2023-2024 Ten Pins Game ✅

 

 

2023-2024 Ten Pins Game

Hosted By: Rick Mills

Official Challenge Page

Lanes Open October 1, 2023 - March 31, 2024

Summary of Rules: 

Any genre of any book read starting Jan. 1, 2023 through March 31, 2024 qualifies.  Books with 2 numbers in the title can be used twice (once per each number). Books with Zero or Eleven and above are Wild Cards. Exact numbers are not necessary.  You can add, subtract, multiply or divide up to 2 books to get to each target, but the more books used gives a higher score. You can change or rearrange books to reach the goals.  

Goal: all 10 pins  COMPLETED 12/12 19 books 

My List 

1 = 2-1

• It Takes Two To Mango by Carrie Doyle
• One Of The Girls by Lucy Clarke

2 = 1*2

• The Graveyard Book Vol. 1 by Neil Giaman
• The Graveyard Book Vol. 2 by Neil Giaman

3 = 1+2        

• Heartstopper Vol. 1 by Alice Oseman
• Heartstopper Vol. 2 by Alice Oseman

4 = 5-1

• Murder 101 by Lynn Cahoon (101=5 in binary)
• One Poison Pie by Lynn Cahoon

5 = 20/4

• Chasing the Devil: My 20-Year Quest To Capture the Green River Killer by David Reichert
• Four and Twenty Blackbirds by Agatha Christie

6 = 12-6

• The Twelve Clues of Christmas by P.D. James
• The Amelia Six by Kristin L. Gray

7 = 6+1

• Secluded Cabin Sleeps Six by Lisa Unger
• The Only One Left by Riley Sager

8 = 20-12

• Four and Twenty Blackbirds by Agatha Christie
• Midnight Pleasures by Eloisa James (midnight = 12)

9 = 3x3

• Three Blind Mice by Agatha Christie
• The Third Floor Flat by Agatha Christie

10 = 13-3

• Warren The 13th and the All-Seeing Eye by Tania del Rio
• Three Act Tragedy by Agatha Christie

Books to be used: On my TBR

1

• ✅Heartstopper Vol. 1 by Alice Oseman (3)
• ✅One Poison Pie by Lynn Cahoon (4)
• ✅One Of The Girls by Lucy Clarke (1)
• ✅The Graveyard Book Vol. 1 by Neil Giaman (2)
  
• ✅The Only One Left by Riley Sager (7)
• One Was Lost by Natalie D. Richards
• Two Parts Sugar, One Part Murder by Valerie Burns
• Once Upon A Dream by Liz Braswell
• The Chosen One by Carol Lynch Williams
• The Twisted One by T. Kingfisher

2 

• ✅Heartstopper Vol. 2 by Alice Oseman (3)
• ✅It Takes Two To Mango by Carrie Doyle (1)
• ✅The Graveyard Book Vol. 2 by Neil Giaman (2)
• They Both Die At The End by Adam Silvera
• Two Wicked Desserts by Lynn Cahoon
• Two Parts Sugar, One Part Murder by Valerie Burns
• The Couple Next Door by Shari Lapena

3 

• ✅Three Act Tragedy by Agatha Christie (10)
• ✅Three Blind Mice by Agatha Christie (9)
• ✅The Third Floor Flat by Agatha Christie (9)
• Three Men And A Body by Stephanie Bond
• The Third To Die (#1) by Allison Brennan
• Three Tainted Teas (#3) by Lynn Cahoon

4

• ✅Four and Twenty Blackbirds by Agatha Christie (5)
• Four Found Dead by Natalie D. Richards
• 4 Bodies and a Funeral (#4) by Stephanie Bond
• Four Charming Spells (#4) by Lynn Cahoon CS2023
• 4 Sleuths And A Bachlorette (#1) by Leslie Langtry
• 4 Sleuths And A Burlesque Dancer (#2) by Leslie Langtry
• 4 Sleuths And A Barnstormer (#3) by Leslie Langtry

5

• 5 Bodies to Die For (#5) by Stephanie Bond

6

• ✅The Amelia Six by Kristin L. Gray (6)
• ✅Secluded Cabin Sleeps Six by Lisa Unger (7)
• Victim Six by Gregg Olsen
• 6 Killer Bodies by Stephanie Bond
• 6 1/2 Body Parts (#6.5) by Stephanie Bond

7

• The House Of The Seven Gables by Nathaniel Hawthorne
• Seven Dirty Secrets by Natalie D. Richards
• Seven Girls Gone (#4) by Allison Brennan
• 7 Brides For 7 Bodies (#7) by Stephanie Bond
• 7 Brides For 7 Bodies (#7) by Stephanie Bond
• The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo by Taylor Jenkins

8

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9

• Nine Perfect Strangers by Liane Moriarty
• Nine, Ten: A September 11 Story by Nora Raleigh Baskin

10

• Nine, Ten: A September 11 Story by Nora Raleigh Baskin
• The Tenth Girl by Sara Faring
• The Woman in Cabin 10 by Ruth Ware

Wild Cards ~ 0 and Higher than 9

• ✅Murder 101 by Lynn Cahoon (4)
• ✅Chasing the Devil: My 20-Year Quest To Capture the Green River Killer by David Reichert (5)
• ✅Four and Twenty Blackbirds by Agatha Christie (8)
• ✅Warren The 13th and the All-Seeing Eye by Tania del Rio (10)
• ✅Midnight Pleasures by Eloisa James (8)
• ✅The Twelve Clues of Christmas by P.D. James (6)
• 15 Minutes of Flame by Christin Brecher
• Nothing More To Tell by Karen M. McManus
• 6 1/2 Body Parts (#6.5) by Stephanie Bond
• Fifty Fifty by Steve Cavanagh
• Fifty Fifty by Steve Cavanagh
• TH1RT3EN by Steve Cavanagh
• TH1RT3EN by Steve Cavanagh
• Nine, Ten: A September 11 Story by Nora Raleigh Baskin
• The Darling Dahlia's and the Eleven O'clock Lady (#6) by Susan Wittig Albert
• Death By The Dozen (#3) by Jenn McKinlay
• High Midnight (#6) by Stuart M. Kaminsky
• 48 Hours To Kill by Andrew Bourelle
• The Thirteenth Cat by Mary Downing Hahn
• 12 Months to Live by James Patterson