# The Atoz Game (Part 1)

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-atoz-game-part-1/846920>\
**Category:** Thread Games\
**Created:** [January 24, 2020, 9:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-atoz-game-part-1/846920 "2020-01-24T21:53:33Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 20\
**Page:** 69

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**Post date:** [March 21, 2020, 3:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-atoz-game-part-1/846920/1361 "2020-03-21T03:23:10Z")

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Works of Literature

As You Like It - William Shakespeare  
Beowulf - an Anglo-Saxon poet  
Cat on a Hot Tin Roof - Tennessee Williams  
David Copperfield - Charles Dickens  
Emma - Jane Austen  
Fahrenheit 451 - Ray Bradbury  
Gulliver’s Travels - Jonathan Swift  
Hamlet - William Shakespeare  
Iliad - Homer  
Jarhead - Anthony Swofford  
King Lear - William Shakespeare  
Lord of the Flies - William Golding/Life on the Mississippi - Mark Twain  
Moby Dick - Herman Melville  
Native Son - Richard Wright  
Orlando- Virginia Woolf  
Pickwick Papers - Charles Dickens  
Quo Vadis - Henryk Sienkiewicz  
Red Harvest - Dashiell Hammett

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**Author:** ![Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/7cd45c/32.png) [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elendil_s_Heir)\
**Post date:** [March 21, 2020, 3:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-atoz-game-part-1/846920/1362 "2020-03-21T03:55:56Z")

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Works of Literature

As You Like It - William Shakespeare  
Beowulf - an Anglo-Saxon poet  
Cat on a Hot Tin Roof - Tennessee Williams  
David Copperfield - Charles Dickens  
Emma - Jane Austen  
Fahrenheit 451 - Ray Bradbury  
Gulliver’s Travels - Jonathan Swift  
Hamlet - William Shakespeare  
Iliad - Homer  
Jarhead - Anthony Swofford  
King Lear - William Shakespeare  
Lord of the Flies - William Golding/Life on the Mississippi - Mark Twain  
Moby Dick - Herman Melville  
Native Son - Richard Wright  
Orlando- Virginia Woolf  
Pickwick Papers - Charles Dickens  
Quo Vadis - Henryk Sienkiewicz  
Red Harvest - Dashiell Hammett  
Sarah, Plain and Tall - Patricia MacLachlan

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**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 21, 2020, 5:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-atoz-game-part-1/846920/1363 "2020-03-21T05:09:46Z")

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Works of Literature

As You Like It - William Shakespeare  
Beowulf - an Anglo-Saxon poet  
Cat on a Hot Tin Roof - Tennessee Williams  
David Copperfield - Charles Dickens  
Emma - Jane Austen  
Fahrenheit 451 - Ray Bradbury  
Gulliver’s Travels - Jonathan Swift  
Hamlet - William Shakespeare  
Iliad - Homer  
Jarhead - Anthony Swofford  
King Lear - William Shakespeare  
Lord of the Flies - William Golding/Life on the Mississippi - Mark Twain  
Moby Dick - Herman Melville  
Native Son - Richard Wright  
Orlando- Virginia Woolf  
Pickwick Papers - Charles Dickens  
Quo Vadis - Henryk Sienkiewicz  
Red Harvest - Dashiell Hammett  
Sarah, Plain and Tall - Patricia MacLachlan  
To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee

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**Author:** ![don\_t\_ask](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e68b1a/32.png) [@don\_t\_ask](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/don_t_ask)\
**Post date:** [March 21, 2020, 5:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-atoz-game-part-1/846920/1364 "2020-03-21T05:16:00Z")

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Works of Literature

As You Like It - William Shakespeare  
Beowulf - an Anglo-Saxon poet  
Cat on a Hot Tin Roof - Tennessee Williams  
David Copperfield - Charles Dickens  
Emma - Jane Austen  
Fahrenheit 451 - Ray Bradbury  
Gulliver’s Travels - Jonathan Swift  
Hamlet - William Shakespeare  
Iliad - Homer  
Jarhead - Anthony Swofford  
King Lear - William Shakespeare  
Lord of the Flies - William Golding/Life on the Mississippi - Mark Twain  
Moby Dick - Herman Melville  
Native Son - Richard Wright  
Orlando- Virginia Woolf  
Pickwick Papers - Charles Dickens  
Quo Vadis - Henryk Sienkiewicz  
Red Harvest - Dashiell Hammett  
Sarah, Plain and Tall - Patricia MacLachlan  
To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee  
Ulysses - James Joyce

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**Author:** ![Spoons](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/spoons/32/3141_2.png) [@Spoons](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spoons)\
**Post date:** [March 21, 2020, 5:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-atoz-game-part-1/846920/1365 "2020-03-21T05:37:12Z")

