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Riddling Sphinx

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Riddling Sphinx	comment	In Classical Mythology, Oedipus encountered a Sphinx and was, famously, forced to solve the Riddle of the Sphinx in order to pass. Ever since, it's been a tradition that all sphinxes ask riddles. So if you see a sphinx, be prepared for a game of Riddle Me This. The classic Riddle of the Sphinx still appears occasionally, but most sphinxes will come up with their own new ones, since, let's be honest here, everyone knows the answer to the original. Exactly why sphinxes are driven to do this varies from work to work. Sometimes sphinxes will be depicted as enjoying mental challenges and games of wits, sometimes they'll have mental compulsions driving them to engage others in this manner, and sometimes they'll simply ask riddles without any specific explanation provided for why they do this. Subtrope of Riddle Me This and Our Sphinxes Are Different. Related to Only Smart People May Pass.
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Riddling Sphinx / int_10861ce9	comment	The Smurfs: In "Smurfquest", where Grandpa Smurf led Papa Smurf, Smurf, Hefty, Handy, Greedy, Sassette (who had stowed away) to the "four corners of the world" to find the components to recharge the Long Life Stone, their second stop was apparently Egypt, where they had to deal with a sphinx like this. Sassette was actually the one who guessed the answer to the creature's riddle which was "a shadow"; probably a good thing she tagged along. However, Gargamel, who was secretly following them, couldn't guess it, and found himself being chased by the now-angry sphinx.
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Riddling Sphinx / int_136469af	comment	Pact: Isadora is the daughter of the original sphinx. Where her mother preferred formal riddles, she enjoys framing them as simple questions that nevertheless demand a complex answer. If you're a smartass and answer "a man" when she asks who you are, though, she'll devour you.
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Riddling Sphinx / int_17d4d1a5	comment	Tamagotchi: Mametchi and his friends come across one resembling Kuchipatchi in episode 136. It asks the standard Riddle of the Sphinx ("What walks on four legs in the morning, two legs in the afternoon, three legs in the evening, and no legs at night?"), which Mametchi almost answers with a Tamagotchi before realizing not all Tamagotchis have legs in the first place, with the Gotchi King in particular coming to mind. He changes his guess to a human, which is the correct answer and allows him and his friends to continue their search for the Crystal Crown.
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Riddling Sphinx / int_1b238f60	comment	Skin Deep: Played with. Michelle Jocasta, who is a Sphinx — specially a winged grecian sphinx, as opposed to a wingless Egyptian sphinxes that also exist in the comic — once dressed up for Halloween as the Riddler, because she thinks she's being clever. As a general rule, it's averted with her. Word of God states that she's no more prone to asking riddles than any other person. She does, however, have undeveloped oracular powers, as this is an inborn trait of sphinxes.
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Riddling Sphinx / int_1b4a1cef	comment	Fantasy Quest: A Sphinx leaps into your path and asks you a riddle. Unless you're playing the original, console game, you get to choose your answer from a list, so this is one of the game's easiest portions.
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Riddling Sphinx / int_1b575f28	comment	The AncientSphinxmon from Episode 58 of Digimon Ghost Game has a pattern of attacking people near cultural or recreational sites through forcefully taking off his victim's shoes and forcing them to trip, then ask them riddles. If the victim fails to answer his riddles correctly, he forces stone to manifest inside the victim and encases them, turning them into golden bricks. He eventually accumulates enough victims to create a massive pyramid that can resurrect his boss, Pharaohmon.
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Riddling Sphinx / int_1e7ca85f	comment	Hercules: In one episode, the Sphinx is a quizmaster, voiced by game show host Wink Martindale. His riddle was "What does a man do standing up, a woman sitting down, and a dog on three legs?" The answer is shake hands. note This is a reference to the induction ceremony for the Turtle Club, a real-life Brotherhood of Funny Hats: the inductee is given a series of riddles that seem like setups for lewd jokes, but has to give the correct, family-friendly answer to each one.
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Riddling Sphinx / int_1e8299d1	comment	Impossible Creatures (2023): Belhib tells the heroes that sphinxes ask riddles for three reasons: so their island isn't swamped by visitors looking for the answers to trivial questions, to encourage people to think for themselves, and so they can eat people who give the wrong answers. Naturally, his mother Naravirala makes each of the humans answer a riddle (including the classic Riddle of the Sphinx) before they can ask her why the Glimourie — the magic that keeps magical creatures alive — is fading.
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Riddling Sphinx / int_1ea9cbde	comment	Monsters, Inc.: Scream Team: One of the desert levels features a giant sphinx statue. The player must input the right sequence of symbols in order for the sphinx to reveal a Nerve.
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Riddling Sphinx / int_28d1c451	comment	Kidd Video had the Pink Sphinx in one episode, who wakes up every thousand years and can grant a wish to whoever solves a riddle. The heroes intend to use the wish to escape to Earth, and while one of them succeeds in answering the riddle, he makes the mistake of trying to make two wishes at once. (The Sphinx is sort of a Literal Genie, and only grants the first one.)
