Author Topic: Blanko! (Read 513075 times)

JoanK · « **Reply #3880 on:** May 14, 2013, 06:57:38 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 !!

More Es please.

JoanP · « **Reply #3881 on:** May 14, 2013, 07:06:23 PM »

How about an F or 2?

PatH · « **Reply #3882 on:** May 15, 2013, 06:36:15 AM »

Those should help.

___ ___ E

___ ___ ___

___ ___

___ ___ ___

F ___ E ___ ___

Letters guessed: E, F

Frybabe · « **Reply #3883 on:** May 15, 2013, 06:41:30 AM »

JoanP · « **Reply #3884 on:** May 15, 2013, 06:45:34 AM »

The Way of All Flesh?

PatH · « **Reply #3885 on:** May 15, 2013, 07:56:19 AM »

WINNER WINNER WINNER

That didn't take long. I need to find more punctuation marks.

JoanP · « **Reply #3886 on:** May 15, 2013, 08:24:42 AM »

OK, this one will take you a while, I guarantee...Fiction - best seller -

_ _ _ _ A _

PatH · « **Reply #3887 on:** May 15, 2013, 08:48:25 AM »

JoanP · « **Reply #3888 on:** May 15, 2013, 08:54:12 AM »

Good start! Do you know it?

_ _ S _ A _

jane · « **Reply #3889 on:** May 15, 2013, 11:05:12 AM »

Other E's?

JoanP · « **Reply #3890 on:** May 15, 2013, 01:52:23 PM »

Sorry, Jane - no E's at all this time -

_ _ S _ A _

Letters guessed: S, E

JoanK · « **Reply #3891 on:** May 15, 2013, 03:35:05 PM »

Frybabe · « **Reply #3892 on:** May 15, 2013, 04:38:38 PM »

JoanP · « **Reply #3893 on:** May 15, 2013, 04:41:21 PM »

No R...but N is an excellent guess. Do you have it, Fry?

N _ S _ A _

Letters guessed: S, E, R, N

Frybabe · « **Reply #3894 on:** May 15, 2013, 04:43:53 PM »

No, it just looked like NASCAR to me - but no Rs. sigh!

JoanP · « **Reply #3895 on:** May 15, 2013, 04:51:34 PM »

I'll admit this is a toughie...but it is legit - a book title - on the best seller list. But I just may win this one, anyway.

JoanK · « **Reply #3896 on:** May 16, 2013, 03:42:49 PM »

JoanP · « **Reply #3897 on:** May 16, 2013, 06:04:16 PM »

No more A's, Joank...

N _ S _ A _

Letters guessed: S, E, R, N, A

JoanK · « **Reply #3898 on:** May 16, 2013, 06:13:34 PM »

JoanP · « **Reply #3899 on:** May 16, 2013, 06:15:45 PM »

Yes there is one O...

N O S _ A _

Letters guessed: S, E, R, N, A, O

JoanK · « **Reply #3900 on:** May 16, 2013, 06:20:30 PM »

I think we'll have to guess every letter of this one. T?

JoanP · « **Reply #3901 on:** May 16, 2013, 06:23:19 PM »

Yes to the first part of what you say ( and even that's not enough...) and no to T.

JoanK · « **Reply #3902 on:** May 16, 2013, 06:24:51 PM »

Y? (Why not?)

jane · « **Reply #3903 on:** May 16, 2013, 06:55:01 PM »

Are the blanks numbers or symbols?

JoanP · « **Reply #3904 on:** May 16, 2013, 07:06:44 PM »

JoanK - No - no Y

Jane - Yes

N O S _ A _

Letters guessed: S, E, R, N, A, O, Y

jane · « **Reply #3905 on:** May 16, 2013, 09:47:36 PM »

JoanP · « **Reply #3906 on:** May 16, 2013, 10:41:06 PM »

No, not #1, but you're on the right track...

N O S _ A _

Letters and numbers guessed: S, E, R, N, A, O, Y, 1

jane · « **Reply #3907 on:** May 17, 2013, 09:27:09 AM »

JoanP · « **Reply #3908 on:** May 17, 2013, 09:35:11 AM »

This takes patience and persistance, Jane! I promise to rip up my little list anf return to lettered titles in the future, you ban me from the club! I have to repeat, though, that this title is on the current best sellers list - in the Washington area. Next time you're in a bookstore and see it on display - think of me...