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Works of Literature

As You Like It - William Shakespeare  
Beowulf - an Anglo-Saxon poet  
Cat on a Hot Tin Roof - Tennessee Williams  
David Copperfield - Charles Dickens  
Emma - Jane Austen  
Fahrenheit 451 - Ray Bradbury  
Gulliver’s Travels - Jonathan Swift  
Hamlet - William Shakespeare  
Iliad - Homer  
Jarhead - Anthony Swofford  
King Lear - William Shakespeare  
Lord of the Flies - William Golding/Life on the Mississippi - Mark Twain  
Moby Dick - Herman Melville  
Native Son - Richard Wright  
Orlando- Virginia Woolf  
Pickwick Papers - Charles Dickens  
Quo Vadis - Henryk Sienkiewicz  
Red Harvest - Dashiell Hammett  
Sarah, Plain and Tall - Patricia MacLachlan  
To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee  
Ulysses - James Joyce  
Vanity Fair - William Makepeace Thackeray

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**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 21, 2020, 5:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-atoz-game-part-1/846920/1366 "2020-03-21T05:48:02Z")

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Works of Literature

As You Like It - William Shakespeare  
Beowulf - an Anglo-Saxon poet  
Cat on a Hot Tin Roof - Tennessee Williams  
David Copperfield - Charles Dickens  
Emma - Jane Austen  
Fahrenheit 451 - Ray Bradbury  
Gulliver’s Travels - Jonathan Swift  
Hamlet - William Shakespeare  
Iliad - Homer  
Jarhead - Anthony Swofford  
King Lear - William Shakespeare  
Lord of the Flies - William Golding/Life on the Mississippi - Mark Twain  
Moby Dick - Herman Melville  
Native Son - Richard Wright  
Orlando- Virginia Woolf  
Pickwick Papers - Charles Dickens  
Quo Vadis - Henryk Sienkiewicz  
Red Harvest - Dashiell Hammett  
Sarah, Plain and Tall - Patricia MacLachlan  
To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee  
Ulysses - James Joyce  
Vanity Fair - William Makepeace Thackeray  
Wuthering Heights - Emily Bronte

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**Author:** ![gkster](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gkster/32/14107_2.png) [@gkster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gkster)\
**Post date:** [March 21, 2020, 6:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-atoz-game-part-1/846920/1367 "2020-03-21T06:12:02Z")

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Works of Literature

As You Like It - William Shakespeare  
Beowulf - an Anglo-Saxon poet  
Cat on a Hot Tin Roof - Tennessee Williams  
David Copperfield - Charles Dickens  
Emma - Jane Austen  
Fahrenheit 451 - Ray Bradbury  
Gulliver’s Travels - Jonathan Swift  
Hamlet - William Shakespeare  
Iliad - Homer  
Jarhead - Anthony Swofford  
King Lear - William Shakespeare  
Lord of the Flies - William Golding/Life on the Mississippi - Mark Twain  
Moby Dick - Herman Melville  
Native Son - Richard Wright  
Orlando- Virginia Woolf  
Pickwick Papers - Charles Dickens  
Quo Vadis - Henryk Sienkiewicz  
Red Harvest - Dashiell Hammett  
Sarah, Plain and Tall - Patricia MacLachlan  
To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee  
Ulysses - James Joyce  
Vanity Fair - William Makepeace Thackeray  
Wuthering Heights - Emily Bronte  
Xingu - Edith Wharton

A short story which explores themes similar to her novels _The Age of Innocence_ and _The House of Mirth_, satirizing the hypocrisy of “Society” women.

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**Author:** ![jtur88](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/e9c0ed/32.png) [@jtur88](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jtur88)\
**Post date:** [March 21, 2020, 9:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-atoz-game-part-1/846920/1368 "2020-03-21T09:21:00Z")

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Works of Literature

As You Like It - William Shakespeare  
Beowulf - an Anglo-Saxon poet  
Cat on a Hot Tin Roof - Tennessee Williams  
David Copperfield - Charles Dickens  
Emma - Jane Austen  
Fahrenheit 451 - Ray Bradbury  
Gulliver’s Travels - Jonathan Swift  
Hamlet - William Shakespeare  
Iliad - Homer  
Jarhead - Anthony Swofford  
King Lear - William Shakespeare  
Lord of the Flies - William Golding/Life on the Mississippi - Mark Twain  
Moby Dick - Herman Melville  
Native Son - Richard Wright  
Orlando- Virginia Woolf  
Pickwick Papers - Charles Dickens  
Quo Vadis - Henryk Sienkiewicz  
Red Harvest - Dashiell Hammett  
Sarah, Plain and Tall - Patricia MacLachlan  
To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee  
Ulysses - James Joyce  
Vanity Fair - William Makepeace Thackeray  
Wuthering Heights - Emily Bronte  
Xingu - Edith Wharton  
Yearling, The – Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings

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**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 21, 2020, 5:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-atoz-game-part-1/846920/1369 "2020-03-21T17:40:56Z")

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Works of Literature

As You Like It - William Shakespeare  
Beowulf - an Anglo-Saxon poet  
Cat on a Hot Tin Roof - Tennessee Williams  
David Copperfield - Charles Dickens  
Emma - Jane Austen  
Fahrenheit 451 - Ray Bradbury  
Gulliver’s Travels - Jonathan Swift  
Hamlet - William Shakespeare  
Iliad - Homer  
Jarhead - Anthony Swofford  
King Lear - William Shakespeare  
Lord of the Flies - William Golding/Life on the Mississippi - Mark Twain  
Moby Dick - Herman Melville  
Native Son - Richard Wright  
Orlando- Virginia Woolf  
Pickwick Papers - Charles Dickens  
Quo Vadis - Henryk Sienkiewicz  
Red Harvest - Dashiell Hammett  
Sarah, Plain and Tall - Patricia MacLachlan  
To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee  
Ulysses - James Joyce  
Vanity Fair - William Makepeace Thackeray  
Wuthering Heights - Emily Bronte  
Xingu - Edith Wharton  
Yearling, The – Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings  
Zuleika Dobson - Max Beerbohm  
Mine, so I’ll pass.

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**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:** [March 21, 2020, 6:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-atoz-game-part-1/846920/1370 "2020-03-21T18:13:21Z")

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Something people have probably been doing more of lately.

Boardgames:

Agricola

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**Author:** ![Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/7cd45c/32.png) [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elendil_s_Heir)\
**Post date:** [March 21, 2020, 6:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-atoz-game-part-1/846920/1371 "2020-03-21T18:43:05Z")

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Boardgames

Agricola  
Bananagrams

Just played it last night. We love it!: [Bananagrams - Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bananagrams)

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**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 21, 2020, 6:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-atoz-game-part-1/846920/1372 "2020-03-21T18:51:18Z")

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Boardgames

Agricola  
Bananagrams  
Clue

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**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 21, 2020, 10:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-atoz-game-part-1/846920/1373 "2020-03-21T22:13:08Z")

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Boardgames

Agricola  
Bananagrams  
Clue  
Dominion

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**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:** [March 22, 2020, 12:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-atoz-game-part-1/846920/1374 "2020-03-22T00:04:11Z")

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Boardgames

Agricola  
Bananagrams  
Clue  
Dominion  
Exploding Kittens

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**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 22, 2020, 12:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-atoz-game-part-1/846920/1375 "2020-03-22T00:11:12Z")

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Boardgames

Agricola  
Bananagrams  
Clue  
Dominion  
Exploding Kittens  
Feudal

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**Author:** ![jtur88](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/e9c0ed/32.png) [@jtur88](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jtur88)\
**Post date:** [March 22, 2020, 1:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-atoz-game-part-1/846920/1376 "2020-03-22T01:47:26Z")

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Boardgames

Agricola  
Bananagrams  
Clue  
Dominion  
Exploding Kittens  
Feudal  
Go

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**Author:** ![Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/7cd45c/32.png) [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elendil_s_Heir)\
**Post date:** [March 22, 2020, 1:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-atoz-game-part-1/846920/1377 "2020-03-22T01:52:48Z")

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Boardgames

Agricola  
Bananagrams  
Clue  
Dominion  
Exploding Kittens  
Feudal  
Go  
Hitler, Secret

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**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 22, 2020, 9:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-atoz-game-part-1/846920/1378 "2020-03-22T09:07:36Z")

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Boardgames

Agricola  
Bananagrams  
Clue  
Dominion  
Exploding Kittens  
Feudal  
Go  
Hitler, Secret  
Incan Gold

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**Author:** ![jtur88](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/e9c0ed/32.png) [@jtur88](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jtur88)\
**Post date:** [March 22, 2020, 10:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-atoz-game-part-1/846920/1379 "2020-03-22T10:02:00Z")

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Boardgames

Agricola  
Bananagrams  
Clue  
Dominion  
Exploding Kittens  
Feudal  
Go  
Hitler, Secret  
Incan Gold  
Jaipur

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**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 22, 2020, 10:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-atoz-game-part-1/846920/1380 "2020-03-22T10:45:41Z")

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Boardgames

Agricola  
Bananagrams  
Clue  
Dominion  
Exploding Kittens  
Feudal  
Go  
Hitler, Secret  
Incan Gold  
Jaipur  
Kriegspiel

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