New Features & Improvements
Our release log is diligently updated each time we introduce new features to our quiz maker – from formats to features and new lead generation options. You can also visit our release log archives for 2023 and 2024 and 2025.
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May 12th, 2026
New Block: Interactive Graphic
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A brand new content block that lets you turn any image into an interactive experience. Drop in a graphic, place markers wherever you want, and your audience can click each one to reveal text, images, or extra context – all without leaving the page.
A few ideas for what you can build with it:
- Editorial deep-dives: Break down a tactical football formation, a movie scene, an infographic, or a historical photo, point by point
- Product showcase: Annotate every feature of a new product or hardware diagram
- Interactive maps: Travel guides, festival maps, store locators, event venues – let users tap any point of interest to learn more
- Real estate / venues: Make a floor plan or stadium layout clickable, with details for each room or section
- Education: Anatomical diagrams, scientific illustrations, historical maps – any image that benefits from layered context
- Shoppable lookbooks: Tag every item in a fashion shot or interior photo with a link
It’s one of the most flexible blocks we’ve ever shipped – anywhere you’d normally need a designer and a developer to build something interactive, you can now do it in the Riddle editor in minutes.
📖 Full guide: https://www.riddle.com/help/content-creation/blocks/other-content-blocks#_3-interactive-graphic
Faster Embed
The Riddle embed has been overhauled for speed. The laggy moments and long response times that some of you reported are gone – embeds now load and react noticeably quicker across the board.
Publish Actions for the Question Bank
Question Banks just got easier to actually use. Until now, after building a question bank you had to navigate over to a Riddle, edit it, and manually link the bank in. Small friction, but enough to slow things down when you’re spinning up multiple quizzes.
With the new publish modal, the moment you finish a Question Bank, Riddle asks where you want it: pick an existing Riddle from the list, or create a brand new one in the same flow. Your bank is wired up immediately. Great if you maintain a central pool of questions (e.g. a weekly trivia, a product knowledge quiz, an evergreen question library) and regularly need to plug it into fresh Riddles.
New Homepage Hero — and Why We Changed It
Next time you log in to Riddle, you’ll see the new homepage hero section on riddle.com.
The reason for the refresh: AI is reshaping how people find content. Search traffic is shifting, organic reach is harder to win, and one-time visitors don’t stick around the way they used to. That’s exactly the problem Riddle solves — embeddable quizzes, polls, minigames, and interactive content that turn passing readers into daily active users who return, engage, and drive revenue.
The old hero didn’t put that promise front and center. The new one does. It speaks directly to the challenges publishers and content teams are dealing with right now, and shows — with real product visuals — how Riddle helps you build daily active audiences even as the rest of the web fragments.
If you ever send prospects, colleagues, or your boss to riddle.com to explain what we do, the new homepage should make that conversation a lot shorter.
Other Improvements
- This/That Poll: Smoother embed animations, more default choices in the Creator, and data is now properly forwarded via webhook
- New embed setting “Allow full-screen videos”: Some browsers used to block full-screen video playback inside embeds – toggle this on and that restriction is gone
- TypeRush: Better default template when you “Create from file”
- Stats/Leads delay warning: If our stats or leads queue is backed up, you’ll now see a warning in ANALYZE so you’re not left wondering where your data is
Bugfixes
- Riddle emails: Some notification emails weren’t rendering at all for certain customers – we’ve shipped a fix
- Stat transfer: When a Riddle is transferred between accounts, its stats now travel with it
- Homepage: Several accessibility and performance bugfixes on riddle.com
- Wheel of Fortune: Mute icon on Android is fixed
- Embed Placeholder: Now shows a proper “no tags created” message when there are no tags
- Quiz: Skipped questions are no longer incorrectly “locked” when navigating with the back button (no more unknown error)
- Type-the-Answer: Fixed empty/missing entries in Answered Blocks
- Predictor: Alt text is now saved correctly
- Magic Link: Resolved login issues where users couldn’t log in seamlessly
- Lead export: Empty form fields now correctly show “(n/a)” instead of “1”
- Quick Create: Fixed scrolling on the default templates in the CREATE screen
- Minigames: Correct skip events are now sent for all minigame blocks
- Security: Patched security issues in frontend packages
March 17th, 2026
New Poll Block: Tier List
S-Tier, A-Tier, F-Tier — you’ve seen them everywhere on TikTok, YouTube, and X. Users ranking everything from fast food to football players. Now you can create your own Tier Lists on Riddle.
