Author Topic: Title Mania! (Read 352291 times)

PatH · « **Reply #2680 on:** November 17, 2014, 05:16:51 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

PatH · « **Reply #2681 on:** November 17, 2014, 05:17:33 PM »

Guns, Germs, and Steel

Jared Diamond

JoanK · « **Reply #2682 on:** November 17, 2014, 05:58:50 PM »

Love's Labour Lost

Shakespeare.

PatH · « **Reply #2683 on:** November 17, 2014, 06:10:16 PM »

Tempest Tossed

Robertson Davies

BarbStAubrey · « **Reply #2684 on:** November 17, 2014, 06:37:29 PM »

~~The~~ Duchess of Malfi - Webster

PatH · « **Reply #2685 on:** November 17, 2014, 06:46:01 PM »

Iceworld

Hal Clement

BarbStAubrey · « **Reply #2686 on:** November 17, 2014, 06:53:25 PM »

Don Quixote by Miguel De Cervantes

JoanK · « **Reply #2687 on:** November 17, 2014, 07:01:22 PM »

Tales from Shakespeare (R or E)

by the Lambs

on Don QuixoTe (skipping SEXY).

BarbStAubrey · « **Reply #2688 on:** November 18, 2014, 12:07:01 AM »

I do not understand - Tales of Shakespeare starts with a T - not sure what sexy has to do with Don Quixote - this is not making sense to me so I am out of here.

PatH · « **Reply #2689 on:** November 18, 2014, 05:54:13 AM »

Don't go, Barb, I'll explain. You are allowed to ignore E, S, X, and Y if they are the last letters of the title. You don't have to, though. So, for Don Quixote, you could start with E, Quixote, or T, Quixote.

Here's an extreme example: The Little Foxes. You can use S--Foxes. You can ignore S and go to E--Foxes. you can ignore E and S--Foxes. You can ignore X, E, and S--Foxes.

SEXY comes in because it's an easy way to remember the four letters.

The reason for the rule is that it's too hard to find words starting with X and Y, and E and S are so common as endings, thay they would be overused.

BarbStAubrey · « **Reply #2690 on:** November 18, 2014, 10:34:47 AM »

Thanks Pat - I am glad I peeked in but I have a terrible time playing games and get frustrated too easily - hate playing monopoly or checkers much less all the other popular games - actually get upset like as a kid taking an exam - I can do scrabble and chess but the rest - oh dear - maybe other games are too much based on chance and cards drive me up the wall - all the secretiveness - yep, a case for a therapist

and so I had no idea what JoanK was talking about and up came the stress level I figured this is not for me I need to run.

And so if I understand when a last word ends in s-e-x or y you drop that letter and go for the next letter in.

OK are there any other rules - gotta know - do not like things jumping out of the dark at me...

PatH · « **Reply #2691 on:** November 18, 2014, 10:55:01 AM »

You can drop those letters. You don't have to. Look at the heading on this page; I've put the rules there, but I think you've got them all.

BarbStAubrey · « **Reply #2692 on:** November 18, 2014, 11:14:36 AM »

ah so...thanks

So the last one - we skip the e and go for R is that correct - if so ~~The~~ Republic by Plato comes to mind.

PatH · « **Reply #2693 on:** November 18, 2014, 11:58:32 AM »

Excellent. You could also have not skipped the E, and used, say (The) Eumenides.

On the C of RepubliC:

Captains Courageous.

Frybabe · « **Reply #2694 on:** November 18, 2014, 12:48:23 PM »

on the S in Courageous:

Sargasso of Space
by Andre Norton

PatH · « **Reply #2695 on:** November 20, 2014, 01:22:10 PM »

(The) Color Purple

on Space

Frybabe · « **Reply #2696 on:** November 20, 2014, 02:37:33 PM »

on the L in Purple

Lorna Doone

BarbStAubrey · « **Reply #2697 on:** November 20, 2014, 04:24:09 PM »

N in Doone

Nickolas Nickleby

JoanK · « **Reply #2698 on:** November 21, 2014, 04:45:00 PM »

I'll skip the Y and go for the B

Book of the Dead.

