Author Topic: Blanko! (Read 512531 times)

Frybabe · « **Reply #1560 on:** October 18, 2011, 04:50:55 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. Gumtree 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
83. JoanP for Treasure Island #1186
84. pedln for Adventures of Huckleberry Finn #1204
85. Frybabe for Winter's Bone #1227
86. JoanP for Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy #1234
87. Pedln for A Novel Bookstore #1237
88. pedln for Dancing at the Rascal Fair #1247
89. PatH for The Hunchback of Notre-Dame #1260
90. pedln for Slaughterhouse Five #1269
91. deems 2 for Eternal on the Water #1278
92. Frybabe for The Cookbook Collector #1299
93. Gumtree for The Bridge of Sighs # 1329
94. PatH for The Bridge of San Luis Rey #1335
95. pedln for The Taming of the Shrew #1348
96. JoanP for A Separate Peace #1359
97. PatH for The Ponder Heart #1375
98. pedln for Let Us Now Praise Famous Men #1395
99. deems2 for To Serve Them All My Days #1408
100. Gumtree for State of Wonder #1435
101. deems 2 for Germinal #1449
102. PatH for Oracle Night #1487
103. pedln for The Joy of Cooking #1512
104. Gumtree for The Real Mother Goose #1526
105. Frybabe for The Coffee Trader #1537
106. JoanP for The Romanov Prophecy #1549
107. deems 2 for The Elephant's Journey #1564
108. JoanK for Gone With The Wind #1586

Is there an N in there somewhere?

JoanP · « **Reply #1561 on:** October 19, 2011, 09:08:46 AM »

OK, Fry - here comes your "N"s - two of them - and you didn't even have to say "please"!

T __ __

__ __ __ __ __ __ N T' S

__ __ __ R N __ __

Fiction - recent, but set long ago...based on a real event.

pedln · « **Reply #1562 on:** October 19, 2011, 10:18:57 AM »

Time for a vowel. How about an E please.

JoanP · « **Reply #1563 on:** October 20, 2011, 12:12:32 PM »

Well, okay Pedln - you asked for it...even with "please" - can't/won't ignore you! I'm betting you've got it now!

T __ E

E __ E__ __ __ N T' S

__ __ __ R N E __

deems 2 · « **Reply #1564 on:** October 20, 2011, 08:33:48 PM »

The Elephant's Journey?

pedln · « **Reply #1565 on:** October 20, 2011, 09:11:40 PM »

She did it again. She picked something that's right there in front of out noses. Congratulations, deems2. How can we forget that she's JoanP, the Promoter.

JoanP · « **Reply #1566 on:** October 20, 2011, 10:04:46 PM »

Yes, I hope you will all join in come Nov 1 - Saramago is such easy reading but I feel I'm missing something - need your help. It's a short book - only about 200 pages.

Thought you had it, Pedln, when you called for those "E"s...

You're up, deems2! Have you started the book, yet? Need you in there!

PatH · « **Reply #1567 on:** November 02, 2011, 06:29:44 PM »

Looks like deems 2 has gone fishing. I'll put in a fill-in:

___ ___ ___ ___

___ I ___ ___

___ ___ ___

___ ___ ___ ___

Fiction

PatH · « **Reply #1568 on:** November 02, 2011, 06:30:51 PM »

By the way, I'm finding The Elephant's Journey delightful.

JoanK · « **Reply #1569 on:** November 02, 2011, 09:10:27 PM »

How about an "E"

Frybabe · « **Reply #1570 on:** November 03, 2011, 09:07:36 AM »

I'll give that E some competition with a request for an R.

PatH · « **Reply #1571 on:** November 03, 2011, 04:35:24 PM »

JoanK gets her Es.

___ ___ ___ E

___ I ___ ___

___ ___ E

___ ___ ___ ___

JoanP · « **Reply #1572 on:** November 03, 2011, 04:40:57 PM »

Fiction, huh? How about an "M" - please?

jane · « **Reply #1573 on:** November 03, 2011, 05:04:22 PM »

R, please

PatH · « **Reply #1574 on:** November 04, 2011, 01:15:00 PM »

No R, no M.

