Here's how The Riddler! works...

1.  Students in Mr. Reese's class in North Ogden, Utah and students in Mr. Hollinger's  class in Delaware, Ohio each pick a person, place, orevent to learn more about.

2.  Students do research on the internet about their chosen person, place, or event in order to become the class expert on that subject.

3.  Each student creates one riddle for posting on his/her class Riddler! web site.  Ohio students post their riddles on their class web site and students in Utah post their riddles on their class web site.  Some students may choose to post more than one riddle.

4.  The two schools post their web sites on a mutually agreed upon date.

5.  Students at North Ogden Junior High visit the Dempsey Middle School students' web site and study their riddles.  Then, using web based resources, they try to solve the Dempsey Middle School students' riddles.  At the same time Delaware students are attempting to solve the riddles they find posted on the North Ogden Junior High web site.

6.  On a mutually agreed upon date Ohio and Utah schools post the solutions to their respective riddles on their Riddler! web sites.  Teachers in both schools supervise the scoring of students' efforts.

7.  Top performers, as judged by their teachers, are listed in The Riddler!Hall of Fame.
 

Writing riddles for The Riddler! web site...

    Well written riddles should meet the following criteria:

•   Have four clues which, when considered together, reveal the solution.
•   Each clue gives some important information which leads to the solution.
•   No single clue provides enough information to reveal the solution.
•   Clues are stated clearly, yet somewhat cryptically.
•   The use of rhyme is optional.

Some sample riddles...

  PLACE

      Clue 1:  On the same line of latitude as Provo.
       Clue 2:  A favorite son won victory in a contested election.
       Clue 3:  The home town Battling Bishops are overshadowed by the Buckeyes down the road.
       Clue 4:  First state to ratify.

                     For the solution click here.

    PERSON

        Clue 1:  Settled with movement followers in Kirtland, Ohio.
        Clue 2:  Married the daughter of Isaac and Elizabeth Lewis Hale.
        Clue 3:  Died in June of the same year that the first telegraph message was sent.
        Clue 4:  Followers settled near NaCl  + H₂O in 1847.

                    For the solution click here.

    EVENT

        Clue 1:  East meets west.
        Clue 2:  Documentary photo by Andrew J. Russell.
        Clue 3.  Jupiter and  119
        Clue 4:  Never actually "driven."  Today it's on display in the Stanford Museum of Art.

                    For the solution click here.