No object is mysterious. The mystery is your eye. ~Elizabeth Bowen
Are you ready for a little fun? So how about a new mystery photo game? I’ve been looking at everything with narrowed eyes this week while wondering if I could make this or that look mysterious. Even took a picture of Frankie’s paw today. Enlarged the picture, cropped it, and deleted it. Looked like a dogs paw no matter when I did to it. This photo may be the same. Well, you can be pretty sure it’s not Frankie’s paw. Pretty sure. 🙂
We’ve had fun with mystery photo games in the past. You can search through the archives with the clue words mystery photo or mystery picture and find some of them. Sometimes you readers are too smart for me and guess the photo right away and sometimes I stump most of you. My most successful mystery photo in the past is this one. I don’t think I would have guessed it if I’d been the one guessing instead of the one trying to be mysterious. I had no idea cedar needles looked like they were plaited.
The picture was a cedar tree which is common around where I live but only one person guessed it. I think she must have cheated somehow. LOL. Then again, she was a biology teacher.
Other pictures I’ve tried have hardly tricked anybody. Even those I sometimes thought were very mysterious. I have no idea whether this one I just posted up top will be hard to guess or not, but there it is awaiting your guesses.
Remember, it’s more fun if you leave your guess before you read everybody else’s guesses. And of course, there are prizes. A game has to have prizes, doesn’t it? And since it’s me giving the prizes and I happen to have some boxes of books in my basement, the prizes are guess what. Right. One of my books!!
Each Saturday while we’re playing this game for the next three weeks, I’ll pick one winner each of the first two weeks and two winners the last week. Each time you guess on a new mystery photo you’ll get another entry into the drawing (one entry per new mystery picture) and your name will stay in my drawing hat until the game is over at midnight EST on July 27, 2018. So that will be six mystery photos. I better be looking at things with an eye for mystery to come up with that many pictures. To enter just leave your guess in a comment here. The guess doesn’t have to be right and if you don’t want to guess, you can simply say, “I don’t know what it is but I still want to be in the drawing for a book.” The winners, chosen by random drawing, will get their choice of one of my books. My new release, River to Redemption, can be a choice. By the way, reviews are being posted and so far readers seem to like the story set in Springfield, Kentucky. That has me smiling as I work on edits for next summer’s release, a new Shaker novel, The Refuge.
Oh yeah, one more pesky rule about the contest game. You must be at least eighteen to enter the drawing, but feel free to get help with your guesses from your kids or grandkids if you want. Kids sometimes have the freshest eyes.
So ready, set, guess. I’m thinking this might be an easy one, but if you all guess it, I’ll work hard to be more mysterious on Wednesday night.
As always, thanks for reading.
One more note:
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Diana, I like your guess of cupcake papers, but you’re right that the more popular guess is butterfly wings. Sometimes the popular guess is right and sometimes it isn’t. Tonight I’ll post the rest of the picture.
Shirley, what will we fill that dough with? Cinnamon and sugar? Berries? Does sound yummy.
Linda, pasta has been the second most popular guess. Could be right. Could be wrong. We shall see tonight when I post a new mystery photo and the rest of this picture.
Looks like pasta shells to me, but I don’t feel that strongly about my guess!
it looks to me like cut out dough ready to be filled with something yummy
At first glance I saw cupcake papers or it may be butterfly wings.😁
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Linda, Janice, Laura, & Patty – butterfly does seem to be the popular guess. You’re either all wrong and I’m doing good or all right and I need to get more mysterious next time.
Connie, first thoughts can be best. It could be a coconut. Have you ever cut up a coconut?
Loretta, laughs are always good, but I’m going to have to look up phyllo dough and Arletta’s perogies and enhance my food vocabulary.
Love all your guesses. Thanks for playing.
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Edith and Amy, moths and butterflies are lovely and their wings can have interesting spots. We’ll see if you’re right when I reveal the rest of the picture on Wednesday night.
Ola, I love thinking flowers. And petals do fall on the ground that might be dark brown. Hmm, could be.
Lucy, your guess is making me hungry. Brownies, yum.
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Laura & Emily, I like your pasta pieces guess. Those shells could look like that. Might even be what it is. Maybe.
Lois, I loved potato cakes when I was a kid. Mom made them all the time because we had mashed potatoes a lot and so the leftovers always got used up in potato cakes. So maybe I was making some myself the other day and took a picture. Could be.
Lavon, I did say it wasn’t Frankie’s foot, but I didn’t say it wasn’t his leg! So wonder which is right Frankie’s leg or a butterfly wing??
Arletta, I don’t know what perogies are, so it’s not that. But thanks for the hint of how to make them look right should I ever figure out what they are and make them. 🙂 I like the fabric print guess too. And have you seen some of the bright dresses and tops these days. Nothing too regular about any of those prints. But then again, it could be a butterfly wing.
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Hi, guys. Love your guesses. So glad you dropped by to play my Mystery Photo game
Pat, I like your fish pieces. Maybe I was fixing supper and decided to pull out my phone to get a mystery going. I’ve been wanting to do one of something common. Fish are pretty common.
Darlene, at least you admit it when you’re stumped!
Margaret, Lisa, Marji, Paula – you all seem to have the popular guess. We shall see on Wednesday night whether you’re popularly right.
Una, nothing wrong with your eyesight. Definitely spots on something. LOL.
Looking at other people’s comments, I can see that it might be a butterfly wing. First thing I thought was some sort of pasta shells 😁
You were making something with phyllo dough. A phyllo cup to hold pudding…or some such.
You’re welcome for the laugh 🙂
Yellow spots on the butterfly wing.
Spots on one of the butterflies that you have photographed!
I know my guess is not anywhere close to what this actual picture might be, but the first thing it looked like to me was pieces of a real coconut cut up.
Close up of a butterfly wing!