AC pnm Kaimei riddles/Kaimei! MN tanteisha

This page details the Riddles available in the Kaimei! MN tanteisha (解明！MN探偵社) event of pop'n music 解明リドルズ, as well as their answers (hidden as spoilers).

Special Riddles

Roki

Available from January 21st, 2021. It unlocks enigma.

Play ⑥⑦⑤ songs credited to ①②③④⑤ within one credit.

①●●●●
●●●③●
②●●④⑤
●●●●⑥
●●⑦●●
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Hints:

• 26 in total
• Alphabet
• The second one is "Akino"

Answer:

Play two songs credited to Akino within one credit: the keel Dar[k]wish Aqua moon dance 旗 Princess Roki Tears In The Light The Sign Of Collapse Akash Monkshood Grave Strike

shiroro

Available from January 28th, 2021. It unlocks Linus' EX chart.

Play this song

(mosaic image)

Hints:

• The difficulty level of Normal is 29
• A popular song of beatmania IIDX
• LOUNGE POP

Answer:

Play Linus.

PIERRE&JILL

Available from February 4th, 2021. It unlocks わがままパーリナイ.

Play two songs with this artist in one credit:

LOVE
　$

Hints:

• It ends with "dol" (ドル).
• LOVE in Japanese
• LOVE is "i" (あい)

Answer:

Play two songs credited to "idol" (アイドル) in one credit: 恋時雨 恋のパズルマジック DREAMING-ING!! Strawberry Chu♡Chu♡ Twin memories W Keep the Faith

ROSA

Available from February 11th, 2021. It unlocks Keep the Faith.

Play two songs credited to the artist behind: "Twin memories 2" and "Strawberry Kiss Kiss".

Hints:

• Translation
• Japanese ←→ English
• Tokimeki 〇〇〇〇 (ときめき〇〇〇〇)

Answer:

Play two songs credited to "Tokimeki idol" (ときめきアイドル) in one credit: 恋時雨 恋のパズルマジック DREAMING-ING!! Strawberry Chu♡Chu♡ Twin memories W わがままパーリナイ

taoxiang

Available from February 18th, 2021. It unlocks UPPER charts for 桃花恋情.

OJNERAKUOT ←

Hints:

• Look at the arrow!
• Romaji!?
• Peach blossom (桃花)

Answer:

Play 桃花恋情.

TangTang

Available from February 25th, 2021. It unlocks UPPER charts for 鳳凰～Chinese Phoenix Mix～.

Let's decipher this

OKUWO
YNGTE
KATAR
ONGNA
ENEDN

Hints:

• Where you start reading is important!
• Start clockwise from the center!
• TANGTANG

Answer:

Play 鳳凰. If you start in the middle square, go left and up and read in a spiral pattern, you will get "TANGTANGNOKYOKUWOERANDENE" ("Choose TangTang's song").

OTOBEAR

Available from March 4th, 2021. It unlocks UPPER charts for Little prayer.

Choose this song

(banner image divided into 16 sections)

Hints:

• HYPER difficulty Level is 42
• A popular song in GITADORA
• Little pray

Answer:

Play Little prayer.

kaorin

Available from March 18th, 2021. It unlocks 表裏一体！？怪盗いいんちょの悩み♥.

Play two songs with ? in the song title in one credit.

9 - (silhouette of a bird) = ?

Hints:

• 9 is nine and the picture on the right is a bird
• Put them together and you get a pigeon
• Between the pigeon there is a long-vowel mark

Answer:

Play two songs with "ハート", "Heart", or a heart character in the song title in one credit: HONEまで♥トゥナイト CANDY♥ ♥LOVE² シュガ→♥ Raspberry ♥ Heart Hearty Party Heart of dreams KIMONO♥PRINCESS ラブ☆ゲッター～ピュアクル♥リップ～ キャトられ♥恋はモ～モク ませまてぃっく♥ま＋ま＝まじっく！ Into UR Heart Perverse Heart ～あまのじゃく～ 混乱少女♥そふらんちゃん!! よりみち♥みすてりあっ ゴールデンハート ft. Kimberley Nutbey Strawberry Chu♡Chu♡ 逆さま♥シンデレラパレード Heartbeat Blast ♥LOVE² シュガ→♥ (かめりあ&ななひら's Over-Sweet-Dempa ♥LOVE² シュガ→♥な恋愛教室 Remix) Into My Hell～魔界へようこそ♡～ Prism♥Heart エンプティ マイ ハート Sweet Sweet ♥ Magic By combining the kanji for nine (九) and bird (鳥) you get pigeon (鳩), which reads in Japanese as "hato". By adding a long-vowel mark between "hato" you get "haato" (ハート).

CHARLY

Available from March 25th, 2021. It unlocks Watchdog The Sleeper.

