Answers to closed $LAVE$ riddles: the word, the dots and dashes and the hint that was shown in game. An answer appears here once the next riddle opens.
Updated: 2026-11-09. Answers in the archive: 81.
Solve them in the game ↗While I am alone, I am just a number someone said out loud. The moment somebody raises me, strangers start measuring who needs another man's slave more. At the end of the auction the last accepted one of us settles the argument. 3 Latin letters.
3 Latin letters. A sum offered at an auction; starts with B.
They took the slave's name, changed his owner and rewrote his price. Yet the moment he walks into a room, some step away from the door and others start smiling. Not a single line in the contract, and everyone already knows what to expect from him. What survived the resale?
10 letters. What others think of you, built from your past deeds.
I grow as your collection grows, though in theory I should shrink. You call me strategy until you catch yourself buying a person only because he is not yours yet. What is my name without the pretty label?
Answer: ЖАДНОСТЬ,АЛЧНОСТЬ,GREED
The in-game hint was: 5 letters. The insatiable urge to own ever more.
Without a war, a person ended up with a different owner. Two walked away happy and call what happened voluntary, only the third one's opinion was never part of the price. What exchange do they use to explain it? 5 Latin letters.
Word in Morse: TRADE
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The in-game hint was: 5 Latin letters. Buying and selling, an exchange between sides; starts with T.
One parts with a slave, the other parts with lave. I part with nothing, yet after their handshake I get richer too. Who am I between those two?
Answer: ПОСРЕДНИК,МАКЛЕР,БРОКЕР,INTERMEDIARY,BROKER,MIDDLEMAN
The in-game hint was: 12 letters. Someone who helps two sides close a deal for a fee.
I give no orders myself, yet because of me people obey the head beneath me. I can pass from victor to victor, and each will swear the power was his from the start. What travels between rulers? 5 Latin letters.
Word in Morse: CROWN
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The in-game hint was: 5 Latin letters. A monarch's headpiece; starts with C.
People put me on so they stop being recognised. Yet it is with me that the Sugar Daddy first looks like the monster his slaves have long believed him to be. I hide a face and sometimes show the truth by accident. What am I?
Answer: МАСКА,MASK
The in-game hint was: 4 letters. An object that covers or changes a face.
Yesterday I was good enough to eat. Today they carved a face into me, lit a light inside and set me by the Baron's throne. They threw me a party right after scooping out everything I had. Who am I on the night of the sabbath? 7 Latin letters.
Word in Morse: PUMPKIN
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The in-game hint was: 7 Latin letters. The orange fruit that becomes a Halloween lantern; starts with P.
On the night of the sabbath I am not sold at the market, yet because of me protection sells for more. I need no hands to hold a slave: it is enough that he imagines for himself what waits beyond the gate. What holds him tighter than iron?
Answer: СТРАХ,БОЯЗНЬ,FEAR
The in-game hint was: 4 letters. Expecting danger even before it arrives.
A slave carries me ahead of his owner. While I live, the path can be seen; for me to live, I am slowly destroyed. I am needed most by those who walk first into places the others fear. 5 Latin letters.
Word in Morse: TORCH
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The in-game hint was: 5 Latin letters. A handheld source of fire and light; starts with T.
At first the word meant a few people. Then the land around them, the roads between them and the cities that did not know it yet. I am born when an owner feels cramped inside his own collection. What grows out of that kind of greed?
Answer: ИМПЕРИЯ,ДЕРЖАВА,EMPIRE
The in-game hint was: 6 letters. A great power ruling over many lands and peoples.
Every emperor had me before he had a crown. On coins they hid me under a face, on banners they show me without one. When all the titles run out, there is hardly any difference between us. What gleams white in an ancient tomb? 5 Latin letters.
Word in Morse: SKULL
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The in-game hint was: 5 Latin letters. The bones of the head; starts with S.
My owner hated parting with me so much that we decided to wait out even death. I was dried, wrapped and laid down next to the riches. Centuries later the riches were carried off first, and I was put on display. Who am I?
Answer: МУМИЯ,MUMMY
The in-game hint was: 5 letters. A preserved, wrapped body from an ancient tomb.
The new owner took an ancient crown and was delighted the previous one let it go almost for free. Then it turned out the misfortunes travel with the thing, and there is nobody to complain to. What is this dowry from a tomb called? 5 Latin letters.
