Rivet & Rhyme publishes quiet, paper-based mystery adventures for people who enjoy noticing small, inconvenient details. Each case begins as a printed file — fragments, notes, objects, and curiosities from inside the story.
Some mysteries begin on paper and continue online, following clues that lead beyond the printed pages. Every case invites you to look closely and follow where the details lead.
Each mystery begins as a printable PDF: fragments, notes, objects, and curiosities from inside the story.
Read through the pages, mark them up, and pay attention to the details that don’t quite fit. Some clues are straightforward. Others hide in patterns, ciphers, images, symbols, or the way information is arranged.
Many puzzles resolve on paper. Others ask you to look something up, visit a website, decode a system, or explore a hidden corner of the internet that continues the investigation.
Piece everything together — the narrative threads, the puzzles, and the small oddities — until the final solution comes into view and the full story reveals itself.
Rivet & Rhyme cases are meant to feel lived-in: immersive worlds where you become part of the investigation, discovering the truth one detail at a time.
Getting stuck is part of the adventure, but you’ll never be left without a path forward. Every case file includes everything you need to solve it — and hidden among its pages are gentle hints, firmer nudges, and, when absolutely necessary, clear guidance to help you move past any dead end.
If you’d like broader advice on solving narrative puzzles, ciphers, and curious artifacts, you’ll find it on our Help page. The important thing is this: every mystery can be solved, and every trail has a way through for those who keep looking.
A collection of narrative puzzle cases built around unusual objects, recovered artifacts, and the inconvenient details they contain.
A battered trunk arrives from a long-shuttered gallery, filled with fragments of a life’s work — sketches, clippings, tickets, and a few oddities that don’t quite belong. What really happened to the artist may be hiding in the pieces he left behind.
View case detailsA weathered backpack is discovered in the last recorded place an explorer was seen before his final expedition vanished from the map. His notes hint at something he was searching for — and perhaps something he found. The rest is for you to uncover.
View case detailsA field satchel is recovered from a remote research station after the botanist who carried it never returned from her final study. Inside are pressed plants, careful sketches, clipped notes, and samples that don’t match any known species. Whatever she discovered out there was important enough to hide — and dangerous enough to be lost.
View case detailsAdditional mysteries are being prepared for the Vault of Peculiar Possessions. New case files will appear here as each investigation is ready to leave the archive.
View case detailsRivet & Rhyme is a small, independently run studio devoted to printable mystery adventures for people who enjoy noticing small, inconvenient details. Each case is assembled with the care of a museum exhibit: fragments of stories, stray annotations, and quiet oddities arranged so that patient readers can piece together what really happened.