🐉 Fantasy

Dragons, wizards and other creatures that never existed, spelled out one letter at a time. The emoji stand in for letters, so nothing in the cipher looks like the thing you are hunting for.

Hint: A mythical fire breathing reptile

🎽🦁🚀🍖🥌💳
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DRAGON
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Hint: A male magic user

📒🥯🍉🐸🍌🐆
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WIZARD
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Hint: A magical horse with a single horn

🐍🌯🐹📙🚑🥕🌯
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UNICORN
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Hint: A creature that drinks blood

🍆🍄🎥🐤📱🚍💸
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VAMPIRE
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Hint: Half human half fish creature

🚉📤🚊🚉🐞📨🐷
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MERMAID
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Hint: An enormous humanlike being

🍈🦉🍟🛬🚋
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GIANT
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Hint: Pointed ears and forest magic

🐼🚤🍉
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ELF
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Hint: Flies on a broomstick

🛹🦊🚎🥩🦆
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WITCH
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Hint: The spirit of the dead

📕📨🚒🐵🥙
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GHOST
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Hint: Lurks under a bridge

🗺📩🥐📄📄
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TROLL
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Hint: Reborn from its own ashes

🏮🚍🤼🐆🥏🦊🎒
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PHOENIX
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Hint: Small and greedy cave dweller

👾🎥🚑🍊🍎🍍
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GOBLIN
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About this pack

The fantasy pack draws on the standard cast of myth and fairy tale — dragons, unicorns, vampires, mermaids, magic users. Hints describe the creature by its defining trait rather than its name, so “half human half fish” or “a magical horse with a single horn” does the work of pointing you at an answer without simply handing it over.

Solving tips

• These are mostly six to eight letter words, longer than the animal or colour packs, which means more repeated letters to exploit.
• The hint is a definition. Solve the riddle in plain English first, then use the answer to confirm the cipher.
• Creature names often end in the same handful of letters — N, D, R. The final emoji is a good place to test a guess.

Common questions

Are the answers shown?

Yes, in a collapsed panel below each puzzle.

Do I need to know a particular book or film?

No. The creatures here come from folklore rather than any single story, so general familiarity with dragons and wizards is plenty.