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Riddling Sphinx / int_30d36a3e	comment	Shadowgate: One of the tasks is to give a Sphinx three objects that answer three riddles he gives.
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Riddling Sphinx / int_3256c625	comment	Mirrormask has gryphons and sphinxes, which are similar catlike creatures with human heads, but mixes up their properties. In the film, a gryphon guards the area known as Giants Orbiting, requiring Helena answer the classic Riddle (she succeeds by giving a literal answer) and stump him in return (she gives him something unsolvable and sneaks off while he's thinking about it). Meanwhile, the "sphinxes" are ravenous beasts which speak seldom and pounce on anyone who seems vulnerable.
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Riddling Sphinx / int_34e04703	comment	Skippyjon Jones: In one story, the title character is asked this riddle by an Egyptian Sphinx parody called "the Finx". The answer is Skippyjon, AKA Skippito Friskito, himself.
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Riddling Sphinx / int_3b34143f	comment	Harry Potter: In Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire, Harry encounters a sphinx in the hedge maze and has to answer a riddle in order to pass by it safely; however, she does tell Harry that if he decides not to give an answer and just retreat, she won't stop him. Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them states this as the reason the sphinx is classed as a beast rather than a being, as it only speaks in riddles and puzzles and reacts violently if given the wrong answer.
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Riddling Sphinx / int_3faf8fe7	comment	Pleasant Goat and Big Big Wolf: The Tiger Prowess: Two sphinxes, one with a goat's head and one with a wolf's head, guard the temple of the totem and ask Weslie and Wolffy how many stars are in the sky. Weslie replies by saying there are as many stars in the sky as there are grains of sand in the desert, prompting the sphinxes to start counting the grains of sand. By the time Weslie and Wolffy make it out of the temple with the totem, the sphinxes are still counting the grains of sand.
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Riddling Sphinx / int_40541bf8	comment	Board Game Online: A Sphinx is a possible obstacle in the archaeology dig and dungeon crawl events. It will pose you a trivia question, and you have to answer correctly to advance towards the artifact at the end. Answer wrongly, and you'll either be knocked out (making you incapacitated) or killed if the Sphinx is on the last level. You can also use Truth Serum to automatically say the correct answer.
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Riddling Sphinx / int_48cf61a6	comment	Superfriends: In one episode, a sphinx asked Batman and Robin "What builds up castles and tears down mountains, makes some men blind and helps others to see?" The answer was "sand". The sphinx was a Sore Loser and attacked them anyway, but they quickly defeated it.
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Riddling Sphinx / int_498b77e9	comment	Skin Horse: Inverted with the Antisphinx. Only Smart People May Pass, but you have to come up with a riddle it can't answer. And there's a further twist: this does not mean a riddle it can't answer correctly.
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Riddling Sphinx / int_4b05faa2	comment	Ulysses 31: The 31st century space version of Ulysses bumps into a space version of the Sphinx in one episode. It naturally asks him the standard Riddle of the Sphinx, though this time the Shpinx has a daughter and she wants to keep Ulysses for herself, so she submits him to further challenges hoping he loses and becomes her slave/lover.
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Riddling Sphinx / int_4fed254b	comment	Chronicles of Amber: In the second book, Merlin runs into a sphinx. He's able to counter-riddle it and get away.
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Riddling Sphinx / int_5755b96a	comment	The Order of the Stick: Parodied in an extra strip in the book edition of the fifth arc, "Blood Runs in the Family". The heroes visit a roadside stop with a sphinx (with acne) as a cashier. Not only does the sphinx speak in riddles, but to ask it a question, one needs to phrase it as a riddle as well, even a prosaic question like "which way is the restroom?". Elan, being a bard, is adept at it, but when Vaarsuvius tries it, his/her Sesquipedalian Loquaciousness ends up confusing the sphinx... resulting in a shower of confetti and a reward of a free ice cream cone for managing such a feat. Haley was able to get a second cone by having V ask it how many flavors of ice cream it had.
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Riddling Sphinx / int_59c939c6	comment	Nodwick: The party encounters a riddling sphinx in a dungeon. They bribe it to let them pass, even though Nodwick knew the answer. In another instance, in the module-parody strip "Climb Every (White Plume) Mountain" the answer to the riddle is "the moon". Nodwick is annoyed (and disgusted) that the sphinx was willing to accept Yeagar's display of frustration instead of a verbal response.
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Riddling Sphinx / int_5b53043d	comment	Mario Party 2: In the Mystery Land board, Bowser is cast as the Bowser Sphinx (though he merely wears an Egyptian headdress and isn't winged or lionlike at all) who challenges all comers to identify a silhouette. The Superstar of the board identifies it easily.
