Author Topic: Blanko! (Read 512750 times)

Frybabe · « **Reply #2520 on:** August 09, 2012, 07:40:32 PM »

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 !!

Nope! No more W's.

JoanP · « **Reply #2521 on:** August 10, 2012, 08:15:08 AM »

Can we try an H then? Hoping for more than one...

Frybabe · « **Reply #2522 on:** August 10, 2012, 08:29:38 AM »

One H.

__ __ T __

T H E

__ __ E R __ __ __ __

W __ __ __ __

This is one of the books I originally bought for Mom. She had an interest in local/regional Indian tribes.

JoanP · « **Reply #2523 on:** August 10, 2012, 09:53:01 AM »

OK, now I seem an M - more than one M, right?

Frybabe · « **Reply #2524 on:** August 10, 2012, 10:04:00 AM »

No, only one M. The third word should pop out at you now.

__ __ T __

T H E

__ M E R __ __ __ __

W __ __ __ __

JoanP · « **Reply #2525 on:** August 10, 2012, 10:09:38 AM »

Yes, the third word pops....but the last word puzzles me. Thought there was an M there... L?

JoanK · « **Reply #2526 on:** August 10, 2012, 03:23:02 PM »

Frybabe · « **Reply #2527 on:** August 10, 2012, 03:28:49 PM »

Two A's.

__ __ T __

T H E

A M E R __ __ A __

W __ __ __ __

The author has written many books on early colonial and Indian culture and interactions.

JoanK · « **Reply #2528 on:** August 10, 2012, 03:40:00 PM »

cLEARLY "AMERICAN" but THE REST ESCAPES ME. Are there more "N"s

Frybabe · « **Reply #2529 on:** August 10, 2012, 06:07:41 PM »

__ N T __

T H E

A M E R I C A N

W __ __ __ __

JoanP · « **Reply #2530 on:** August 10, 2012, 09:50:41 PM »

O? At least one?

Frybabe · « **Reply #2531 on:** August 10, 2012, 10:08:17 PM »

Jackpot! The O's have it. You should be able to guess this now.

__ N T O

T H E

A M E R I C A N

W O O __ __

JoanP · « **Reply #2532 on:** August 10, 2012, 10:19:43 PM »

Aha! Into the American Woods - a good one Fry. Tell about this one?

Frybabe · « **Reply #2533 on:** August 11, 2012, 12:36:51 AM »

JoanP is IT

The full title of the book is Into the American Woods: Negotiations on the Pennsylvania Frontier. It was written by Lucy Maynard Salmon Professor of History James Hart Merrell. Merrell is one of the leading scholars of early American history. As stated earlier his focus is on Native Americans and their interactions with the early colonists. This book covers 1630 to about 1760. As the title suggests, this book is about the negotiators, translators, and go-betweens that helped secure peace, land, hunting rights, trade, etc. between the colonists and the Native Americans until the French and Indian War broke out in 1754. The book won Merrell the Bancroft Prize (his second) in 2000.

JoanK · « **Reply #2534 on:** August 11, 2012, 01:30:05 PM »

Sounds like a good book.

JoanP · « **Reply #2535 on:** August 11, 2012, 11:33:11 PM »

It does, JoanK - I checked my library, it is available...

So I'm the IT girl...will try something a bit different...this is an author's name. The work is Fiction, I think...based on history.

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JoanP · « **Reply #2536 on:** August 12, 2012, 08:50:33 PM »

...historical fiction -

Frybabe · « **Reply #2537 on:** August 13, 2012, 07:37:04 AM »

Requesting a T, please.

JoanP · « **Reply #2538 on:** August 13, 2012, 08:03:46 AM »

Yes, there is one "T" Fry...

_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ T E _

jane · « **Reply #2539 on:** August 13, 2012, 11:43:50 AM »

Other E's?

JoanP · « **Reply #2540 on:** August 13, 2012, 03:21:24 PM »

No more E's Jane, sorry...

jane · « **Reply #2541 on:** August 13, 2012, 04:20:47 PM »

Frybabe · « **Reply #2542 on:** August 13, 2012, 04:28:19 PM »

or an N or two?

JoanP · « **Reply #2543 on:** August 13, 2012, 08:38:11 PM »

One of each - they should help - this is an author of a prize-winning book last year. One of the major ones awarded each year.

_ _ _ _ R _ _ _ N T E _

pedln · « **Reply #2544 on:** August 13, 2012, 10:56:05 PM »

An A? Authors are harder than titles.

JoanP · « **Reply #2545 on:** August 14, 2012, 08:15:04 AM »

Yes they are, Pedln. This group was spotting the titles so quickly, thought it was time for an author.

These A's should help -

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

Frybabe · « **Reply #2546 on:** August 14, 2012, 08:41:11 AM »

Hilary Mantel would fit, but I don't know what book she got an award for in 2011. Wolf Hall was 2009 or 2010. BTW, has anyone picked up her sequel just released in May, Bring Up the Bodies?

JoanP · « **Reply #2547 on:** August 14, 2012, 09:53:34 AM »

WINNER!

You got it, Frybabe! I misspoke when I thought Hilary Mantel won the Booker Prize for Wolf Hall last year. Time flies!

Have you read it?

PatH · « **Reply #2548 on:** August 14, 2012, 09:56:31 AM »

Good job, Frybabe; I would never have gotten it, partly because the way I thought Mantel's name was spelled is too far off.

Frybabe · « **Reply #2549 on:** August 14, 2012, 02:47:09 PM »

Let's try for another author name.

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Well known writer in a number of venues. Deceased.

jane · « **Reply #2550 on:** August 14, 2012, 02:51:05 PM »

PatH · « **Reply #2551 on:** August 14, 2012, 02:55:17 PM »

You didn't give us a starting letter. R?

Frybabe · « **Reply #2552 on:** August 14, 2012, 03:12:59 PM »

Oops! I've added an O for the the starter.

Okay there is one E but no R.

__ __ __ O __ __

__ __ __ __ E __

jane · « **Reply #2553 on:** August 14, 2012, 03:32:12 PM »

Frybabe · « **Reply #2554 on:** August 14, 2012, 06:52:40 PM »

No T's.

JoanP · « **Reply #2555 on:** August 14, 2012, 06:54:28 PM »

Oh good, another author! A "D"?

Frybabe · « **Reply #2556 on:** August 15, 2012, 08:32:31 AM »

Good guess, JoanP. There is a D.

__ __ D O __ __

__ __ __ __ E __

jane · « **Reply #2557 on:** August 15, 2012, 08:50:45 AM »

Frybabe · « **Reply #2558 on:** August 15, 2012, 10:13:59 AM »

Jane, you have your A. This should pretty much give it away.

A __ D O __ __

__ __ __ __ E __

jane · « **Reply #2559 on:** August 15, 2012, 10:21:04 AM »

Aldous Huxley ?

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Author Topic: Blanko! (Read 512750 times)