Welcome to Secret Builders, where everyone got to make up their own adventures and learn a lot of stuff along the way. Clearly meant for children, but also entertaining to adults, this online virtual world let you rediscover learnings that you may have forgotten about from your childhood. It also gave you new educational material from fields that you might have built a new interest in.

First off, you had to create an avatar. There were plenty of customization options when creating your own avatar. You chose from a variety of hair styles to begin with. After that, you could build the face of your personal avatar using a range of faces and a whole wardrobe of upper and lower body clothing. You took your time at that point. You didn't want to come up with an avatar that you wouldn't be happy with. Although you could always change the look of your personal avatar later on, you wanted to focus on just playing the game instead of fussing over such details.

Now, after creating your avatar, it was time to choose a server. The content remained the same. The differences between each server lay in their population. You might have wanted to choose the more populated servers so you could enjoy what Secret Builders had to offer you as a player. The more dense the population in the server was, the more people or players you could interact with.

One form of interaction between players was to challenge one another to games. There were many mini-games that you could play with other players in this virtual world. All you had to do was click on the player's avatar, find the Challenge icon on the right portion of the mini-screen, and select a game to challenge him or her with.

You could also interact by giving him or her a Like. You could let them know you cared by visiting their houses, which all of you got as part of your free membership to the website. Building on the social aspect of the game, you could add that person as a Buddy, but only if you wanted to.

The main idea of the game was to earn in-game cash, which came in the form of coins. You could go on Quests by, for example, playing a re-telling of the Greek mythological story "The Odyssey." Once you completed that quest, you got 5000 coins from Odysseus himself. The quest itself was also a means to arouse curiosity from players about the story, so it was educational in its own way.

Coins could also be earned when you answered quizzes. Quizzes touched on a broad range of topics such as history and literature, among others, so no matter how old or how young you were, you could learn a new tidbit of information or two from those quizzes. There was also a premium service called "Super Builder," but it was optional.

Shut down in 2021, Secret Builders was a free-to-play virtual world that held a very dear place in our hearts and, hopefully, with this memorial to the game, it will remain that way until the end of time.