Dragon's Dogma 2 Sphinx Riddles: Answers & Locations

The Sphinx encounter has ten riddles across Mountain Shrine and Frontier Shrine. Begin at Mountain Shrine, solve its five riddles, then find the Sphinx again at Frontier Shrine. Use your own quest progress for Recollection: the statue count is not always nine. This guide covers the base-game A Game of Wits quest.

For Mountain Shrine, travel from Checkpoint Rest Town toward Ancient Battleground. Pass through the castle, climb the ladder near the cyclops and continue into Worldsend Cavern. Follow the route through Ancient Ruins and Shrine Corridor to the shrine stairs.

After the first five riddles, the Sphinx moves to Frontier Shrine. Follow the riverbed west from beneath Checkpoint Rest Town. At the foggy stretch, look for the leaning stone pillar and pass underneath toward the shrine. Prepare for monsters on the route.

A portable Portcrystal at the shrine makes return trips with items or NPCs easier. Place it before leaving, and keep Ferrystones available.

The first five can be selected at Mountain Shrine. Finding Frontier Shrine is Reunion; the other Frontier riddles arrive in a variable order. The list below is a reference, not a promise that your second-shrine order will match it.

• Eyes
• Madness
• Wisdom
• Conviction
• Rumination
• Reunion
• Recollection
• Differentiation
• Futility
• Contest

Bring a beloved NPC with high affinity to the pedestal in front of the Sphinx. The checked IGN video also demonstrates presenting the main pawn as an alternative.

Carrying the NPC while using a Ferrystone to a shrine Portcrystal avoids the long escort. If you use the Sealing Phial, remember it is consumed when the occupant is released.

Recruit a pawn with the SphinxParent, SphinxMother or SphinxFather moniker through a Riftstone of Fellowship, then bring that pawn onto the shrine platform before answering.

Check the pawn’s identity carefully rather than trusting an arbitrary player-created display name. The cited guide explains the Fellowship riftstone route.

Offer an item when the Sphinx asks for your prized possession. Solving the riddle duplicates the offered item.

Choose a useful item such as a Portcrystal; this is a choice of reward, not a test with one compulsory item.

Return to the place where you collected your first Seeker’s Token. Collect the Finder’s Token there and bring it back to the Sphinx.

The archived base-game guides give a seven in-game day deadline after accepting this riddle. In New Game Plus, the checked guide refers to the first token collected in that new playthrough. The location depends on your own route, so another player’s map cannot identify it.

After the Mountain Shrine riddles, find the Sphinx at Frontier Shrine and speak to her again. Reaching the second shrine is itself one of the ten riddles.

Use the riverbed route described above if you missed her departure. You do not have to catch a ride on her back.

Count the riddles you have successfully solved so far, including Reunion. Place that many statues in front of the Sphinx before confirming.

Count solved riddles, not merely heard riddles. Check your quest log and current order; do not copy nine from a walkthrough where Recollection happened last.

The amphora must reach Ser Maurits without breaking. A safer solution demonstrated in the guide is to leave it at the shrine, find Maurits near the Sphinx mural in Bakbattahl, and bring him to the vase using a Ferrystone.

Place a Portcrystal at Frontier Shrine first. Do not carry the fragile vase through fights if you are using the NPC-transport solution.

Defeat the opponent while the Ring of Derision weakens your damage. Stagger the opponent, pick him up and throw him off the nearby cliff.

Keep the fight near the cliff so a stagger becomes an opening to grab. Remove the weakening ring after the riddle; do not carry its penalty into later combat.

Finishing the riddles does not open the large gold chest automatically. The base-game guides describe defeating the Sphinx, obtaining the Key of Sagacity and using it on that chest for the Eternal Wakestone.

If following the Unmaking Arrow route, switch to Archer and prepare the arrow before the final farewell. Recollection awards an Unmaking Arrow. Initiate the fight before the Sphinx leaves, and aim at the beast’s body rather than the human head.

The arrow is a consumable and the guides warn that shooting triggers a save. Do not fire a test shot or assume you can undo a miss. The reviewed video shows the fight ending and the key at the chest; it is not a full review of every possible combat approach.

• Resolve Eyes before using the Sealing Phial for transportation.
• Begin Rumination only when you are ready to search for your own first-token location.
• Count Reunion for Recollection, and recount if its position in the quest changes.
• Compare Dante and Vergil before submitting an NPC.
• Keep the Futility vase intact and remove the Contest ring afterward.
• Wrong answers can end the encounter. Check the current riddle before confirming; this page does not recommend manipulating save files.

Checked October 9, 2026 against archived base-game guides and the April 2024 IGN video. The ten answers are covered here, but not every failure branch or alternate combat strategy has been replayed on the 2026 build. This is not a Dark Arisen puzzle guide.

• Watch the base-game Sphinx guide · IGN