OSRS Gloria Kebbit Monkfish Riddles Guide & 11 Best XP Locations
You are sailing southwest of Brimhaven when Gloria Kebbit Monkfish appears and asks you to rearrange the phrase “Give Bess a face bed” into something that makes sense. Gloria is one of five mermaid guides in the Kebbit-Monkfish family, released with the OSRS Sailing skill on 19 November 2025.
She offers 11 riddles across Sailing levels 38 to 78, covering anagrams, vowel removal, hidden words, recipe knowledge, and multi-step substitutions. This guide covers her locations, requirements, all 11 Gloria Kebbit Monkfish riddles with verified answers, and how her XP fits your Sailing progression.
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What Is OSRS Gloria Kebbit Monkfish?
Gloria Kebbit Monkfish is a Members-only Merfolk NPC with ID 15158, released on 19 November 2025. Her examination text reads: “A mermaid guide, willing to help you research the depths of the sea.” She sits in the Kebbit-Monkfish family alongside Victoria, Selina, Christina, and Marina.
What separates Gloria from her sisters is riddle range. She runs seven different puzzle formats across her 11 riddles, from clean anagrams and vowel removal to multi-step word substitutions and brewing recipe knowledge. Her riddle pool demands a broader knowledge of OSRS than most mermaid guides. Players who know their Herblore recipes, Cooking sequences, and wordplay indicators will clear her catalogue efficiently.
Gloria Kebbit Monkfish Locations
Gloria does not sit in one fixed location. Her position is tied to active sea charting tasks in your Captain’s Log, and each riddle has its own confirmed spawn point across different ocean regions.
| # | Riddle type | Location | Level |
| 1 | Anagram – five cabbage seeds | South West of Brimhaven | 38 |
| 2 | Vowel removal – malicious ashes | North of the Dibber | 38 |
| 3 | Hidden word – ashes | East of the Great Conch | 38 |
| 4 | Recipe – ring of returning | South of Crabclaw Bay | 38 |
| 5 | Substitution – charcoal | South East of Bay of Elidinis | 38 |
| 6 | First-letter – lime | East of the Shimmering Atoll | 38 |
| 7 | Substitution – bucket helm (g) | South West of Lunar Isle | 38 |
| 8 | Sequence – garden pie ingredients | South of the Myths’ Guild | 40 |
| 9 | Recipe – axeman’s folly kegs | West of Port Tyras | 66 |
| 10 | Substitution – onion | South of the Iceberg | 78 |
| 11 | Recipe – Bastion Potion | North of the Fremennik Isles | 78 |
For the most efficient sessions, plan routes through the waters south and west of Brimhaven, the Great Conch area, and the Bay of Elidinis. These cover six of her seven level 38 riddles in a compact sailing loop.
Requirements to Interact with Gloria Kebbit Monkfish
An active OSRS membership is required as she is a Members-only NPC. Both the fishbowl helmet and diving apparatus must be equipped simultaneously, both obtained from the Freeing Pirate Pete subquest within Recipe for Disaster, and neither item degrades. Sailing level 38 unlocks seven riddles.
Sailing level 40 unlocks the garden pie sequence riddle. Sailing level 66 unlocks the axeman’s folly brewing riddle. Sailing level 78 unlocks two further riddles. Flippers offer no benefit at any point during mermaid dives.
How Sea Charting Works
Sea charting is a core Sailing training method rewarding exploration, landmark discovery, and mermaid interactions. The full sea charting system offers 691,270 total Sailing XP across 358 charting tasks. Equip your fishbowl helmet and diving apparatus before approaching Gloria. Select Talk-to and she presents a riddle based on your Sailing level.
Choose the correct answer from the options provided. If correct, select Dive to earn 125 Sailing XP. If incorrect, no dive occurs and you can approach her again immediately with no penalty or cooldown.
Your Captain’s Log tracks every charted location. Completing full ocean regions unlocks bonus XP from Chartin’ Charles McAtless in the Pandemonium Cave. Pair Gloria encounters with an active ocean region for maximum XP efficiency per session.
