Riddle Me This: Difference between revisions

* Subverted in the "Oceans Unmoving" arc of ''[[Sluggy Freelance]]'': Solving the Riddle of {{spoiler|Uncle Time}} is rewarded with the solver being freed from Timeless Space, except no one has even heard of it, and it is "solved" by accident.

* [[The Non-Adventures of Wonderella|Wonderella]] knows how to [http://nonadventures.com/2009/08/15/a-sphinx-says-what/ deal with this].

* [[Gastrophobia|Inconsequentia's]] sphinx Trivia is trying to come up with a new riddle. The old one (viz. the classic [[Riddle of the Sphinx]]) was so obvious even Phobia saw it coming (she was just letting Trivia finish to be polite, which Gastro has yet to learn).

* Subverted in [http://nodwick.humor.gamespy.com/gamespyarchive/index.php?date=2003-11-12 this]{{Dead link}} [[Nodwick]] where they bribe the sphinx to let them pass.

* Subverted in [[Subnormality]]. The sphinx meets Oedipus' ''mother''. When she learns who she's talking to, the sphinx has a massive flipout about which one of them is considered the monster, and makes Oedipus' mother take her place.

* A subversion in [[Order of the Stick]]. First, there's Haley's famous solution to the "two paths, one honest man, one liar, one question" riddle. [http://www.giantitp.com/comics/oots0327.html The Test of the Mind].

* In {xkcd}, The classic "[[Knights and Knaves]]" puzzle is sent up/parodied where there's three guards. One only tells the truth, one only lies, and one [[Dangerously Genre Savvy|stabs people who ask tricky questions]].

* In ''[[Oglaf]]'', Greir tortures a fun cultist who then tells her where the curly sword. But then he brags that she'll never figure out the answer to the guardian's joke. She makes a threatening gesture and he spills answer to the joke. The guardian doesn't even finish saying the joke before Greir says the answer.