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Ten Pins Game: 2024-2025 season

The 2024-2025 Ten Pins Reading Game at Mystillery Lanes has closed for the season. Please join us again beginning October 1 2025.
Your goal is to knock down all ten pins by reading books with numbers in their titles, using additional books and a little math if needed. This game is seasonal (it alternates with Abra Cadavers). Read the General Information page and start knocking down pins!
As with all Mystillery challenges, short stories are welcome here! Check out your mystery anthologies/collections - shorts with numbers in titles are pretty common!
  (submit once for each pin).     Review previous games: 2021-20222022-20232023-2024

MYSTILLERY LEAGUE STANDINGS updated SUN APR 6 2025 @ 6.00 pm EDT convert
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David Salley
New York
9,000,030,237
The Nine Billion Names of God
(Clarke)
WILD CARD
Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea (Verne) / The Ten Thousand Doors of January (Harrow)
DIVISION
The Third Man and The Fallen Idol (Greene)
EXACT
The Big Four (Christie)
EXACT
A Pirate Looks at Fifty (Buffett) / Ten Lords a Leaping (Benison) DIVISION Twelve Sharp (Evanovich) / The Man Who Died Twice (Osman)
DIVISION
Twelve Drummers Drumming (Benison) - The Fifth Witness (Connelly) SUBTRACT Notorious Nineteen (Evanovich) - Eleven Pipers Piping (Benison) SUBTRACT Aisle Nine (Cho)
EXACT
The 100 (Morgan)
CREATIVE
Tina Hilbert
Ohio • Game 3
1,001,002,217 The Second You're Single (Tanamachi)
CREATIVE
A Hundred Summers (Williams)
WILD CARD
Santa 365 (Quinn)
CREATIVE
A Thousand Heartbeats (Cass)
WILD CARD
Santa 365 (Quinn)
CREATIVE
Santa 365 (Quinn)
CREATIVE
Seven Dirty Secrets (Richards)
EXACT
Not In A Billion Years (Isley)
WILD CARD
Million Dollar Cowboy (Wilde)
WILD CARD
The Darling Dahlia's and the Eleven O'clock Lady (Albert)
- When No One is Watching (Cole) SUBTRACT
Beth M
North Carolina
2061 The Other Half (Vassell)
+ Mislaid in Parts Half Known (McGuire) ADDITION
Six Crimson Cranes (Lim)
/ Third Gate (Child) DIVISION
30 and Out (Allyn)
/ Ten years, two days six hours (Hornsby) DIVISION
Everyone is Watching (Gudenkauf)
+ Triple Chocolate Cheesecake (Fluke) ADDITION
1949 (Jonasson & Sigurdarsdottir)
WILD CARD
Two Parts Sugar, One Part Murder (Burns)
+ Three Hours in Paris (Black) ADDITION
Third to Die (Brennan)
+ Three Bedrooms, One Corpse (Harris) ADDITION
Florence Uglietta Solari: a Full Life in 19 Fragments (Taylor)
SUBTRACT (9-1)
Fourteen Days (Atwood)
- Five Hat Minimum (Knadler) SUBTRACT
Five Bullet Friday (Honerman)
* Second Stranger (Griffin) MULTIPLY
SueC
Utah
861 First Man: The Life of Neil A. Armstrong (Hansen)
EXACT
Nancy Wake: WW Two's Most Rebellious Spy (Braddon)
EXACT
Three Inch Teeth (Box)
EXACT
We Three Queens, HRS #18 (Bowen)
WILD CARD
Agent 355 (Benedict)
CREATIVE
The Six: The Untold Story of America’s First Women Astronauts (Grush)
EXACT
Seven Days in May (Izzo)
EXACT
Agent
3+55
(Benedict)
CREATIVE
The 12 Days of Christmas (Alexander)
WILD CARD
Woman 99 (Macallister)
WILD CARD
Rick Mills
Maine
821 The Case of the One Eyed Witness (Gardner)
EXACT
Death Double (Nolan)
EXACT
The Third Floor Flat (Christie)
EXACT
The Torment IV (King)
EXACT
Operative 375 (Brandner)
WILD CARD
The Sixth Bench (Barr)
