The Challenge Factory discussion

This is a team challenge that will require one book a week. The object of the game is to roll the dice (there will be a link to the website to roll) and move along the board. The first team to pass the finish line wins the game.

Captains will roll the dice by clicking here on Fridays once their team has completed their reads. You may not advance until all of the team's reviews are in. If a player or team falls behind the team has to wait until the next Friday to roll. That being said it's very important to finish and review your book on time. If a player fails to review on time more than twice they will no longer be on the team (excluding a prearranged absence)

How to pick a book:
If you land on single digit spot for example lets say you land on spot 5 then you have to read a book that's #5 in a series. For double digit numbers, for example you land on spot 48 you can read either a #4 or a #8 in a series. Stand alone books will count as a #1 or a #0. I don't expect anyone to read a series out of order and for people that don't really read series books that still want to play there will be an alternate option. There will be an alternate option for each spot.

Sign ups are open now through April 14th. Teams will be formed on April 15th and the game will begin on Friday the 18th.

There will be a separate thread for captains to post their place on the board after rolling and a separate thread for captains to post a link to the teams completed reviews.

Teams will have a chance to earn 1 Free Pass to roll. To earn your free pass your team has to complete their reads a day before the next roll. Once your team has done this you will have 1 free pass. The free pass will allow a team to roll if they are missing a review(s) before the cutoff. The free pass may not be used for the win. Once you've used it, you can't earn another one. It's a one time shot.

Re-reads are allowed
Page limit is 150
When using an anthology you may use any of the numbers in the book except for the .5 since this means 1/2. But you must review each story in the anthology.
Series # will be based on how GR has it listed.
Any questions please feel free to ask!

Sign Ups

Time Zone Converter

What does SS stand for? :D

The alternates:
Each number corresponds with the spot on the board.
For colors: The cover has to be at least 50%
For locations: As long as the book takes part at all in the given location .
For Shelves: Any book on the given shelf
For Publication Years: I'll be using how GR has it's publication date listed.
For Authors Names: The first, middle, or last name of the author is ok.
For Titles: Only the first word of the title. A, An, And, and The do not count.
So if the letter is B: The Best Day would be ok. Dear Betty would not be ok.


1. Location: China
2. Author: K
3. Color: Green
4. 2005
5. Re-reads
6. Title: H
7. Location: Louisiana
8. Author: P
9. Color: White
10. 2010
11. Challenge
12. Title: B
13. Location: France
14. Author: E
15. Color: Blue
16. 2003
17. Owned-Ebook
18. Title: N
19. Location: New Mexico
20. Author: G
21. Color: Purple
22. 2012
23. 2-Stars
24. Title: W
25. Location: Kansas
26. Author: S
27. Color: Pink
28. 2004
29. May-Read
30. Title: C
31. Location: New York
32. Author: A
33. Color: Black
34. 2013
35. My-Bookcase
36. Title: D
37. Location: Italy
38. Author: R
39. Color: Yellow
40. 2007
41. Top-Books
42. Title: K
43. Location: Oregon
44. Author: L
45. Color: Red
46. 2009
47. purchased
48. Title: M
49. Location: England
50. Author: J
51. Color: Gray/Silver
52. 2002
53. Lol
54. Title: R
55. Location: Florida
56. Author: F
57. Color: Orange
58. 2008
59. Paperback
60. Title: P
61. Location: Massachusetts
62. Author: C
63. Color: Green
64. 2011
65. Modern
66. Title: E
67. Location: California
68. Author: T
69. Color: Red
70. 2014
71. Maybe
72. Title: S
73. Location: Texas
74. Author: W
75. Color: White

Just wondering, if we land on, let's say #14 can we read #14 in a series in addition to having the #1 or #4 options? Of course there aren't very many series that spread out much further than that but I'm working on several that do.

Yeah you can.

Jenne wrote: "Yeah you can."

Thanks Jenne!

Page limit is minimum pages in a book, right? Thanks!

Yep 150 minimum :)

Thanks!

Where is the list for the alternate options? Is it the same list as in R3: SSS How to Play, Discussion, & Help?

Oh wow I thought I put here, yes they're the same. I'll have to get that fixed!

Thanks Jenne

Just curious as I am a newbie to what a Captain's function are other than rolling the dice and post to where is my spot and making sure reviews are in?

They also post a link to a post for each spot where the teams reads/reviews are. Hang on and I'll get you an example from the last round.

Ok here's a post from last time

https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...

After clicking on this link you'll see the link the captain made of the weeks reviews

A few questions:
Does it matter what time on Friday we roll, and how many dice do we roll?

You can't roll before all of the reviews are in. That said you can roll between 00:01 and 23:59 on Friday US central time.

Since we are rolling only once a week, you need to roll 2 dice (or one twice) so it would go faster.

Jenne - Team 1 will henceforth be known as:

✿ The Lucky Ones ✿

and I will be the captain

Thanks Tea! :)

Most teams really try to have all their reviews in the day before that way your team is able to roll ASAP on Fridays, you do have the Friday cushion though if needed.

Couple questions....Sorry newbie to the game.
Do we start on one, or we roll first off to start the game.
Second, what is the (my link text)?

Abbie wrote: "Couple questions....Sorry newbie to the game.
Do we start on one, or we roll first off to start the game.
Second, what is the (my link text)?"

I think last round in place of my link text was link to spreadsheet. Maybe it's going to be same now.

And we roll first. ☺

That's right, we're going to have the spreadsheet up and going pretty soon and that's where the link will be.

Ok, thanks to both of you!

Team 5 are the Serial Killers and I am their captain!

Team #3 is The Smokin' Quintet and I'm captain.

Team 10 will be The ConTENders, and I will be the captain of the ship!

Team 13 will be Tzameti (its thirteen in Georgian apparently) and i'll be captain.

Team 8 will be Victorious Secret - Nika will be our captain

Captain of team 7 checking in for Double O'Seven

So we roll tomorrow, at any time?

Team 2 will be "In it 2 Win it", and I will be the captain.

Anytime Abbie after 2 hours from now till the end of tomorrow you can roll.

Jenne - forgot to mention I'm co-captain with Nika

Jenne would this be considered a white cover

It's kinda iffy but this edition I think has more white

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1...

Thanks Jenne we will go with that edition then.

we are allowed to cross challenge?

Yup

Will this edition work for white cover?

Yeah

Thanks!

I should have it where all teams have a link to the spreadsheet now, and I think I've got everyone's team names and captains updated that I've received so far. If I don't and if you don't have a link to the spreadsheet let me know and I'll get it fixed :)

We don't have the link to the spreadsheet(Team 13)

Ok I'll get it added later today ;)

Jenne wrote: "I should have it where all teams have a link to the spreadsheet now, and I think I've got everyone's team names and captains updated that I've received so far. If I don't and if you don't have a li..."

I am the captain for team ten, I noticed in most group you have the captains listed at the top.

Gotcha, I'll get it added :)

Jenne, another question....Sorry. when your team is done, where do I post the thread? Here or on the Post Your Spot thread.
....we are not done yet, but I just realised I have no clue where to post it when we are!

Abbie wrote: "Jenne, another question....Sorry. when your team is done, where do I post the thread? Here or on the Post Your Spot thread.
....we are not done yet, but I just realised I have no clue where to post..."

When you post your next roll, just put link to reviews in same post.

❀Tea❀ wrote: "Abbie wrote: "Jenne, another question....Sorry. when your team is done, where do I post the thread? Here or on the Post Your Spot thread.
....we are not done yet, but I just realised I have no clue..."

Thank you so much!