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9 Responses to “ Let’s Play Detective: The Blackout Murder Mystery ”

1. Anders Sandberg
   April 25th, 2008 at 6:52 am
   

   Even if he could see in the darkness, he would be unlikely to see the color green. The cone photoreceptors are necessary for color vision and are not active in scotopic vision. In the mesoptic vision range (around a candela/m^2) people can recognize blue objects, but not distinguish red and green.

2. Mark
   April 25th, 2008 at 7:48 am
   

   Since Dane was able to see the color green, the lights in the house must not have been off, so the landlady must be lying. Barton, a notorious squealer, had threatened to expose the landlady’s violation of the blackout to the air raid wardens, and she killed him to protect herself. Dane gave a false confession after hours under the third degree. Such were civil liberties in the dark days of Roosevelt’s America.

3. FlowerPower
   April 25th, 2008 at 7:48 am
   

   Grammar faux pas alert! “…he has better eyes THEN an owl.” Should be “than”.

4. Seth Finkelstein
   April 25th, 2008 at 8:01 am
   

   “Obviously, I was carrying a flashlight, in order to get back to my room”

5. webrunner
   April 25th, 2008 at 9:07 am
   

   Little do they know he was actually Better-Than-An-Owl-Man, bitten by a radioactive Better-Than-An-Owl, gaining the proportional powers of something better than an owl.

6. Keith
   April 25th, 2008 at 9:31 am
   

   I’ve often wondered whether those ordered to write and illustrate such tripe suffered from nervous break-downs… like a Bush speech-writer, or a Comcast PR specialist.

7. mike.
   April 25th, 2008 at 9:54 am
   

   Why a green suit, out of the clear blue sky, I wonder?

8. MSJ
   April 28th, 2008 at 11:58 pm
   

   Indeed, mike. That the suit is green is a very strong clue. Who wears a GREEN suit?

   In another line of thought, this is Marvel comics. Maybe the guy’s a mutant (codename: Better-Than-An-Owl)?

9. allen bellman
   November 30th, 2008 at 7:32 am
   

   In reply to Keiths comments: I wouldn’t refer to this as “tripe”, but then again, you must be a “liberal”
   Allen Bellman
   creator of “Lets’s Play Detective”

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