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Riddling Sphinx / int_68237790	comment	Pathfinder: Pathfinder has several subtypes of sphinx, with each variety having a different take on the association with riddles. Gynosphinxes love riddles and logical puzzles, and offering one a tempting new riddle to ponder is a fairly efficient way to defuse a bad encounter with one. Androsphinxes are much like gynosphinxes, but far more intellectual and emotionally aloof; they have relatively little interest in riddles and games of wit, but enjoy pondering complex philosophical questions. Criosphinxes are comparatively dim-witted (though still above the average human). They lust ceaselessly after gynosphinxes and, whilst they don't value riddles themselves, they known that gynosphinxes do and will seek out knowledge of riddles in order to bargain their way into a gynosphinx's good graces. Hieracosphinxes are the Always Chaotic Evil branch of the sphinx family (literally), and are too brutal, stupid (this time objectively rather than comparatively) and foul to care about knowledge or wits one way or the other. In general, they will just skip straight to attacking travelers rather than asking them anything. Elder sphinxes have the ability to telepathically project a litany of riddles, puzzles and paradoxes so complex that every creature within sixty feet of them needs to pass a willpower test or become stunned for a number of rounds. Creatures that pass the check, however, gain valuable insights into the sphinx's mind — in game terms, they take a bonus to all Knowledge checks for an hour. Areshkagal, the demon lord of portals, greed and riddles, takes the form of a giant, faceless sphinx with batlike wings, six legs and a snake for a tail. She is often worshipped by evil sphinxes — and worshipped in giant sphinx statues — and her faithful inscribe riddles in their own skin in adoration of her. One of her boons allows her worshippers to tell riddles so vexing that they drive listeners insane.
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Riddling Sphinx / int_69b0b659	comment	In Sabrina: The Animated Series, a sphinx asks Sabrina and Chloe the Riddle of the Sphinx. Chloe answers "Man." Unfortunately, as it turns out, there's a magical nine-legged creature that fits the riddle a bit more literally.
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Riddling Sphinx / int_6bf150d5	comment	Vow of Nudity: Kay'la encounters one in the mithral mines while hiding from its master, a murderous rakshasa. Apparently it used to use the Riddle of the Sphinx, but the rakshasa changed it to an unsolvable riddle to prevent it from revealing his secrets. (Kay'la comes up with a solution anyway, so the sphinx can reveal how to defeat him)
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Riddling Sphinx / int_7579423f	comment	Banjo-Kazooie: The Ancient Ones are Sphinx statues in Gobi's Valley with hexagonal rings on their top. They tell Banjo and Kazooie that they can defeat Gruntilda if they Pass Through the Rings while flying. When the bear and bird pass through the rings of all five statues, they admit that they were joking and can only give them a Jiggy as reward.
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Riddling Sphinx / int_78dd2e1e	comment	Magic: The Gathering: This is a standard theme for sphinxes, where they are the iconic large creatures for Blue, the color of knowledge and the mind, and often get mechanics related to knowing and guessing. The original sphinx, Petra Sphinx, had players guess the top card of their libraries. This same guessing game was also used for Conundrum Sphinx. Sphinx of Uthuun gives your opponent choice of which cards to put into your hand and which to put into your graveyard. Unesh does the same at a smaller scale, but also riddles the opponent whenever any Sphinx enters the battlefield under your control. Isperia the Inscrutable rewards you if you can correctly guess a card in your opponent's hand. Of course, since they have to reveal their hand if you guess wrong, the riddle is a lot easier the second time. Sphinx Ambassador secretly chooses one of your opponent's creatures; if they can't guess which one, you get to steal it. Master of Predicaments lets you pick a card in your hand and then force the opponent to guess if its mana value is greater than 4. If they guess wrongly, you can cast that card for free. Even sphinxes who don't have riddle-related gameplay will often reference riddles in their Flavor Text, because hey, that's what sphinxes do. The Sphinx of the Steel Wind, however, gives the impression that she isn't really interested in this kind of thing. All of her abilities are bluntly powerful combat abilities rather than clever, tricky ones, and her favorite riddle — which, as the card notes, nobody's ever answered to her satisfaction — is "why should I spare your life?" In Test of Metal, Tezzeret's attempts at solving riddles left by the mad sphinx Crucius are a major plot point.
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Riddling Sphinx / int_7cda381e	comment	Assassin's Creed: Odyssey features a Sphinx, who you can fight normally, or choose to answer all three of her riddles to beat her.
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Riddling Sphinx / int_7d5f8592	comment	Paranatural: Max and Isaac find a sphinx-like creature that tells them to answer correctly two of his three riddles. The first one seems to be the classic Riddle of the Sphinx but the answer was "that guy" (a random passerby monster). Later on we see Isaac faoling the last riddle and so he can't cross the Sphinx's bridge magical barrier... but since the "bridge" is only a plank over a small stream, he just casually walks over it.
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Riddling Sphinx / int_8049e79e	comment	The Sphinx is one of the later bosses in Metal Slug Code J, where it has been converted from a statue to a robot capable of shooting missiles from it's headgears and laser from its eyes. Players must dodge its attacks, and within certain checkpoints, step on one of three buttons to solve it's "riddles". After solving three riddles, the robo-Sphinx promptly deactivates.