Your audience drags items into customizable tiers, ranks them their way, and can share their personal ranking as an image — driving organic reach and repeat visits. Works beautifully on mobile and desktop, with full accessibility support.
These formats are wildly popular on social media because they spark debate and self-expression. Now you can bring that same energy to your website, embed it anywhere, and capture leads while your audience has fun.
Try it: https://www.riddle.com/view/qXVgd39C
New Poll Block: This/That
Another social media classic — the “this or that” showdown. Two choices go head to head, the winner stays, and a new challenger appears. One option survives.
It’s fast, addictive, and drives massive engagement because every single matchup demands a decision. Perfect for sparking debate, boosting time-on-site, and giving social-media-savvy audiences something they instantly understand and enjoy.
Try it: https://www.riddle.com/view/AFZiFVHX
Other Improvements
- Leads table upgrade: New toggle to switch between all leads, completed leads, and incomplete leads
- Layout transition: We’re now actively encouraging users to switch to our improved standard layout for a better experience across all formats
- Back button RTL: The back button now points the correct direction for Hebrew and Arabic
- Rich text editor: Fixed color picker transparency in the editor toolbar
- Date picker translations: Added missing translation strings for DD/MM/YYYY formats
Bugfixes
- Leaderboard 2FA: Resolved an issue where 2FA prompts appeared on leaderboard quizzes despite being disabled. Also fixes “one vote per Lead ID” in affected scenarios
- Data Layer sync: Fixed Data Layer items not syncing with the backend when populated mid-Riddle (e.g. via ad blocks), which could block navigation to results
- Leaderboard + Data Layer: Fixed leaderboard not receiving data when connected to quizzes using Data Layer variables
- Quick Create templates: Fixed server error when creating a Riddle from a custom Quick Create template
- Leads date filter: Date filtering on the leads table works again
- Lead deletion: Email matching for lead deletion is now case-insensitive
- Type the Answer: Fixed “Reveal Answer” overlay using the wrong background color
- View counting: Improved accuracy under extreme traffic (>35k views/min)
Accessibility
- Improved keyboard focus order in answer explanations on mobile (WCAG 2.4.3)
- Added missing accessible names on radio groups for screen readers (WCAG 1.3.1)
February 26th, 2026
Delayed Email Automations
You’ve always been able to send emails when someone completes a Riddle. Now you can trigger emails based on events – the first event we implemented is when a prediction result is entered.
This is perfect for raffles, predictions, and competitions: set up your email once, and let Riddle send the right message to winners and losers automatically when the winner was picked.
Automatic Winner Picking at a Scheduled Time
No more manually picking winners at a specific time. You can now schedule exactly when winners should be drawn – Riddle handles the rest, including triggering any connected email automations.
Combine this with delayed emails for a fully hands-off competition workflow: create your raffle, set your deadline, schedule the draw, and let the emails fly. No need to do multiple steps anymore, everything is one workflow.
Pro tip: Create a template with everything pre-configured to be even faster!
Other Improvements
- Crossword RTL support – Crosswords now fully support right-to-left languages like Arabic and Hebrew, opening up Riddle to a whole new audience.
- Answer explanation API options – You can now configure answer explanations to display below the question instead of as a popup, all via API. Great for teams building quizzes programmatically.
- Rate It analytics – Average ratings per choice are now shown directly in block stats instead of only being visible on hover over the graph line.
- Expanded Google Fonts – Font library upgraded from ~40 to the top 100+ fonts for more design flexibility.
- Leaderboard scoring explanation – New textbox above leaderboard preview makes it easier to explain your scoring model to participants.
- Simplified personality results – “Results: Attributes” now always uses personality strings, making setup more intuitive.
- “NEW” badge behavior – The badge now remembers when you’ve seen a feature and won’t keep showing up every time you open the creator.
- Performance boost – Resolved background processes that could cause slower Riddle load times in certain scenarios.
Bugfixes
- Quick Create permissions – Users without CREATE permission could previously access Quick Create. Now properly greyed out.
- Back button on “one vote” Riddles – Pressing back on a played Riddle with “one vote per lead” no longer allows replaying.
