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I've heard the door riddle before, but it had a much longer setup which narrowed down the possibilities. If I recall correctly, it went something like this...

A curious girl is brought up being told, "Never open the cellar door." She asks what's behind the door, and always gets the same response. "Never open the cellar door." For years, she wonders what's on the other side. Eventually she can't stand it anymore and she opens the cellar door.

She gasps at what she sees, and immediately runs out of the house. She runs over to a neighbour who happens to be mowing their lawn, and she explains the situation. The neighbour immediately calls the police.

The police arrive and they search the cellar from top to bottom. They find no drugs, no weapons, no bodies or body parts, the cellar is completely empty. Yet the police arrest the parents as soon as the parents arrive home. Why?

I personally prefer these kinds of setups, since you don't need to ask lots and lots of clarifying questions. When I'm just reading a riddle, I also like the "Agatha Christie" style where all the clues to solve it are in the riddle from the start, but in person there can be a lot of fun found in the style of riddle where you bounce questions back and forth. Different styles suit different situations, I think!

I believe the poet and comedian Spike Milligan has that engraved on his tombstone, but in the Irish language rather than English.

My mate and his dog ran out of cheese once, they decided to head to the moon to grab some...

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I am a gigantic fan, Wallace & Gromit are literally my desktop background!

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Just yesterday I was reminiscing about how good A Simple Plan is! I'm pretty sure you're right milkanannan.

I don't recognise the scene but those character models look to be straight out of Deus Ex!

I think I know this one! Though if it is the one I have in mind, I think the setup was different when I was first told it.

Was the woman a sailor/did she spend some time at sea?

When I think Emilio Estevez, I think Maximum Overdrive!

Easy! It's that one movie where Ron Perlman wears a suit! Which narrows it down to... roughly 600 films or so?

I'm going to take a stab at Quiet Kill aka Nightmare Boulevard.

The fact that those look like London double-decker buses is giving me Bodyguard vibes, but I'm pretty sure that's not it... Though that show had some police interview scenes which may have involved a tape recorder... Very tricky one, this!

Looks like a Mindhunter kind of recording device...

Correct, Mandle! Technically it's Westerado: Double Barreled which was the enhanced Steam release.

If anyone hasn't heard the main theme to this game, it is a whopper:

The multiplayer was great fun, I have fond memories of a gang of us youngsters passing the controllers back and forth between us!

Here's another with a distinct art style, it will probably be guessed quickly but I love it too much not to post it:

Exactly right! I finally killed that damn Mongoose just yesterday.

Ah, the wackiest of them all! Great choice! Here's a throwback to my childhood, I just recently completed this game after trying since I was in primary school...

I'm 99% sure it's one of the Saints Row games but I have no clue which one... I'm guessing one of the later ones because they got progressively wackier. Is it Saints Row 4?

That is spot on! I think all of the loading screen art in Distrust is phenomenal.

Your turn again!

Gosh, I almost feel bad for guessing it so quickly! That game has such lovely artwork though, it really stuck with me.

Here's my one:

That appears to be the main character from Hob!

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Gah! I KNEW that I recognised that art style! The font in particular put the title on the tip of my tongue!

Is it Everything?