Word in Morse: CURSE
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The in-game hint was: 5 Latin letters. An evil spell; starts with C.
While I am empty, those around me are brothers. The moment someone sits down, loyal subjects, ancient grudges and other people's plans appear. I never move, yet I start more campaigns than any road. What am I?
Answer: ТРОН,ПРЕСТОЛ,THRONE
The in-game hint was: 6 letters. The seat a ruler sits on.
I already make you spend someone else's lave in your head, though nobody has bought anything yet. Between "I'd take him for this much" and an actual change of owner stands me. The owner can accept or decline me. 5 Latin letters.
Word in Morse: OFFER
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The in-game hint was: 5 Latin letters. A proposed price for a purchase; starts with O.
You could have bought a cheaper slave. Instead you saved up for the one who bought you yesterday, and now the number on the receipt pleases you less than the new name in his dossier. What did you overpay for?
Answer: МЕСТЬ,РЕВАНШ,REVENGE
The in-game hint was: 7 letters. The urge to pay someone back for an old humiliation.
I can change how people treat a person without changing a single thing about him. Yesterday nobody noticed him, today they brag about him, and all it took was writing me a little higher. On the market I am a number. 5 Latin letters.
Word in Morse: PRICE
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The in-game hint was: 5 Latin letters. What they ask for a purchase; starts with P.
I show up before you two have even met. To me, "he is a priceless person" only means someone forgot to hang me on him. The moment I grow, old friends suddenly take pride in knowing him. What am I?
Answer: ЦЕННИК,ЦЕНА,PRICE TAG
The in-game hint was: Two words. The label that carries the cost.
He picks you by your avatar, but there will be no date. He says "I'll take it", and the talk about your merits ends with a transfer of lave. Next to the seller he is always on the other side. 5 Latin letters.
Word in Morse: BUYER
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The in-game hint was: 5 Latin letters. The one who pays for the purchase; starts with B.
They call me free even where people are sold. Prices roam across me, while those the prices belong to never get far without an owner. What am I?
Answer: РЫНОК,MARKET
The in-game hint was: 6 letters. The place where supply meets demand.
What drops from a chest. Sometimes tokens, sometimes chains, sometimes disappointment. But you will still open it again. 4 letters.
Word in Morse: LOOT
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The in-game hint was: A gamer term for the haul. 4 Latin letters.
It stayed at the bottom of the box after everything else flew out into the world. It keeps the hamster running and it kept you here for thirty days straight. What do you still have?
Answer: НАДЕЖДА,HOPE
The in-game hint was: Pandora's box, the very bottom.
The soft metal of crypto miners. Slaves dig it, but it can only be spent inside the game to buy new slaves. 4 letters.
Word in Morse: COIN
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The in-game hint was: What ticks into the storage. 4 Latin letters.
It started as a joke for one evening. Now you open it before your email and right after your alarm. The rewards dried up, the thumb stayed. What actually owns you?
Answer: ПРИВЫЧКА,HABIT
The in-game hint was: Takes 21 days to build and much longer to break.
The one sitting in the room waiting for you to bring him tokens. In the office they fear him, here he is just an owner. 4 letters.
Word in Morse: BOSS
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The in-game hint was: A synonym for owner, but with a hint of office misery. 4 Latin letters.
The one thing nobody in this game ever asked you for. Also the one thing you handed over yourself the moment you tapped. What is missing from this story?
Answer: СОГЛАСИЕ,CONSENT
The in-game hint was: You are supposed to be asked for it before, not after.
The currency you pay with for slaves above level twenty. Four latin letters, and it is not about weight.
Word in Morse: GRAM
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The in-game hint was: The hard currency here, and what withdrawals are paid in. 4 latin letters.
You never borrowed it and you pay it every month. Whoever bought you wrote the number down, and nobody showed you the paper. What is hanging on you?
Answer: ДОЛГ,DEBT
The in-game hint was: Banks love the word, you do not.
Eleven steps from CHMORAB to RABOBAB. You are at the very bottom right now, but ambition won't let you stand still. 4 letters.
Word in Morse: RANK
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The in-game hint was: What grows from buyouts and branding. 4 Latin letters.
On that day the listing drops, withdrawals open and everything pays off. It is in every announcement and it has never once arrived. When?
Answer: ЗАВТРА,TOMORROW
The in-game hint was: The day that is always exactly one day away.