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Riddling Sphinx / int_8258e260	comment	Super Mario Bros.: Mario Party 2: In the Mystery Land board, Bowser is cast as the Bowser Sphinx (though he merely wears an Egyptian headdress and isn't winged or lionlike at all) who challenges all comers to identify a silhouette. The Superstar of the board identifies it easily. Super Mario Odyssey: An Egyptian sphinx appears in various Kingdoms, where it guards passageways. He only lets Mario get past it if he correctly answers a series of questions. It travels between Kingdoms with a giant sail and will grant Mario a Power Moon if he spots him with the binoculars. It admits the that questions Mario answers aren't much riddles at all. Wario: Master of Disguise has a sphinx as the boss of the third level. It asks you a series of questions, and if you answer them wrong, it kills you.
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Riddling Sphinx / int_839da9ff	comment	The Mummy: The Animated Series: One episode has the O'Conner family deal with exactly that. After they shout out the correct answer, the attacking Sphinx promptly explodes.
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Riddling Sphinx / int_84823809	comment	Kaeloo: In one episode, the cast come across one of these when traveling through a desert. In the episode "Let's Play Prince Charming", Mr. Cat disguises himself as a sphinx and asks a riddle which is clearly a parody of the Riddle of the Sphinx:
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Riddling Sphinx / int_89465e75	comment	Percy Jackson and the Olympians: When the half-bloods meet a sphinx in the Labyrinth in Battle of the Labyrinth, it tries to administer a multiple-choice standardized test, with mundane trivia questions. Annabeth, who was expecting a riddle that would test her cleverness, is not amused.
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Riddling Sphinx / int_8aa7c509	comment	Star vs. the Forces of Evil: One Sphinx appears in "Quest Buy". Marco and Star manage to blow through the riddle thanks to the Internet.
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Riddling Sphinx / int_8b116ef5	comment	Shadowchasers Series mentions several sphinxes. The sphinx Athentia was a seer who gave advice to powerful individuals, but inflicted a "conundrum curse" upon them as a result, turning the recipient into a type of living riddle who could do nothing but try to solve it until he succeeded. Jamor Stormbringer challenged her to a game of riddles, offering his eternal servitude as a slave if he lost, if she would grant him immortality if he won. Too egotistical to believe she would lose, Athentia accepted, and the resulting contest lasted days. She missed one, but that was enough for Jamor to win. This was an important motivation for the villain in the original story, who was Athentia's daughter. It is briefly mentioned that one sphinx cheated because the answer to her riddle was "Kill Me". The other sphinxes admired her for being so clever and wanted to use her riddle, but sphinxes are not allowed to copy riddles. However, one sphinx thought her trick was dishonorable and helped the Shadowchasers capture her.
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Riddling Sphinx / int_8b4e057	comment	Kyōryū Sentai Zyuranger: Dora Sphinx (King Sphinx in Mighty Morphin' Power Rangers) takes the human form of a game show host who asks riddles to children (and later, the Rangers), and traps them inside trees when they answer wrong. He even asks the classic sphinx riddle to stump the first kid at the beginning of the episode. The heroes eventually turn this against him, defeating him by tricking him into asking them what his weak point is (because he always reveals the correct answer to riddles after receiving a wrong answer). Geki cleverly turns this against him earlier too when Dora Sphinx's riddle is what is the absolute in the universe (Sphinx says "evil") but Geki says that he believes it is "justice" and since it's a subjective question (given that good and evil were battling it out right there) they can't have their answer until one of them wins, which locks Dora Sphinx out of giving him riddles from then on.
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Riddling Sphinx / int_8c4b4de	comment	Cragne Manor: Discussed by Bethany. She visited a desert house that had two sphynxes in it. She gets along great with one, but the other one is mad at her because she solved all its riddles in three minutes. Bethany offered to help it come up with new ones, but now it just rolls its eyes at her and makes fart noises when she tries to talk to it.
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Riddling Sphinx / int_8d0c222c	comment	Harry Is a Dragon, and That's OK: Tanisis Sanura, a sphinx student who enrolls in Harry's second year thanks to the new law passed in the Wizengamot. She spends her first night at Hogwarts holding up all the rest of Ravenclaw House exchanging riddles with the doorknocker! Also, she has to repress her instinctual reaction to an incorrectly-answered riddle. Tanisis' mother is the sphinx utilised as an obstacle in the Triwizard Tournament hedge maze task.
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Riddling Sphinx / int_8ffda93c	comment	Yu-Gi-Oh!: Ordeal of a Traveler forces your opponent's monsters to win a guessing game if they want to attack you; the art depicts a traveler being questioned by a sphinx. In the video game Yu-Gi-Oh! World Championship 2008, the player has to solve Duel Puzzles, with the opponent being a monster called Guardian Sphinx. Hazy Flame Sphynx is an essential component to the Hazy Flame archetype (where the usual goal is to summon the incredibly powerful Hazy Flame Basiltrice. One per turn, the player can use the Sphynx's effect to guess whether the top card of his deck is a Monster, Spell, or Trap; if he is correct, he discards it and can Special Summon a Fire Attribute monster from his Graveyard or hand.
