Fall '20 Read-a-Thon: The Finch Family

[Johanne]

Couldn't be south obviously, gotta remember the letters we don't have.

[Johanne]

Couldn't be earth or worth, since we also guessed R, and that's not there.

[Johanne]

or north.

[Trish, Annular Mod]

Johanne wrote: "Good thinking Trish. South, north, worth also fit"

Thinking about it neither of mine would (both have Es), but your three definitely do.

[Johanne]

*pulls out notepad to do this the oldfashioned way*

[Johanne]

none of our guesses work, they all have an already guessed letter...

[Trish, Annular Mod]

Maybe I'm on the wrong track with TH

I've also asked the mods about US/UK spelling - as a world with ER at the end could be a US spelling of word we'd spell RE, like centre/er

[Johanne]

Ha, good question. Just to add another layer of difficulty to the non-native speaker :D

[Johanne]

Could be month. or a ty ending like dirty

[Aimee]

We know the first word isn't 'the' because it doesn't have an E, so I've been trying to think of other common 3 letter words beginning with T. The one I keep coming back to is 'til', as in 'til death us do part', as it just strikes me as a very book-title kind of word! Is it worth guessing i next to find out?
There's a likelihood of i being in the second word anyway, since we have no vowels for that word yet, so might be worth a punt.

[Johanne]

oh yeah, dirty has an R. A notepad is a great help.

[Dori]

Johanne wrote: "I just consulted my friend Merriam Webster, and commiserate isn't what I meant. In Danish it's 'stick our heads together' put I'm pretty certain that idiom doesn't exist in English. But you probabl..."

It exists in Hungarian!! Haha

[Johanne]

@Aimee, we're sadly not allowed to gues vowels.

[Aimee]

Ah sorry, I missed that bit of the rules (I guess it would make it too easy!)
Maybe L then?

[Johanne]

@Dori, that's cool! Let's just use all our idioms :D

[Johanne]

I'm up for L. I think out of Trish's Scrabble reference to commonly used consonants, there is L and N we haven't guessed, so any if those two are a good bet, as long as we don't have anything more substantial.

[Johanne]

The first word could also be two or too.

[Trish, Annular Mod]

When we next get a guess, I'd back L, N or H. BTW, I realised I hadn't marked completion on Sweep in Peace, so I've done that.

[Trish, Annular Mod]

Emily wrote: "Yes, I just started you all off with a vowel to give you a little extra help on the first puzzle! Those are all of the E's in the puzzle."

Pity. The Woman in White/White Oleander would have worked if there were more Es. Sigh.

[Johanne]

But that means we have another guess, Trish.

[Trish, Annular Mod]

True. Personally, I'd really like to confirm or deny H. But L and N are more common.

[Aimee]

Johanne wrote: "The first word could also be two or too."

Yeah definitely - but given that we can't guess o, I think guessing w might be a bit of a long-shot if it's not a very common consonant (going by Scrabble). I'm with Trish, I think L, N or H would be a good next guess.

[Johanne]

@Aimee, that was just a general observation, not an argument to guess W :)

alright H then?

[Emily, Conterminous Mod]

I.... forgot an E on your board. Sorry. It's been updated... :)

[Ellie]

Had a busy day but I managed to finish my book. This puzzle is tough but I definitely say guess a H!

[Johanne]

hahaha thanks Emily!
alright white seems a good bet for the common word. Sure you didn't miss an E in the first word, Emily?

[Johanne]

Submitting H. With Ellie's book we should have another guess, but we can see what H reveals.

[Dori]

Emily wrote: "I.... forgot an E on your board. Sorry. It's been updated... :)"

Hi Emily, sorry, just double checking that we are not missing an E from the first word too?

[Emily, Conterminous Mod]

lol I appreciate the grace y'all are giving me with this challenge. Yep, forgot the E in THE. It's updated.

[Dori]

I think the first title might be The Woman in White, assuming Emily missed the letter E in THE, we shall see, no idea about the last word!

[Ellie]

I think Trish guessed both titles then!

[Dori]

Emily wrote: "lol I appreciate the grace y'all are giving me with this challenge. Yep, forgot the E in THE. It's updated."

It's a tremendous amount of work, thank you for doing this!! It's a lot of fun!

[Dori]

Ellie wrote: "I think Trish guessed both titles then!"

Oh I missed that! We should probably go for it then?!

[Emily, Conterminous Mod]

If you think you know it, put it in the guesses thread!

[Ellie]

I will go submit The Woman in White/White Oleander, fingers crossed!

[Johanne]

Yeah! Hope it's right :)

[Ellie]

Well done Trish, we've unlocked puzzle two!

[Johanne]

Go Trish!

[Johanne]

We have two guesses in the bank (another idiom), if we want to start guessing for puzzle 2.

[Sarah]

Oh my gosh! Well done guys! I've been busy babysitting the nephew all day so I haven't been around to help

[Aimee]

Well done guys! Great work :)

[Fee]

That was fast :)

[Johanne]

Should we decide on our two letter guesses for puzzle 2?

[Trish, Annular Mod]

Woohoo. Glad we've got #1.

[Aimee]

Going for T again seems like a good idea, since it's popular and the 3-letter word could be 'the'.

[Johanne]

Should we try our luck with S again as well?

[Johanne]

You're the master Trish!

[Johanne]

...The master of guessing titles that is...

[Johanne]

I finished my book, so that's another guess. I will make a decision and choose S and T, hope that's okay, and then we still have another guess if anyone else feels like doing a guess.

[Johanne]

S and T were a lot better this tine around. Our #2 puzzle could be 'My sister the serial killer'. But I think we have to make 5 letter guesses before we guess the puzzle.