Blanko!

[Frybabe]

                                       

Welcome to our newest brain teaser: BLANKO

The rules are simple:

The Challenger posts  either a title or the name of an author, but not both.

Ex:

Title of Book: three words, a prize winning novel:

   ___ ___ ___ ___ ___ T    __ ___   ___ ___ ___ ___


What is it?


The Contestants guess the title or author (if it's a challenge on an author's name)  and post their answer.  If they can, the solve the entire answer. If not, they  can also suggest one of the title words or  a letter to fill in one of the blanks. One guess per "day" (between appearances of the Challenger) for each contestant.

At  the end of the day if the puzzle is not solved, the Challenger will then add only  one of the suggested letters the Contestants have suggested, everywhere it appears.

The winner becomes the new Challenger.  

Good Luck !!

List of Winners and Book Titles or Authors:

1. Pat H for Rabbit Run  Post #27
2. Ginny for Hound of the Baskervilles Post #45
3. Joan P for The Winter of our Discontent # 51
4. Ginny for Aesop's Fables # 54
5. Frybabe for The Caine Mutiny # 68
6. Ginny for Seven Pillars of Wisdom #75

Frybabe's post:

B Please!

[JoanP]

An "S" please -

and a word about John Updike's last book before he died -  - "My Father's Tears" - a  collection of short stories that will tug at your heart.  A return to his earlier stories that got our attention in the first place. 

He's saying goodbye with the last line in the last story -"If I can read this strange old guy's mind aright, he's drinking a toast to the visible world, his impending disappearance from it be damned." --

[PatH]

Thunder is gathering, so I'd better get in before power goes out again.  Ginny, Judy, and JoanK are right about "the", Judy is right about "of", and I pick Ginny's "R".

__ O __ __ __   OF THE  __ __ __ __ __ R __ __ __ __ __ __

[ginny]

Hound of the Baskervilles.


That's interesting, Joan P. Is that the one people say is autobiographical or is that another one?

[ginny]

I see a problem. If someone else asks a letter, then I hesitate to, because it might prevent finding out about the first one. So then I'd have to wait til next day (I'm not good at waiting).

I didn't understand this at first but I do now. You are saying that if somebody put A then you hesitate to put T because you want to find out about A, but  at the end of the day the challenger picks the letter the least likely to solve the puzzle, so even if you hold off others won't, and you might not find out about the A at all?

Unless of course you all band together and ask the same letter?

[PatH]

YES!
Tag, you're it, Ginny, It is indeed Hound of the Baskervilles.

[Gumtree]

Too late, she cried! -I woke up this morning with that title hot on my mind! It will probably be the only one I have any inkling of.

Good one, Ginny!  Thanks PatH

[ginny]

HEY!! This is SO fun, I love it. The minute I saw that it haunted me. You know that, it kept saying. You know this one! Lots of thinking.

 I can't do the Vanna White types of games, at ALL, I would be the first one off, wheel or no wheel, but that one just jumped at me.

OK, hold on, another coming up!

And you, too, Gum!! The O did it for me.

[ginny]

Book Title:  5 words:

 ___ ___ ___     ___ ___ ___ ___ ___ ___  

  ___ ___     ___ ___ ___

___ ___ S ___ ___ ___ ___ ___ ___ ____


Prize winning author whose books have been turned into many movies.

The object  is to guess outright the title. If you think you know the title, guess it.

You can also guess instead one of the words. One guess per contestant per "day," which is between appearances of the challenger.

You can guess one letter, instead. The challenger, when he swoops by at the end of the day,  will  pick from the letters suggested that day the one the challenger thinks would least solve the puzzle (so as to keep it going longer and more fun)

Once the challenger has come by for the day, it's a new day and guesses can begin again.

[jane]

Are there T's ?

[ginny]

Aha! The game's afoot! hahaha


I have storms so this may be my last chance to get on today!

Book Title:  5 words:

 T ___ ___     ___ ___ ___ T ___ ___
  ___ ___     ___ ___ ___

___ ___ S ___ ___ ___ T ___ ___ T


Prize winning author whose books have been turned into many movies.

And yes indeed, there is a T!  Yes indeed!

[JoanP]

The Winter of Our Discontent....(Thanks for the T's, Jane!)

[ginny]

HA!

That's it! John Steinbeck's The Winter of Our Discontent it is! A super book.

You're up at bat, Pearson, congratulations!   

I'm a bit afraid of Pearson's choice for a title, it will probably go down to the wire. What fun, did you guess it Jane with that T suggestion?

[JoanP]

Book Title:  2 words:

 ___ ___  ___ ___ ___ ' _S__          ___  ___  ___  ___  ___  ___



The author - a Greek slave

[ginny]

Aesop's Fables.

[JoanP]

ahhahaaahaa...that was way too easy, wasn't it?  You're IT again, Ginny.

[JoanK]

Good grief! I don't go in for a day, and look what I miss!

[ginny]

I know it! This game is HOT

I love it because I have never been able to do this type of thing and suddenly I can! Wheel of Fortune here I come! Probably my last slide through coherence, but it's so fun.


Book Title:  3 words:

___ H ___     ___ ___ ___ ___ ___      ___ ___ ___ ___ ___ ___



Prize wining book which has had many  film and Broadway adaptations.



The object  is to guess outright the title. If you think you know the title, guess it.

