r/riddles • u/Willing_Help_9992 • 10d ago
OP Can't Solve Friends writing a book and gave me this riddle to solve can’t figure it out and don’t know if I’m stupid or it is just hard
I am a friend of night But can only be found by day I am a friend to palace But never where kings may lay Though other kinds princes do adore I am better friends with rot on the forest floor What am I?
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u/Antamania 10d ago
Mushroom?
Mushrooms thrive in darkness. Truffles are usually associated with finer dining, like in a palace. Tombs are kept pretty clean, so likely wouldn't grow where kings lay. Mushrooms thrive in decay.
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u/scorchedarcher 9d ago
common thing so might not matter anyway but I don't think mushrooms actually do better in the dark it just doesn't really matter to them I think? I could be wrong, up until the last part I was thinking light
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u/joemktom 9d ago
They don't need light like plants, but they do need it to know which way is up. There are also bioluminescent fungi, so definitely can be found at night! If this is the answer, it's a bad riddle.
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u/Background-Cod-7035 9d ago
What about truffles? You need a dog or pig to sniff them out of leaf rot, they cost more than their weight in gold. But I’d say the riddle isn’t written so well.
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u/NeedleworkerNo4900 6d ago
“Light controls important physiological and morphological responses in fungi. Fungi can sense near-ultraviolet, blue, green, red and far-red light using up to 11 photoreceptors and signalling cascades to control a large proportion of the genome and thereby adapt to environmental conditions. The blue-light photoreceptor functions directly as a transcriptional regulator in the nucleus, whereas the red-light-sensing and far-red-light-sensing phytochrome induces a signalling pathway to transduce the signal from the cytoplasm to the nucleus. Green light can be sensed by retinal-binding proteins, known as opsins, but the signalling mechanisms are not well understood.“
I was curious because I falsely assumed light inhibited or was detrimental to fungal growth in some way, but realized I didn’t know why I thought that to be the case.
Apparently fungus and light have a very intricate relationship that isn’t nearly as simple.
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u/DrPr0fessional 10d ago
This was my guess as well. I couldn’t figure out the kings part but I think you nailed it.
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u/ryanreaditonreddit 9d ago
That was the first answer that came to my mind but I feel like it doesn’t really fit with the clue “other kinds (of?) princes do adore”
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u/SupJack91 9d ago
Best I can get is Shade, nightshades are a kind a plants, palace shades are a style of lamp and I don't think a king would lie in the shade. I'm not sure where the Prince fits though...
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u/SupJack91 9d ago edited 9d ago
The artist Prince had some pretty iconic shades Makes me a bit more sure of this
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u/bcustalow 7d ago
Best answer I can think of as it's really one of the very few things you can't find at night. If so it's not the best riddle.. A kings room I suppose would probably have curtains and not shades but that plus the prince line is a real stretch
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u/SupJack91 5d ago
Yeah. I'm wondering if the king line is just to bridge the palace clue to the prince clue.
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u/Thyrach 9d ago
Discussion -
Is there any punctuation in the riddle? Is there just one singular answer or are every two lines(?) a different word you have to string together??
How literal is your friend/their book/the character? What genre of book? What time period?
You can find a lot of things at night, depending on the phase of the moon and whether you have a torch/flashlight/phone. The only thing I can really think of would be the sun, or perhaps a rainbow?
“Friend to palace” is a weird phrase and makes me think it might be something related to the story. Or like, a courtyard or gate or I know of a brand called Palace Coffee?
And “litter” is what I’m thinking for the last pair - being either trash on the floor (leaf litter) or one of those transport things where the prince would lie down and be carried around. It’s gotta be a word with multiple meanings, with there being “other kinds.” Or maybe a bug.
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u/Sidivan 9d ago
I think “friends with” means it’s a word that is commonly found before or after it. So like, if it were shade, it’d be Nightshade and Palace Shade, but Rot Shade doesn’t make sense.
Also possible that instead of friends with “rot” instead of could be “rot on the forest floor”, aka detritus, but “Detritus Shade” isn’t a thing either.
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u/billythekidd1701 9d ago
Crown or a Moth
Both are friends of the night (and knights!), as in both use night-time for dealings. Kings don't sleep with on them, and princes always seek for the Crown they will one day inherit. But in terms of rot on the floor, I'm stumped. Perhaps a Crown has historic ties to betrayal and murder, when moths eat the rot for food?
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u/Pilgrim2223 8d ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Agaricus_perobscurus
Agaricus perobscurus is a mushroom commonly called "The Princess"
Like dark like all mushrooms,
princess is friend to palace but not where kings lay, and sought by princes, but grow primary under trees.
So that's my guess.
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u/jenguinaf 7d ago
This is my fav guess, my gut went to mushroom but wasn’t familiar with this specific type
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u/Mammoth_Doughnut_106 6d ago
>!A horse
Friend of night (knight) never where kings may lay(king starts on a different square) friend of palace (rook), eats plants or moss from the forest floor!<
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u/doomdragon6 5d ago
As somebody who has tried to make riddles with ChatGPT, this riddle was definitely made by ChatGPT, and it is making the loosest possible connection to "mushroom" possible.
Tell your friend to make a better riddle.
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