Complete Gloria Kebbit Monkfish Riddle Guide
All 11 riddles verified against the OSRS Wiki Gloria Kebbit-Monkfish page. Quick-reference table first for live sessions, full explanations below.
Note: competitor guides listed the wrong ring of returning ingredients. The correct list from the OSRS Wiki is silver ore x1, chisel x1, uncut jade x1, ring mould x1, cosmic rune x1, and air rune x3.
Quick Reference Table
| # | Riddle summary | Lime/lime slices/lime chunks | Level |
| 1 | Give Bess a face bed by mistake – kernels | 5 Cabbage seeds | 38 |
| 2 | TWML CSS HS | 2 Malicious ashes | 38 |
| 3 | Dust inside miasma she sees | Ashes (any demonic ashes accepted) | 38 |
| 4 | Raw ingredients for a ring of returning? | Silver ore x1, Chisel x1, Uncut jade x1, Ring mould x1, Cosmic rune x1, Air rune x3 | 38 |
| 5 | Adding fuel to an auspah only gets you more fuel | Charcoal | 38 |
| 6 | Letting incompetents make eggs starts tasting sour | Lime / lime slices / lime chunks | 38 |
| 7 | Water mover ahead of ship’s wheel, add a grand for the cap | Bucket helm (g) | 38 |
| 8 | Continue: Redberries, cooked meat, compost & clay, cooking apple… | Cabbage, Onion, Tomato | 40 |
| 9 | Ingredients for two kegs of Axeman’s Folly? | Calquat keg x2, Ale yeast x1, Oak roots x1, Barley malt x2 | 66 |
| 10 | For a bulb, power up twice and put yourself inside | Onion | 78 |
| 11 | Ingredients for a bastion potion? | Vial of blood x1, Cadantine x1, Wine of Zamorak x1 | 78 |
Riddle 1: Anagram – Give Bess a face bed by mistake and get some kernels. (Level 38)
Answer: 5 Cabbage seeds – South West of Brimhaven
Mistake is the anagram indicator. Rearrange every letter in Give Bess a face bed and they spell out five cabbage seeds. Kernels confirm the answer category since kernels are an alternate name for certain types of seeds in OSRS.
Riddle 2: Vowel Removal – TWML CSS HS. (Level 38)
Answer: 2 Malicious ashes – North of the Dibber
All vowels stripped from the phrase two malicious ashes. Add them back systematically across each consonant cluster: TWML becomes two, CSS becomes malicious, HS becomes ashes. The item and quantity together form the complete answer.
Riddle 3: Hidden Word – Dust inside miasma she sees. (Level 38)
Answer: Ashes – East of the Great Conch
Inside is the hidden word indicator. Search within the phrase letter by letter and you find a-s-h-e-s running across the word boundary between miasma and she. Dust confirms the answer is a burnt or ashen substance. Any demonic ashes are also accepted as correct.
Riddle 4: Recipe Knowledge – Can you tell me the raw ingredients and tools I need to make a ring of returning? (Level 38)
Answer: Silver ore x1, Chisel x1, Uncut jade x1, Ring mould x1, Cosmic rune x1, Air rune x3 – South of Crabclaw Bay
No wordplay. Pure recipe knowledge. The OSRS Wiki ring of returning page confirms the full ingredient list. Some older guides and competitor articles list gold bar as an ingredient. That is incorrect. The correct base metal for a ring of returning is silver ore, not gold.
Riddle 5: Word Substitution – Adding fuel to an auspah only gets you more fuel! (Level 38)
Answer: Charcoal – South East of the Bay of Elidinis
The only known Auspah in OSRS is Char, a character associated with fire and burning. Both coal and charcoal are types of fuel. Adding the word coal to Char gives charcoal, which is itself also a fuel. The riddle is self-confirming since adding fuel to Char only gives you more fuel.
