{"id":17808,"date":"2019-02-11T14:50:42","date_gmt":"2019-02-11T22:50:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/?p=17808"},"modified":"2019-02-11T14:50:42","modified_gmt":"2019-02-11T22:50:42","slug":"a-library-game","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/2019\/02\/11\/a-library-game\/","title":{"rendered":"A library game"},"content":{"rendered":"\r\n

My oldest child and I have developed an amusement for ourselves at the local public library, guessing the parts of book titles that are obscured by the stickers:\r\n\r\n

\"Two\r\n\r\n

I\u2019ve turned the picture on its side for ease of reading. I guessed that the top one was The Secret of Southern Comfort<\/cite>. I was, alas mistaken\u2014the actual title<\/a> is less interesting to me, but what do I know. The other one I guessed correctly<\/a>. Some are easier than others.\r\n

Here are three more, from the teen room this time:\r\n

\"Three\r\n\r\n

The top one is tricky<\/a>; the middle one is impossible<\/a>; the bottom one is obvious<\/a>, at least on those of us who have been playing this game on the teen shelves for a while.\r\n

How about another set?\r\n

\"Three\r\n\r\n

For the top one, I guessed it was A Brilliant Dawn<\/cite>, but my child pointed out that you could see that the letter after D was straight-backed, and therefore probably an E or an R. It is in fact\u2014well, I won\u2019t give away the answer<\/a>, but I would not have guessed it. For the middle one, the obvious answer is the correct one<\/a>, but for the last one the obvious answer is not the correct one\u2014it\u2019s in the Darkest Mind series (as it says on the spine), but this one is the Darkest something else<\/a>.\r\n

\"A\r\n

I was really pleased that I guessed this one<\/a>, but my kid got with no hesitation whatsoever. Maybe it was easier than I thought.\r\n

\"A\r\n\r\n

This one I have guessed incorrectly on three consecutive visits to the teen room. The Ocean was our<\/i>\u2026 home? The Ocean was our<\/i>\u2026 mother? The Ocean was our<\/i>\u2026 destiny? Nope<\/a>.\r\n

OK, one more for today:\r\n

\"A\r\n\r\n

I like this one because not only does it draw on the knowledge of both book-cover fonts and YA title conventions, but it\u2019s possible not only to guess the correct title <\/a> of this book, but the title of book one<\/a> as well.\r\n

Thanks,
-Ed.\r\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Mousing over the links reveals answers; mousing over the images should not.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[41,89],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17808","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-games","category-titles"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17808","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17808"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17808\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17821,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17808\/revisions\/17821"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17808"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17808"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17808"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}