Play two songs credited to this artist in one credit.

kudamono→nothing, tsumi→wrong

momutsumira
tsuikusemi
imonodaku
midatsuyano

Hints:

• Nothing means nothing, wrong means wrong
• Read in order from top left
• Do not read "ku", "da", "mo", "no", "tsu", and "mi"

Answer:

ALOE

Available from April 1st, 2021. It unlocks Milky Way Star(Extended Ver.).

Play a song with "monirino" (もにりの) on its title once

Hints:

• The hint might be close to your hand
• Convert it to English
• Look at the keyboard

Answer:

Play MILK・CROWN. In a QWERTY/JIS 106/109 keyboard , the English characters on the keys corresponding to the katakana characters "mo", "ni", "ri", and "no" are "M", "I", "L", and "K", respectively.

RIE♥chan

Available from April 8th, 2021. It unlocks Homesick Pt.2&3 -kudo version-.

Play two songs from pop'n ? in one credit

Flower - honey = ?

Hints:

• Subtraction
• Flower (hana, はな) is 87
• Honey (ハニー) is 82

Answer:

Play two songs from pop'n music 5.

hina

Available from April 15th, 2021. It unlocks murmur twins -CIVILIAN SKUNK mix-.

Play with a character with the same characteristics.

(picture of a sausage)

Hints:

• It's not a wiener
• It's a picture of a sausage
• Sausage = twins

Answer:

Play with a twin character. The hints reference SOUJI and SEIJI, but any of the following twin characters are allowed: Elle Tart&Toffee SOUJI / SEIJI murmur twins Lotte* / Ratte* Nazuna&Suzuna fuwawa Matin 轟走 SHISHIWAKA / SHISHITUGU toa 東雲夏陽 / 東雲心菜

PAPYRUS

Available from April 22nd, 2021. It unlocks Ancient Heritage.

Play a song from this character

(hone nyami) (HAJIME) (BoB2002) = Nyami
(RETSU) (ice) (JUDY) = ?

The above character icons are surrounded by other 26 icons. See this tweet for the complete image.

Hints:

• HAJIME is the first
• There are 26 characters
• The answer above is CAT

Answer:

Play a song with BOY as its rival character: Sunlight, Water Melon Woman, penguin, Landmark, PULSE, or Seal. Each of the characters in the riddle represent a letter, starting from A (HAJIME) and going clockwise until Z (MZD). RETSU is B, ice is O, and JUDY is Y, therefore BOY.

雷蔵

Available from April 28th, 2021. It unlocks ミサコの告白（みーつけたっ♥）.

Play one of this hidden character's songs.

■■■
○○○
▲▲▲▲▲

Hints:

• The shapes have no meaning
• Count the numbers
• It can be read as 335 in a different way

Answer:

Play a song with ミサコちゃん as its rival character: ミサコの日記（見ちゃダメ！） or POP TEAM EPIC. From the top, there are three, three, and five shapes. By reading the number 335 as goroawase, you will get "Misako".

miho

Available from April 28th, 2021. It unlocks 青春Dreamers ～Tomorrow is another day～.

Combine the kanji characters to form kanji from the song title.
Play a song with them.

土日月一三人

Hints:

• It's a two-letter kanji character
• The first letter is 一, 月 and 土
• "Aoharu"

Answer:

Play a song that has "Seishun" (青春) in the title: 青春スタイル in 2003 燃やせ！青春 ～ポップン学園応援歌～ 青春ピコピコRock'n Roll 青春の扉. Combine "一・月・土" to get "青" and "日・三・人" to get "春".

RIE♥chan

Available from April 28th, 2021. It unlocks 夏空Shining.

Play two songs from this group in one credit.

S→?→A→W

Hints:

• Fourth one is a break
• The first letter
• The first "S" is SPRING

Answer:

Play two songs with "Summer" or "夏" on its title: SUMMER TIME なつやすみのぼうけん 隅田川夏恋歌 夏色DIARY（Yu-yake Style） ヘイ！ヘイ！Bay～ボクらの夏にサマー☆ウェイヴ～ FUNKY SUMMER BEACH MAGICAL SUMMER SMILE Good bye, Summer～さよならは言わない～ SUPER SUMMER SALE 純勉夏 夏祭り or its UPPER charts.

Ryusei Honey

Available from April 28th, 2021. It unlocks フィフネルの宇宙服.

Play two songs from this artist in one credit.

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Hints:

• Put the left and right parts together
• The middle is "ido"
• There is a space in the middle of "aru" (アール)

Answer:

Play two songs credited to "Tokimeki idol" (ときめきアイドル) in one credit: 恋時雨 恋のパズルマジック DREAMING-ING!! Strawberry Chu♡Chu♡ Twin memories W わがままパーリナイ The left and right parts form the letter R, which is read as アール. In the middle of the R there's #, which is read as "ido" (いど) in Japanese, therefore, you can get アイドル by replacing the ー character of アール with イド.

