Reading Notes: Twenty-Two Goblins Part A

The story "Twenty-Two Goblins" is a very interesting read. I've always been a fan of riddles and it always excites me to read them and solve them. This story has a story predicament, in that, the goblin inside the dead corpse goes back to the tree every time the king figures out the riddle. This means that he has to go all the way back to the tree and retrieve the body all over again. Meaning that he's going in a circle over and over again. This is only Part A of the reading, but I would like to change the story and have the king be very clever and after many riddles from the goblin have him trick the goblin with his own riddle. His ultimatum would be that if the goblin can't figure out the answer to the riddle then he'd have to leave the body, so that the king may bring it back to the monk named, Patience. A different aspect of the story would be the riddles themselves. These riddles that the goblin tells seem very out of date, so I would like to replace them with modern day riddles that are more relevant to the present.

Twenty-Two Goblins by Arthur Ryder, link to online reading

(Goblin, Source: Deviant Art)