Author Topic: Blanko! (Read 512423 times)

deems 2 · « **Reply #880 on:** January 26, 2011, 09:33:40 PM »

Welcome to our newest brain teaser: BLANKO

The rules are simple:

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

Ex:

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

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What is it?

The Contestants guess the title or author (if it's a challenge on an author's name) and post their answer. If they can, the solve the entire answer. If not, they can also suggest one of the title words or a letter to fill in one of the blanks. One guess per "day" (between appearances of the Challenger) for each contestant.

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

The winner becomes the new Challenger.

Good Luck !!

List of Winners and Book Titles or Authors:

1. Pat H for Rabbit Run Post #27
2. Ginny for Hound of the Baskervilles Post #45
3. Joan P for The Winter of our Discontent # 51
4. Ginny for Aesop's Fables # 54
5. Frybabe for The Caine Mutiny # 68
6. Ginny for Seven Pillars of Wisdom #75
7. Gumtree for Lost in America #100
8. Frybabe for King Solomon's Mines #138
9. Gumgree for Thus Spake Zarathustra # 174
10. Frybabe for All Quiet on the Western Front # 193
11. Joan K for Seven Years in Tibet # 205
12. Gumtree for all Quiet on the Western Front # 210
13. Frybabe for The Scarlet Pimpernel #221
14. PatH for Two years Before the Mast #225
15. Gumtree for The Rime of the Ancient Mariner #229
16. PatH for HMS Surprise #232
17. JoanP for Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea #241
18. Frybabe for The Life of Pi #249
19. pedlin for Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass #264
20. Frybabe for Undaunted Courage #281
21. pedln for Ice Station Zebra #292
22. Gumtree for The African Queen #304
23. pedln for Alias Grace #319
24. Frybabe for Stephen Crane #333
25. JoanP for Is Paris Burning? #343
26. Ginny for Zeituon #350
27. Frybabe for S*** My Dad Says #371
28. JoanP for Ghosts of Vesuvius #384
29. pedln for The 39 Steps #407
30. Frybabe for The Namesake #430
31. JoanP for Awakenings #447
32. pedln for The Left Hand of Darkness #471
33. JoanK for The Elegance of the Hedgehog #481
34. Gumtree for Gone With the Wind #491
35. PatH for That Old Cape Magic #511
36. JoanP for The Woman in White # 523
37. deems 2 for Faceless Killers #554
38. JoanP for The Known World #587
39. deems 2 for Don Quixote #601
40. Gumtree for The Shipping News #616
41. deems 2 for The Count of Monte Cristo #628
42. JoanP for Bel Canto #651
43. pedln for USA #656
44. Fran for A Redbird Christmas #678
45. Nobody got Faith and Betrayal #696
46. Gumtree for Kristin Lavransdatter #705
47. JoanP for A Room with a View #716
48. Gumtree for Metamorphosis # 731
49. JoanP for Mansfield Park #741
50. Frybabe for Empire if the Summer Moon #756

I really loved your clues (particularly the songs), pedln, but I had no idea what to make of them. The words fit for The Devil in the White City and that is nonfiction and recently published. I had no idea that it is going to be a movie. That should be interesting.

Let's see. Back to fiction.

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pedln · « **Reply #881 on:** January 26, 2011, 10:49:39 PM »

How about a T, please?

Frybabe · « **Reply #882 on:** January 27, 2011, 04:37:18 PM »

Or an N?

deems 2 · « **Reply #883 on:** January 27, 2011, 10:18:18 PM »

Sorry folks. The snow took out my electricity for a while and the internet for longer.
Here is your T, pedlin!

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

Letters used:
T

Clues:
Fiction
A really long book.

Mippy · « **Reply #884 on:** January 28, 2011, 07:20:59 AM »

O please

deems 2 · « **Reply #885 on:** January 28, 2011, 09:14:20 AM »

Hello, Mippy. I am sorry. There are no O's

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

Letters used:
T, O

Clues:
Fiction
A really long book.
A newish book to stump JoanP.

JoanP · « **Reply #886 on:** January 28, 2011, 12:07:49 PM »

Hmmm...really long fiction. Newish? New, but not all that new?

Need more. Need some consonants...How about "S"... please?

