Bowling Cricket

It leaps forward and lands on you with one if its giant claws. Oof! Ouch! Oof! Ow! Ugh! Ow! Ugh! Oof! Ow! Eek!

It tosses its bowling ball at you, hitting you square in the <forehead>. Argh! Ouch! Ugh! Oof! Ugh! Ugh! Ooh! Oof! Argh! Ouch!

It spits an adventurer-size gob of grasshopper juice at you. Gah! Argh! Ow! Eek! Ooh! Ouch! Ugh! Oof! Ouch! Eek! Ooh!

You use the sonar-in-a-biscuit.

You break open the sonar-in-a-biscuit. As sonar squeaks echo off the walls, the grasshopper looks nervously around for the giant bat that's about to eat it. It leaps out the window and flies away. Looks like this grasshopper has much to learn.

You gain 40 <substat>.

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Occurs at The Sorceress' Tower (The Stairs).

Notes

• This monster can only be defeated by using a sonar-in-a-biscuit.

References

• The solution to the riddle lies in the ancient art of playing cricket. It's a bowling cricket, i.e. a bowler (whose job is similar to that of the pitcher in baseball). The opponent of the bowler is of course the batter, whose "weapon" is the (cricket) bat. You emulate said bat with the piercing sonar shriek from the biscuit. An alternate theory about the solution is simply that bats are the natural predators of crickets and grasshoppers. Most easily, however, is to recognize the rhyming scheme in the combat: cricket, wicket... biscuit!
• "You have much to learn, Grasshopper," was a line that David Carradine's character had to listen to in every episode of the television series Kung Fu.
• "By Jiminy" refers to Jiminy Cricket, a character in Pinnochio.