Murasaki

Available from May 6th, 2021. It unlocks 悪アガキ's EX chart.

Play a song from this character

(zoomed in mosaic image)

Hints:

• Ballroom dance world
• First appeared in pop'n 6
• Two people

Answer:

Play two songs with MEBAE as the rival character: 電波の暮らし La Pêche du Pierrot 悪アガキ

Lucifelle

Available from May 13th, 2021. It unlocks 天空ジオグラフィ.

Play a song with ①② on its title

　　　　　　　○
　　　　　　○
　　　　　②
　　　　①
　　　○
　　○
　○
○

Hints:

• The right one is higher
• Music?
• Do re mi fa sol la si do

Answer:

Play a song with "空" on its title: 空への扉 空澄みの鵯と 映画「ジェノヴァの空の下」のテーマ 少年は空を辿る 天空の夜明け 虚空と光明のディスクール 空に抗い堕つるとも 時空学者とブルーメン 火風陸空 空想モダニズム 空狐の消えた日 空想モダニズム -Alice Schach remix- 夏空Shining 星空に誓うロマンス 空言の海 If you look at the order of the circles as a musical scale (do re mi fa sol la si do), the ones that correspond to ① and ② are "sol" (ソ) and "la" (ラ), respectively. ソラ can be written as 空 (sora), Japanese for "sky".

六

Available from May 20th, 2021. It unlocks 路男's UPPER charts.

Play two songs from the following folder in one credit:

(picture of Ryan and an upside-down SAPPHIRE)

Hints:

• The character name does not matter
• Gender?
• Male and a reversed female

Answer:

Play two songs from the Osusume (オススメ) folder. Ryan is male and SAPPHIRE is female, which in Japanese can be written as "osu" (オス) and "mesu" (メス). As the third hint says, by reversing メス you get スメ, therefore "osusume" (オススメ).

stella

Available from May 28th, 2021. It unlocks Lost wing at.0.

Play two songs from following group in one credit:

beat stream = beast

Hints:

• What it is in English?
• A music game with a touch of color
• BeaSt

Answer:

Play two songs from the BeatStream sub-category of the BEMANI category in one credit.

ちせ

Available from June 3rd, 2021. It unlocks ブルーローズイノセンス.

Play 2 songs from this artist in one credit:

20   1   7
-  + - + - 
26   26  26

Hints:

• Looks like fractions
• What has 26?
• Three letters, the first one is T

Answer:

LISA

Available from June 10th, 2021. It unlocks Brand New....

Play a song of with the following rival character:

   1 = ○○
   2 = ○○
   3 = ○
   4 = ○
 155 = ○○○
1000 = ○
2000 = ??

Hints:

• The numbers are years
• It switches in 12 cycles
• 2021 is a "cow"

Answer:

Play a song with a rival character that is a dragon or that owns a dragon (2000 is the year of the dragon): DiNO: monde des songe, マシュマロ・マーチ, 双子のフェレット, カラフルトイズ・ワンダーランド, Les Jouets Sonore, fantasy suitcase. 黄龍: 麻雀格闘倶楽部特別接続曲. Maud: 量子の海のリントヴルム, 龍と少女とデコヒーレンス, リリーゼと炎龍レーヴァテイン. Sail: SailRen.

SUMIRE

Available from June 17th, 2021. It unlocks 沈まない月のように.

Play two songs from this folder in one credit:

🀉🀊🀋🀍🀎🀏🀙🀙🀚🀛🀜🀒🀓🀔

Hints:

• The role of mahjong
• Pinfu
• Pinfu is peaceful in kanji

Answer:

Play two songs from the pop'n music peace folder.

Short Riddles

This is a list of the Short Riddles available for all clients. Note that some of them are absent from BATTLE mode.

• Select a song whose name begins with the characters "a" to "sa".
• Select a song whose name begins with the characters "ta" to "ha".
• Select a song whose name begins with the characters "ma" to "wa".
• Select a song whose name begins with a number.
• Select a song whose name begins with an English character.
• Select a song from pop'n 1 to 10.
• Select a song from pop'n 11 to 18.
• Select a song from pop'n 19 to peace.
• Select a song with a digit from 0 to 3 on its ones place as its Level.
• Select a song with a digit from 4 to 6 on its ones place as its Level.
• Select a song with a digit from 7 to 9 on its ones place as its Level.
• Select a random song.
• Clear a stage.
• Clear a stage with full gauge.
• Achieve a Full Combo.
• Score total of 210,000 points or more in one credit
• Score total of 220,000 points or more in one credit
• Collect 50 Groove Gauges.
• Collect 60 Groove Gauges.
• Choose a birthday character from the Birthday category.