(Ancient Egyptian text).

PatH · « **Reply #2699 on:** November 21, 2014, 05:13:13 PM »

Dead Water

Ngaio Marsh

BarbStAubrey · « **Reply #2700 on:** November 21, 2014, 05:50:33 PM »

Reynard the Fox or Fox

PatH · « **Reply #2701 on:** November 22, 2014, 10:07:38 AM »

Xenocide

Orson Scott Card

BarbStAubrey · « **Reply #2702 on:** November 22, 2014, 01:06:13 PM »

Eats, Shoots and Leaves
by Lynne Truss

Frybabe · « **Reply #2703 on:** November 22, 2014, 01:47:23 PM »

on the V in Leaves,

Vanity Fair
by William Makepeace Thackeray

BarbStAubrey · « **Reply #2704 on:** November 22, 2014, 04:40:19 PM »

The Restoration of Rome:
by Peter Heather

BarbStAubrey · « **Reply #2705 on:** November 22, 2014, 04:40:45 PM »

The Restoration of Rome:
by Peter Heather

Frybabe · « **Reply #2706 on:** November 22, 2014, 05:58:07 PM »

on the M in Rome:

Memoirs of a Geisha
by Arthur Golden

BarbStAubrey · « **Reply #2707 on:** November 22, 2014, 06:27:45 PM »

Aleph

by Paulo Coelho

Frybabe · « **Reply #2708 on:** November 23, 2014, 05:38:25 AM »

Howard's End
by E. M. Forster

BarbStAubrey · « **Reply #2709 on:** November 23, 2014, 05:58:17 AM »

Daniel Deronda by George Eliot

JoanK · « **Reply #2710 on:** November 24, 2014, 05:14:33 PM »

And then There Were None

by Agatha christie

BarbStAubrey · « **Reply #2711 on:** November 24, 2014, 11:02:07 PM »

Edge of Eternity:

by Ken Follett

Frybabe · « **Reply #2712 on:** November 25, 2014, 06:27:40 AM »

Yesterday

by Fern Michaels

gingerw · « **Reply #2713 on:** April 08, 2016, 06:35:35 AM »

Frybabe · « **Reply #2714 on:** April 08, 2016, 09:08:34 AM »

Hi Ginger.

It's been a long time since anyone has participated in this game. If I remember correctly, the idea is to name a title that begins with the last letter of the title proceeding. In some cases, the next to last letter is used. In this case, it would be a y or a t.

Since it has been so long, and you are not likely to have known the "rules". I think it would be okay to start over again with your submission. So that would mean either the #4 to start, or the letter r to start the next titel. Anyone object?

Robinson Carusoe

The next title would begin with E. Does anyone remember if this was one of the letters that we can use the second to last insteat?

JoanK · « **Reply #2715 on:** April 08, 2016, 04:57:07 PM »

Delighted to vsee this start again.

FRY: "The next title would begin with E. Does anyone remember if this was one of the letters that we can use the second to last insteat?"

Yes, the letters you can skip spell SEXY. So in this case, the first letter of the book after Robinson CarusOE can be either E or O. We also ignore A and The at the beginning.

I chose "O"

"On Thin Ice."

Next book E or C.

jane · « **Reply #2716 on:** April 08, 2016, 08:30:46 PM »

Emma

Next book begins with M or A.

PatH · « **Reply #2717 on:** April 08, 2016, 08:32:40 PM »

Yes, thanks, Ginger, for starting us up again. I think we had all used up titles for some of the letters, but now we can have a clean start, and we'll forget what was posted two years ago.

Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court

PatH · « **Reply #2718 on:** April 08, 2016, 08:42:25 PM »

Jane, you posted while I was writing. A poster posts on whatever they saw, so that would be T for the next person. I'll try to refine this as we go along.

jane · « **Reply #2719 on:** April 08, 2016, 09:19:26 PM »

Thanks....

To Kill a Mockingbird.

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