Ten Pins Game: 2025-2026 season

	The 2025-2026 Ten Pins Reading Game at Mystillery Lanes is now open!
	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: 2021-2022 • 2022-2023 • 2023-2024 • 2024-2025

MYSTILLERY TEAM STANDINGS updated TUE JAN 6 2026 @ 5.00 pm EST convert

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Score

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SueC
Utah

5898.5

One Woman's War (Wells)
EXACT

Wonder Women: 25 Innovators, Inventors... (Maggs)
CREATIVE

Thrice the Brindled Cat Hath Mew'd (Bradley)
EXACT

Montana 1948 (Watson)
CREATIVE

Wonder Women: 25 Innovators, Inventors... (Maggs)
CREATIVE

Montana 1948 (Watson)
CREATIVE

I Am Half Sick of Shadows (Bradley)
WILD CARD

Melissa The Reading Nerd
New Jersey

369

Three Mages and a Margarita (Marie)
EXACT

Fifty Fifty (Cavanagh)
WILD CARD

Five Total Strangers (Richards)
EXACT

The 11 : 59 Bomber (Karp)
WILD CARD

Witness 8 (Cavanagh)
EXACT

Thirteen (Cavanagh)
WILD CARD

Fifty Fifty (Cavanagh)
WILD CARD

OutsmartYourShelf
The United Kingdom

259.5

One in Custody (Casey)
EXACT

The Train from Platform 2 (Steel)
EXACT

Three Rivers (Winder)
EXACT

55 (Delargy)
WILD CARD

Room 55 (Boye)
CREATIVE

The Six Murders of Daphne St Clair (Common)
EXACT

The Seven (Delvey)
EXACT

The Eight King Henrys of England (Potter)
EXACT

4.50 from Paddington (Christie)
CREATIVE
(4+5+0)

120 Murders (Mamatas+)
WILD CARD

Bev "Striker" Hankins
Indiana

255

One Fell Sloop (Kenney)
EXACT

A Thief or Two (Woods)
EXACT

The Three Coffins (Carr)
EXACT

The Four of Hearts (Queen)
EXACT

Bodies from the Library 5 (Medawar,ed.)
EXACT

Six Nuns & a Shotgun (Watson)
EXACT

Seven Great Detective Stories (Larson, ed.)
EXACT

The World's Best 100 Detective Stories Vol 8 (Thwing, ed.)
WILD CARD

The Nine Waxed Faces (Beeding)
EXACT

The World's Best 100 Detective Stories: Vol. 10 (Thwing,ed.)
EXACT

Linda B
Kentucky

215

Murder 101
(Cahoon)
WILD CARD

Two Wicked Desserts
(Cahoon)
EXACT

One Poison Pie
(Cahoon)+ Two Little Girls in Blue
(Clark)
ADDITION

The Four of Hearts
(Queen)
EXACT

Five Furry Familiars
(Cahoon)
EXACT

The Cat Who Had 60 Whiskers
(Braun)
WILD CARD

Death in Room 7
(Emrick)
EXACT

11th Hour
(Patterson & Paetro) - The Third Circle
(Quick)
SUBTRACT

Nine Lives
(Staub)
EXACT

Count to Ten
(Patterson & Sanghi)
EXACT

Jjean
Texas

149

One False Move (Coben)
EXACT

Twice Kissed (Jackson)
EXACT

The Third Degree (Iles)
EXACT

Big Four (Christie)
EXACT

Five Little Pigs (Christie)
EXACT

Six of Crows (Bardugo)
EXACT

Seven For A Secret (Holt)
EXACT

High Noon (Roberts)
WILD CARD

November 9 (Hoover)
EXACT

100 Dollar Baby (Holt)
CREATIVE

Beth M
North Carolina

118

7 Girls Gone (Brennan) / 7th Heaven (Patterson)
DIVIDE

6th Target (Patterson) - 4th of July (Patterson)
SUBTRACT

My Two-legs (Yi) + 1st to Die (Patterson)
ADDITION

A Very Merry 90's Christmas (Kelliher) + The Lonely One (Pronzini)
ADDITION

Rick "Gutterball" Mills
Maine

The Four Just Men (Wallace)
- Three at Wolfe's Door (Stout)
SUBTRACT

Double for Death (Stout)
EXACT

Again the Three Just Men (Wallace)
EXACT

Four Frightened Women (Coxe)
EXACT

The Seven Dials Mystery (Christie)
EXACT

Eight Perfect Murders (Swanson)
EXACT

JenneB
Pennsylvania

One Poison Pie (Cahoon)
EXACT

3 X 3 (Craig)
MULTIPLY

2024-2025 season team below this line (will be shown until Feb 1 2026)

David Salley
New York

Tina Hilbert
Ohio

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