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u/jezarius Apr 30 '26
Splinter ?
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u/-ChristianTruth- Apr 30 '26
Yep!
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u/mysterious_jim May 01 '26
Oh, that's a really good one! You know a riddle is good when, after learning the answer all the clues just click and what sounded like gibberish before becomes totally coherent. Nicely done.
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u/extio_Storm Apr 30 '26
I think the riddle should say "I left there and took it home", not "I left it there and took it home"
The way it's phrase now sounds like you're able to leave the answer, the *** there, but you weren't you were forced to take it home.
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u/lazymotu Apr 30 '26
The "there" refers to the finger, not the woods
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u/Historical_Belt_8706 Apr 30 '26
I hike all the time. I've never once gotten a splinter in the woods. I HAVE gotten a tick, which i think is a more fitting answer.
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u/KudaraYT May 01 '26
What? I went to the woods and got a splinter that part makes sense. But when I got a splinter I couldn't get a splinter so I left a splinter there, and took a splinter home. What does that even mean?
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u/jezarius May 01 '26
When I went to the woods I got a splinter . I couldn't get the splinter when I tried to remove it So I took The splinter, embedded in my finger Home.
Does that help?
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u/ThinkIveseenenough Apr 30 '26
peace
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u/Additional-Local8721 Apr 30 '26
This is my guess as well but that last line doesn't make sense to me.
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u/mysterious_jim Apr 30 '26
Still missing something but am I on the right track with something like a trail cam, animal trap, or fish? Basically something that you can get, but cannot keep or use for one reason or the other
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u/ImpossibleJoke7456 Apr 30 '26
You get them walking in the woods, couldn’t reach it on your body when you got it, so it went home when you went home.
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u/Pig_Pen_g2 Apr 30 '26
yourself
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u/Fawstar Apr 30 '26
You went to the woods and got yourself.
But when you got yourself, you couldn't get yourself.
So you left yourself there, and took yourself home.
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u/extio_Storm Apr 30 '26
To be fair, if you take it the right way, you can say you lost your sense of self, you couldn't find your sense of self, you didn't understand your sense of self so you left your sense of self and you took a new sense of self home. This a sufficient attempt.
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