Riddle 6: First-Letter Indicator – Letting incompetents make eggs starts tasting sour. (Level 38)
Answer: Lime/lime slices/lime chunks – East of the Shimmering Atoll
Starts is the first-letter indicator. Take the first letter of each keyword: Letting, incompetents, make, eggs. The letters L-I-M-E spell lime. Tasting sour confirms lime as the answer. Lime slices and lime chunks are also accepted as correct answers.
Riddle 7: Multi-Step Substitution – A water mover ahead of the ship’s wheel. Add a grand for the cap. (Level 38)
Answer: Bucket helm (g) – South West of Lunar Isle
Three separate substitutions combined. Water mover equals bucket. Ahead of the ship’s wheel means bucket comes before helm, since a ship’s wheel is called a helm. Add a grand means add the letter g, since grand is abbreviated as g. The cap tells you the g is added at the end. Bucket plus helm plus (g) gives bucket helm (g). This riddle is absent from most competitor guides entirely.
Riddle 8: Sequence – Tell me the items that continue this sequence: Redberries, cooked meat, compost and clay, cooking apple… (Level 40)
Answer: Cabbage, Onion, Tomato – South of the Myths’ Guild
The sequence lists pie-filling ingredients in ascending order of the Cooking level required to bake each pie. Redberry pie is level 10, meat pie is level 20, mud pie is level 29, and apple pie is level 30. The next pie in ascending order is the garden pie at level 34, which requires cabbage, onion, and tomato.
Riddle 9: Brewing Recipe – Can you tell me the raw ingredients and containers I need to make two kegs of Axeman’s Folly? (Sailing Level 66)
Answer: Calquat keg x2, Ale yeast x1, Oak roots x1, Barley malt x2 – West of Port Tyras
No wordplay. Pure Brewing knowledge. Two kegs of Axeman’s Folly require two calquat kegs as containers, one ale yeast, one oak root, and two barley malts. The Don’t worry about water line is standard across all ingredient-style riddles in the Kebbit-Monkfish family. Water is always excluded.
Riddle 10: Word Substitution – For a bulb, power up twice and put yourself inside. (Level 78)
Answer: Onion – South of the Iceberg
Power up in a gaming context equals ON. Done twice gives ONON. You equals I in first person. Put yourself inside means insert I into ONON, giving ON-I-ON, which spells ONION. A bulb confirms the answer since an onion grows as a bulb underground. One of the cleanest multi-step constructions in Gloria’s entire pool.
Riddle 11: Recipe Knowledge – I’d like to try getting into Herblore. Can you tell me what I need to make a bastion potion? (Level 78)
Answer: Vial of blood x1, Cadantine x1, Wine of Zamorak x1 – North of the Fremennik Isles
Herblore knowledge test. A bastion potion is brewed in a vial of blood using cadantine as the primary herb and wine of Zamorak as the secondary ingredient. Players who have not reached this Herblore level should review the OSRS Wiki Herblore guide before attempting this riddle.
Riddle Solving Tips
Identifying Gloria’s riddle type from the first few words is the fastest route to any answer. Her pool uses seven formats.
| I’d like to make the ingredients for | Riddle type | Action |
| By mistake, confused, cooked, scattered | Anagram | Rearrange all letters in the quoted phrase |
| String of consonants only | Vowel removal | Add A, E, I, O back and respace |
| Inside, within, part of | Hidden word | Search letter by letter across the phrase |
| Starts, initially, first letters | First-letter | Take the opening letter of each word |
| Each phrase acting as a synonym | Substitution | Replace each element with its OSRS equivalent |
| Ordered list with a gap | Sequence | Identify category and fill what comes next |
| I’d like to make, ingredients for | Recipe knowledge | List exact OSRS crafting or brewing components |
For multi-step riddles like the bucket helm (g) or the onion puzzle, never try to solve the full sentence at once. Isolate each fragment, substitute separately, then combine the results at the end. Wrong answers carry no penalty beyond losing that single dive.
