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KatBurglar · 16/11/2023 12:59

Always and enjoyable (if incredibly frustrating) visual puzzle guessing the titles of 20 books.

Who's playing this year? How are you getting on?

https://hiddenbooks.nationalbooktokens.com/default.aspx?competition=20

Play the Hidden Books Game from National Book Tokens!

Guess all 20 book titles hidden in the picture.

https://hiddenbooks.nationalbooktokens.com/default.aspx?competition=20

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Grumpystripes · 17/11/2023 09:19

The lion one annoyed me as it is a far better clue for beauty and the beast!

CornishLizard · 17/11/2023 09:11

InMySpareTime · 16/11/2023 18:34

Lion is a play on words. Think "Nicking Bent Coppers" and translate Belle for the last word.

Great thread, thanks to everyone for the clues especially inmySpareTime who saved my head and my wall!

Livres1901 · 17/11/2023 07:31

This book went to court!

Mothership4two · 17/11/2023 05:41

Ugh that lion one was awful/bit rubbish. Didn't help that I hadn't watched the TV show that kind people were using to hint - or heard of the book!

Thanks for helpful hints

MadeinBelfast · 16/11/2023 21:44

Just finished, kicking myself over the kids reading at the front!

I wish you could click on the images and see your answers rather than just the message saying you've done that one. I think this was easier than last year or maybe I've just been reading more!

HalfasleepChrisintheMorning · 16/11/2023 21:31

Got it! Thank you

AnneShirleysNewDress · 16/11/2023 21:30

HalfasleepChrisintheMorning · 16/11/2023 21:23

I’m on 19 and still can’t get the lion one

This may be a bit random but it not far off the TV series about H but you need to translate belle.

Time40 · 16/11/2023 21:25

@HalfasleepChrisintheMorning Famous literary novel from about twenty years ago

Time40 · 16/11/2023 21:23

I got there! How much time have MNetters spent, collectively, on this thing today? I've lost several hours to it.

HalfasleepChrisintheMorning · 16/11/2023 21:23

I’m on 19 and still can’t get the lion one

Time40 · 16/11/2023 21:17

@Mothership4two the "lion" is a word that sounds like lion - actually nothing at all to do with lions.

Mothership4two · 16/11/2023 21:09

Time40 · 16/11/2023 21:02

Oh god, that bloody "lion", it drove me to despair - and it's one of my favourite books, too!

I've just got the science revision to go.

I've just got the science revision to go.

Very popular book last year and you need to have them before you can revise

JaninaDuszejko · 16/11/2023 21:08

Got14 all by myself but needed this thread for some help with the others. The Bestsellers and Lion were horrendous. Annoyingly I did think there might do the Best sellers one but still didn't manage it.

Interesting to see things that others have got stuck on. The Natural History one was the first one I got because of the child's costume. Used to be my favourite book though.

Mothership4two · 16/11/2023 21:07

Still can't work out the lion that is not a lion + beauty

Time40 · 16/11/2023 21:02

Oh god, that bloody "lion", it drove me to despair - and it's one of my favourite books, too!

I've just got the science revision to go.

Mothership4two · 16/11/2023 20:59

AnneShirleysNewDress · 16/11/2023 20:25

@Mothership4two Where in NY?

Thank you and @Stokey I have read that book but don't know much about NY layout! DS stayed with friends in that particular area last year as well.

AnneShirleysNewDress · 16/11/2023 20:30

Thank you @Stokey. I did the poem at school but just didn't click 😆

Stokey · 16/11/2023 20:26

@Mothership4two more specific than NY

You're nearly there with the first one.

@AnneShirleysNewDress it's a famous poem

AnneShirleysNewDress · 16/11/2023 20:25

@Mothership4two Where in NY?

Mothership4two · 16/11/2023 20:24

Two left:

Belle - guessing something Beauty - trying to think outside the box

Travel books - all set in New York is that significant?

Read all the clues but still stumped. Help!

AnneShirleysNewDress · 16/11/2023 20:23

I knew there would be a thread. I have 19, I'm stuck on the bin one.

CaptainMyCaptain · 16/11/2023 20:12

Time40 · 16/11/2023 19:46

Well, I've got as far as Demon Police Heads for the bestsellers, but unfortunately that's not a book. I can't find any books about a Rachel, Monica or Phoebe going anywhere, either.

Another word for Police. You're nearly there.

It's not the character from Friends going on holiday it's someone with the same name.

Time40 · 16/11/2023 20:00

@JassyRadlett Yay! At last! Thank you!

Lotsofpots · 16/11/2023 19:56

My comment above won't make sense as I've just realised that I have inadvertently been reading two threads on this, and it was some clues on the other thread that confused me.

JassyRadlett · 16/11/2023 19:55

Time40 · 16/11/2023 19:46

Well, I've got as far as Demon Police Heads for the bestsellers, but unfortunately that's not a book. I can't find any books about a Rachel, Monica or Phoebe going anywhere, either.

You are so painfully close on the bestsellers! Focus in on the police.

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