Frybabe · « **Reply #887 on:** January 28, 2011, 04:32:12 PM »

I will try for an I please.

deems 2 · « **Reply #888 on:** January 28, 2011, 10:13:49 PM »

Here is your S, JoanP.

Does that help or what?

T _ E _ _ _ _ S _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _

Letters used:
T, O, S

Clues:
Fiction
A really long book.
A newish book to stump JoanP.
It is a love story among other things.

pedln · « **Reply #889 on:** January 29, 2011, 10:13:08 AM »

It looks like it's time for another vowel. How about an A, please.

deems 2 · « **Reply #890 on:** January 29, 2011, 09:48:05 PM »

I'm sorry, pedln. There are no A's.

T _ E _ _ _ _ S _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _

Letters used:
T, O, S, A

Clues:
Fiction
A really long book.
A newish book to stump JoanP.
It is a love story among other things.
It is set in the past.

pedln · « **Reply #891 on:** January 29, 2011, 10:18:06 PM »

I was afraid you might say that. How about an R, please

Mippy · « **Reply #892 on:** January 30, 2011, 07:14:13 AM »

N please

pedln · « **Reply #893 on:** January 30, 2011, 10:35:47 AM »

Is the last word "Ripper?"

deems 2 · « **Reply #894 on:** January 30, 2011, 10:47:59 AM »

The last word is not Ripper, pedln. But here is your R!

T _ E _ _ _ _ S _ _ _ _ _ R _ _ _ _

Letters used:
T, O, S, A

Clues:
Fiction
A really long book.
A newish book to stump JoanP.
It is a love story among other things.
It is set in the past.

JoanP · « **Reply #895 on:** January 30, 2011, 01:02:23 PM »

How about some more "E's" - please...

deems 2 · « **Reply #896 on:** January 30, 2011, 01:23:39 PM »

Here are some E's, JoanP.

T _ E _ _ _ _ S _ _ _ E _ R _ _ _ E

Letters used:
T, O, S, A, R, E

Clues:
Fiction
A really long book.
A newish book to stump JoanP.
It is a love story among other things.
It is set in the past.
It is not set in the US.

JoanP · « **Reply #897 on:** January 31, 2011, 07:57:36 PM »

This is making me crazy...let's see - a P? An R ...an "N"? I'll ask for the "N"...PLEASE!

deems 2 · « **Reply #898 on:** January 31, 2011, 08:24:36 PM »

Having fun, JoanP?

Here is your N. I hope you have electricity and continue to have it tomorrow.

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

Letters used:
T, O, S, A, R, E, N

Clues:
Fiction
A really long book.
A newish book to stump JoanP.
It is a love story among other things.
It is set in the past.
It is not set in the US.

Mippy · « **Reply #899 on:** February 01, 2011, 07:05:06 AM »

I (i) please

deems 2 · « **Reply #900 on:** February 01, 2011, 08:17:28 AM »

Here you go, Mippy! This should help.

T _ E I N _ I S I _ _ E _ R I _ _ E

Letters used:
T, O, S, A, R, E, N, I

Clues:
Fiction
A really long book.
A newish book to stump JoanP.
It is a love story among other things.
It is set in the past.
It is not set in the US.

JoanP · « **Reply #901 on:** February 01, 2011, 09:36:36 AM »

Never did read it, but can see the title now - as clear as day - Did you, deems2? More importantly, did you like it? I just read some reviews - they were mixed.

The Invisible Bridge

Gumtree · « **Reply #902 on:** February 01, 2011, 09:57:00 AM »

Haven't heard of that one - I got the 'invisible' just now when I came in -
Who wrote it?

Mippy · « **Reply #903 on:** February 01, 2011, 11:10:50 AM »

JoanP ~ Well Done!
And it's a wonderful book, by Julie Orringer, about dangers and survival in Europe before WWII.

Gumtree · « **Reply #904 on:** February 01, 2011, 11:33:22 AM »

Thanks Mippy - I just might look for it.

deems 2 · « **Reply #905 on:** February 01, 2011, 09:00:07 PM »

Winner! Winner! Winner!

(Just thought I'd say that for the fun of it.)

Excellent job, JoanP! I can't review this book yet, because I haven't finished it. I am about half way through. There are a number of things that I like about it though. Because it is long, there is time to meet the people in the novel. There is time to meet the city. There is time to meet the time period. I gave a gift to a friend. Every month an independent bookstore in the area sends her a new book. The Invisible Bridge is the first of these books.

