Hangman #53

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New Thread for this game.. continued from here: http://www.librarything.com/topic/138924

Snowstorm has it

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No R

O?

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No R, O

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N?

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No R, O

P ?

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N I __ T __ S __ __ __

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No R, O

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N I E T __ S __ __ E

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No R, O

When Nietzsche Wept ?

You got it roland. Your turn.

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Hint: The 3-letter word, and one of the 1-letter words is not an article.

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I?

M?

A: 6
I: 1
M: 3
T: 3

M
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A

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M is for Mayflower: A Massachusetts Alphabet

Right, helenoel!

Please take over

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A?

Two As See above #28

L ?

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A N _

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N ?

one N - see above.

R?

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C R A _ _

A N D

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C?

One C - See above

D?

one D see above

Horseshoe Crabs and Velvet Worms : The story of the animals and plants that time has left behind ?

jb has it - over to you..

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(There are two books with this title. The second refers to the first and has a sub-title)

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O ?

3 of thOse:

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T O

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H ?

H O __

T O

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A?

H O __

T O

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S H __ __ S

How to Avoid Huge Ships

That's the one. Over to you.

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You're Stepping on My Cloak and Dagger ?

That's it jb. Your turn.

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No I

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E ?

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C ?

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M ?

O?

No I, M, O

T?

H?

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T H __ T C H E R

Y ?

__ __ Y

T H __ T C H E R

G?

No I, M, O, G

D?

No I, M, O, G, D

B?

No I, M, O, G, D, B

T ?

T is already there in 82.

A

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T H A T C H E R

Spy Thatcher?

Yes. Over to you.

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If touchstones could be added to the correct guesses, that would be very super.

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No A

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No A

", , ,If Touchstones could be added to the correct guesses. . ." (96)

I ran a test on Spy Catcher (93>94), and it did come out in blue (which usually coincides with its being picked up by Touchstones.) At the moment, itʻs just to the right of the "Add a Message" space.
I donʻt know if 93 bracketed the title in making the inquiry about it.

(What irritates me about Touchstones, b t w, is that they immediately pick up every typo and record it in the sidebar -- even when itʻs been corrected long before the post is clicked in., and I donʻt even remember having written it that way. I feel like (to paraphrase Yogi Berra) "I never MADE half of the typos that I made!")

H?

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No A, H

N ?

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No A, H, N

L?

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No A, H, N, L

C ?

E __ __ __

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No A, H, N, L

Exit Music?

Exit Music by Ian Rankin. You got it linsleo. Your turn.

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L?

No: L

D?

NO: L, D

River?

No not River.

Bones by Jonathan Kellerman?

No not Bones.

S ?

NO: L, D, S

N ?

T?

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No L, D, S, T

F?

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No: L, D, S, T, F

A ?

O?

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NO: L, D, S, T, F, A, O

R?

Given ?

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NO: L, D, S, T, F, A, O, R

No its not Given

Vixen ?

Yes!! Over to you.

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O?

No O

Whisper?

No, not Whisper.

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No O, S

E?

L ?

__ E I R __ R E

No O, S, L

Deirdre?

That's it.
The one I was thinking of was Deirdre by James Stephens, but I see now that there are others.
Over to you.

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A?

H?

Sorry for the mistake one too many S's above

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O?

T __ E

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C O N __ __ I C T

L?

V?

F ?

The Veritas Conflict ?

Yes - over to you

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O : 3

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No T

N?

No N!

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S?

R?

E?

no S
G : 1
E: 2
R: 1

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G O

Before You Go ?

Right, jbbarret

by Jerome Weidman)
Please take over.

(This one had 6 vowels and only 5 consonants, so the ine who guessed -o- had fully half of the total vowels.)

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No S

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No S, R

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No S, R, C

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The Unnameable by Samuel Beckett ?

Yes, that's it. Or it could have been:

The Unnameable by H. P. Lovecraft

Over to you

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leaving out the subtitle (or the last 4 words of THE title)
which are rather dreary, but perhaps, for parody purposes, so intended

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I

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My Ten Years in a Quandary and How They Grew by Robert Benchley ?

