*Spoiler* Sphinx Riddle incorrect actually and quite meaningless

[PaceyLionheart]

It asks how many riddles one has solved, the quest log says eight have been solved and she shows eight eyes on her feathers, but the correct answer is actually nine. Since when you solve the riddle and the answer is correct it is thus the ninth solved riddle. How is this not the trick question?? Wasted potential and tbh I am quite disappointed with this riddle. Not because of the answer itself, but rather its filler type style quest design.

Put a to b eight times. Wow, revolutionary! Since carrying a vase to a spot over the whole map is not the same task already.. Who even designs this crap?

[Keycha1n10]

Finding the sphinx at the second location counts as a riddle and the trick to the vase riddle is the sealing phial, bring the npc to the vase not the other way around

[PaceyLionheart]

Originally posted by Keycha1n10:

Finding the sphinx at the second location counts as a riddle and the trick to the vase riddle is the sealing phial, bring the npc to the vase not the other way around

You can also use a ferrystone while carrying it. Still it is bringing a to b. And just lame

[Sovereigndrake]

Don't use the sealing phial, just pick him up and ferrystone. Same with the last riddle

And you're wrong: "How many riddles have you solved" is asked prior to solving the riddle, making the answer 8 Since you've not solved it till after you give her an answer. None of what the sphinx asks are riddles, so really it should be 0

[Jjp7123]

Here's a tip for this riddle: If you forgot how many riddles you solved, count the amount of chest opened in the area and increase that value by 5. You open 5 chests minimum before going to that area and going to that area counts as the six riddle, so the minimum will always be six and the maximum will always be 9.

[PaceyLionheart]

Originally posted by Sovereigndrake:

Don't use the sealing phial, just pick him up and ferrystone. Same with the last riddle

And you're wrong: "How many riddles have you solved" is asked prior to solving the riddle, making the answer 8 Since you've not solved it till after you give her an answer. None of what the sphinx asks are riddles, so really it should be 0

No I am not wrong, think about it. It asks the question and once it is asked it is a riddle. So it is always one more, than the game wants as an answer. But yeah, I agree, that this quest design is not really worthy called "riddle"

[1CMF]

I thought the riddle count was based on "finding the sphinx again was a riddle" so that is why your riddle count is +1 from what you thought. Also you can count the open chests. I think it is 4 in the first area, and when you arrive in the second 1 is opened, which makes it 5. I heard it is randomized though so if you get that question last, that is interesting.

The vase was supposed to trick you into trying to do something the hard way, or be creative and do it an easy way. Either teleport yourself with the vase and bypass the trek, or the person to the vase. That is a riddle in of it's own. Problem solving and not just ramming your face into difficulty.

Instead of riddle, you can say it is creative thinking and not taking things at face value.

[Sovereigndrake]

Originally posted by PaceyLionheart:

Originally posted by Sovereigndrake:

Don't use the sealing phial, just pick him up and ferrystone. Same with the last riddle

And you're wrong: "How many riddles have you solved" is asked prior to solving the riddle, making the answer 8 Since you've not solved it till after you give her an answer. None of what the sphinx asks are riddles, so really it should be 0

No I am not wrong, think about it. It asks the question and once it is asked it is a riddle. So it is always one more, than the game wants as an answer. But yeah, I agree, that this quest design is not really worthy called "riddle"

It's not posed as a trick question like most ordinary riddles. When the so-called riddle is asked, it is more of a "Up until this exact moment, how many have you solved". If you were able to solve more riddles after the question is asked, it wouldn't change the answer. At the moment the riddle is posed, the answer is 8.

If it was the very first "riddle", you couldn't answer "one" because you've not solved any.

[rumpelstiltskin]

agreed it's a wasted potential. although one can make arguments for both N and N+1 answers, N+1 is clearly more interesting. but tbh all sphinx's riddles are garbage. in the vase one, for instance, she says "bring the vase to that man in bakbattahl", not "from bakbattahl", so the "clever" solution doesn't really fit. and the "parent" one is pure trolling, impossible to solve without a guide (unless the player already visited that rift before and noticed strange names), and doesn't even make sense, as i can just as well say that my name is "sphinx's parent" from now on and that should be acceptable.

[1CMF]

Originally posted by rumpelstiltskin:

agreed it's a wasted potential. although one can make arguments for both N and N+1 answers, N+1 is clearly more interesting. but tbh all sphinx's riddles are garbage. in the vase one, for instance, she says "bring the vase to that man in bakbattahl", not "from bakbattahl", so the "clever" solution doesn't really fit. and the "parent" one is pure trolling, impossible to solve without a guide (unless the player already visited that rift before and noticed strange names), and doesn't even make sense, as i can just as well say that my name is "sphinx's parent" from now on and that should be acceptable.

The parent one is the only one I would give a huge thumbs down to. Only because the default nature of the game is online, and the rift gets filled with online pawns, preventing you from seeing the correct pawn. Also people are making troll pawns of the same names.

IF you play offline, you will see the rift only has ONE pawn, which is really strange and it is a hint of itself.

[PaceyLionheart]

Originally posted by rumpelstiltskin:

agreed it's a wasted potential. although one can make arguments for both N and N+1 answers, N+1 is clearly more interesting. but tbh all sphinx's riddles are garbage. in the vase one, for instance, she says "bring the vase to that man in bakbattahl", not "from bakbattahl", so the "clever" solution doesn't really fit. and the "parent" one is pure trolling, impossible to solve without a guide (unless the player already visited that rift before and noticed strange names), and doesn't even make sense, as i can just as well say that my name is "sphinx's parent" from now on and that should be acceptable.

I was actually lucky enough, to be at the riftstone in harve village, so I found the sphinxparent by accident. I also think it is both N and N+1. It comes down to how you use the logic and in which favor.

[Jamation]

I feel like I'm one of the few people that actually liked the jug carrying one. I didn't do anything clever like ferrystone the guy. I simply picked it up and walked it over. I think the most clever thing I did was use the sky lifts to get there once I got closer to the town.

But oh boy the surge of serotonin and dopamine after making it there and putting that friggen pot down. *chefs kiss* Delicious.