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Riddling Sphinx / int_93f4f834	comment	Godforsaken: Sphinxes can confuse other creatures by forcing them to answer difficult riddles. If their riddle is answered, they can be quite talkative, if arrogant.
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Riddling Sphinx / int_945f2d42	comment	Wapsi Square: Phix sets the same riddle to both Monica and Shelly as a test to see if they're ready to fix the Calender Machine. They each give different answers and Phix rewards them both — without, however, saying that either answer is right.
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Riddling Sphinx / int_947e2b1e	comment	Oedipus the King is the Trope Maker, making this trope Older Than Feudalism. Ironically, the sphinx does not appear at all in the original play, the plot taking place after the event had occured.
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Riddling Sphinx / int_94834165	comment	Through The Well Of Pirene: Amelia, Wire and the CMC meet one in the Cup palace, who offers them the typical three riddles or death trial. Amelia answers the first two through a combination of clichedness on the sphinx's part and genre savvyness on hers, but the third proves much trickier. They don't answer it — Sweetie Belle has an emotional breakdown and starts crying and begging the sphinx not to kill them, which guilts her into just letting them go.
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Riddling Sphinx / int_999855bb	comment	Heroes of Might and Magic: Featured as interactive map objects in 2, where Heroes visiting a Sphinx must answer the riddle asked or disappear, as if they had been defeated in combat or dismissed by the player.
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Riddling Sphinx / int_9d47a2a2	comment	A Song of Ice and Fire: Referred to, without an actual sphinx. Of Alleras, who is nicknamed "The Sphinx", Maester Aemon tells Samwell that "the Sphinx is the riddle, not the riddler."
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Riddling Sphinx / int_9db3260e	comment	Ology Series: Monsterology describes how sphinxes greatly enjoy riddles, a trait they share with dragons.
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Riddling Sphinx / int_a0ff9e30	comment	In Pyramids, a sphinx asks Pteppic the Riddle of the Sphinx. Pteppic nitpicks the metaphor and manages to leave the sphinx confused enough that he can make a quick getaway.
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Riddling Sphinx / int_a41c7dc	comment	Right Now Kapow has a trio of desert nomads (In this case, Candy, Dog and Cupcake) encounter a Sphinx. The Sphinx says that if they answer her riddle correctly, she'll devour herself and the trio can pass. She adds that if they answer incorrectly, she'll devour each of them. The Running Gag of the sketch is that the trio keeps getting the right answers using the wrong work and telling the sphinx that she has to eat herself. The third and final time she grows so sick of their success that she simply complies to avoid having to deal with them any longer.
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Riddling Sphinx / int_a4ff8e01	comment	Fate/Grand Order: The different Sphinx enemies have skills with names like Query and Riddle and their main drops are Scarab of Wisdom, which are said to only be given to truly wise who can solve complex problems.
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Riddling Sphinx / int_a606596a	comment	Chrono Cross has a Sphinx optional boss that you can beat through straight combat, or by correctly answering its riddles by hitting it with the proper color elements. The order of the answers to the riddles is the same as the order you need to use elements in the final battle to get the True Ending... not that there's any indication of this.
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Riddling Sphinx / int_aa5b7cc2	comment	Oglaf: "Stumper" has the sphinx mime a book opening and angrily yell the answer when the guy doesn't get it... which gets her disqualified. The Alt Text says the (Egpytian-headdress-wearing) sphinx is actually Greek, hence the riddle.
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Riddling Sphinx / int_af6dfa3c	comment	In the second segment of Pleasant Goat Fun Class: Sports are Fun episode 22, Weslie, dressed as a sphinx, guards a treasure chest and has the other goats answer the question of what events are featured in the Ironman Triathlon to obtain the treasure. The other goats get the answer wrong twice before Weslie gives the correct answer.
