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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: 2021-20222022-20232023-20242024-2025

MYSTILLERY TEAM STANDINGS updated SAT JAN 31 2026 @ 10.00 AM EST convert
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updated SueC
Utah
5924.5 One Woman's War (Wells)
EXACT
Stubby the War Dog... WW 1 + Unraveling Freeddom... WW 1 (Bausum)
ADDITION
Thrice the Brindled Cat Hath Mew'd (Bradley)
EXACT
Montana 1948 (Watson)
CREATIVE
In the Time of Five Pumpkins (Smith)
EXACT
44 Scotland Street (Smith)
WILD CARD
Wonder Women: 2 + 5 Innovators, Inventors... (Maggs)
ADDITION
Montana 1948 (Watson)
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
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
moved up updated Tina Hilbert
Ohio
138.5 updated There Should Have Been Eight (Singh)
- Seven Up (Evanovich)
SUBTRACT
updated Hard Eight (Evanovich)
- Daisy Jones and the Six (Reid)
SUBTRACT
updated First Lie Wins (Elston)
+ The Second Stranger (Griffin)
ADDITION
updated Ten Big Ones (Evanovich)
- Hot Six (Evanovich)
SUBTRACT
updated Close Your Eyes and Count to Ten (Unger)
* Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince (Rowling)
MULTIPLY
updated The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo (Reid)
- No One Left to Tell (Rose)
SUBTRACT
updated Eleven On Top (Evanovich)
- Four To Score (Evanovich)
SUBTRACT
updated To The Nines (Evanovich)
- Ten Big Ones (Evanovich)
SUBTRACT
updated Twenty Seven Minutes (Tate)
/ The Three Sisters (Unger)
DIVISION
updated High Five (Evanovich)
* Double Fudge Brownie Murder (Fluke)
MULTIPLY
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
31 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
7 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
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      Ambiguous instructions and arbitrary rules are found on the General Information page.

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Scoresum of all numbers in your submissions



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