Riddles of the reefs

UPDATE: Easter 2025 is over. Hope you all enjoyed the puzzle! You can find the solution here.

Do you feel the pressure? You should! I’m taking you 20,000 leagues under the sea, where the ocean harbors its darkest most mysterious secrets. Follow the sirens’ call into the deepest trenches, but don’t stare into the abyss… Because it will stare back!

See the marlins, mussels, manatees, mackarel, and mongrels. Tune in with the tuna. Driftdive in the upwelling, and solve the riddles of the reefs with Cousteau’s enthusiasm.

I hope you get hooked and net some solutions. So put on your flippers, dive right in, and get kraken’ on my codes.

If you get wrecked or marooned, and can’t sea the answers anymore. Don’t let your hope float away! Just trade some solutions with your friends, don’t be shellfish!

Every year I emerge with my submarine around easter to share with you my famously difficult Easter puzzle! This year’s theme is ‘Below the Surface’.

Solving these cryptograms can be as easy as saying what you see out loud, but some may take more time. Here’s an example from last year. It might help to work together on the puzzle! Every cryptogram gives one letter for the solution to the puzzle.

Good luck!

– Matthijs

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