Daily Riddle, Sep 17, 2026

The trick here is that every clue is pointing at letters, not meanings. "The beginning of the end" simply means the first letter of the word "end," which is E. "The end of time and space" means the last letter of both those words, also E. It sounds like the riddle is describing some grand cosmic force, but really it's just spelling things out, literally. "Essential to creation" keeps the streak going since E starts that word too, and "surrounds every place" works because E is tucked inside the word "every" and "place" shares that letter as well. Once you stop hunting for a philosophical answer and start checking spellings, the whole riddle collapses into a playful game of hide-and-seek with one letter hiding in plain sight the entire time.