These riddles and puzzles are among the most heartwarming stories I've read yet. Not in the cheesy way, but I just really loved reading them and finding out what the moral of each would turn out to be. I was getting pretty frustrated with the arching story of the king having to return to the tree over and over and over and over and over again. It's obviously going to take a while for this part of the story to progress (if it ever does).
One thing in particular that struck me about these individual stories is the seemingly outrageous things that seem to happen to all of these people. For instance, in the Girl, Husband, Brother story, her husband just decides to behead himself after he successfully got the girl of his dreams? And then her brother beheads himself right after in an act of grief? These things just seem absolutely insane.
I think a kind of game show layout would be cool for something like this? Like a transcript of an episode of Jeopardy or something, where the contestant has to answer these riddles but never wins anything. Or if I wanted to play with the stories individually rather than the overarching narrative, if someone from modern times was placed in these kinds of situations, seeing how they would react would be interesting! Especially with the random beheadings and all. Another idea, since many of these individual riddles involve a handful of people having to prove their cleverness or what have you, setting up dating profiles for each man seeking the girl's hand would be good. This could show off their characters, give them some more background and exhibit the parts of the story without using prose.
(Goblin hanging from the tree, web source: Wikimedia)
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