Sphinx: You must solve my riddle, or die.

Me: Alternate option: You endure ten minutes of my best puns or give me the treasure.

Sphinx: (smug) Foolish human, you have doomed yourself. I am the king of verbal sparring. Begin.

Me: Okay, but you don’t know the catastrophe you’ve brought down on your head.

Sphinx: … Was that a cat pun.

Me: It’s pawsible.

Sphinx: Because I am part feline.

Me: I would be lion if I said no.

Sphinx: (eye twitch) I thought you said these were your best puns.

Me: These are purrfect puns! Don’t throw a hissy fit just because you inclawrectly infured a claws in the agreement. I gave you an oppurrtunity and you pounced on it, so you can’t say the game’s unpharaoh now. And if you were half the man you think you are, you wouldn’t be in deNile about the Tutuncommon supurriority of my puns. You’re kitten yourself if you thought I’d just Moses on into your stomach without a catfight. Are you scarab yet? Because I can tail these till the great river runs dry–

Sphinx: Oh my Ra stop stop stop here just take it!!!

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Other Nonsense:

How To Console A Leprechaun
How To Confound A Centaur
How To Work With Fairies
How To Deal With Goblins 
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