Author Topic: Blanko! (Read 512709 times)

Frybabe · « **Reply #2400 on:** July 19, 2012, 10:42:35 AM »

BLANKO

Welcome to our newest brain teaser

The rules are simple:

The Challenger posts either a title or the name of an author, not both. One letter is supplied. More information may be given, but isn't required.

Example:

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

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What is it?

The Contestants guess--the title (or author) if they can, or a letter. One guess between appearances of the Challenger for each contestant.

At the end of the day, or more often if the Challenger wants, the Challenger will add one or more of the letters the Contestants have suggested, everywhere it appears. (Note that the original supplied letter might also appear elsewhere.)

The winner becomes the new Challenger.

Good Luck !!

Yes, there are T's.

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T __ __

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JoanP · « **Reply #2401 on:** July 19, 2012, 03:28:33 PM »

Lots of letters...Let's get some Es in there and see what that looks like?

Frybabe · « **Reply #2402 on:** July 19, 2012, 04:21:21 PM »

E's there are

T __ __ E E

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T __ E

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jane · « **Reply #2403 on:** July 19, 2012, 04:25:13 PM »

R's?

Did you say Fiction or Nonfiction?

Frybabe · « **Reply #2404 on:** July 19, 2012, 06:24:25 PM »

T __ R E E

__ __ __ __ S

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T __ E

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It is fiction, Jane. One of my favorite books from a favorite series.

jane · « **Reply #2405 on:** July 19, 2012, 07:37:10 PM »

JoanP · « **Reply #2406 on:** July 19, 2012, 07:52:02 PM »

Was Three Coins in the Fountain a book?

Frybabe · « **Reply #2407 on:** July 19, 2012, 11:34:09 PM »

It fits, but that isn't the book I was thinking of, off by one word

H's coming up.

T H R E E

H __ __ __ S

I N

T H E

F O U N T A I N

JoanP · « **Reply #2408 on:** July 20, 2012, 03:28:36 PM »

Three Hours in the Fountain? I don't know. Is there an O?

Frybabe · « **Reply #2409 on:** July 20, 2012, 05:12:48 PM »

No O. Two of the letters are used, only one is not already in another word.

Mystery fiction.

T H R E E

H __ __ __ S

I N

T H E

F O U N T A I N

PatH · « **Reply #2410 on:** July 20, 2012, 06:01:21 PM »

If it's mystery, I'm guessing Three Heads in the Fountain, but I never heard of it.

Frybabe · « **Reply #2411 on:** July 20, 2012, 09:04:06 PM »

Wrong body part PatH.

JoanP · « **Reply #2412 on:** July 21, 2012, 10:19:49 AM »

hahaha, Three Heads in the Fountain! Don't know why that strikes my funny bone - but think about it!

A few years ago when visiting San Diego with some of the grand chilren, we had dinner in a restaurant with a fountain in the center of the courtyard. How many times I heard my DIL calling out to them - boys, get your hands out of the fountain - as they tried to scoop up coins that others had tossed there.

Is there actually a book with the title, Three Hands in the Fountain, Fry? Tell us about it!

JoanK · « **Reply #2413 on:** July 21, 2012, 01:58:56 PM »

If there is such a book, remind me not to read it? trying to think of a body part that fits.

Three Hands in the fountain?

Frybabe · « **Reply #2414 on:** July 21, 2012, 02:04:10 PM »

Winner, JoanP. JoanK, too.

Yes, that is correct. It is one of the Didius Falco series from Lindsey Davis. One of my favorites, it starts off with the discovery of a severed hand clogging a public fountain in Rome. It turns out that it is one of a number of body parts that have shown up in the water supply over several years and usually after a festival. During Falco's efforts to find the site(s) of the body part dumpings and solve the crime the reader gets a look at the bureaucratic public works agencies and the building and maintaining of the aqueduct system.

JoanK · « **Reply #2415 on:** July 21, 2012, 02:23:08 PM »

I didn't see JoanP's guess. She clearly precedes me.

Do you notice, mysteries set in Italy always talk about beaurocracy? Do you recommend the book?