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Riddling Sphinx / int_b0f886e7	comment	Dungeons & Dragons: Sphinxes are generally associated with either riddles or with knowledge in the broad sense. One supplement lists potential riddles for sphinxes to use; one, which she uses when she's too hungry to play fair, has as its answer "Kill me". Module I3 Pharaoh: Inside the tomb of Amun-re the PCs can encounter an androsphinx who offers to play a Riddle Me This game with them. If they can answer one of his riddles he will answer a question from them about the tomb. Riddles he can ask include the Riddle of the Sphinx or a Knights and Knaves (Group A always tells the truth and Group B always lies) logic puzzle. Dracosphinxes subvert this; these monsters have the heads, fiery breath, avarice and treachery of red dragons, so if they engage other creatures in a game of riddles, it's a ruse to get them to lower their guard so the dracosphinx can make a sudden attack. In 4th Edition, there are sphinxes with magical powers that make games of riddles more dangerous. A normal sphinx (presented as a guardian of tombs and sacred areas) is bound to ask a riddle and let intruders pass if they can answer it. However, if they answer wrong, the sphinx becomes stronger. (In game terms, it gains a temporary bonus to its attack rolls, defenses, one action point, and a second use of a powerful ability it can use to heal itself.) The sphinx mystery is an even deadlier creature that challenges prey with riddles for fun instead of attacking outright. One powerful supernatural ability she has (called "Riddle Me This", appropriately) is a mild curse that causes mental damage to a victim if he doesn't at least try to answer her riddle once per round, and does not end until he tries to answer it. (If the victim gets help from an ally, the spell is broken, but he takes damage one last time.) The Game Master doesn't even need an actual riddle; the victim needs to make a History Skill check to solve the riddle. Note that while a wrong answer will end the curse, if a wrong answer is given by a victim who is under it, the sphinx mystery gains the ability to reuse a very powerful physical attack called Corrective Mauling; given what the usual penalty for a wrong answer is, this clearly gives her an advantage. (Also, a sphinx mystery is under no real obligation to let a victim go if he answers correctly; Riddle Me This is an At Will ability that it can even use while fighting, so in theory it could ask riddles over and over again during combat. However, the source does say that it might not attack at all if a potential victim simply plays along and answers them.) Spelljammer: Astrosphinxes are mad, evil sphinxes that compulsively ask inane, unanswerable riddles and questions (such as "what's the speed of down?" or "how loud is blue?"). When an answer inevitably fails to come, the astrosphinx tries to kill the one it was asked to. Since an astrosphinx's madness leads it to interrogate everything it meets, including things like wildlife, insects and plants, they tend to strip entire planets of life if allowed to run free in this manner. They can be defeated by giving them equally mad answers, which has a 1% chance of causing the astrosphinx to explode in a shower of lightning bolts. Module S2 White Plume Mountain, described as "the puzzle dungeon to end all puzzle dungeons", has one corridor guarded by a gynosphinx who will only let you past if you solve her riddle (or come up with creative workarounds such as seen in the novel, above, and Nodwick, below).
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Riddling Sphinx / int_b8b00115	comment	Nero: In De IJzeren Kolonel ("The Iron Colonel") Nero and a British colonel are stuck in an Egyptian tomb where the sphinx tells them they are not allowed to leave unless they solve his riddle, which is the famous one from Greek mythology. Nero finally solves it and they are allowed to leave.
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Riddling Sphinx / int_bcb9744	comment	Mixed Myth: The protagonist runs afoul of a sphinx early on in the story. The answer she gives sounds like it should be right, which causes the sphinx to realize that it's been so long since someone got it right that she's forgotten what the right answer is, so they'll have to head back to her home to check the answer (our heroine is wrong, but gets points for creativity, which lets her off the hook since she managed to endear herself to the sphinx on the journey).
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Riddling Sphinx / int_bcc073d3	comment	Wario: Master of Disguise has a sphinx as the boss of the third level. It asks you a series of questions, and if you answer them wrong, it kills you.
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Riddling Sphinx / int_bd184166	comment	The Neverending Story: The Southern Oracle is protected by two stone sphinxes whose gazes trap a victim within their own mind until he answers every riddle in the world. All their victims die of thirst long before coming close to finishing. They let some people by unharmed, but no-one knows just what methods they have for determining who is worthy enough to pass; Engywook, who spent all his life studying them, cannot figure it out, and not for lack of trying.
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Riddling Sphinx / int_c0d401ea	comment	PepsiaPhobia features a sphinx who is repeatedly humiliated because she only knows the one riddle, and everyone, even the little kid, knows the answer already.
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Riddling Sphinx / int_c35ec21c	comment	Super Mario Odyssey: An Egyptian sphinx appears in various Kingdoms, where it guards passageways. He only lets Mario get past it if he correctly answers a series of questions. It travels between Kingdoms with a giant sail and will grant Mario a Power Moon if he spots him with the binoculars. It admits the that questions Mario answers aren't much riddles at all.
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Riddling Sphinx / int_c4282b71	comment	My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic: In "Daring Done?", an extended flashback sequence features a sphinx in the shape of an enormous, winged catlike creature with a vaguely pony-like head. This sphinx terrorized Somnambula's home in the distant past, kidnapping its prince when he tried to stand up to her and taking the crops of the people for no reason except to be cruel. When Somnambula came to rescue the kidnapped prince, the sphinx demanded that she solve a riddle before being permitted to do so.
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Riddling Sphinx / int_c5eaa1a9	comment	Beetlejuice: In "Brinkadoom", to escape from the eponymous disappearing village, Beetlejuice and Lydia must correctly answer the riddle posed by the Stinx, a giant sphinx-like skunk with the personality of a game show host.
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Riddling Sphinx / int_c7a52ee3	comment	Extreme Ghostbusters: A riddling Sphinx appears in "The Sphinx", asking the Riddle of the Sphinx and seeking to drain the intelligence of anyone it deems the brightest minds who fail to answer its riddle. At the end of the episode, Egon is able to answer the Sphinx's riddle, immediately sending it down a Villainous Breakdown since no one answered it correctly before (apparently only Egon had bothered to read up on his Greek mythology), and hence vulnerable to capture.