Pretty good, with only one consonant
filled in.
Yes, it was the 1st 6 words of the Benchley title,
as I mentioned in 209.

Please take over.

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C O N S C I O __ S N __ S S

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Consciousness Explained ?

Yes, you have it.

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N: 1 SEE above (231?)

could it be

Harry Dexter White: A Study in Paradox ?

Right, jbbarret!

Amazing! It even had a
repeated "hard letter"
(X) (as the old Scrabble
players used to call it) Did you get
that from "Search",
with only the one (probable) word "in"?

Please take over.

Well, as Sherlock Holmes used to say, something like, "When you have eliminated all things that it can't be, only one possibility remains".

A search on LT for " IN " returns about 855,000 results. Too big a job to plough through that lot. Sometimes these puzzles are chosen from a book in the setter's own list. A search on the library of rolandperkins gives 1197 possibilities. Again, too long a list to check.

Looking at that sub-title; " A something IN something". What could that be? After concentrating on it until my forehead bled, "A Study in " something seemed to appear to be a reasonable possibility. A search on LT for ": a study in " returns about 4,300 results. So quite a good possibility, but too many to check.

So back to the rolandperkins library, and a search gives just nine results. Not too big a task to eliminate eight of them.

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A subtitle has been omitted.

but the jbbarret library has no books so we are at a disadvantage. Good thing there is no prize for "winning" these games.

W?

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R?

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W A S __ S ?

Does Anything Eat Wasps?

Yes, apparently quite a number of things do, including larger wasps and too many other creatures to list here.

Over to you.

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NO: A

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No: A, L

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O?

I think all that's left to guess is the T.

Kon-Tiki by Thor Heyerdahl?

Yes - over to you

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N?

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No T, N

A?

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No T, N

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No T, N, S

L ?

__ A __ E __ A __

No T, N, S, L

R ?

M ?

M A __ E __ A __

No T, N, S, L, R

D?

M A __ E __ A __

No T, N, S, L, R, D

I?

M A __ E __ A __

No T, N, S, L, R, D, I

Y?

M A __ E __ A Y

No T, N, S, L, R, D, I

H ?

G?

M A __ E __ A Y

No T, N, S, L, R, D, I, H, G

W?

Z?

Put it all together and it spells....

Well done for setting a title by Jack Williamson that took it all the way to the wire.

I was trying to get someone to type the title since if I put in W and Z it would have spelled it out. Guess the subtle hint didn't work....Heh

Give it time, and someone will.

MAZEWAY?

That's it. Your turn sophie.

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T?

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T_E

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No, O

R ?

T_E

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No, O

N?

S ?

T_E

R_ _N_ _ _ _ES

No, O

A ?

T_E

RA_N_A_ _ES

No, O

The Rainbabies?

yep your turn

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No N

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No N, S

E ?

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No N, S

T?

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No N, S, T

D?

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No N, S, T, D

F ?

L?

__ A R __ E

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No N, S, T, D, F

M ?

__ A R __ E

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No N, S, T, D, F

C ?

C A R __ E

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No N, S, T, D, F

V?

C A R __ E

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No N, S, T, D, F, V

U (3 of them) ?

C A R __ E

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No N, S, T, D, F, V

3rd letter of 2nd word: G?

Carpe Iugulum by Terry Pratchett ?

Snowstorm, if 334 is correct, I would suggest
awarding the next round to @jbarret, because without his guess of "G" (333), I would never have thought of
the Terry Pratchett title. In fact, I never heard of
Pratchett before being a member of L T.

Take it away jb. You were very close roland, it's Carpe Jugulum.

"(J, not I, for Carpe Jugulum" (334>336)
Iʻm a Latinist, and the title (though not the text, I assume!) is in Latin. Hence, remembering that there is
no J* in Classical Latin, I made it an I.

*I think, strictly speaking, Latin I can be a consonant or a vowel; if a consonant it has usually come into modern languages as a J.

I was trying to avoid setting the next one, but it seems I've been rumbled. So:

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No O

I ?

No I, O

T ?

No I, O, T

E ?

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S?

No I, O, T, S

R ?

