# Pi Day game - open a book to page 3, line 14 **URL:** \ **Category:** Thread Games\ **Created:** [March 14, 2016, 4:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pi-day-game-open-a-book-to-page-3-line-14/748984 "2016-03-14T16:51:36Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 19\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Rigamarole](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/77aa72/32.png) [@Rigamarole](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rigamarole)\ **Post date:** [March 14, 2016, 4:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pi-day-game-open-a-book-to-page-3-line-14/748984/1 "2016-03-14T16:51:36Z")
And post the sentence there. From _A Dance With Dragons (A Song of Ice and Fire)_ by George R.R. Martin, Kindle edition: > [@](#): > > Only man stripped the skins from other beasts and wore their hides and hair. ---
**Author:** ![buddha\_david](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ee7513/32.png) [@buddha\_david](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/buddha_david)\ **Post date:** [March 14, 2016, 4:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pi-day-game-open-a-book-to-page-3-line-14/748984/2 "2016-03-14T16:58:11Z")
_Percy Jackson & the Olympians: The Lightning Thief_ by Rick Riordan: > [@](#): > > You should’ve seen him run when it was enchilada day in the cafeteria. ---
**Author:** ![IvoryTowerDenizen](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ivorytowerdenizen/32/17937_2.png) [@IvoryTowerDenizen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/IvoryTowerDenizen)\ **Post date:** [March 14, 2016, 5:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pi-day-game-open-a-book-to-page-3-line-14/748984/3 "2016-03-14T17:40:47Z")
Moved to Thread Games ---
**Author:** ![swampspruce](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/swampspruce/32/261_2.png) [@swampspruce](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/swampspruce)\ **Post date:** [March 14, 2016, 5:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pi-day-game-open-a-book-to-page-3-line-14/748984/4 "2016-03-14T17:45:51Z")
From Randy Bachman’s _Vinyl Tap Stories_: Her I was, this hysterical little kid with a violin case, walking back to the toy soldiers. ---
**Author:** ![Prof.Pepperwinkle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/prof.pepperwinkle/32/13627_2.png) [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Prof.Pepperwinkle)\ **Post date:** [March 14, 2016, 5:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pi-day-game-open-a-book-to-page-3-line-14/748984/5 "2016-03-14T17:47:23Z")
_Reaper Man_ by Terry Pratchett: > [@](#): > > Supposing it decided to _like_ people? ---
**Author:** ![Jophiel](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jophiel/32/66_2.png) [@Jophiel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jophiel)\ **Post date:** [March 14, 2016, 5:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pi-day-game-open-a-book-to-page-3-line-14/748984/6 "2016-03-14T17:50:06Z")
_Manual of Woody Landscape Plants: Their Identification, Ornamental Characteristics, Culture, Propogation & Uses_ 5th ed. by Michael A. Dirr > [@](#): > > Other taxa including ‘Dwarf’, ‘Dwarf Pink’, and ‘Dwarf Purple’ that I have collected, when flowered in the greenhouse, appear nothing more than ‘Edward Groucher’ renames. ---
**Author:** ![quiltguy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/q/e47774/32.png) [@quiltguy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/quiltguy)\ **Post date:** [March 14, 2016, 7:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pi-day-game-open-a-book-to-page-3-line-14/748984/7 "2016-03-14T19:01:06Z")
Brewer’s Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, Centenary Edition, Revised by Ivor H. Evans _Abo, shortened form of aborigine in general colloquial used in Australia_ G’day! 🆒 ---
**Author:** ![SpoilerVirgin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/4491bb/32.png) [@SpoilerVirgin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SpoilerVirgin)\ **Post date:** [March 14, 2016, 7:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pi-day-game-open-a-book-to-page-3-line-14/748984/8 "2016-03-14T19:55:24Z")
_Foucault’s Pendulum_ by Umberto Eco > [@](#): > > I knew - but anyone could have sensed it in the magic of that serene breathing - that the period was governed by the square root of the length of the wire and by _it_, that number which, however irrational to sublunar minds, through a higher rationality binds the circumference and diameter of all possible circles. Unbelievable but true. I’m reading it on my Kindle, so I went to page 3, counted 14 lines, and found this sentence on lines 6-15. Pi Day indeed. ---
**Author:** ![Rigamarole](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/77aa72/32.png) [@Rigamarole](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rigamarole)\ **Post date:** [March 14, 2016, 8:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pi-day-game-open-a-book-to-page-3-line-14/748984/9 "2016-03-14T20:26:55Z")
> [@SpoilerVirgin](#): > > _Foucault’s Pendulum_ by Umberto Eco > > Unbelievable but true. I’m reading it on my Kindle, so I went to page 3, counted 14 lines, and found this sentence on lines 6-15. Pi Day indeed. I suppose that’s a threadwinner. ---