The one thing here you cannot buy in the shop, pull from a lootbox or unlock with a rank. You buy it back from yourself, and rarely on the first attempt. 7 letters, the finale.
Word in Morse: FREEDOM
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The in-game hint was: Not a free person, but the state itself. 7 Latin letters.
The first rank in the game and the last line of the leaderboard. A clever Greek gave the same answer to a one eyed giant and walked out alive. Who are you at the start?
Answer: НИКТО,NOBODY
The in-game hint was: The answer Odysseus gave the Cyclops.
First you farmed for tokens. Then for a line on the leaderboard. Then you just opened the app and closed it, out of habit. At the office this gets you sick leave, here it gets you nothing. 7 letters.
Word in Morse: BURNOUT
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The in-game hint was: The diagnosis of all remote work, one word from two roots. 7 Latin letters.
You cast it to catch someone, and everybody sits inside it voluntarily. The more of yours are caught in it, the tighter it holds you. What is it?
Answer: СЕТЬ,NET
The in-game hint was: A fisherman casts it, you scroll it all day.
Abolished in 1861, abolished in 1865, ceremonies and paperwork included. Then somebody invented referral links and it came back on its own, no paperwork, no signatures. 7 letters, and it is literally the genre you are playing.
Word in Morse: SLAVERY
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The in-game hint was: Not the slave himself, but the whole system. 7 Latin letters.
A stranger writes it, you wear it, everyone reads it. You cannot take it off, you can only buy it back. Big companies pay millions for one and hang it on billboards. What is it?
Answer: КЛЕЙМО,BRAND
The in-game hint was: Cattle get it burned on, marketers put it on a billboard.
In Russian scam slang, the guy who paid up and waits is named after this animal. The animal itself went extinct for roughly the same reason: it kept walking into pits it could see. 7 letters.
Word in Morse: MAMMOTH
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The in-game hint was: An Ice Age beast with tusks, now a synonym for a scam victim. 7 Latin letters.
You open the leaderboard not to find yourself but to check who owns more. You bought nothing and your evening is already ruined. What did you open along with it?
Answer: ЗАВИСТЬ,ENVY
The in-game hint was: One of the seven deadly ones, the leaderboard flavour.
It runs the wheel and is sure it is getting somewhere. Millions did exactly this a couple of years ago and got an airdrop the size of a sandwich. An animal, 7 letters.
Word in Morse: HAMSTER
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The in-game hint was: The tapper that all of Telegram sat on. 7 Latin letters.
It looks like a gift: come in, they are handing out free stuff. You swallow it, the hook is already inside, and somebody else's name is on the line. What did you take?
Answer: ПРИМАНКА,BAIT
The in-game hint was: You catch fish with it. And people.
You bought a person by the @ in front of their nickname. They have no idea yet: the account exists, the game does not. They find out the second they first press Start. 7 letters, our own term.
Word in Morse: PHANTOM
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The in-game hint was: A slave who is not yet in the game. A word about a ghost, but not GHOST. 7 Latin letters.
It costs exactly as many tokens as you failed to save. And they only sell it to someone who dragged a living person in as a replacement. What are you buying?
Answer: СВОБОДА,FREEDOM
The in-game hint was: The thing people save tokens and invite friends for.
You open it before every slave purchase and close it noticeably quieter. It comes in leather, it comes in cold storage, and it comes in empty, which is by far the most common kind. 6 letters.
Word in Morse: WALLET
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The in-game hint was: In the pocket and in crypto it is called the same. 6 Latin letters.
The ranks keep upgrading and the titles get fancier. The steps run out, and at the very top sits the same guy who bought you. What are you climbing?
Answer: ЛЕСТНИЦА,LADDER
The in-game hint was: It has rungs, and the career one is the longest.
A dog wears one so people can read the owner's address on the tag. A slave wears one for the very same reason. In English the same word names the part of the shirt you wear to the office. 6 letters.
Word in Morse: COLLAR
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The in-game hint was: A dog's collar and a shirt's collar are the same English word, hence "white collar". 6 Latin letters.
Office people paint it white and print it on a business card. Strip the fancy word away and it is a strap around the neck. What is it?
Answer: ОШЕЙНИК,COLLAR
The in-game hint was: White for office workers, leather for dogs.
This game has no button for it. Your keyboard does, top left corner, and it stopped solving anything years ago. 6 letters.
