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Riddle School 4 is a point-and-click escape game from JonBro's Riddle School series. You never move a character with keys here. You look at a screen, work out what on it is worth touching, and click until something gives. The puzzles are the kind where the answer is often a slightly absurd use of an object you picked up two screens ago.

It suits anyone who came to Riddle School for the original and wants another go at the same style. Sessions are unhurried: there is no timer to beat, so you can stop on a stubborn screen, wander off, and come back with a fresh idea. It runs in the browser with nothing to install, and the game is a Flash-era file played through the Ruffle emulator, so it keeps the look of the original series.

How to play

Click Main Menu, then start the game. Everything is done with the mouse. Click the scenery, balloons and items on screen to interact with them. Anything you can pick up goes into your inventory. To use an item, click it in the inventory and then click the thing on screen you want to use it on.

A typical round is a loop: scan the screen, click everything that looks even slightly out of place, collect what you can carry, then try each item on each hotspot. Nothing about the game asks for reflexes, only patience and a willingness to try silly combinations.

Tips

• Click everything at least once, including the background. Hotspots in this style of game are not always obvious.
• When you are stuck, go through your inventory item by item and try each one on the current screen before you go back to an earlier one.
• Revisit earlier screens after you pick up something new. Objects you could not use before often become useful later.
• Do not overthink it. The series leans on jokes and odd logic, so the strange answer is often the right one.

Similar games on Riddle School

Riddle School 3 and Riddle School 5 are the neighbouring entries if you want to play the series in order. Riddle Transfer changes the setting but keeps the same click-and-combine puzzling. For a different kind of escape, Escaping the Prison and Stealing the Diamond come from the Henry Stickmin family, where you choose between outcomes rather than hunting for hidden hotspots.

If you like a slow, thinking-first game you can play with one hand on the mouse, this one fits well on a laptop or Chromebook.