**Author:** ![Skywatcher](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/skywatcher/32/254_2.png) [@Skywatcher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skywatcher)\ **Post date:** [March 14, 2016, 10:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pi-day-game-open-a-book-to-page-3-line-14/748984/10 "2016-03-14T22:28:12Z")
As You Wish: Inconceivable Tales from the Making of _The Princess Bride_ by Cary Elwes with Joe Layden > [@](#): > > But to counter that sadness is the camaraderie of being back with those who are here tonight and who stood alongisde me so many years ago: Rob Reiner, Billy Crystal, Carl Kane, Wallace Shawn, Chris Sarandon, and Mandy Patinkin, not to mention Robin Wright, looking as lovely as she did the day I first laid eyes on her so many years ago. ---
**Author:** ![snfaulkner](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/snfaulkner/32/433_2.png) [@snfaulkner](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/snfaulkner)\ **Post date:** [March 14, 2016, 10:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pi-day-game-open-a-book-to-page-3-line-14/748984/11 "2016-03-14T22:32:16Z")
From _Avocent AMX switch series Installer/user guide_ > [@](#): > > Use it to assign names to attached target devices and users, designate user access rights, monitor switching system events, and upgrade firmware. Pretty boring, I know. It’s the only book I have in arms reach. ---
**Author:** ![panache45](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/panache45/32/64_2.png) [@panache45](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/panache45)\ **Post date:** [March 15, 2016, 1:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pi-day-game-open-a-book-to-page-3-line-14/748984/12 "2016-03-15T01:07:53Z")
From \*Roget’s International Thesaurus, \*Third Edition (lines 10-17): \*\*4. inner nature, \*\*inside, internal, inner or esoteric reality, true being, essential nature, true inwardness, center of life, vital principle; \*\*spirit, soul, heart, breast, bosom, inner man; \*\*heart of hearts, inmost heart or soul, secret or innermost recesses of the heart, heart’s core, bottom of the heart, cockles of the heart; vitals, quick. ---
**Author:** ![Thin\_Ice](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/aeb1de/32.png) [@Thin\_Ice](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Thin_Ice)\ **Post date:** [March 18, 2016, 8:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pi-day-game-open-a-book-to-page-3-line-14/748984/13 "2016-03-18T20:32:47Z")
_Flamingo Road_ by Robert Wilder: > [@](#): > > High in the silent trees a light wind crept through the branches, sending a scattered shower of copper-brown pine needles to the ground. ---
**Author:** ![Ethilrist](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ethilrist/32/4604_2.png) [@Ethilrist](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ethilrist)\ **Post date:** [March 18, 2016, 9:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pi-day-game-open-a-book-to-page-3-line-14/748984/14 "2016-03-18T21:07:41Z")
_Deep Wizardry,_ by Diane Duane: > [@](#): > > One of the beaches in the Hamptons, maybe. ---
**Author:** ![jtur88](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/e9c0ed/32.png) [@jtur88](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jtur88)\ **Post date:** [March 28, 2016, 2:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pi-day-game-open-a-book-to-page-3-line-14/748984/15 "2016-03-28T02:54:19Z")
“A Death in the Family” by James Agee (Bantam Books edition) starts on page 11. Page three lists other books by the same author, and there are fewer than 14 lines. ---
**Author:** ![Thin\_Ice](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/aeb1de/32.png) [@Thin\_Ice](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Thin_Ice)\ **Post date:** [March 28, 2016, 10:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pi-day-game-open-a-book-to-page-3-line-14/748984/16 "2016-03-28T22:12:20Z")
_Cuba Libre_ by Elmore Leonard: > [@](#): > > Tyler stepped aboard with his saddle and gear to mind the animals himself. ---
**Author:** ![SCAdian](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/scadian/32/3292_2.png) [@SCAdian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SCAdian)\ **Post date:** [April 6, 2016, 1:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pi-day-game-open-a-book-to-page-3-line-14/748984/17 "2016-04-06T01:42:49Z")
_Europe Between the Oceans 9000 BC-AD 1000_, by Barry Cunliffe: In this way the northern extremities of Europe, hitherto unknown except to those who lived there, were drawn into the consciousness of the rest of Europe. (The actual line 14 consists of the last four words of that sentence.) ---
**Author:** ![Little\_Nemo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/little_nemo/32/3120_2.png) [@Little\_Nemo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Nemo)\ **Post date:** [April 6, 2016, 1:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pi-day-game-open-a-book-to-page-3-line-14/748984/18 "2016-04-06T01:57:50Z")
> [@](#): > > Marlena > Alvarez played her part in bringing us out here and his- > tory says her death was not in vain. But my great- > grandmother knew better. _Time Future_ by Maxine McArthur. (I underlined the portion that was printed on line 14.) ---
**Author:** ![Mona\_Lisa\_Simpson](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/ce7236/32.png) [@Mona\_Lisa\_Simpson](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mona_Lisa_Simpson)\ **Post date:** [April 25, 2016, 4:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pi-day-game-open-a-book-to-page-3-line-14/748984/19 "2016-04-25T16:09:50Z")
Night, Elie Wiesel He sang, or rather he chanted, and the few snatches I caught here and there spoke of divine suffering, of the Shekhinah in Exile, where, according to Kabbalah, it awaits its redemption linked to that of man. (lines 13-16)