XP Rewards and Sailing Progression
Every successful dive with Gloria Kebbit Monkfish rewards a flat 125 Sailing XP, regardless of riddle difficulty or level.
| Dives completed | Total XP from Gloria |
| 1 | 125 XP |
| 5 | 625 XP |
| 11 (full catalogue) | 1,375 XP |
Across all Sailing content, sea charting offers 691,270 total XP across 358 charting tasks. Gloria contributes 1,375 of that total. The most efficient approach is chaining all five Kebbit-Monkfish mermaids across a single sailing session, combined with full ocean region completion for bonus XP from Chartin’ Charles McAtless.
Gloria vs Other Kebbit-Monkfish Mermaids
| Mermaid | Riddles | Format Variety | Standout format | Difficulty |
| Victoria Kebbit Monkfish | 12 | 38 | Fibonacci, homophones, first-letter | Low |
| Gloria Kebbit Monkfish | 11 | 78 | Anagrams, substitutions, brewing | Medium |
| Selina Kebbit Monkfish | 11 | 78 | Deletion indicators, Vampyre lore | Medium-High |
| Christina Kebbit Monkfish | 11 | 78 | Widest format variety in family | Medium-High |
| Marina Kebbit Monkfish | 12 | 78 | British slang, item-link, reversals | High |
Victoria is the natural starting point since every riddle sits at level 38. Gloria is a strong second choice since she unlocks only one riddle at level 40 and one at level 66, meaning you can access ten of her eleven riddles very early in your Sailing journey. Clear Victoria and Gloria in the same session block before moving on to Selina’s harder deletion and lore riddles. For a full routing plan across all five, see the Kebbit-Monkfish family hub.
Lore and Name Origin
The Kebbit-Monkfish surname fuses two OSRS skill references. Kebbits are Hunter creatures and monkfish is a Fishing catch from the Piscatoris Fishing Colony. The name is a deliberate OSRS design joke merging a Hunter animal with a fishing catch.
Gloria’s riddle style, like the entire family, draws from Only Connect, the BBC quiz programme hosted by Victoria Coren Mitchell. Her NPC ID is 15158, released on 19 November 2025 alongside the full Sailing skill launch.
Final Thoughts on Gloria Kebbit Monkfish
Gloria Kebbit Monkfish is one of the most well-rounded members of the Kebbit-Monkfish family. Seven different puzzle formats across 11 riddles mean no two interactions feel the same, and her level curve is gentle enough that most players can access the majority of her catalogue from Sailing level 38.
The two riddles where players consistently get caught are the ring of returning ingredients, where older guides and competitor articles list the wrong materials, and the bucket helm (g) substitution, which most guides skip entirely. Both are covered fully above with data verified from the OSRS Wiki.
Plan your route through the Brimhaven and Bay of Elidinis waters to hit six of her riddles in a single pass. Pair those sessions with your Selina encounters and you can complete two full mermaid catalogues in one efficient sailing loop. Get the Axeman’s Folly and bastion potion answers bookmarked before you sail and Gloria’s full 1,375 XP is yours.
FAQs About Gloria Kebbit Monkfish
Why do some guides list wrong ingredients for the Ring of Returning riddle?
Earlier guides written before the Sailing skill was fully documented listed a simplified ingredient set. The correct full list, confirmed by the OSRS Wiki, is silver ore x1, chisel x1, uncut jade x1, ring mould x1, cosmic rune x1, and air rune x3. Any guide that lists a gold bar as an ingredient is incorrect.
Does XP scale with riddle difficulty or Sailing level?
No. Every successful dive rewards a flat 125 Sailing XP regardless of which riddle you answer or what level it requires.
Can Ironman accounts access Gloria Kebbit Monkfish?
Yes. Ironman accounts can fully interact with Gloria. The only requirements are active membership, Sailing level 38, and the fishbowl helmet plus diving apparatus from Recipe for Disaster.
What Herblore level do I need to know the Bastion potion recipe?
You need Herblore level 80 to actually brew a bastion potion in OSRS, but no Herblore level is required to answer Gloria’s riddle. You just need to know the recipe: cadantine with wine of Zamorak in a vial of blood.
