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This sort of riddle game is sometimes also used for other purposes than determining whether someone may pass. For example, it may be for a reward of an item or information.
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Not to be confused with the popular comedy podcast [[Answer Me This (Podcast)|Answer Me This]].
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* Blaine, the [[Ax Crazy]] monorail from ''[[The Dark Tower]]'', challenged his passengers to a riddle contest. They had to win or else he would kill them. Subverted when {{spoiler|the heroes win by asking it nonsense jokes that [[Talking the Monster To Death|fry its brain]].}}
* In ''[[Night Watch|The Last Watch]]'', Merlin left a riddle to any others who sought the Crown of All Things.
* An extreme version of this trope appeared in the original novel version of ''[[The Neverending Story (Literature)|The Neverending Story]]'' when Atreyu came to the first of the three gates barring him from the Oracle Uyulala, which was a pair of sphinx-like statues that sat facing each other. The gnome researcher Engywook explained that if the sphinxes opened their eyes while someone passed between them, they would telepathically bombard the passer by with all the riddles in existence, which would paralyze the passer until they solved them all- in other words until they died. Rather than [[Impossible Task|solving the riddles,]] the only way to pass the gate was to [[Luck
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