The princess of a kingdom announces that she will marry a person who asks her a riddle that she can’t answer. But if she answers, the suitor will be killed.

The princess answers the riddles and gets nine persons killed. Then a wandering prince hears about it and decides to try it.

He asks the princess, “One killed none, but still killed twelve?” “What is it?”

The princess fails but steals the answer from the prince when he is sleeping. The next day, she answers the question and sentences the prince to death. But he proves that the princess cheated him to get the answer to the riddle. Eventually, they get married.