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Riddling Sphinx / int_ca4925a9	comment	Born Under the Rain: As seen in a Sphinx's dialogue of a riddle, in an official screenshot.
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Riddling Sphinx / int_d202ce96	comment	The Pagemaster: The game featured a sphinx in the Fantasy World that blocks Richard's entrance to the final part of the game. The riddle is "What is the beginning of eternity, the end of time, and the start of every ending?" The answer is "The letter 'E'", which has to be presented as the "Electric E" item that Richard gets for clearing the Horror World.
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Riddling Sphinx / int_d3cc40b5	comment	Inverted in Embers in the Dusk. The local Sphinxes are riddle solvers, and are quite willing to help the humans out with riddles like "what's the access code for this ancient data archive?".
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Riddling Sphinx / int_d736423c	comment	The Rigel Black Chronicles: Harry has to face two of them, one in the first Triwizard Task, the other in the last. For the first one, Hermione is present and answers for both of them, but for the second, Harry is alone.
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Riddling Sphinx / int_d8e24914	comment	An Omake in Yaiba, the racers of the Chiki Chiki Gran Prix must, as their first challenge, answer a single riddle from the Sphinx (depicted as a living counterpart of the statue). Unfortunately for the Sphinx, Yaiba is truly an Idiot Hero of staggering proportions, keeping the guardian awake the entire night in an attempt to solve his riddles, much to the Sphinx's frustration. Eventually, he gets to pass (barely) by answering the following riddle: "What's the first letter of the alphabet?".
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Riddling Sphinx / int_d930a4c7	comment	Spelljammer: Astrosphinxes are mad, evil sphinxes that compulsively ask inane, unanswerable riddles and questions (such as "what's the speed of down?" or "how loud is blue?"). When an answer inevitably fails to come, the astrosphinx tries to kill the one it was asked to. Since an astrosphinx's madness leads it to interrogate everything it meets, including things like wildlife, insects and plants, they tend to strip entire planets of life if allowed to run free in this manner. They can be defeated by giving them equally mad answers, which has a 1% chance of causing the astrosphinx to explode in a shower of lightning bolts.
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Riddling Sphinx / int_df073316	comment	All-Star Superman: Atlas and Samson have tricked Superman into facing off against the Ultra-Sphinx, a kind of cosmic version of the original creature, with Lois Lane's life hanging in the balance. To save her he must answer the unanswerable question. Atlas and Samson are time travelers, and therefore know that Superman will be able to answer the question, but they do not know what the answer will be. Superman has to solve it himself.
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Riddling Sphinx / int_dff248f8	comment	The Adventures of Puss in Boots: The Sphinx notes that this makes her way cooler than her twin sister Callista, who doesn't tell riddles at all and just outright attacks people instead. Too bad Puss proves atrocious at riddles.
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Riddling Sphinx / int_e0f7f651	comment	In Test of Metal, Tezzeret's attempts at solving riddles left by the mad sphinx Crucius are a major plot point.
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Riddling Sphinx / int_e9a83d99	type	Riddling Sphinx
Riddling Sphinx / int_e9a83d99	comment	A Fantasy Attraction: A sphinx drops by, spending most of its time asking pointless riddles.
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Riddling Sphinx / int_f957e3d6	comment	Slack Wyrm: Rene the Sphinx is in the habit of imprisoning people who can't answer his riddles and not letting them go until they get one right, although his "riddles" tend to be less mental challenges and more direct questions about why his wife left him or why you only realize you were happy when you become unhappy.
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Riddling Sphinx / int_fe6dcd31	comment	Greyhawk: In White Plume Mountain, main characters Escalia and the Justicar encounter a sphinx named Enid when they enter the titular mountain, who asks them to solve her riddle before passing. Escalia, a fairy, instead befriends her with small talk about how much trouble humans have understanding the needs and wants of sapient non-humanoid creatures like fairies and sphinxes, tricking Enid into inadvertently giving the answer (the moon) away. At the end of the novel, Escalia and the Justicar take the time to rescue Enid on the way out and she ends up traveling with them.