EXACT
Seven Were Veiled (Knight)
EXACT
13 at Dinner (Christie)
WILD CARD
The Sign of the "400" (Munkittrick)
WILD CARD
Ten Grains of Sand (Booth)
EXACT
Tina Hilbert
Ohio • Game 4
161 File Under: 13 Suspicious Incidents 1-6 (Snicket) + Nothing to Lose (Williams)
ADDITION
File Under: 1*3 Suspicious Incidents 1+6 (Snicket)
MULTIPLY
Five Bad Deeds (Frear)
EXACT
File Under: 13 Suspicious Incidents 13-7 (Snicket)
SUBTRACT
File Under: 13 Suspicious Incidents 1+6 (Snicket)
ADDITION
Midnight [24:00] is the Darkest Hour (Winstead)
/ A Letter to Three Witches (Bass) DIVIDE
File Under: 13 Suspicious Incidents 1-6 (Snicket) + Six Cloves Under (Jones)
ADDITION
Count to Ten (Rose)
EXACT
Linda B
Kentucky
151 One for the Money (Evanovich)
EXACT
Texas Twin Abduction (Vaughn)
EXACT
Three to Get Deadly (Evanovich)
EXACT
Four to Score (Evanovich)
EXACT
The New Couple in 5 B (Unger)
EXACT
Death of a Six Foot Teddy Bear (Dunn )
EXACT
Seven Keys to Baldpate (Biggers)
EXACT
Two for the Dough + Hot Six (Evanovich)
ADDITION
The Mystery of the 99 Steps (Keene)
WILD CARD
The Thirteenth Pearl (Keene) - Hot Triple Homicide (Patterson)
SUBTRACT
OutsmartYourShelf
The United Kingdom
111 One Wrong Turn (Ewan)
EXACT
The Second Stranger (Griffin)
CREATIVE
The Twelve Murders of Christmas (Dunnakey)
CREATIVE (1+2)
The Big Four (Christie)
EXACT
55 (Delargy)
WILD CARD
Zero Days (Ware)
WILD CARD
The Seven (Delvey)
EXACT
The Eight King Henrys of England (Potter)
EXACT
Session 9 (Francis+)
EXACT
Highway 13 (MacFarlane)
WILD CARD
Jjean
Texas
88 The #1 Lawyer (Patterson)
EXACT
23rd Midnight (Patterson)
CREATIVE
Third Degree (Patterson)
EXACT
Big Four (Christie)
EXACT
The Five Bells and Bladebone (Grimes)
EXACT
The 6 th Target (Patterson)
EXACT
The Seven Dials Mystery (Christie)
EXACT
Hard Eight (Plum)
EXACT
1*9 Minutes (Picoult)
MULTIPLY
Mid-Night Club (Patterson)
WILD CARD
Tina Hilbert
Ohio • Game 2
80.5 Baby, One More Time (Isley)
EXACT
Second Chance Christmas (Hanna)
CREATIVE
6 * 1/2 Body Parts (Bond)
MULTIPLY
The One For Me (Hanna) + The Third To Die (Brennan)
ADDITION
Two Parts Sugar, One Part Murder (Burns)+ Heartstopper Vol. 3 (Oseman)
ADDITION
7 Brides For 7 Bodies (Bond) - Two Parts Sugar, One Part Murder (Burns)
SUBTRACT
Seven Girls Gone (Brennan)
EXACT
11 Bodies Moving On (Bond) - Three To Get Deadly (Evanovich)
SUBTRACT
Nine Perfect Strangers (Moriarty)
EXACT
12 Bodies And A Wedding (Bond) - The Second You're Single (Tanamachi)
SUBTRACT
Melissa The Reading Nerd
New Jersey
80 The Guilty One (Modglin)
EXACT
Second Honeymoon (Patterson)
EXACT
Double Bosses (Gray) + The One (Marrs)
ADDITION
25 Days (Jacobsen)
WILD CARD
Twelve Drummers Drumming (Benison)
WILD CARD
Red River Seven (Ryan)
EXACT
The Seventh Girl (Maslen) + The Plus One (Lalli)
ADDITION
Midnight (McCulloch)
WILD CARD
The Vacancy In Room 10 (Glass)
EXACT
Tina Hilbert
Ohio • Game 1
65 2 Bodies For The Price Of 1 (Bond)
EXACT
2 Bodies For The Price Of 1 (Bond)
EXACT
3 Men And A Body (Bond)
EXACT
4 Bodies and a Funeral (Bond)
EXACT
5 Bodies to Die For (Bond)
EXACT
6 Killer Bodies (Bond)
EXACT
7 Brides For 7 Bodies (Bond)
EXACT
8 Bodies Is Enough (Bond)
EXACT
9 Bodies Rolling (Bond)
EXACT
10 Bodies Lying (Bond)
EXACT
JenneB
Pennsylvania
3 Two Parts Sugar, One Part Murder (Burns)
ADDITION
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