The Spitting Toad is a monster in Sphinx and the Cursed Mummy. It is typically the very first monster encountered in the game, apart from potentially a Cobra found in a tree, and it is only encountered once in the wild.
Description[]
- "Coconuts are a favored food of the Urukan lava toad. Lava toads have been known to assist adventurers in exchange for these prized delicacies."
- ―Book of Sphinx: Coconuts
- "The so called "Spitting Toad" got its name from its tendency to swallow first, think later. Anything that is not to the Toad's rather picky taste is spat out quite forcefully."
- ―Abydos Museum
Traits, Appearance, and Abilities[]
Spitting Toads are dragon-like beasts with orange skin, horns on their heads and forked tongues. The creature's favorite food is coconuts, and their "assistance" for those who provide them seems to be launching the adventurer to hard-to-reach locations.
Strategy for Sphinx[]
Feed it coconuts and it will help you by swallowing you and spitting you out in a direction of your choosing.
Locations[]
- Outskirts of the Castle of Uruk (Non-Capturable)
Trivia[]
- Apart from the bosses, the Spitting Toad is the only monster who can talk.
- The official strategy guide shows off an unused blue variant of the species.
- Fans have dubbed him an "orange toe".
- The Spitting Toad has a cut entry to the Book of Sphinx found in the games SphinxText.XLS file. The entry reads "Despite its overbearing size, the Spitting Toad is a placid creature renowned for its soft spot for coconuts. Spitting Toads have been known to assist adventurers who feed them this nutty delicacy."
Monsters | |
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Capturable | Almost-a-Bull | Big Bull | Blade Scorpion | Chihuahua | Cobra | Crabhands | Cyclops | Dark Worshipper | Electric Armadillo | Exo-Piranha | Fire Armadillo | Green Giant Worm | Half Brute | Knives Cat | Mummy Chihuahua | Mummy Worm | Nose Needler | Piranha | Sharpbeak | Skeletal Axeman | Skeletal Spider | Skull Swordsman | Skull Worshipper | Slim Burble | Smiling Burble | Spike Spider | Sunflower | Tree Creature | Wasp Spider |
Non-Capturable | Alert Spider | Electric Eel | Featherless Turkey | Geb | Goofy Lizard | Manta Ray | Mummy Bird | Mummy Eagle | Rat | Sea Turtle | Shell Critter | Shuttlecock Bird | Small Frog | Spinefish | Spitting Toad |