You can also guess instead one of the words. One guess per contestant per "day," which is between appearances of the challenger.

You can also  guess one letter, instead. The challenger, when he swoops by at the end of the day,  will  pick from the letters suggested that day the one the challenger thinks would least solve the puzzle (so as to keep it going longer and more fun)

Once the challenger has come by for the day, it's a new day and guesses can begin again.

Good luck! This is a very famous book that everybody has heard of, a super read.

[pedln]

Your choice, challenger.  How about either T's or W's.  Then we'll know whether the first word is Who or The.

[JudeS]

Still trying to figure this out.

If Aesop's Fables has  three ssssssssssssssssssssses why was only one in place when giving the first clue?
Shouldn't it have been  ---S--'S  -----S? If not why not?


My guess for today is E.

[ginny]

Oh good question Jude S!!

Pedln you get ONE letter guess per day so I get to pick which one, so we have W and T from Pedln and E from Jude S and I've come in early again storms threaten. Rain is good, storms are not.




Ok I'll choose W. There are no W's in the title. 



Book Title:  3 words:

___ H ___     ___ ___ ___ ___ ___      ___ ___ ___ ___ ___ ___



Prize wining book which has had many  film and Broadway adaptations.

[Frybabe]

P

[PatH]

Might as well take a wild guess:

The Great Gatsby

[JoanK]

Is the first word "The"?

We're all assuming it is, so if it isn't, we ought to know.

[JudeS]

Is there a 'R'?

[ginny]

I love this game!

Ok here I am on my fly thru tonight.

It is not The Great Gatsby.

Joan K has offered the word THE and she is correct. I think on days if somebody gets a word we can also allow a letter, so from the letters suggested today:

P from Frybabe,  and  'R'? from JudeS

I'll say R and there is no R.


Book Title:  3 words:


THE      ___ ___ ___ ___ ___      ___ ___ ___ ___ ___ ___



Prize wining book which has had many  film and Broadway adaptations.

[Frybabe]

Let's try a C

[ginny]

Uh oh, Frybabe's on the chase!

There is a C.


Book Title:  3 words:


THE      C ___ ___ ___ ___      ___ ___ ___ ___ ___ ___



Prize wining book which has had many  film and Broadway adaptations.

[Frybabe]

The Caine Mutiny?

[ginny]

YEOWSA!! How on earth did you get that one?

YES! The Caine Mutiny by Herman Woulk, a Pulitzer Prize winner, which (according to wilkipedia (gasp): The Caine Mutiny is a 1951 Pulitzer Prize winning novel by Herman Wouk. The novel grew out of Wouk's personal experiences aboard a destroyer-minesweeper in the Pacific in World War II and deals with, among other things, the moral and ethical decisions made at sea by the captains of ships.

Adaptations:

The film The Caine Mutiny was based on the novel and starred Humphrey Bogart as Queeg.

After the novel's success, the court-martial sequence was adapted into a full-length, two-act Broadway play, The Caine Mutiny Court Martial, by author Herman Wouk. Directed by actor Charles Laughton, it was a success on the stage in 1954, opening almost exactly five months before the release of the film. The stage version starred Lloyd Nolan as Queeg, John Hodiak as Maryk, and Henry Fonda as Greenwald. It has been revived twice on Broadway, and was presented on television in 1955, as a live presentation, and in 1988, as a made-for-television film.

Cap'n Queeg!! I haven't seen or read this one in a long time but I remember it as being really good.

Super job, Frybabe!! You're up next!

[JoanP]

Frybabe, you knew The Caine Mutiny just from the number of spaces?  Did you know it when you asked for a "C"?  Wow!
 
Jude - I inadvertently left the second "S" of the end of the Aesop's Fables clue - would you have guessed it, had I included the second "S"?  Sorry!  I'll be more careful next time - if I'm ever lucky enough to guess again.  You are all so fast!

[Frybabe]

It was a guess, Ginny. The C was a "test" letter. I was looking for something I knew were both Broadway and movie. My first thought was South Pacific which didn't fit of course. Neither did The Lion King.

The Caine Mutiny Broadway play was called The Caine Mutiny Court Martial. Charles Laughton had his fingers in that as well as the original movie. I remember seeing a made for TV version years ago.

Book title: Made into an epic movie which is not named the same as the book


__ __ __ __ __    __ __ __ __ __ __ __    O __    __ __ __ __ __ __

[ginny]

Something of Arabia?

[Mippy]

How about F ?

[Frybabe]

It's about time to roll over another day. Yes, there is one F Mippy.
Ginny, you are on the right track but not quite. I need the name of the book, not the movie.



Book title: Made into an epic movie which is not named the same as the book


__ __ __ __ __    __ __ __ __ __ __ __    O F    __ __ __ __ __ __

[ginny]

Seven Pillars of Wisdom

[Gumtree]

So who's a clever girl Ginny?

[ginny]

hhahaa, I don't know! I have never been able  do these things, never gotten ONE  on TV, can't get the first one, in the past. Maybe I'm sliding into Alzheimer's and this is the first indication? hahahaa

[Frybabe]

Right you are, Ginny. Tag, your it!

[ginny]

OK here's one:


Book Title: 3 words:

___ ____ ____ ____    ___ ____   _____ _____ E   ____ _____ ____ ____


This book is among the memoirs of this prize winning author of many books.