hair.
* WellIntentionedExtremist: [[spoiler:Viz. Technically, he ''was'' trying to eradicate evil. He was just a little misguided about where he could find it.]]
* [[WhamEpisode Wham Game]]: [[spoiler: Riddle School 4, when Phil Eggtree 'died'. Made originally as an April Fool's joke to convince others there will be no more Riddle School games, but years later made a few more, with [=RS5=] tying in the significance of the other four games, including #4]]
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