Word in Morse: ESCAPE
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The in-game hint was: The key name is printed in three letters, but the full word is six. 6 Latin letters.
You opened a stranger's profile to laugh at his slaves. You scrolled down and found a familiar avatar in someone's property list. What were you looking into?
Answer: ЗЕРКАЛО,MIRROR
The in-game hint was: Hangs in the bathroom and almost never lies.
To go free you pay for yourself. To be allowed to pay, you first bring in a live human to stand in your place. Ancient scheme, 6 letters.
Word in Morse: BUYOUT
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The in-game hint was: Self buyout opens only after the first live referral. 6 Latin letters.
First you farmed for the top, then out of habit, now you just open it and stare. The bar is full and you still cannot press anything. What happened?
Answer: ВЫГОРАНИЕ,BURNOUT
The in-game hint was: The word HR uses when you hand in your notice.
It refills one point a minute and drains in ninety seconds. The exact moment it hits zero, the game politely offers to sell you more. 6 letters, and no, not your phone battery.
Word in Morse: ENERGY
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The in-game hint was: The resource that every whip strike eats. 6 Latin letters.
Thirty years, you signed it yourself, and everyone calls that a grown up decision. In here it would be called ownership, out there it comes with keys. What is it?
Answer: ИПОТЕКА,MORTGAGE
The in-game hint was: Thirty years and concrete.
His profile has your name, yours has his. The difference is that he sits in the line at the top and you sit in the list at the bottom. The same word goes on the diploma of people who studied six years to work for one. 6 letters.
Word in Morse: MASTER
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The in-game hint was: Master and a degree are the same English word. 6 Latin letters.
He was bought by @username before he had ever heard of the game. He already belongs to someone, he just has no idea. What is he until he logs in?
Answer: ФАНТОМ,PHANTOM
The in-game hint was: Already in the database, not yet in the game.
A currency you cannot cash out but can burn in two seconds. People gift them, people pay with them, and you are always short exactly one lootbox. The sky has them too, these cost more. 5 letters, plural.
Word in Morse: STARS
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The in-game hint was: The internal currency of Telegram. Plural is mandatory. 5 Latin letters.
Your room is packed tonight: eight executioners, every tank full. They stand and wait their turn. What has formed at your door?
Answer: ОЧЕРЕДЬ,QUEUE
The in-game hint was: People standing one behind another, being patient.
You opened the slave market for one minute. Forty went by. You have already worked out who to outbid, who to borrow from and how to explain the spending at home. One word explains this whole game and half of your decisions. 5 letters.
Word in Morse: GREED
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The in-game hint was: One of the deadly sins, and the main engine of the local economy. 5 Latin letters.
By day you row for the boss, by night for your owner in here. The only difference is that this place is honest about your job title. What is that ship called?
Answer: ГАЛЕРА,GALLEY
The in-game hint was: Oars, a drum, and you rowing. Office slang, and an actual ship.
A quest with a hundred steps, and on each one he has to become a little more yours. Exactly one winner per step, everybody else was late. A surname, 5 letters.
Word in Morse: DUROV
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The in-game hint was: The most expensive slave in the game, and he also built the platform you play on. 5 Latin letters.
Huge, ancient, woolly, and he still dropped into a pit dug by small hairless creatures. Ever since, that is what hunters call anyone who falls for it. Who is he?
Answer: МАМОНТ,MAMMOTH
The in-game hint was: Extinct for millennia, yet very much alive in scammer slang.
The soft currency stuffing your pockets, plus a promise that one day it goes hard. Waiting for the exchange, waiting for the announcement, waiting. 5 letters, and half of Telegram is waiting with you.
Word in Morse: TOKEN
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The in-game hint was: What slaves mined for you overnight, and also a word from every crypto chat. 5 Latin letters.
A slave has a level, power and a brand on him. And there is one more person: the one who takes all the farm and can resell him any minute. Who is that?
Answer: ХОЗЯИН,OWNER
The in-game hint was: The top line on every slave card.
Your owner typed one line about you. Everyone who opens your profile reads it. You cannot delete it, you can only pay it off. Marketing people use the same word for the thing corporations spend millions on. 5 letters.
Word in Morse: BRAND
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The in-game hint was: Brand on skin and logo on sneakers are the same English word. 5 Latin letters.
It never asked the head for permission. One twitch on a blue line and your whole life changed owners. Who is to blame?