JoanP · « **Reply #906 on:** February 02, 2011, 03:15:24 PM »

Well, I am certainly interested in hearing what you think of the book when you are finished.

Here's one I'm reading now - fiction, by a woman... Not too hard...

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pedln · « **Reply #907 on:** February 02, 2011, 05:12:49 PM »

How about a T, please

JoanP · « **Reply #908 on:** February 02, 2011, 10:12:20 PM »

Sorry, Pedln...no T's. The author is a familiar name...this is her 9th novel.

pedln · « **Reply #909 on:** February 03, 2011, 11:10:41 AM »

No T's. So it's not The Lacuna. That's not her ninth novel anyway. Hmmmmmmmmmm.

JoanP · « **Reply #910 on:** February 03, 2011, 11:33:36 AM »

winner! winner! winner!, she said sheepishly..

hahaha, Pedln, inspite of my double errors, you've managed to guess the title of the book I'm now reading.

I forgot the word THE has a T? I forgot the word "The" altogether. And then I counted other Kingsolver books in the novel count.

Her books, in order of publication, are: The Bean Trees (1988), Homeland (1989), Holding the Line: Women in the Great Arizona Mine Strike (1989), Animal Dreams (1990), Another America (1992), Pigs in Heaven (1993), High Tide in Tucson (1995), The Poisonwood Bible (1998), Prodigal Summer (2000), Small Wonder (2002), Last Stand: America’s Virgin Lands, with photographer Annie Griffiths Belt (2002), Animal, Vegetable, Miracle: A Year of Food Life (2007), and The Lacuna (2009).

So you WON! Aren't you glad? I am - love your clues! da da da daaa

Gumtree · « **Reply #911 on:** February 03, 2011, 11:37:30 AM »

Didn't we consider The Lacuna for a discussion. How are you liking it JoanP

Congrats to the winner

deems 2 · « **Reply #912 on:** February 03, 2011, 07:02:00 PM »

Laughing and laughing over here. Never considered that as strategy. Mis-answer AND misdirect!

TOO COOL, JoanP.

Excellent work, pedln!!! How amazing you are to guess the book despite JoanP's attempts to disguise it.

I was told to read The Lacuna. Do you like it, JoanP?

pedln · « **Reply #913 on:** February 03, 2011, 07:46:19 PM »

Gosh JoanP, when you said no T's -- what could it be. A name -- Rob Edmund, mab something, or else Future. But how many three letter words for the beginning of a title -- All, our, her, his. I was sure it had to be a name.

Give me a bit of time, please, to find an easy stumper.

pedln · « **Reply #914 on:** February 03, 2011, 08:05:51 PM »

T ___ ___ ___ ___ ___ ___ ___

___ ___ ___ ___ ___ ___ ___ ___ ___

I have not read this novel but it is on my list TBR.
The author is not American and it is not set in the United States

JoanK · « **Reply #915 on:** February 03, 2011, 10:33:09 PM »

Could I have an "O"?

Mippy · « **Reply #916 on:** February 04, 2011, 09:02:33 AM »

E please. All of the e's if you would be so kind

deems 2 · « **Reply #917 on:** February 04, 2011, 09:26:12 AM »

Is it To the End of the Land?

pedln · « **Reply #918 on:** February 04, 2011, 12:00:17 PM »

Ha ha ha. Oh my, congratulations deems2.

Have you read David Grossman's To the End of the Land? It certainly has been well-reviewed.

(Whew, out of that one in a hurry

)

JoanP · « **Reply #919 on:** February 04, 2011, 12:24:33 PM »

Now THAT was AMAZING! All you had was the letter T, deems2! How on earth did you do that? I couldn't fool Pedln - even giving her all the wrong information, she still guessed it.
You didn't even let Pedln come up with some of her creative clues...except the first letter "T"...

The Lacuna...is a GREAT book - so far. It is LONG...and it is slow-going at first. But the writing! The writing is so compelling, I never dreamed of putting it down. It is also NOT the story I was expecting...but won't say more.
Definitely, read it! Yes, Gum, we talked about reading/discussing it here. It's the length that I question. Let's see how it goes before suggesting it as a group read..

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Author Topic: Blanko! (Read 512423 times)