Author Topic: Blanko! (Read 628538 times)

PatH · « **Reply #1160 on:** May 30, 2011, 01:23:00 PM »

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
7. Gumtree for Lost in America #100
8. Frybabe for King Solomon's Mines #138
9. Gumgree for Thus Spake Zarathustra # 174
10. Frybabe for All Quiet on the Western Front # 193
11. Joan K for Seven Years in Tibet # 205
12. Gumtree for all Quiet on the Western Front # 210
13. Frybabe for The Scarlet Pimpernel #221
14. PatH for Two years Before the Mast #225
15. Gumtree for The Rime of the Ancient Mariner #229
16. PatH for HMS Surprise #232
17. JoanP for Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea #241
18. Frybabe for The Life of Pi #249
19. pedlin for Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass #264
20. Frybabe for Undaunted Courage #281
21. pedln for Ice Station Zebra #292
22. Gumtree for The African Queen #304
23. pedln for Alias Grace #319
24. Frybabe for Stephen Crane #333
25. JoanP for Is Paris Burning? #343
26. Ginny for Zeituon #350
27. Frybabe for S*** My Dad Says #371
28. JoanP for Ghosts of Vesuvius #384
29. pedln for The 39 Steps #407
30. Frybabe for The Namesake #430
31. JoanP for Awakenings #447
32. pedln for The Left Hand of Darkness #471
33. JoanK for The Elegance of the Hedgehog #481
34. Gumtree for Gone With the Wind #491
35. PatH for That Old Cape Magic #511
36. JoanP for The Woman in White # 523
37. deems 2 for Faceless Killers #554
38. JoanP for The Known World #587
39. deems 2 for Don Quixote #601
40. Gumtree for The Shipping News #616
41. deems 2 for The Count of Monte Cristo #628
42. JoanP for Bel Canto #651
43. pedln for USA #656
44. Fran for A Redbird Christmas #678
45. Nobody got Faith and Betrayal #696
46. Gumtree for Kristin Lavransdatter #705
47. JoanP for A Room with a View #716
48. Gumtree for Metamorphosis # 731
49. JoanP for Mansfield Park #741
50. Frybabe for Empire if the Summer Moon #756
51. PatH for The Sketch Book #772
52. JoanP for The Last of the Mohicans #783
53. deems2 for Anne of Avonlea #792
54. PatH for Wuthering Heights #803
55. deems2 for Snow Falling on Cedars #810
56. JoanP for Let the Great World Spin #821
57. deems2 for A Novel Bookstore #839
58. pedln for Juliet, Naked #858
59. deems2 for The Devil in White City #878
60. JoanP for The Invisible Bridge #901
61. pedln for The Lacuna #909
62. deems2 for To the End of the Land #917
63. JoanP for Wolf Hall #933
64. pedln for Any Human Heart #944
65. JoanP for Ordinary People #955
66. deems2 for The Weird Sisters #963
67. JoanP for Cry the Beloved Country #973
68. deems 2 for Cymbeline #984
69. JoanP for Blood Meridian #1004
70. deems 2 for Awakening the Buddha Within, #1022
71. Pedln (plus gumtree) for A Prayer for Owen Meany #1032
72. JoanP for A Covert Affair # 1049
73. Frybabe for The House at Riverton #1071
74. deems 2 for Ten Days That Shook the World #1074
75. pedln for The Brief Wondrous life of Oscar Wao # 1090
76. JoanP for The Paris Wife # 1110
77. Gumtree for Old Filth #1113
78. Pedln for David Copperfield #1134
79. JoanP for Tabloid City #1150
80. PatH for Caleb's Crossing #1157
81. Frybabe for Unbroken #1169
82. PatH for The Android's Dream #1178

PatH · « **Reply #1161 on:** May 30, 2011, 01:25:55 PM »

___ ___ ___ ___ O ___ ___ ___

Recent, popular

JoanP · « **Reply #1162 on:** May 31, 2011, 06:18:04 AM »

One word...hmmm The name of a place, perhaps?

An "S"? Please...

PatH · « **Reply #1163 on:** May 31, 2011, 12:35:55 PM »

There is no S.

___ ___ ___ ___ O ___ ___ ___

Recent, popular, non-fiction

JoanP · « **Reply #1164 on:** May 31, 2011, 10:41:53 PM »

Well, how about an "N" then?

Frybabe · « **Reply #1165 on:** May 31, 2011, 10:51:58 PM »

My mind is a blank. How about am R.

PatH · « **Reply #1166 on:** June 01, 2011, 04:48:47 PM »

Frybabe's turn to get a letter:

___ ___ ___ R O ___ ___ ___

JoanP · « **Reply #1167 on:** June 01, 2011, 04:55:27 PM »

Not Andromeda...how about that "N"?

PatH · « **Reply #1168 on:** June 03, 2011, 04:56:55 PM »

Ooops--sorry I'm late. JoanP gets her N, and I bet that gives it to her.