- Project template scrolling – The template list is now scrollable when there are more templates than fit on screen.
- Analyze date range – Fixed “access denied” errors when selecting custom date ranges.
- AI Creator – Resolved errors that occurred when generating quizzes with the AI creator.
- YouTube embeds – Fixed console errors (“YT is not defined”) when using YouTube videos in Riddles.
- Inactivity timer – The embed inactivity timer now properly restarts the session after expiry.
- Form branching (radio buttons) – Branching logic for radio buttons in forms now works correctly (previously only worked with dropdowns).
- Order It correct order – “Show Correct Order” is no longer hidden behind the answer explanation popup.
- Media Library dark mode – Fixed invisible text, icons, and filters in dark mode on both Riddle and Qzzr.
- Remember User autosubmit – Fixed forms submitting multiple times when websockets were disabled.
- Email validation – Capital letters in email domains are no longer incorrectly rejected.
- Timer expired message – No longer incorrectly shows on the result page when the quiz was submitted on time.
- Chrome offline error – Fixed false “offline” error messages appearing in Chrome.
- First block stats – Fixed edge case where stats showed 0 despite thousands of responses.
January 14th, 2026
New Minigame: Minesweeper
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We’re excited to introduce Minesweeper as a brand-new (or not so brand-new) minigame you can now use in Riddle.
It’s a familiar classic, designed to boost engagement, time-on-page, and competitive play. You can combine Minesweeper with other minigames, ad blocks, and use it to collect leads – just like any other Riddle block.
Play an example: https://www.riddle.com/view/vD2lx6Ev
Riddle acquires Contentbird Convert
We’ve acquired Contentbird Convert (https://de.contentbird.io/convert), which allows us to offer campaign based formats (Prediction Games, Advent Calenard, Halloween/Easter/Valentines Day activations) alongside Riddle.
As a first step, we’ll be launching a 2026 World Cup Prediction Game. This product will be offered outside of the regular Riddle subscription and is designed as a standalone solution.
See an example: https://sales-wm2026.tippspiel.fans
Typical use cases include:
- Internal prediction games for employees (engagement, competitions, incentives)
- External prediction games for audiences and customers
The Prediction Game can be monetized via banners, making it especially interesting for publishers and brands looking to combine engagement with revenue.
If you’re interested about the Prediction Game, just let us know by replying to this email or writing to us on chat. We’re happy to share more information!
Leaderboard improvements
We’ve made leaderboards more flexible and lowered the friction for endusers massively. Previously, users were always required to enter their nickname and email, which then needed to be confirmed with a 2FA token.
We’ve introduced great new flexibility into the leaderboard, by not requiring either anymore!
- Leaderboards without 2-factor-authentication
A new setting allows you to disable OTP verification entirely.
You can find the setting in the leaderboard settings under “Security / Privacy”.
For new leaderboards, this option is off by default, as we found users just use leaderboards for fun and engagement, rather than serious competitions where 2FA is necessary - Leaderboards without email addresses
You can now remove the email mapping if you don’t want emails to be required or displayed. This mimics and “arcade style” leaderboard, where users just had to enter their nickname.
Additionally, we made the lead handling for leaderboards easier.
You can now download all entries in one file under Leaderboard → Analyze → Download Leads. There are two possible exports that can be generated:
- One clean export featuring only name, email
- One export including all user data as well as a detailed breakdown of how the user’s score is put together.
Other improvements:
- Improved lead sending to Google Sheets
Increased stability and reliability. - Replaced Pixie image editor with a simple crop tool
Our old image editor was not updated anymore by it’s provider, meaning the possibility to add emojis and stickers to images in Riddle disappeared. But for you this means, faster and easier image editing and cropping
Bugfixes:
- Fixed Video Player issues on iOS where videos didn’t play at all anymore (due to an iOS update)
- Fixed Live Stats in Analyze not updating correctly in some cases
- “Show correct order” button sometimes did not appear in “Order-it” blocks
- Question Bank: chat bubble and texts no longer overlap
- Adobe Analytics added to “Global publish settings” tracking options
- Fixed inconsistent top/bottom padding in Riddles
- Analyze → Leads table header no longer turns transparent while scrolling
- Poll choices with media: percentage pill no longer overlaps content
- Fixed multiple Video Player accessibility issues
- Fixed results branching logic that could lead to missing assignments and
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