The Enid Blyton Society

Wild guess time:

"Give Bill my love and tell him if he leads Bob into anything, I'll never, never forgive him!"

Oooh... almost, but not quite. In the meantime, here are Eddie's Gs:

"G I V E / _ I _ _ / _ _ / _ _ V E / A N _ / T E _ _ / _ I _ / I F / _ E / _ E A _ _ / _ _ _ / I N T _ /
A N _ T _ I N G / I ' _ _ / N E V E R , / N E V E R / F _ R G I V E / _ I _ ! "

Is it "you" rather than Dave's idea of it being a name? It sounds like Allie's warning as she leaves the children on the Ship and Bill is coming out in her place.

It is indeed, Daisy — and that's where it's from, too.

Well done to both you and Dave — I'll leave it to the two of you to decide who goes next...

I'm happy for Dave to take it... he did all the work!

Hmmmm, I'm not sure it should have gone to me. It merely encourages people not to have a guess.

However, here's the next one.

"+++++!” / ++++++ / +++ / +++++++ / ++ / +++ / +++ / ++ / +++ / +++++

Dave

Why would that encourage people not to have a guess? I should think it shows that guessing is worthwhile, if you've got a good idea of what it might be.

Can we start with A, please?

It's just that not many people seem to dare to have a guess. It's different in the original game, where you are racing against completion of the scaffold and le pendu scene.

Here's three As for you.

"+++++!” / +A++++ / +++ / +++++A+ / A+ / +++ / +++ / ++ / +++ / +++++

We could always introduce the scaffold, if only there was a way of drawing it in here...

Let's have an E now, please.

We wouldn't need to draw a scaffold. as we could just put "Guesses left - 10" and reduce the number accordingly. But I don't think it would help - it would just make people even less inclined to guess.

Four x E for you.

"+++++!” / +A++E+ / ++E / +++++A+ / A+ / ++E / +++ / ++ / +++ / ++++E

I thought along similar lines Dave and came to the same conclusion.

S please

One S only.

"+++++!” / +A++E+ / ++E / +++++A+ / A+ / ++E / +++ / ++ / ++S / ++++E

Got any Os?

4 x O

"++++O!” / +A++E+ / ++E / +++++A+ / A+ / ++E / +O+ / O+ / ++S / +O++E

T please