Ramblings
30/05/2026: Ten Questions with: looijmansje
Playing since: December 2023
Total solves: 121 (#2)
First solves: 7 (#6)
1. Which description do you think best fits games like wyfio? Online riddle, webpuzzle, enigma or something else?
I would say "online riddle", although I usually also mention "puzzle" just so people think I'm not referring to those riddles like "What has a face and two hands but no arms or legs?"
2. Do you remember the very first online riddle that you played? If so, do you have any memories that you’d like to share.
Funnily enough, that would be wyfio. Goat, whom I barely knew at the time, asked for help with white light in a mutual discord server. With that a long partnership, and a new addiction for me was born. I have since dabbled in some other similar websites, but I never really got deep into any others. Maybe now I've finished wyfio I will try something else to scratch the itch.
3. What is your all time favourite online riddle, and why?
Wyfio... I guess a bit of a vacuous truth, if it is the only one.
4. Is there a riddle, no longer available, that you’d like to see resurrected?
No, for the reasons listed above. What would be great though would be to be able to go back to old puzzles and solve them for the first time again. Having replayed Portal 1 and 2 again recently, it is just not the same a second (or more accurately probably a 6th) time, and the same goes for some of my favourite puzzles on here.
5. What riddle had the hardest level that you’ve managed to beat, and how long did it take?
The ones that took the longest are definitely x x, Finding the Seer and the code. Those all took me over three years to solve. In hindsight those might not be the hardest puzzles on here, although x x definitely makes a compelling argument for that title. I personally find violet sky and if you've got this far... similarly hard to x x, even if they were quicker to solve. But that's all subjective of course.
6. What stands out as being different or unique about wyfio compared to other riddles?
Well I am certainly not the best judge here, but with my brief experiences elsewhere I am going parrot what previous users have said and go with style.
7. Of the thousands of riddles out there, which, if any, do you think are most similar to wyfio?
Can't answer this one.
8. Do you have any particular favourite wyfio puzzles or puzzle types?
White light will always have a special place in my heart. Not just because it is a fun puzzle, but it is also the puzzle that introduced me to wyfio, and it was also the first "first solve" I ever achieved. Some of my other favourites include the diatom puzzles, umsyt's puzzle, within the devs library, A rose by any other name and a sealed letter...
Back when there were a lot fewer puzzles (and we had solved a lot fewer as well), I had made a tierlist of all the puzzles we had solved at that point. Unfortunately I think it got lost to time.
9. What advice would you have to other players to make as much progress on wyfio as they possibly can?
Goat and I have an adage that rings true time and time again: "think simpler 
10. Do you have any projects of your own that you would like to promote?