Answer: ПАЛЕЦ,FINGER
The in-game hint was: There are ten of them, and one decided for the whole body.
While the hours tick, nobody can walk off with you. The second the counter hits zero, you are merchandise again. The same word names the thing all of crypto runs on. 5 letters.
Word in Morse: CHAIN
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The in-game hint was: Chains and blockchain are the same English word. 5 Latin letters.
He wrote first: check out this game, it is hilarious. Now he is on the leaderboard and you are in his property list. Who was he to you?
Answer: ДРУГ,FRIEND
The in-game hint was: He is not your enemy. That is exactly what stings.
He thought he was installing a hamster game. He opened it, and it already said whose he is. 5 letters, and by the way somebody's profile lists you under that same word.
Word in Morse: SLAVE
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The in-game hint was: The main word of the whole game and your personal status. 5 Latin letters.
Your slave mined a small fortune overnight. Every last token went to the owner. How much did the slave keep?
Answer: НОЛЬ,ZERO,0
The in-game hint was: It is a digit. A round one.
The owner points at a person and says one word. That same word means the pit where people dig from dawn to dusk. For the slave, both meanings landed at once. 4 letters.
Word in Morse: MINE
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The in-game hint was: A possessive pronoun that is also a mine. 4 Latin letters.
You bought them, put them on yours, and now the neighbour's button just clicks in vain. They tick down for hours, then fall off. What did you put on him?
Answer: ОКОВЫ,SHACKLES
The in-game hint was: Anti theft protection with a countdown on it.
It used to have a three letter name, and everyone waited for it to moon. The name changed, the moon did not arrive, and it is still what you pay with here. Nothing to do with weight. 4 letters.
Word in Morse: GRAM
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The in-game hint was: The hard currency of the game, used for withdrawals too. 4 Latin letters.
It always runs out at the best possible moment. It refills one drop per minute, and the shop is already waving: I can do it faster. What ran out?
Answer: ЭНЕРГИЯ,ENERGY
The in-game hint was: Spent on hits, refills a drop at a time, sold in bundles.
He sleeps, it ticks. He eats, it ticks. Nothing ticks for him, because it ticks for you. One word for a field with cows and for what your slave does all day. 4 letters.
Word in Morse: FARM
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The in-game hint was: One word lives in the village and in crypto. 4 Latin letters.
You walk into a stranger's room, and not for a chat. Energy drains, his pain counter climbs, your rank climbs too. What is in your hand?
Answer: ПЛЁТКА,WHIP
The in-game hint was: It gave the game its second leaderboard, the one that counts hits.
He signed nothing. He tapped something blue in a chat, and from that second his mining goes to you. The entire slavery contract fits on one line and lives in your clipboard. 4 letters.
Word in Morse: LINK
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The in-game hint was: Blue, underlined, copies in one tap. 4 Latin letters.
Your slave digs it around the clock and keeps not a single one. You are certain that one day it turns into a real coin. What is he digging?
Answer: ТОКЕН,TOKEN
The in-game hint was: Soft currency that keeps promising to go hard.
You walk into someone else's room, burn energy and climb a leaderboard. The person on the other end climbs one too, just a much sadder one. 4 letters.
Word in Morse: WHIP
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The in-game hint was: Not a hand, but a tool. It has two leaderboards in the game. 4 Latin letters.
Three months of tapping, one numb thumb, waiting for the drop. The drop landed and covered exactly one kebab. Who is he?
Answer: ХОМЯК,HAMSTER
The in-game hint was: Runs with all his might and never moves. The mascot of every tap game.
You came here for the token, and this is what you actually do. Finger down, finger up, until the bar runs dry. Half of Telegram was built on this motion. 3 letters.
Word in Morse: TAP
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The in-game hint was: The answer is exactly what you use to tap it. 3 Latin letters.
It landed in your DMs, blue and harmless. You tapped, and one second later you had an owner. What did you open?
Answer: ССЫЛКА,LINK
The in-game hint was: Blue, underlined, and there is no back button.
Tap the word in Morse. A short tap is a dot, holding is a dash. A pause separates letters.
Word in Morse: LAVE
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The in-game hint was: The name of the game in latin letters, 4 of them. Short tap is a dot, hold is a dash, a pause splits letters.
Guess what you need to do.
Answer: СВОБОДА,FREEDOM
The in-game hint was: One word. Ask yourself what any captive wants.