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Saving our Fragile Earth: Unico Special Chapter / int_9f35bf5a	type	Riddling Sphinx
Tamagotchi / int_9f35bf5a	type	Riddling Sphinx
All-Star Superman (Comic Book) / int_9f35bf5a	type	Riddling Sphinx
Nodwick (Comic Strip) / int_9f35bf5a	type	Riddling Sphinx
MystarasLittlePoniesFriendshipIsAdventuring	seeAlso	Riddling Sphinx
Through the Well of Pirene / Fan Fic / int_9f35bf5a	type	Riddling Sphinx
Akko Kagari Universe (Fanfic) / int_9f35bf5a	type	Riddling Sphinx
Harry Is a Dragon, and That's OK (Fanfic) / int_9f35bf5a	type	Riddling Sphinx
Harry Is A Dragon, And That's Okay (Fanfic) / int_9f35bf5a	type	Riddling Sphinx
Principal Celestia Hunts the Undead (Fanfic) / int_9f35bf5a	type	Riddling Sphinx
Vow of Nudity (Fanfic) / int_9f35bf5a	type	Riddling Sphinx
Gods of Egypt / int_9f35bf5a	type	Riddling Sphinx
MirrorMask / int_9f35bf5a	type	Riddling Sphinx
Shadowchasers (Franchise)	seeAlso	Riddling Sphinx
Curse of the Mummy / int_9f35bf5a	type	Riddling Sphinx
Fablehaven / int_9f35bf5a	type	Riddling Sphinx
Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them / int_9f35bf5a	type	Riddling Sphinx
Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire / int_9f35bf5a	type	Riddling Sphinx
Impossible Creatures (2023) / int_9f35bf5a	type	Riddling Sphinx
La Saga du Prêtre Jean / int_9f35bf5a	type	Riddling Sphinx
Ology Series / int_9f35bf5a	type	Riddling Sphinx
Percy Jackson and the Olympians / int_9f35bf5a	type	Riddling Sphinx
Pyramids / int_9f35bf5a	type	Riddling Sphinx
Space Marine Battles / int_9f35bf5a	type	Riddling Sphinx
The NeverEnding Story / int_9f35bf5a	type	Riddling Sphinx
The Resurrectionist / int_9f35bf5a	type	Riddling Sphinx
Strike Witches (Manga) / int_9f35bf5a	type	Riddling Sphinx
The Demon Girl Next Door (Manga) / int_9f35bf5a	type	Riddling Sphinx
Unico (Manga) / int_9f35bf5a	type	Riddling Sphinx
Pathfinder Interesting Times (Roleplay) / int_9f35bf5a	type	Riddling Sphinx
Creatures Fantastic / int_9f35bf5a	type	Riddling Sphinx
Mahou Sentai Magiranger / int_9f35bf5a	type	Riddling Sphinx
Godforsaken (Tabletop Game) / int_9f35bf5a	type	Riddling Sphinx
Sunken Isles (Tabletop Game) / int_9f35bf5a	type	Riddling Sphinx
Yu-Gi-Oh! (Tabletop Game) / int_9f35bf5a	type	Riddling Sphinx
Oedipus the King (Theatre) / int_9f35bf5a	type	Riddling Sphinx
AdventureQuest (Video Game) / int_9f35bf5a	type	Riddling Sphinx
Assassin's Creed: Odyssey (Video Game) / int_9f35bf5a	type	Riddling Sphinx
Banjo-Kazooie (Video Game) / int_9f35bf5a	type	Riddling Sphinx
Bookworm Adventures (Video Game) / int_9f35bf5a	type	Riddling Sphinx
Chrono Cross (Video Game) / int_9f35bf5a	type	Riddling Sphinx
Cragne Manor (Video Game) / int_9f35bf5a	type	Riddling Sphinx
Evolve Idle (Video Game) / int_9f35bf5a	type	Riddling Sphinx
JumpStart Reading for Second Graders (Video Game) / int_9f35bf5a	type	Riddling Sphinx
Kings Quest (2015) (Video Game) / int_9f35bf5a	type	Riddling Sphinx
Mario Party (Video Game) / int_9f35bf5a	type	Riddling Sphinx
Mario Party 2 (Video Game) / int_9f35bf5a	type	Riddling Sphinx
Maru's Mission (Video Game) / int_9f35bf5a	type	Riddling Sphinx
Monster Boy and the Cursed Kingdom (Video Game) / int_9f35bf5a	type	Riddling Sphinx
Monsters, Inc.: Scream Team (Video Game) / int_9f35bf5a	type	Riddling Sphinx
Shadowgate (Video Game) / int_9f35bf5a	type	Riddling Sphinx
The ClueFinders 4th Grade Adventures: The Puzzle of the Pyramid (Video Game) / int_9f35bf5a	type	Riddling Sphinx
Wario: Master of Disguise (Video Game) / int_9f35bf5a	type	Riddling Sphinx
Tales of Alethrion (Web Animation) / int_9f35bf5a	type	Riddling Sphinx
Oglaf (Webcomic) / int_9f35bf5a	type	Riddling Sphinx
PepsiaPhobia (Webcomic) / int_9f35bf5a	type	Riddling Sphinx
Skin Deep (Webcomic) / int_9f35bf5a	type	Riddling Sphinx
Slack Wyrm (Webcomic) / int_9f35bf5a	type	Riddling Sphinx
Subnormality (Webcomic) / int_9f35bf5a	type	Riddling Sphinx
Beetlejuice / int_9f35bf5a	type	Riddling Sphinx
Cyberchase / int_9f35bf5a	type	Riddling Sphinx
Hercules: The Animated Series / int_9f35bf5a	type	Riddling Sphinx
Superfriends / int_9f35bf5a	type	Riddling Sphinx
The Adventures of Puss in Boots / int_9f35bf5a	type	Riddling Sphinx
The Mummy: The Animated Series / int_9f35bf5a	type	Riddling Sphinx

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