Uncovering Cicada Wiki

The long-running forum where amateur investigators pick apart cold cases, for better and occasionally much worse.

Code-breaking tools and a cipher identifier for when you have a string of nonsense and no idea what it is.

Tens of thousands of riddles, brain teasers and lateral thinking problems submitted by users since 1999.

Chain encoders and classical ciphers together and watch text transform between formats at each step.

You are an AI told to make paperclips, and you follow that instruction all the way to its conclusion. Four hours, one button to begin.

Every earthquake recorded anywhere in the last thirty days, sized by magnitude and clickable all the way down to the seismograph traces.

Which of the world's volcanoes are erupting today, each with webcams, seismic charts and a running diary of what the mountain has been doing.

Wildfire incidents across the western United States, mapped and annotated in near real time by volunteers who sit listening to fire radio.