Author Topic: Blanko! (Read 512559 times)

pedln · « **Reply #1760 on:** January 13, 2012, 10:37:19 AM »

Welcome to our newest brain teaser: BLANKO

The rules are simple:

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

The Contestants guess the title or author and post their answer; if they can, the solve the entire title. They can also suggest another letter to fill in one of the blanks.

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

The winner becomes the new challenger.

Ex:

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

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

What is it?

Good Luck !!

Fiction, the author is alive, I think.

___ ___ ___ ___ -- ___ A ___ ___ ___ ___

My f2f group is reading this for February and I'm enjoying it, though I probably would not have selected it on my own. I should have read it nine years ago.

Frybabe · « **Reply #1761 on:** January 13, 2012, 02:15:07 PM »

I think I will try for an N this time.

pedln · « **Reply #1762 on:** January 13, 2012, 04:26:11 PM »

___ ___ ___ N -- ___ A ___ ___ ___ ___

There is one N.

JoanK · « **Reply #1763 on:** January 13, 2012, 09:38:01 PM »

We need vowels. An "E" please.

pedln · « **Reply #1764 on:** January 14, 2012, 12:22:15 PM »

And an E for the lady. THere are 10 different letters here. How's that for a clue?

___ ___ ___ N -- ___ A ___ ___ E ___

pedln · « **Reply #1765 on:** January 14, 2012, 12:29:48 PM »

Just ran into a small world, if you stretch a point. I'm also reading As Always, Julia and believe it or not, there is sort of a far-fetched connection between the two books. And while our puzzle does include eating, it is certainly not a cook-book. (Do beware of red herrings)

jane · « **Reply #1766 on:** January 14, 2012, 01:37:29 PM »

pedln · « **Reply #1767 on:** January 15, 2012, 04:47:40 PM »

___ ___ ___ N -- T A ___ ___ E ___

jane · « **Reply #1768 on:** January 15, 2012, 09:07:04 PM »

Frybabe · « **Reply #1769 on:** January 15, 2012, 10:04:28 PM »

or an S?

pedln · « **Reply #1770 on:** January 16, 2012, 04:55:27 PM »

S ___ ___ N -- T A ___ ___ E ___

Sorry, there is no B.

Frybabe · « **Reply #1771 on:** January 16, 2012, 07:34:20 PM »

Well I guess I have to rethink the last word then. No B and the S not where I thought it would be.

Is there a D?

pedln · « **Reply #1772 on:** January 16, 2012, 11:07:17 PM »

Well shucks, Frybabe, I thought for sure that "S" would just give it away.

There is no D.

Oh, think Stegner, DeVoto, Ambrose, Guthrie

Frybabe · « **Reply #1773 on:** January 16, 2012, 11:18:51 PM »

Can't think of anything. What about an R?

JoanP · « **Reply #1774 on:** January 17, 2012, 09:41:25 AM »

Or a "P"?

pedln · « **Reply #1775 on:** January 17, 2012, 10:04:36 AM »

Am adding a leg to the "P" -- that's like two letters for the price of one -- sort of

S ___ ___ N -- T A ___ ___ E R

pedln · « **Reply #1776 on:** January 17, 2012, 10:15:39 AM »

The author finds the news -- [six of his books will be available on e-readers] -- good, but ironic, musing, --

Quote

"I use every bit of my skill and imagination to take my readers hundreds of years into the past -- and now they'll visit those old days through the screen of an electronic gizmo."

jane · « **Reply #1777 on:** January 17, 2012, 10:28:48 AM »

JoanP · « **Reply #1778 on:** January 17, 2012, 11:01:44 AM »

How about an "L" AND a "K"?

JoanK · « **Reply #1779 on:** January 17, 2012, 03:12:03 PM »

Sign-talker? I think JoanP is on the trail.

pedln · « **Reply #1780 on:** January 17, 2012, 05:58:20 PM »

WINNER!! WINNER!! WINNER!!

Congratulations JoanK

Yes, it is Sign-Talker by James Alexander Thom, who has written a lot of books about the historical West. I had never heard of it, but one in my f2f group praised it and that's what we're reading now. It's a novel about George Drouillard, son of a French father and a Shawnee mother, who accompanied the Lewis and Clark expedition as a hunter and interpreter. He spoke several indian languages and could also understand and make himself understood in other ways.

JoanK · « **Reply #1781 on:** January 17, 2012, 10:56:33 PM »

JoanP: were you thinking of that, too. If so, you should get the win?

JoanK · « **Reply #1782 on:** January 18, 2012, 06:22:27 PM »

OK, this should be fairly easy. Non-fiction. the author is alive, as far as I know.

__ __ __ __ __ __ __ __ __ I __

jane · « **Reply #1783 on:** January 18, 2012, 06:33:54 PM »

JoanK · « **Reply #1784 on:** January 18, 2012, 06:43:42 PM »

__ __ T _ T__ __ __ __ I __

pedln · « **Reply #1785 on:** January 18, 2012, 07:16:12 PM »

JoanK · « **Reply #1786 on:** January 18, 2012, 07:42:24 PM »

sORRY, NO "s"

pedln · « **Reply #1787 on:** January 19, 2012, 06:50:44 PM »

JoanK · « **Reply #1788 on:** January 20, 2012, 02:55:57 PM »

__ __ T _ T H __ __ __ I __

Frybabe · « **Reply #1789 on:** January 20, 2012, 04:28:34 PM »

Okay, time for a vowel. Are there any E's?

JoanK · « **Reply #1790 on:** January 21, 2012, 03:02:28 PM »

No, no E's

jane · « **Reply #1791 on:** January 21, 2012, 04:29:58 PM »

JoanP · « **Reply #1792 on:** January 21, 2012, 04:35:44 PM »

How about an "A"? There has to be at least one...

No JoanK, You beat me to Sign-Talker - though I was getting close - has the "talker"

PatH · « **Reply #1793 on:** January 21, 2012, 05:03:17 PM »

Into Thin Air

Jon Krakauer

pedln · « **Reply #1794 on:** January 22, 2012, 11:35:40 AM »

Oh of course, and we've been talking about that book here. Where? 'Cause MaryPage's son is currently climbing Everest, or at least is at base camp.

JoanK · « **Reply #1795 on:** January 22, 2012, 02:13:33 PM »

WINNER WINNER WINNER

OK, over to you, Pat.

I remember reading that book on the Metro going to work on a boiling Summer day. Everyone else on the train was sweating, but I had to put the book away because I was shivering with cold.

PatH · « **Reply #1796 on:** January 23, 2012, 11:32:33 AM »

___ ___ ___ ___ ___ ___ ___ ___ ___ ___ O ___ ___ ___ ___ ___

Fiction, was made into a movie.

JoanK · « **Reply #1797 on:** January 23, 2012, 03:12:03 PM »

An "E" please.

jane · « **Reply #1798 on:** January 23, 2012, 04:32:00 PM »

PatH · « **Reply #1799 on:** January 24, 2012, 11:36:48 AM »

JoanK gets her E. There is no R.

___ ___ E

___ ___ ___ ___ E ___

___ O ___ ___ ___ ___ ___

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Author Topic: Blanko! (Read 512559 times)