JoanP · « **Reply #1575 on:** November 04, 2011, 01:23:50 PM »

Wooo...are you sure?

How about an "F"? (please?)

jane · « **Reply #1576 on:** November 04, 2011, 05:37:30 PM »

Or a T, please.

PatH · « **Reply #1577 on:** November 05, 2011, 06:43:54 PM »

Here's Jane's T:

___ ___ ___ E

___ I T ___

T ___ E

___ ___ ___ ___

JoanK · « **Reply #1578 on:** November 06, 2011, 05:40:09 PM »

We still need som vowels. How about an "A"?

JoanP · « **Reply #1579 on:** November 06, 2011, 05:44:26 PM »

or else a "W"? please?

PatH · « **Reply #1580 on:** November 06, 2011, 08:38:32 PM »

There is no A. Also no R, which JoanP asked for yesterday.

pedln · « **Reply #1581 on:** November 07, 2011, 11:21:03 AM »

Where's JoanP's W? Or maybe we could have an O.

PatH · « **Reply #1582 on:** November 07, 2011, 01:04:48 PM »

I'll give you the O, because the W might give it away.

___ O ___ E

___ I T ___

T ___ E

___ ___ ___ ___

JoanP · « **Reply #1583 on:** November 07, 2011, 01:14:54 PM »

Hmmm - an "H" then? More than one?

PatH · « **Reply #1584 on:** November 07, 2011, 03:08:19 PM »

OK, H:

___ O ___ E

___ I T H

T H E

___ ___ ___ ___

jane · « **Reply #1585 on:** November 07, 2011, 03:15:13 PM »

M, please

JoanK · « **Reply #1586 on:** November 07, 2011, 03:46:01 PM »

Gone With the Wind!

PatH · « **Reply #1587 on:** November 07, 2011, 04:53:20 PM »

BINGO!

PatH · « **Reply #1588 on:** November 07, 2011, 04:54:00 PM »

You can see why the W would have given it away.

JoanK · « **Reply #1589 on:** November 07, 2011, 05:10:05 PM »

Yep! I'll put up something new tomorrow.

JoanP · « **Reply #1590 on:** November 08, 2011, 08:30:28 AM »

I knew the "W" word was "with" - but didn't see the "W" in wind...until JoanK got it. A good one, Pat! Simple, familiar, sitting right under our noses...Congratulations, JoanK!

JoanK · « **Reply #1591 on:** November 10, 2011, 04:06:56 PM »

OK. Here it is.

__ __ __

__ I __ __ __ __ ' __

__ __ __ __

-

Frybabe · « **Reply #1592 on:** November 10, 2011, 04:32:59 PM »

An E please.

JoanK · « **Reply #1593 on:** November 10, 2011, 10:27:53 PM »

__ __ E

__ I __ __ E __ ' __

__ __ __ E

JoanK · « **Reply #1594 on:** November 10, 2011, 10:28:23 PM »

This should be easy.

PatH · « **Reply #1595 on:** November 10, 2011, 10:43:50 PM »

How about an L ?

pedln · « **Reply #1596 on:** November 11, 2011, 11:26:14 AM »

And an S, please.

JoanP · « **Reply #1597 on:** November 11, 2011, 04:16:13 PM »

Hmmmm, an L AND an S? The Winter's Tale?

JoanK · « **Reply #1598 on:** November 11, 2011, 05:08:43 PM »

WINNER WINNER WINNER

Way to go, joanP!

"The Winter's Tale" by Shakespeare.

I don't know why that's been on my mind. it's been so long since I read it, I've completely forgotten what it's about.

PatH · « **Reply #1599 on:** November 11, 2011, 07:18:27 PM »

Good job, JoanP. It makes sense that you would get it, since you have actually watched every one of Shakespeare's plays live.

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