The Enid Blyton Society

I wonder if this would be popular. It's Hangman without the gallows. Just think of (say) a Blyton book, and guess letters (two at a time) that make up the title.

Edit: We've since decided that ONE letter at a time works better, making the game more of a challenge.

I'll start with an easy one, and its a book title:

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Clue: A home in the forest?

A and E

     Not clear on how this works. Can anyone submit a guess, or do they have to wait until you've announced whether the previous guess includes any hits? Will you indicate the positions the letters occupy within the word?
     If anyone can submit guesses at any time, I'll put in E and T.

Regards, Michael.

It's not how we used to play hangman. As Michael says we would like the letter(s) chosen put in the correct place. On looking at it again, I would retract my choice or 'A'.

     I guess the rules for this need to be clarified. I think I know how to play Hangman, and have always thought it's the standard method - but maybe there is more than one method, and I don't know the others.
     I suppose, as more letters are confirmed, sooner or later someone will be able to guess the correct title, and if they are right, they win the round. And they set the next title. Is that it?
     With various people guessing, using the hanging stick figure to count negative points wouldn't really make a lot of sense - so the above is how I would guess it would work.
     Right, Nigel?

     I guess I slipped up there, Daisy, in duplicating one of your guesses. Fell into habit - I always start Hangman with E, then T. Statistically, that's your best chance of getting early hits.

Regards, Michael.

I go about cracking codes that way Michael - always an 'E' as first choice. Not that I've spent my life decoding messages. I prefer to be able to read them straight away!

Daisy wrote: Not that I've spent my life decoding messages.

Forgive me Daisy,but after watching the recent series about the ladies of Bletchley Park as detectives after the war,I'm sure you may be modestly hiding your true decoding skills under the misnomer of 'clerical work'

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Daisy wrote:... always an 'E' as first choice.

     When I was in junior school, my only friend in the entire school was a geeky, scientific, unsporty kid - and, amongst the many interesting things he told me, he was the first to introduce to me Darwin's concept of the evolution of species - and also the order of frequency of the letters of the alphabet in the English language - and he listed them thus: ETRINOASDLCHFUPMYGWVBXKQJZ - and for some reason I've always memorized that exactly ever since (that was about half a century ago), never getting a letter wrong.
     Later, I found that there were two or three other versions of this ordering, and one of the others seemed to be usual. I suppose this depends on what samples of text are used for the count, because I did find my friend's version again as one of the less-commonly cited versions. So I don't really know what was different there.
     I don't remember any of the other versions fully, but I think they began ETAONIRSH, or something like that.

Regards, Michael.

pete9012S wrote:Forgive me Daisy,but after watching the recent series about the ladies of Bletchley Park as detectives after the war,I'm sure you may be modestly hiding your true decoding skills under the misnomer of 'clerical work' :wink:

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     "Daisy" would be a great pseudonym behind which to hide a life of intrigue and controversy, while projecting a modest, unassuming front to the world. No-one would suspect in a hundred years!

Regards, Michael.

I'm afraid after E,T, and R my guesses would be random, Michael!

Pete.I saw that programme. I'm not quite that old!

Thanks Michael!

Goodness me, I didn't expect an avalanche of complicated questions!

Just pick two letters at a time - if you can guess straight away, then feel free to do so. I'll accept the A, E, R and T so far offered:

_ _ _ _ _ _ / TREE / _ _ _ _ _


Someone should get it now! For some reason, I can't leave gaps between the words, so have put in a stroke instead.

Just realised, if you use a plain hyphen ( - ) you can leave a gap!

Hollow Tree House?

Correct! Over to you.

Thank you Nigel.

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No clue? And is it all one word?