Frybabe · « **Reply #2416 on:** July 21, 2012, 03:44:35 PM »

JoanK, I like the series. It set in Rome and other environs during Vespasian's reign. Davis's historical background seems to be quite accurate as far as everyday life is concerned. Each book in the series brings out another aspect of Roman life in that period. My favorites, beside this one are Silver Pigs, the first of the series set in Roman Britain about the lead and silver mining and The Iron Hand of Mars, which is set in what is today's Germany and includes life in a Roman fort and the famous German Redware pottery. Other notable settings include the wild animal importation business, gladitorial games, the building of a Fishbourne like palace, a troupe of actors in the outlying middle eastern colonies, the Alexandrian Library, site-seeing in Greece, the banking business, the scroll copying business, a Spanish olive plantation, and so on.

JoanP · « **Reply #2417 on:** July 21, 2012, 05:50:43 PM »

Now that you explain the book, it sounds quite interesting, Fry! That title took us longer than any so far, hasn't it? Perhaps we should give you another turn - you're good at this.

OK- as long as JoanK agrees, I'll act like the "winner" - and put one up for you...
This too is fiction... and you should get it right away!

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jane · « **Reply #2418 on:** July 21, 2012, 06:15:46 PM »

Other E's?

JoanP · « **Reply #2419 on:** July 22, 2012, 06:46:09 AM »

That was the only E, Jane. Sorry...

Frybabe · « **Reply #2420 on:** July 22, 2012, 08:29:59 AM »

Any N's?

JoanP · « **Reply #2421 on:** July 22, 2012, 12:53:05 PM »

Yes, there are two of them, Fry! Do you see it now?

_ _ _ N _ _ _ N _ E _ _

JoanK · « **Reply #2422 on:** July 22, 2012, 06:52:56 PM »

Or, sure. I know what that is (NOT!)

S?

JoanP · « **Reply #2423 on:** July 22, 2012, 07:10:18 PM »

I'm smiling, you might too - but no, JoanK, there are no S's...

letters guessed - S, N, E

jane · « **Reply #2424 on:** July 22, 2012, 07:25:36 PM »

JoanK · « **Reply #2425 on:** July 22, 2012, 07:26:02 PM »

We need more vowels. how about an A

JoanP · « **Reply #2426 on:** July 23, 2012, 07:25:35 AM »

Good morning! A vowel and a consonant - Two good guesses! Will give you both and wait to see who will be the first to see the title today...

_ _ _ N T A _ N _ E A _

PatH · « **Reply #2427 on:** July 23, 2012, 11:49:20 PM »

Well, I'm not seeing it, but somehow I feel there might be an R.

JoanP · « **Reply #2428 on:** July 24, 2012, 12:35:09 PM »

No, not one R today - sorry...

Frybabe · « **Reply #2429 on:** July 24, 2012, 12:43:47 PM »

Well, that shoots down the title I was thinking of.

How about an F?

Good heavens I just saw it: Fountainhead?

PatH · « **Reply #2430 on:** July 24, 2012, 01:27:54 PM »

That's got to be it.

JoanP · « **Reply #2431 on:** July 24, 2012, 01:48:10 PM »

WINNER!

That was fun! After Atlas Shrugged and Three Hands in the Fountain, I was unable to provide any clues for fear of giving it away!

Frybabe · « **Reply #2432 on:** July 24, 2012, 05:27:37 PM »

For cat lovers - fiction

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jane · « **Reply #2433 on:** July 24, 2012, 07:26:41 PM »

Frybabe · « **Reply #2434 on:** July 24, 2012, 08:12:13 PM »

Two E's coming up!

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JoanP · « **Reply #2435 on:** July 24, 2012, 09:40:20 PM »

Let's try F? F as in "fountain"

Frybabe · « **Reply #2436 on:** July 25, 2012, 07:25:30 AM »

Sorry, no F's.

JoanP · « **Reply #2437 on:** July 25, 2012, 07:42:18 AM »

Frybabe · « **Reply #2438 on:** July 25, 2012, 08:18:23 AM »

On N on the board.

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jane · « **Reply #2439 on:** July 25, 2012, 09:22:16 AM »

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Author Topic: Blanko! (Read 512709 times)