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

[Traci]

We were so close to the audio hours that I put in the 15 minutes I listened to this morning to get another guess, so we now have 2.
I always lean towards the rstln to start with.

[Emily, Conterminous Mod]

That's correct, Alicia.

[Chrissy]

Oh! I thought the vowel we started with was reason we guessed the first puzzle with just 4. Sorry about wasting a guess!

I think the second word of our current puzzle could be "two" or "ten", so does anyone know a book that fits?

[Traci]

Chrissy wrote: "Oh! I thought the vowel we started with was reason we guessed the first puzzle with just 4. Sorry about wasting a guess!

I think the second word of our current puzzle could be "two" or "ten", so d..."

I was thinking the same. Don't know of a book that fits, but S might be a good next letter. The other word I thought of was "top", but that seems less likely.

[Samantha]

I think it might be (view spoiler)[ The Tea Girl of Hummingbird Lane (hide spoiler)]

[Alicia]

Samantha that fits perfectly!

I have a couple more calls today, but hoping to put up another couple hundred pages tonight.

Maybe we should guess M and G as the next two to be sure?

[Traci]

Samantha wrote: "I think it might be [spoilers removed]"

Nice job Samantha! I feel like I'm okay at wheel of fortune, but have failed at these. I even thought of the second t word (in case people don't want spoilers), but thought that didn't make sense.

[Chrissy]

Yay!

[Samantha]

Traci, the book is one that I have had on an off my TBR a half dozen times or more so once I thought of the second word it fell together, otherwise I think I wouldn't have given it a second thought.

I think guessing M and G seem like a great plan!

I was hoping that I would finish my audio book today but not sure I will get more listening time in. I will put those hours down now and follow up in the morning with my pages read; I will get some of those in later tonight.

[Alicia]

Awesome, just requested the G, since Samantha your hours gave us another guess.

Then with the next one we can do the letter guess and the title guess.

[Laurel]

Just finished another book, so we have another guess.

[Traci]

I posted our letter and guess.

We have 2 guesses to start the next one.

[Traci]

Scratch that, I added my 1/2 hour from this morning, we have 3 guesses to start the next one (assuming of course that our guess is correct)

[Emily, Conterminous Mod]

PUZZLE 5: RHYME TIME
The puzzle is a phrase with rhyming words in it or a list of thematically similar things whose names rhyme. In this case, the book title will have a rhyme or alliteration within the title.

[Alicia]

This ones a tough puzzle. Maybe an R? Then we’ve rounded out the main wheel of fortune letters

[Chrissy]

Yeah, sounds good. After that if we still do t have any ideas, maybe a D?

[Traci]

I was thinking D too!

[Traci]

Haven't gotten much reading done today, will try to get some more hours/pages.

[Alicia]

Ill hopefully finish my book tonight and add another 150ish pages. That should get us close to a few more guesses

[Samantha]

I hopefully will finish another book tonight as well.

[Laurel]

I'm having a hard time getting into my book club book, and it is coming up soon so I don't want to read a different book. Sadly, I haven't got much read today.

[Traci]

Could also do H for a letter to confirm if the first word is the.

[Roxana]

Hey all, I just put in that I finished another book so we're up another guess! I'll be finishing another tonight, as well, and after adding the hours for that (audio) I think it'll be about 6 hours from today.

[Alicia]

Just finished my book and pushed us over the 4,000 pages read mark.

So that's 2 more guesses as well!

Great job Capulets!

[Roxana]

Finished that second book, and with both the finishing and the 5.5 hours of it, that’s another two guesses.

[Traci]

I tried a D, no go.

[Traci]

So, I googled and scrolled and have a guess, but it feels like cheating....should we guess a letter for my guess or proceed as usual?

[Alicia]

Do it, I feel like this one is really tough.

Also, I was confused because I didn’t know alliterations counted for rhyme time.

[Emily, Conterminous Mod]

Alicia, they don't usually, but I amended the rules of Wheel of Fortune to include them because most adult books don't have rhyming titles lol.

[Chrissy]

It’s The Pickwick Papers, right? I think we should go ahead and guess, so we can use our letters on the next puzzle.

[Samantha]

Pickwick Papers make more sense the Pentagon Papers which is what popped in my head.

I finished another book and added my pages read to the spreadsheet.

[Traci]

Chrissy wrote: "It’s The Pickwick Papers, right? I think we should go ahead and guess, so we can use our letters on the next puzzle."

Yup, that was my find - needed confirmation of the P though.

[Alicia]

@Emily that makes sense. I was trying to figure out what rhymed with an R but wasn't R.

This is why I just read and leave the guessing to everyone else.

[Emily, Conterminous Mod]

PUZZLE 6: WHAT ARE YOU DOING?
The book title will (sort of) answer this question.

(Your puzzle is so symmetrical and it makes me so happy lol)

[Chrissy]

I noticed the symmetry too!

We have a lot of clues, what letters should we guess first? Is R ok?

[Traci]

I love the symmetry too!!

No 2 or 3 letter words to suggest letters, so R sounds good to me! Might as well go with a couple?

[Chrissy]

I submitted our 4 required letters, and guessed the puzzle... sorry to jump the gun!

(view spoiler)[What I Talk About When I Talk About Running>/spoiler> (hide spoiler)]

[Traci]

I think it's What I Talk About When I Talk About Running

[Chrissy]

Maybe I should get some reading done, instead of spending so much time in AtY!

[Traci]

Chrissy wrote: "I submitted our 4 required letters, and guessed the puzzle... sorry to jump the gun!

[spoilers removed]"

Nice! How many letters did it take you? I didn't see any letters until they were all there.

[Traci]

Chrissy wrote: "Maybe I should get some reading done, instead of spending so much time in AtY!"

I should be working....then I should be reading...instead I'm refreshing pages.

[Samantha]

Traci wrote: "Chrissy wrote: "Maybe I should get some reading done, instead of spending so much time in AtY!"

I should be working....then I should be reading...instead I'm refreshing pages."

Well done on the guess! And working is not as much fun :)

[Emily, Conterminous Mod]

Since you made it through the first six puzzles I had planned in record speed, you are now entering our LIGHTNING ROUND!

New Rules for the Lightning Round:
- You must get either 2000 pages, 10 audio hours, or 2 books in order to earn one guess.
- In addition to vowels, you are not allowed to guess R, S, or T!

*All previously earned guesses will carry over into the lightning round.

PUZZLE 7: BEST SELLER
This book has been in the first place spot on the NY Times Best Sellers list.

[Chrissy]

So, lightening round is slowed down, not sped up, right?

[Emily, Conterminous Mod]

Correct lol. It's just a bit tougher!

[Chrissy]

Traci wrote: "Chrissy wrote: "I submitted our 4 required letters, and guessed the puzzle... sorry to jump the gun!

[spoilers removed]"

Nice! How many letters did it take you? I didn't see any letters until th..."

I just the 4 we guessed, although there weren’t any S’s.

[Alicia]

We still have one more guess rolled over right?

Also, do we still need at least 4 guesses before we can guess the puzzle?

[Emily, Conterminous Mod]

Yes, and yes, unless there are not enough consonants that you are allowed to guess. I'll let you know if you hit that mark, but otherwise, you need at least 4 guesses to guess the puzzle.

[Alicia]

Team, do we maybe want to go with a N?

[Samantha]

N sound good to me.