Hidden Books game 2023

[InMySpareTime]

I haven't seen a thread on this yet, so here's a thread to share hints for the Hidden Books Game this year:

https://hiddenbooks.nationalbooktokens.com/

It’s a Japanese English novelist and German word for the name, google it

I didn’t know half of these or the ones I didn’t know didn’t fit with the original pictures, so kept googling and then doing different variations of the words, some were really annoying as you had to put eg “The” before the rest of the title.

I spent a short while googling bestseller lists and book awards too.

Apart from work it’s literally the only workout my brain seems to have got recently!

@TinyTear
Was it yourself that got my 13.30 post hidden?
If you read through the thread, I put up a number of clues without revealing the answers.
The answer was in a post at 13.07.
Answer confirmed, by another poster, at 13.20.

Sorry, I've been reporting any posts with the actual book titles in.

Only reported two that actually mentioned the title

Thank you all so much. I finally finished thanks to your brilliant clues

I’ve got 16/20 but the Belle lion I’m stuck on as well as the love colourful books, the bestsellers bobbies and skull book stack, and mythology. Any clues please? :)

Fantasy is in Black and white but romance (another word for..?) is…

The lion one is so utterly stupid it hurt my brain. I only got it because another poster gave a very good clue about using the Waterstones search.

I was also stuck on the bestsellers one for ages. I actually got all the words but the way I was saying them in my head didn’t flow in the same way as the book title does when you say it. It was stressing me out SO much as it was the last one and I was keen to finish. I groaned when I actually got it.

If you google the names in the mythology titles you will find they all have two things in common - what they are and where they were. So 'Something' of 'Somewhere'.

The lion clue is awful, it's a real stretch to get the book from that. But it's almost a soundalike clue, if you say out loud the name of a very popular BBC police show it does sound a little like the book title.

The love clue has three bookshelves. Two topics are in monochrome, but the 'love' one is not.

Krampus/bobbies/skull was shortlisted for one of the book awards this year.

Quite a lot of them I haven't heard of-in particular the "bestsellers"!

Some of them are "say what you see" & that just about works for the Lion one I think.

Thank you everyone for the hints. I got 4 almost straight away but for the remainder, I had to use the clues you very kindly gave. I found last year's one much easier - maybe I should keep up with the book scene more 😀

Got all 20 in the end but not without the help from the clues on here. Thank you all! - still the door is a bit obscure though

I’ve got them all! Thanks all :)
same time next year? ;)

Morris dancer-where do they originate and the name for someone being treated by a paramedic

I thought the lion impossible well done to the first to figure that out

I'm totally stuck on the bin and the Romance bookshelf.

Not even with the clues so far.

The bin is a poem from 1922

Thanks.

Still had to Google it mind!

I really can't get this one. I know what it's meant to be but I'm getting something wrong somewhere. It's the only one I haven't done.

Written by a poet who really thought very deeply about cats.

@Zonder for the second word, what goes in a " x paper basket" type of bin?

@NoSquirrels and @InMySpareTime I've tried that several times but I'm not getting something right. I've tried with and without the at the beginning, and as one word and two. It just tells me that isn't it.

Oh FFS! I just did exactly the same again and it worked!

Try saving progress and logging back in. Some others have found that "unsticks" the game somehow