Yes, there is the number 2 -

N O S _ A 2

Letters and numbers guessed: S, E, R, N, A, O, Y, 1,2

jane · « **Reply #3909 on:** May 17, 2013, 10:05:53 AM »

3

I just have to guess. [The closest bookstore to me is 70 miles away (round trip) and I don't normally read the Best Seller List.]

JoanP · « **Reply #3910 on:** May 17, 2013, 10:07:59 AM »

No #3...

Don't give up - almost there now...

JoanP · « **Reply #3911 on:** May 19, 2013, 10:37:24 AM »

OH - please don't give up now! Almost there...and I promise never again to use anything but letters.
What's missing is ONE number...and all will be revealed.

N O S _ A 2

Numbers already guessed - 1,2,3

PatH · « **Reply #3912 on:** May 19, 2013, 10:41:24 AM »

Might as well keep going in order.

4?

Don't give up on symbols and numbers, JoanP. They're fun.

PatH · « **Reply #3913 on:** May 19, 2013, 10:45:39 AM »

After I guessed 4, a light lit up. I bet that's it, and I bet it's a vampire story.

JoanP · « **Reply #3914 on:** May 19, 2013, 10:49:02 AM »

WINNER! WINNER! WINNER!

WINNER!

NOS4A2 is a spine-tingling novel of supernatural suspense from master of horror Joe Hill, the New York Times bestselling author of Heart-Shaped Box and Horns.

Victoria McQueen has a secret gift for finding things: a misplaced bracelet, a missing photograph, answers to unanswerable questions. On her Raleigh Tuff Burner bike, she makes her way to a rickety covered bridge that, within moments, takes her wherever she needs to go, whether it’s across Massachusetts or across the country.

Charles Talent Manx has a way with children. He likes to take them for rides in his 1938 Rolls-Royce Wraith with the NOS4A2 vanity plate. With his old car, he can slip right out of the everyday world, and onto the hidden roads that transport them to an astonishing – and terrifying – playground of amusements he calls “Christmasland.”

Then, one day, Vic goes looking for trouble—and finds Manx. That was a lifetime ago. Now Vic, the only kid to ever escape Manx’s unmitigated evil, is all grown up and desperate to forget. But Charlie Manx never stopped thinking about Victoria McQueen. He’s on the road again and he’s picked up a new passenger: Vic’s own son.

Exclusive to the print editions of NOS4A2 are more than 15 illustrations by award-winning Locke & Key artist Gabriel Rodríguez.

PatH · « **Reply #3915 on:** May 19, 2013, 11:41:03 AM »

NOS4A2 is a phonetic version of Nosferatu, that wonderful 1922 silent movie retelling the Dracula story. It's directed by F. W. Murnau, with Max Schreck as the vampire, and even after all these years it's still good. (It's better if you can find a version that hasn't been "colorized"--a wash of color over the whole thing which blunts the stark effect of the black and white photography.

Frybabe · « **Reply #3916 on:** May 19, 2013, 11:56:00 AM »

Now this looks like a book my sister would like.

JoanP · « **Reply #3917 on:** May 19, 2013, 08:01:03 PM »

To tell the truth, I thought Pat or you (or your sister) would come up with that one, Fry!

Frybabe · « **Reply #3918 on:** May 19, 2013, 08:38:02 PM »

Not me, I'm definitely not into horror or vampire stories.

Good lord, you mean someone had the bad taste to colorize that too? I get slightly traumatized every time I see something I was used to in B/W show up in washed out color. Sometimes, trying to improve something actually takes away what was special about it.

PatH · « **Reply #3919 on:** May 19, 2013, 10:17:01 PM »

The colorization isn't the kind that makes the movie look like it was shot in color. It's just one pale color spread uniformly over the screen, so it looks like you're looking at it through tinted glass. There are different colors for different scenes, depending on mood or time of day or something. I can't imagine why anyone thought it was a good idea.

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