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.