I’m working on a campaign that has the player meet a creature pretending to be a sphynx and ask riddles of the players.
The trick is that that creature is both not that smart and thinks he’s very clever. They way past him is to praise him for being so smart that he agrees to let the adventurers go
What are some good ‘bad’ riddles to ask ?
A bad riddle being something stupid or overly simplistic but with a different answer or overwrought.
The creature doesn’t know it wants to be praised for the riddles it makes. It believes it is very clever and isn’t. Even if they guess the right answer it would only get angry and deny they got it.
But I also don’t want the players to waste too much time thinking of riddle answers that will never go anywhere. It’s supposed to be funny
Gotcha ^^
“I’m light as a feather, but not even the strongest men can hold me for long”
The answer is actually “breath” but it also works with “a fart”.
PS: an awkward “riddle” my granddad loved was; how many legs does a cow have?
His answer: twelve. It has two in the front, two in the back, two on the right side, two on the left side, and one in each corner.