Author Topic: Blanko! (Read 512646 times)

JoanK · « **Reply #2160 on:** May 30, 2012, 05:47:32 PM »

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 !!

Frybabe · « **Reply #2161 on:** May 30, 2012, 06:40:17 PM »

Oh, yes, there are Es.

T A __ E __

O __

T E __ __ O __

A N D

__ __ __ T E __ __

JoanK · « **Reply #2162 on:** May 30, 2012, 06:53:29 PM »

Tales of something? S?

pedln · « **Reply #2163 on:** May 30, 2012, 07:48:29 PM »

I can't guess. Am leaving town tomorrow and will be leaving my laptop in DC while we're all at a four-day commencement in Princeton, NJ.

Frybabe · « **Reply #2164 on:** May 30, 2012, 10:33:27 PM »

T A __ E S

O __

T E __ __ O __

A N D

__ __ S T E __ __

This should be pretty easy now. Two S's.

JoanP · « **Reply #2165 on:** May 31, 2012, 12:15:05 AM »

Tales of Terror and Mystery? I'm making that up...it seems to fit?

Frybabe · « **Reply #2166 on:** May 31, 2012, 07:52:30 AM »

We have a winner!

Well, JoanP, you have a great imagination. Tales of Terror and Mystery it is. The book is one of many written by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle that are not Sherlock Holmes related. I realized that I have not read (years and years ago) all of the Sherlock Holmes mysteries when I discovered that he wrote 56 short stories altogether and four stories that are classified as full novels. So, I downloaded the whole lot plus several of his non-Sherlock books of short stories. Wikipedia has a list catagorized by genre. Here is a list of his writings from the Sherlock Holmes Society which is not separated out except for fiction/non-fiction:

http://www.ash-tree.bc.ca/acdsbiblio.htm

JoanP · « **Reply #2167 on:** May 31, 2012, 11:23:17 AM »

A good one, Fry!

O I just can't resist - especially when everyone else has done the work and guessed most of the letters!

OK, here's one - by a popular British author -

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

JoanP · « **Reply #2168 on:** June 03, 2012, 01:21:54 PM »

Two many letters?... Shall I provide a few to get the juices flowing?

How about a strong consonant - a "W"?

_ _ _ _ _ _ _ W _ _ _ _ _ _ E _ _

JoanK · « **Reply #2169 on:** June 03, 2012, 01:52:50 PM »

Give me more "E"s

jane · « **Reply #2170 on:** June 03, 2012, 01:57:23 PM »

JoanP · « **Reply #2171 on:** June 03, 2012, 03:28:52 PM »

Now you're cooking - with gas!

A "T" and an "E" too...

T _ E _ _ _ _ W _ _ _ _ _ _ E _ _

JoanK · « **Reply #2172 on:** June 03, 2012, 04:15:56 PM »

Mmmm. More vowels needed. An A?

JoanP · « **Reply #2173 on:** June 04, 2012, 07:30:31 AM »

An"A" it is. Does it help?

T _ E _ _ _ _ W _ _ _ _ A _ E _ _

Frybabe · « **Reply #2174 on:** June 04, 2012, 07:44:08 AM »

How about an S?

JoanP · « **Reply #2175 on:** June 04, 2012, 03:03:02 PM »

Yes, an "S" - are you ready for another clue? There is a connection between this and an author much discussed here lately...

T _ E _ _ _ _ W _ _ _ _ A _ E _ S

JoanK · « **Reply #2176 on:** June 04, 2012, 04:57:41 PM »

JoanP · « **Reply #2177 on:** June 05, 2012, 09:39:02 AM »

Here you go, JoanK....Does the "A" help?

T _ E _ _ _ _ W _ _ _ _ A _ E R S

Frybabe · « **Reply #2178 on:** June 05, 2012, 10:47:20 AM »

The Pickwick Papers?

JoanP · « **Reply #2179 on:** June 05, 2012, 11:22:02 AM »

Winner! Winter! Winner!

And you did it without the "p's" and the "i's". Fry!

Congratulations! You're it!

Frybabe · « **Reply #2180 on:** June 05, 2012, 01:47:38 PM »

SciFi

__ __ __ __ __ __ ' S

__ __ __ __ __

JoanK · « **Reply #2181 on:** June 05, 2012, 02:36:48 PM »

WOW! bRILLIANT.

Give me an E please.

Frybabe · « **Reply #2182 on:** June 05, 2012, 06:05:11 PM »

Sorry, no Es.

jane · « **Reply #2183 on:** June 05, 2012, 07:40:49 PM »

Frybabe · « **Reply #2184 on:** June 06, 2012, 07:55:55 AM »

There are two Ax=s.

__ A __ __ __ __ ' S

__ A __ __ __

PatH · « **Reply #2185 on:** June 06, 2012, 09:43:05 AM »

Darwin's Radio

by Greg Bear. Excellent book

Frybabe · « **Reply #2186 on:** June 06, 2012, 10:37:55 AM »

Excellent, PatH. You are the Winner

Have you also read Darwin's Children. I have both on my TBR pile. That doggone pile keeps getting bigger for some strange reason.

JoanK · « **Reply #2187 on:** June 06, 2012, 02:45:55 PM »

What on Earth is Darwin's radio about?

Frybabe · « **Reply #2188 on:** June 06, 2012, 03:39:39 PM »

JoanK, it has to do with evolution, genetics and retroviruses. There is a sequel, Darwin's Children.

http://www.gregbear.com/books/darwinsradio.cfm

PatH · « **Reply #2189 on:** June 09, 2012, 04:11:09 PM »

___ O ___ ___ ___ ___

___ ___ ___

___ ___ ___

Fiction

Frybabe · « **Reply #2190 on:** June 09, 2012, 04:36:00 PM »

Is there an N in there somewhere?

PatH · « **Reply #2191 on:** June 09, 2012, 06:36:01 PM »

There is.

___ O ___ ___ ___ ___

___ N ___

___ ___ N

JoanP · « **Reply #2192 on:** June 10, 2012, 08:10:40 AM »

An S?

PatH · « **Reply #2193 on:** June 10, 2012, 08:16:00 AM »

Hot on the trail.

___ O ___ ___ ___ ___

___ N ___

S ___ N

jane · « **Reply #2194 on:** June 10, 2012, 10:06:17 AM »

JoanP · « **Reply #2195 on:** June 10, 2012, 10:33:39 AM »

Another Dickens? We sure are celebrating his birthday year in style. Hope you will plan to join in the discussion of Great Expectations beginning on July 1.

Dombey and Son is my guess.

PatH · « **Reply #2196 on:** June 10, 2012, 10:48:33 AM »

WINNER WINNER WINNER

It seemed appropriate, since the whole site is in a Dickens mood. Good work, JoanP.

JoanP · « **Reply #2197 on:** June 11, 2012, 08:01:09 AM »

We seem to have lost the heading for this discussion - it used to contain the titles already guessed. If we already had this one, please excuse -

This is Fiction - fairly new -

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

jane · « **Reply #2198 on:** June 11, 2012, 09:47:40 AM »

Other Es?

PatH · « **Reply #2199 on:** June 11, 2012, 12:50:57 PM »

I stopped putting up the heading because the list was so long it was unmanageable to look through. If people want it back, I'll put it back.

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Author Topic: Blanko! (Read 512646 times)