The second Kid Stuff book and recording for Dungeons & Dragons is Quest of the Riddles.

Ringlerun the wizard is ill. The characters talk about this as if it isn’t a big deal, but then Ringlerun asks Strongheart (while strongly implying that the paladin is his son) to go on a quest to find a potion of longevity, so it sounds to me like Ringlerun is dying, but hey, what do I know?

Once at the castle that holds the potion, Strongheart is confronted by a riddle, which is more of a statement. I’d reproduce it here, but I don’t have enough characters. Just trust me on this. The second one is a genuine riddle and it leads Strongheart into combat with a badass skeleton warrior.

The final riddle finds the potion locked in one of three chests, the other two containing a deadly poison gas. The clue for the riddle is literally a transcripts of a three card monte game:

“The chest you seek was in the middle. Now follow if you can the riddle. Right moved left and left moved right, then new left to the middle did alight. Is the chest right, left or middle? Concentrate to solve the riddle.”

Strongheart picked the left, which I am pretty sure should have been deadly gas, which means either the Strongheart brought Ringlerun poison, the book is wrong, or I got outsmarted by a 30-year old children’s book.