Author Topic: Title Mania! (Read 296089 times)

Frybabe · « **Reply #2320 on:** January 02, 2012, 05:11:24 PM »

Welcome to:

Title Mania!

Title Mania is a simple game which should be a lot of fun! NO peeking at titles and authors, this brain teaser is intended to rack the old grey cells: entirely from your own memory!

Simply give the title of a book which begins with the last letter of the title before it: *

Ex: The Good Earth:
Answer:How Green Was My Valley.
Next: A book title which starts with Y

You have the option of ignoring the letters S,E,X,Y if they are at the end of a word. example: if House is the last word, you could use E (HousE), S (HouSe) or U (HoUse)

* We'll ignore A, An, and The in titles for this game.

How far can we go?

Let's find out.

Enjoy!

Ideas for new games? Problems with this one? Contact PatH

Never Cry Wolf
by Farley Mowat

on QueeN

JoanK · « **Reply #2321 on:** January 02, 2012, 05:18:13 PM »

Forever Amber

PatH · « **Reply #2322 on:** January 02, 2012, 07:01:41 PM »

Relentless

Jack Campbell, on AmbeR

One in my well-liked series of sci-fi naval battles.

PatH · « **Reply #2323 on:** January 02, 2012, 07:04:03 PM »

Frybabe, thanks for posting a Farley Mowat. I was trying to think of his name yesterday and not coming up with it. People tell me I would like him, but for some reason I've never gotten around to reading him. Any suggestions about where to start?

Frybabe · « **Reply #2324 on:** January 02, 2012, 08:19:23 PM »

PatH, the only Mowat book I read was People of the Deer. It is about a trip he took from Churchill going west of the Hudson Bay into the Keewatin District of the Northwest Territories and into Manitoba, traveling much of the caribou migration route. This was his first book, published in 1952, revised in 1975. His No Man's River is apparently based on experiences from that same trip.

Owls in the Family was very popular. He wrote a well received book about Dian Fossey called Woman in the Mists . Most of his books are non-fiction.

JoanK · « **Reply #2325 on:** January 04, 2012, 06:07:09 PM »

Life on the Mississippi

by Mark twain

on relentLess

PatH · « **Reply #2326 on:** January 04, 2012, 07:32:04 PM »

Iceworld

Hal Clement, on MississippI

Frybabe · « **Reply #2327 on:** January 04, 2012, 07:54:49 PM »

Daemon
by Daniel Suarez

on the D

PatH · « **Reply #2328 on:** January 04, 2012, 09:25:24 PM »

The dreaded N again. But I thought of a good one.

(La) Nouvelle Heloise

Jean Jacques Rousseau, on DaemoN

JoanK · « **Reply #2329 on:** January 05, 2012, 03:53:16 PM »

(The) Egg and I

on heloisE

PatH · « **Reply #2330 on:** January 06, 2012, 09:49:08 PM »

Iceworld

Hal Clement, on I

JoanK · « **Reply #2331 on:** January 07, 2012, 05:24:30 PM »

Doctor Doolittle

Frybabe · « **Reply #2332 on:** January 07, 2012, 08:17:19 PM »

East of Eden
by John Steinbeck

on DoolittlE

JoanK · « **Reply #2333 on:** January 08, 2012, 07:35:07 PM »

"Nurse and Spy in the Union Army"

I was stuck for an "N", so went over to nonfiction, and there it was! Thanks, Fry: hop e you weren't planning to use it.

PatH · « **Reply #2334 on:** January 09, 2012, 10:21:04 AM »

(The) Mousetrap

Agatha Christie, on ArMy

JoanK · « **Reply #2335 on:** January 09, 2012, 07:14:01 PM »

(The) Pirates of Penzance

on mousetraP

PatH · « **Reply #2336 on:** January 09, 2012, 08:16:45 PM »

Cranford

Elizabeth Gaskell, on PenzanCe

JoanK · « **Reply #2337 on:** January 10, 2012, 03:42:18 PM »

Dead in the Water

Frybabe · « **Reply #2338 on:** January 10, 2012, 05:47:34 PM »

Raise the Titanic
by Clive Cussler

on WateR

PatH · « **Reply #2339 on:** January 10, 2012, 08:19:27 PM »

(The) Cyberiad

Stanislaw Lem, on TitaniC

straudetwo · « **Reply #2340 on:** January 23, 2012, 12:22:51 AM »

This is my first attempt and I ope it is in consonant with the rules

(A) Doll's house (following CuberiaD)

Play by Norwegian Henrik Ibsen

PatH · « **Reply #2341 on:** January 23, 2012, 11:28:25 AM »

You've got it, Traude. Don't forget that if a word ends in any of the letters in SEXY you may optionally ignore those letters. So for A Doll's House, I could play on House or House or House. Also, you're not supposed to repeat a title, but we had a long gap when nobody played, so I think we're starting over on that one, OK to repeat something you used before the gap.