No R I O T S

N ?

No I N T R O S

A?

L ?

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No N I T R O S

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No N I T R O S

M?

No S T O R M I N

G?

__ L A U __ E

G U E U __

Claude Gueux?

You have it Roland.

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5th word is hyphenated;
Cutting the subtitle down from 11 to 3 words.

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S?

T __ E

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T ?

T: 6

See: above (370?)

P ?

A?

O?

Given that there are currently a different number of letters between 367 and 370, could I be right in thinking that another mistake might have crept in? If so, "The Mystic Way in Post-modernity : Transcending Theological Boundaries" could fit.

"The Mystic way (etc.). . . . ." is right!

Sorry that I had one letter too few
for the 6th word in 370.

Please take over.

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No R, I

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No R, I

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L?

__ O __ E __ __

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No R, I, L

N?

S ?

__ O S E __ __

__ N __ O N

No R, I, L

Joseph Anton by Salman Rushdie?

Yes, you have it.

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N ?

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No T

A?

A?

A?

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No T, A

O?

I ?

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No T, A

L ?

C?

As it's Talk Like a Pirate Day:

R

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Shiver me timbers but there be no T, A, L, or RRRR

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G?

__ E N O C I __ E

No T, A, L, R, G

Genocide ?

@ 410, I think not. No G.

But perhaps

Xenocide by Orson Scott Card ?

You were close roland. Xenocide is right RR, take it away.

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T?

R?

R?

T _ _
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No A

S?

No S

P ?

No P

N?

No N

T _ _
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No A, S, P, N

E?

C ?

T_E
C_R_E_

U?

V ?

The Curfew?

Take it away, Snowstorm.

The Curfew by Jesse Ball

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No P

A?

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No P

L?

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No P

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S I __ __ L A __ R A

No P

T?

M ?

T __ E

S I M __ L A __ R A

No P

The Simulacra ?

That's it Helen. Your turn.

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O ?

A?

No O

_ _ A _ _ _ A _ _ _ A

T ?

no T.

B ?

I ?

No O, No T, No B

_ _ A _ _ L A _ _ I A

L ?

One L- see above.

V ?

No V

Something about alligator wrestling in the everglades, starting with

S?

Swamplandia

464 and 465 both right- Snowstorm has the next challenge.

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A wild guess:

The Lincoln Conspiracy ?

I can tell you've been looking at my booklist jb.
Yes, that's it.

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R ?

No R

T?

__ __ __ __ E __

__ __ T S

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__ __ __ E __ __ S

F ?

No R, F

D?

__ __ __ D E __

__ __ T S

__ __ D

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__ __ __ E __ __ S

No R, F

H ?

__ __ __ D E __

__ __ T S

__ __ D

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__ __ __ E __ __ S

No R, F, H

A ?

__ __ __ D E __

__ A T S

A __ D

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__ __ __ E __ __ S

No R, F, H

L ?

__ __ L D E __

__ A T S

A __ D

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No R, F, H

O ?

__ O L D E __

__ A T S

A __ D

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__ __ __ E O __ S

No R, F, H

Golden Bats and
Pink Pigeons ?

That's it, over to you.

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Hint: Neither of the 3-letter words is "the" (but there may be an E, H or T elsewhere.)

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Q?

N?

Q: none

N: 1 SEE: 496

As of 10:55 PM EDT on 09/28, I am able to get into this thread only through the
"Starred" section. It and all the other current game threads have been replaced
by a menu of items that were current during 2009-2011.

IS this just a current glitch, which, while it lasts affects everybody, or is it
something in my system? (If
the latter, I don't know when I'll be able to get into this thread again.)

11:38 PM EDT 09/28:
The current menu is back.

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S?

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Impossible Dreams: A Red Sox Collection by Glenn Stout ?

Right, jbbarret! My baseball collection is small and doesn't include this.
I think the title comes from the song "The Impossible Dream" which became a sort of anthem of the 1967 Red Sox who rose from a
9th place finish in 1966, (hence the "impossibility" of a pennant) to
an AL championship under Mgr. Dick Williams in 1967.

Please take over.

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