# You enter the MYSTERIOUS basement and find (GAME) **URL:** \ **Category:** Thread Games\ **Created:** [July 13, 2025, 2:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-enter-the-mysterious-basement-and-find-game/1020815 "2025-07-13T14:49:17Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bosda_di_chi_of_tricor/32/16845_2.png) [@Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bosda_Di_Chi_of_Tricor)\ **Post date:** [July 13, 2025, 2:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-enter-the-mysterious-basement-and-find-game/1020815/1 "2025-07-13T14:49:17Z")
Enter the basement of a Mysterious, Illuminati Warehouse. Odd relics abound. Post them here. BTW–yes, I know there are websites like this. So what? Also, I am posting some of my past contributions to those sites, here. TO MODS NOTE–I ONLY POST THE ONES I MYSELF WROTE. . . Inside a crate in the basement, you find ~~~ A Gorilla Costume. If the costume is worn while visiting any political meeting of a Conservative or Populist group, the wearer will be invited to give an address to the meeting. Any speech given there, while wearing the full suit, even getting onstage, & making monkey noises while scratching one’s groinal-area, will be hailed as vast political wisdom. If the suit is removed at the meeting, the penalty for fooling the crowd is Death. . . . Inside a crate in the Basement, you find –an M113 Armored Personnel Carrier, in US Army colors. It’s side is scarred with the marks of gigantic teeth & claws. . . Inside a crate in the Basement, you find a Book, entitled “Why All Bicyclists Are Communists”. The Author is Richard Milhaus Nixon ---
**Author:** ![Chronos](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chronos/32/134_2.png) [@Chronos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chronos)\ **Post date:** [July 13, 2025, 8:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-enter-the-mysterious-basement-and-find-game/1020815/2 "2025-07-13T20:30:38Z")
[Moderating] This looks more like a Thread Game, to me. Moving. ---
**Author:** ![De\_La\_Rue](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/d07c76/32.png) [@De\_La\_Rue](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/De_La_Rue)\ **Post date:** [July 14, 2025, 4:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-enter-the-mysterious-basement-and-find-game/1020815/3 "2025-07-14T16:25:59Z")
You open a box in the basement and find… …Conclusive proof that nothing is real, including the proof that nothing is real. …A foot-high figure of Godzilla. If placed on a model train layout it will go on a rampage. ---
**Author:** ![Buck\_Godot](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/buck_godot/32/6573_2.png) [@Buck\_Godot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Buck_Godot)\ **Post date:** [July 22, 2025, 3:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-enter-the-mysterious-basement-and-find-game/1020815/4 "2025-07-22T03:28:59Z")
Open a s Sarcophagus and find a ancient mummified corpse of your, gender, height and weight, wearing your exact same outfit -creepy ---
**Author:** ![Beckdawrek](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/beckdawrek/32/3647_2.png) [@Beckdawrek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beckdawrek)\ **Post date:** [July 22, 2025, 7:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-enter-the-mysterious-basement-and-find-game/1020815/5 "2025-07-22T07:52:35Z")
Go in the creepy basement. Find a small/ flat red box. Inside is a letter. No envelope. Folded paper. Thick paper. It has my name on it. I open and read… ---
**Author:** ![Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bosda_di_chi_of_tricor/32/16845_2.png) [@Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bosda_Di_Chi_of_Tricor)\ **Post date:** [July 22, 2025, 2:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-enter-the-mysterious-basement-and-find-game/1020815/6 "2025-07-22T14:02:48Z")
Inside a crate on level 1, you find— A film of Richard Milhaus Nixon. He removes a cunning rubber mask. Beneath it is…nobody. Nobody at all. Nixon’s empty suit, falls to the floor. Secret Servicemen surround the empty suit ion the floor, baffled. ---
**Author:** ![Kent\_Clark](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kent_clark/32/105_2.png) [@Kent\_Clark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kent_Clark)\ **Post date:** [July 25, 2025, 2:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-enter-the-mysterious-basement-and-find-game/1020815/7 "2025-07-25T02:05:51Z")
… A crate. I pry it open and find The Ark of the Covenant ---
**Author:** ![Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bosda_di_chi_of_tricor/32/16845_2.png) [@Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bosda_Di_Chi_of_Tricor)\ **Post date:** [July 25, 2025, 1:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-enter-the-mysterious-basement-and-find-game/1020815/8 "2025-07-25T13:07:24Z")
Meh. Now, if you had found THREE Arks of the Covenant… ---
**Author:** ![Prof.Pepperwinkle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/prof.pepperwinkle/32/13627_2.png) [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Prof.Pepperwinkle)\ **Post date:** [July 25, 2025, 5:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-enter-the-mysterious-basement-and-find-game/1020815/9 "2025-07-25T17:48:07Z")
There’s a Wardrobe in the basement! Open in and there’s a pathway to… Another Wardrobe in another basement. You ask a friendly Badger for advice; he bites your leg off. Welcome to Cthularnia. ---