PatH · « **Reply #2342 on:** January 23, 2012, 11:29:20 AM »

Shikasta

Doris Lessing, on HouSe

straudetwo · « **Reply #2343 on:** January 23, 2012, 06:05:08 PM »

Your help is much appreciated, PatH.. Thank you. One quick question : Cues can be taken from both a title AND an author's name, is that right?

On houSe
Seneca,
De vita beata

JoanK · « **Reply #2344 on:** January 24, 2012, 03:41:08 PM »

Actually, we always stick to titles, even though the classics are often refered to only by the authors name.

But someone, somewhere has probably written a book named Seneca.

America 1908 on senecA (post on americA, unless you know a book that starts with 8 ?!?)

Frybabe · « **Reply #2345 on:** January 24, 2012, 05:03:03 PM »

84 Charing Cross Road
by Helen Hanff

How's that for an 8?

PatH · « **Reply #2346 on:** January 24, 2012, 05:25:42 PM »

Brava, Frybabe!

straudetwo · « **Reply #2347 on:** January 25, 2012, 12:25:11 AM »

Thank you, JoanK! I'm sorry about my silly question. The title of the game says it all !!

on 84 CharinG cross Road

Galileo's Daughter by Dava Sobel

JudeS · « **Reply #2348 on:** February 20, 2012, 12:49:46 AM »

After a huge gap i have returned. I'm not 100% sure of all the rules but I think nonfiction titles are OK.

So on Galileos DaughteR
I will say Roget's Thesaurus

PatH · « **Reply #2349 on:** February 20, 2012, 09:24:17 AM »

Any title is OK. I think a lot of us have gotten fuzzy about the rules, so I re-posted them at the top of this page.

PatH · « **Reply #2350 on:** February 20, 2012, 09:35:38 AM »

Scout's Progress

Sharon Lee and Steve Miller, on ThesauruS

So, for example, on this one you could use R (ProgRess) E (ProgrEss) or S (ProgresS)

JudeS · « **Reply #2351 on:** February 20, 2012, 01:40:21 PM »

On R
Rabbit Run
John Updike

Are Children's Books OK to use for titles?

PatH · « **Reply #2352 on:** February 20, 2012, 05:22:26 PM »

Yes, and plays and pamphlets.

Norstrilia

Cordwainer Smith, on RuN

JudeS · « **Reply #2353 on:** February 22, 2012, 12:27:38 PM »

On A from NanA
All the King's Men
by
Robert Penn Warren

straudetwo · « **Reply #2354 on:** February 25, 2012, 06:08:02 PM »

Thank you very much, PatH. The information was just the information I needed. Sorry for not checking the rules before jumping in.

On All the King's MeN

The Needle's Eye
(1972) by Margaret Drabble

PatH · « **Reply #2355 on:** February 25, 2012, 08:02:09 PM »

Oh, good, Traude, you picked up the dreaded N, so I don't have to spend one of mine. (You'll find out eventually that we run out of Ns and get increasingly desperate.)

Ender's Game

Orson Scott Card, on EyE

We're glad you joined us. rules can always be picked up en route.

JoanK · « **Reply #2356 on:** February 25, 2012, 08:07:33 PM »

My Sisters Keeper

by Jodi Picoult

PatH · « **Reply #2357 on:** February 25, 2012, 09:17:31 PM »

Roughing It

Mark Twain, on KeepeR

straudetwo · « **Reply #2358 on:** February 25, 2012, 11:15:47 PM »

PatH,

Roughing It

Tell-Tale Heart, The
by Edgar Allan Poe

PatH · « **Reply #2359 on:** February 26, 2012, 07:39:45 AM »

Tales of a Fourth Grade Nothing

Judy Blume, on HearT

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