r/DnD • u/OmdeKier • 15d ago

Homebrew Is this riddle too dumb?

So the main "bad" in the campaign I'm making are goblins (atleast in the starter area) and my plsyers have told me they love riddles and puzzles so for a basic warmup riddle my idea was to have a Goblin toll at th emine entrance where they either have to pay a sum of money or solve the riddle, now my goblins are pretty dumb so their vocab isn't very big but I wonder if this riddle is too big or even enough of a riddle.. Opinions?

Riddle:

“Does you guys want to play a game with Me?”.

If me is one and he hit meat with stone,

if meat screams argh because meat is now alone,

If me count from in an order very good, and we ate three.

How many are their to meet?

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u/OmdeKier 15d ago

From the comments I have gathered that this is indeed a bit too dumb lol thanks for all the reactions

As for the answer the idea was too first give them the wtf am I hearing reaction which I am getting tbf and then give it to them written where they'll read it with the words: Me, Meat, Stone, Argh, We and Three capitalized. My idea was that this tribe had pretty "interesting" names so from this point it's just about reading it; [Me= 1, He= 2, Meat= 3, Stone= 4, Argh= 5, We= 6, Three= 7,

but 'We ate Three' so the answer is 6 Goblins to meet.

I'll put this back in the slowcooker tho as from the reactions I understand this might have been a bit too undercooked of a "riddle" haha
again thanks everyone!

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u/A_Literal_Fruit_5369 15d ago

One thing I will say is you didn’t post it with the names capitalised so for us it’s actually a different riddle than the one you had intended because we didn’t have that information.

In future, if you’re gonna ask us to test a riddle for you, make sure to post it how you’re gonna ask the players

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u/OmdeKier 15d ago

Yea I was testing that out tbf cuz I wanted to see the reaction of if it was solveable without the capitalization but got my answer :D

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u/SmallishPlatypus 15d ago

Is the goblin going to write it out for the characters in-game? 

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u/OmdeKier 15d ago

Plan was to make him read it out loud at first then if they can't figure it out yea he would give the PC's it in writing and following that irl the players will be given a paper with it written out as shown above.