**Author:** ![SCAdian](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/scadian/32/3292_2.png) [@SCAdian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SCAdian)\ **Post date:** [July 28, 2025, 7:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-enter-the-mysterious-basement-and-find-game/1020815/10 "2025-07-28T19:35:44Z")
…life-sized gold-plated Caganers of Trump and Putin. ---
**Author:** ![Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bosda_di_chi_of_tricor/32/16845_2.png) [@Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bosda_Di_Chi_of_Tricor)\ **Post date:** [July 29, 2025, 2:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-enter-the-mysterious-basement-and-find-game/1020815/11 "2025-07-29T14:48:54Z")
> [@SCAdian](#): > > Caganers ~~Caganers?`~~ Never mind. ---
**Author:** ![De\_La\_Rue](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/d07c76/32.png) [@De\_La\_Rue](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/De_La_Rue)\ **Post date:** [January 10, 2026, 11:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-enter-the-mysterious-basement-and-find-game/1020815/12 "2026-01-10T23:41:43Z")
**You enter the basement and find…** …a bell, book, and candle. The bell is three feet in diameter, the book is seven feet tall by five feet wide, and the candle is four feet tall. ---
**Author:** ![John\_DiFool](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/john_difool/32/19543_2.png) [@John\_DiFool](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/John_DiFool)\ **Post date:** [January 10, 2026, 11:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-enter-the-mysterious-basement-and-find-game/1020815/13 "2026-01-10T23:53:19Z")
I ring the bell after lighting the candle and reading the first incantation from the book: “Klaatu, barada, nicc…nicotine, nectar, necktie…nickel… noodle…oh the hell with it… **NAUAHEMRHRG**!” ---
**Author:** ![Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bosda_di_chi_of_tricor/32/16845_2.png) [@Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bosda_Di_Chi_of_Tricor)\ **Post date:** [January 11, 2026, 12:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-enter-the-mysterious-basement-and-find-game/1020815/14 "2026-01-11T00:49:57Z")
Inside a crate on level 1, you find A Tooth. Specifically a molar. Unremarkable in every way, but one. It is the size of a Volkswagen. ---
**Author:** ![Hoopy\_Frood](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hoopy_frood/32/8452_2.png) [@Hoopy\_Frood](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hoopy_Frood)\ **Post date:** [January 11, 2026, 11:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-enter-the-mysterious-basement-and-find-game/1020815/15 "2026-01-11T23:55:51Z")
…a crystal ball that originally shows nothing but swirling fog. As you look closer, an image starts to unfold. You see the from the back someone looking into a crystal ball. The person looks eerily similar to yourself. A shadowy figure suddenly looms up behind the person in the image and swings an axe at their neck. The crystal ball suddenly goes dark. ---
**Author:** ![DrDeth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b487fb/32.png) [@DrDeth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DrDeth)\ **Post date:** [January 12, 2026, 3:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-enter-the-mysterious-basement-and-find-game/1020815/16 "2026-01-12T03:24:06Z")
A set of armor, some melee weapons, and a portal to a D&D style dungeon. In another crate is the real Maltese Falcon. ---
**Author:** ![Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bosda_di_chi_of_tricor/32/16845_2.png) [@Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bosda_Di_Chi_of_Tricor)\ **Post date:** [January 12, 2026, 4:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-enter-the-mysterious-basement-and-find-game/1020815/17 "2026-01-12T16:19:25Z")
Inside a crate on level 1, you find a White, full-length, fur coat, with Black spots. It smells of cigarette smoke. Sewn inside is the label : “Property of C de Vil” ---
**Author:** ![Frodo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/frodo/32/302_2.png) [@Frodo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Frodo)\ **Post date:** [January 12, 2026, 4:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-enter-the-mysterious-basement-and-find-game/1020815/18 "2026-01-12T16:22:48Z")
The Epstein Files ---
**Author:** ![Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bosda_di_chi_of_tricor/32/16845_2.png) [@Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bosda_Di_Chi_of_Tricor)\ **Post date:** [January 12, 2026, 5:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-enter-the-mysterious-basement-and-find-game/1020815/19 "2026-01-12T17:19:20Z")
Those are hidden, but not mysterious. ---
**Author:** ![Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bosda_di_chi_of_tricor/32/16845_2.png) [@Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bosda_Di_Chi_of_Tricor)\ **Post date:** [January 12, 2026, 5:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-enter-the-mysterious-basement-and-find-game/1020815/20 "2026-01-12T17:20:35Z")
Inside a crate on level 1, you find a floating JET-BLACK skull with glowing WHITE eyes. It follows you as you walk. If touched, it bites your hand, and if spoken to, it cackles maniacally. It acts as a treasure detector, giggling weirdly every time you come within 100 feet of a 500gp or more treasure, and babbling oddly when within 10. It classes all Land Mines as treasure. Little details count, kiddoes’! [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-enter-the-mysterious-basement-and-find-game/1020815.md?page=2)