___ N ___ R O ___ ___ N

Frybabe · « **Reply #1169 on:** June 03, 2011, 05:11:35 PM »

Unbroken?

PatH · « **Reply #1170 on:** June 03, 2011, 07:03:37 PM »

Winner Winner Winner

Frybabe takes the cake. (If there was one.)

Frybabe · « **Reply #1171 on:** June 03, 2011, 08:19:03 PM »

I am on a SciFi kick:

T __ __

__ __ __ __ __ __ __ ' __

__ __ __ __ __

JoanK · « **Reply #1172 on:** June 03, 2011, 08:37:17 PM »

"E" please

PatH · « **Reply #1173 on:** June 03, 2011, 08:51:47 PM »

Sci-fi--oh, good, that puts me only way behind JoanP's intuitiveness instead of WAAAAYYY behind.

JoanP · « **Reply #1174 on:** June 04, 2011, 08:05:50 AM »

OK, before we can "intuit" we need more vowels - Let's go for an "N" again? Please?

Frybabe · « **Reply #1175 on:** June 04, 2011, 08:11:34 AM »

I think I'll let JoanP have her N.

T __ __

__ N __ __ __ __ __ ' __

__ __ __ __ __

JoanP · « **Reply #1176 on:** June 04, 2011, 07:58:19 PM »

Nothing yet... a "D"?

Frybabe · « **Reply #1177 on:** June 05, 2011, 08:57:21 AM »

And Ds we have:

T __ __

__ N D __ __ __ D ' __

D __ __ __ __

PatH · « **Reply #1178 on:** June 05, 2011, 04:48:52 PM »

The Android's Dream

(John Scalzi)

Frybabe · « **Reply #1179 on:** June 05, 2011, 05:09:09 PM »

Congratulations, PatH. You are the winner!

This one is still on my TBR pile.

PatH · « **Reply #1180 on:** June 05, 2011, 05:18:14 PM »

You're ahead of me, then; it hasn't yet made it to my pile.

pedln · « **Reply #1181 on:** June 05, 2011, 05:32:32 PM »

Wow! That one has not yet made its presence known to me. Way to go, PatH.

PatH · « **Reply #1182 on:** June 06, 2011, 11:02:42 AM »

New puzzle:

T ___ ___ ___ ___ ___ ___ ___

___ ___ ___ ___ ___ ___

A classic

JoanK · « **Reply #1183 on:** June 07, 2011, 03:07:12 PM »

How about an "E"?

Frybabe · « **Reply #1184 on:** June 07, 2011, 03:40:09 PM »

or a Y.

PatH · « **Reply #1185 on:** June 07, 2011, 08:35:35 PM »

JoanK gets her E.

T ___ E ___ ___ ___ ___ E

___ ___ ___ ___ ___ ___

JoanP · « **Reply #1186 on:** June 07, 2011, 09:34:38 PM »

Got it! Treasure Island?

PatH · « **Reply #1187 on:** June 07, 2011, 09:47:51 PM »

WINNER! WINNER! WINNER!

Right you are, JoanP.

JoanP · « **Reply #1188 on:** June 07, 2011, 09:50:56 PM »

I think I'd like to read that again, Pat! It's been so long...how long since you've read it? What made you think of it?

JoanP · « **Reply #1189 on:** June 07, 2011, 10:05:55 PM »

Here's another 19th century classic - very much on my mind these days, for reasons I'll let you know later -

_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ E _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _

Frybabe · « **Reply #1190 on:** June 07, 2011, 10:43:03 PM »

I'll try for a T, please.

pedln · « **Reply #1191 on:** June 07, 2011, 10:53:24 PM »

How about an A?

JoanP · « **Reply #1192 on:** June 08, 2011, 01:09:27 PM »

Can't resist this - neither a "T" nor an "A"...

Gumtree · « **Reply #1193 on:** June 08, 2011, 01:12:30 PM »

So what about an I

Frybabe · « **Reply #1194 on:** June 08, 2011, 05:12:07 PM »

or an S?

JoanP · « **Reply #1195 on:** June 09, 2011, 03:51:23 PM »

It's 100 degrees here today! I NEED for you to solve this puzzle ASAP!

I'll give you the "S" Frybabe - does that help?

A _ _ _ _ _ _ _ E S _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _

Frybabe · « **Reply #1196 on:** June 09, 2011, 06:49:16 PM »

I'll try for an L next.

JoanP · « **Reply #1197 on:** June 10, 2011, 07:35:31 PM »

Let's give Gum her "I" -

A _ _ _ _ _ _ _ E S _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ I _ _

Frybabe · « **Reply #1198 on:** June 10, 2011, 08:25:13 PM »

I suspect that the two letter word is "of" and the last word is "hill", but I have no clue about the rest. No A's and only one I? My oh my.

JoanP · « **Reply #1199 on:** June 10, 2011, 08:36:30 PM »

oh Fry - I'm so sorry - there is an "A" - don't know what I was thinking~
Now do you see it?

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Author Topic: Blanko! (Read 628538 times)