Frank Riddles
HIGH PRAISE for the last riddle goes to windbag for getting it first. Now, do I need to explain these riddles? I think that one was pretty obvious if you’ve ever played the original Super Mario Brothers (and if you haven’t, you’re an uncultured buffoon).
Anyway, here is the next riddle. I think it’s easier than the last:
Friends leave you
Stores close their doors to you
Entire worlds end
Alone, voiceless, hearing nothing, seeing nothing, knowing nothing
All because of an unsteady light
First person to answer the riddle in the comments gets…
HIGH PRAISE!
And, as always, if no one solves it, Gotham City is doomed!
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October 11th, 2010 at 4:12 pm
An XBox?
October 11th, 2010 at 4:15 pm
Majora’s Mask?
I really have no idea. I’ve never even played that game. But somehow this just feels Zelda-y.
October 11th, 2010 at 4:19 pm
That last bit makes me think that it is Stephen King’s IT. Probably wrong, but oh well.
October 11th, 2010 at 4:19 pm
zelda
October 11th, 2010 at 4:20 pm
Microsoft Zune?
October 11th, 2010 at 4:22 pm
#1 got it, I think — Red Ring of Death.
October 11th, 2010 at 4:34 pm
cigarette smoking.
October 11th, 2010 at 4:34 pm
I don’t know, but somewhere Harry Reid is crying…this hit a little too close to home.
October 11th, 2010 at 5:04 pm
The Sun/a star?
October 11th, 2010 at 5:07 pm
Internet connection light on broadband modem!
[Ding ding ding. -Ed.]
October 11th, 2010 at 5:14 pm
The dead laptop battery indicator light?
October 11th, 2010 at 5:16 pm
C-3P0?
October 11th, 2010 at 5:19 pm
I blame Boooosh.
And Global Warming.
October 11th, 2010 at 5:38 pm
A hard drive crash?
October 11th, 2010 at 6:16 pm
Wait, I got this one!
It’s what Gary Busey said to the police officer when he asked, “Sir, have you been drinking tonight?”.
I believe that was followed up with something along the lines of “Okay, we’re going to be taking you downtown now…”
October 11th, 2010 at 6:33 pm
A cable modem with bad connectivity.
October 11th, 2010 at 6:37 pm
Darkness.
October 11th, 2010 at 7:01 pm
Is it a zombie thing?
I see that I’m an uncultured buffoon,
so I don’t expect to get this one.
October 11th, 2010 at 7:02 pm
Luigi’s Mansion
October 11th, 2010 at 7:30 pm
I don’t know. I want more gun riddles.
And Jimmy, my Dad uses Microsoft even though he despises them. I am in the same boat. However, he loves his Zune and would probably encourage me to chide you for being a snotty Apple fanboy. Snotty Apple fanboy.
October 11th, 2010 at 7:47 pm
Facebook
October 11th, 2010 at 8:14 pm
A liberal powering his computer with a solar panel?
October 11th, 2010 at 8:39 pm
starbucks coffee?
October 11th, 2010 at 8:43 pm
nondigital TV programming?
October 11th, 2010 at 9:32 pm
what happens when you didn’t sign the baby registry
October 11th, 2010 at 9:44 pm
No, no, no, Marko. I am not a Snotty Apple fanboy. I’m just a Snotty… Irishman. Yeah. A Snotty, potato-eating Irishmen who eats potatoes. Did I mention that I like growing and eating potatoes? Beer.
And I’m changing my answer now to “some video game console that bit the dust” because the last puzzle was about some video game. This one went bad because of a bad, blinking light and it really pissed people off. Which sounds kinda like Microsoft (thus my previous answer). However, I must have been gone at the time.
October 11th, 2010 at 10:14 pm
The last snotty Irishman, Jimmy, got his butt kicked by John Wayne in The Quiet Man.
October 11th, 2010 at 10:24 pm
Yeah, but that was the movies, Marko. In real life, Irishmen clean-up. Which is good, since, God only knows that a clean Irishman is a good Irishman. Well, maybe Irish women know that, too. But I’m speculating on that.
October 11th, 2010 at 10:25 pm
All because of an unsteady light
It’s those danged curly fluorescent bulbs!
October 11th, 2010 at 10:49 pm
Alan Wake?
October 11th, 2010 at 10:55 pm
Power outage?
October 11th, 2010 at 11:56 pm
John Lennon’s corpse? In unsteady light he might have looked enough like Yoko to pull the trigger.
October 12th, 2010 at 12:04 am
Jimmy, you and I both know that the Duke was not just “the movies”. Show some respect, man!
October 12th, 2010 at 12:16 am
A black hole.
October 12th, 2010 at 10:03 am
Adult Movie Theater
October 12th, 2010 at 12:52 pm
The back of my ring-hand
October 12th, 2010 at 1:03 pm
C,mon, no one guessed the Light Worker?
October 12th, 2010 at 1:18 pm
for the love of god answer the stupid riddle. This is like a psychic beating.
October 12th, 2010 at 1:55 pm
unsteady light… Damn, I want to say it’s the stock market but that doesn’t quite make sense.
Good one, Frank.
October 12th, 2010 at 2:12 pm
I think “entire worlds end” is the real clue here. What kind of worlds can end? Only the virtual kind, as far as I know. That’s why I think it has something to do with the internet. Could “unsteady light” refer to a solar flare? A router powered by solar power? A broken fiber optic cable?
October 12th, 2010 at 2:18 pm
“Friends leave you” = people quit smoking
“Stores close doors” = no smoking
“Entire world ends” = dying from lung cancer
“unsteady light” = tip of cigarette
admit it
October 12th, 2010 at 4:07 pm
Night
October 12th, 2010 at 5:45 pm
Bedtime
October 12th, 2010 at 7:07 pm
I think Mesowitty got it.
That, or it’s a joint.
October 12th, 2010 at 8:40 pm
Charter High-Speed Cable Internet Service.
The bane of my existence.
October 12th, 2010 at 11:42 pm
Did I win?
October 13th, 2010 at 8:25 am
Send High Praise Now to me please!
October 14th, 2010 at 2:12 pm
***Internet connection light on broadband modem!
[Ding ding ding. -Ed.]***
What the CARP? No. No, that is NOT the answer! That… fine. I guess it makes sense.
October 15th, 2010 at 3:02 pm
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October 21st, 2010 at 1:26 am
The internet light on the modem is great. Very clever. I would have guessed it was the guy from hitch hikers guide to the galaxy.
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