The Perks Of Being A Book Addict discussion

This month the mini challenge is all about our team books and authors. There are 4 ways to gain points.

As a team:

1. Read 5 books by an author of one of the team names for 15 points each
Note: Individual team member can only read each author once. It is ok if more than one team member read the same author. (see example under spoiler)
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Our team is Pixie, Tom, Mary, Anna, Joy

Sceario 1:
Pixie, Mary and Tom both read a book by Neil Gaiman
Mary, and Joy read a book by Fredrik Backman
This is ok

Scenario 2:
Pixie and Tom both read a book by Neil Gaiman
Mary, and Joy read a book by Fredrik Backman
Pixie then reads another book by Neil Gaiman
The second book read by Pixie by Neil Gaiman can not count for the mini challenge
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2. Read one book that is one of the team names for 30 points
Note: Where a team name is a series book, only book 1 of the series can count for this part

3. Scavenger hunt character names in books. Find the first name of one of the characters from our team names for 5 points each. One name per book, maximum of 10 books. Each name must be different (i.e. 10 different names need to be 'hunted')
More about this part is under this spoiler:
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Scavenger Hunt

You are looking for:
♣ Names that are characters from the books from our team names.
Team names are under spoiler (view spoiler)[
Augustus Waters
Becky Bloomwood
Bones
Buttercup
Elizabeth Bennet
Eve Dallas
Harry Dresden
Heathcliff
Hercule Poirot
Jack Torrance
Kate Daniels
Liesel Meminger
Mark Watney
Mercy Thompson
Ove
Peeta Mellark
Rachel Watson
Robert Langdon
Ron Weasley
Rose Hathaway
Sybilla (Billie) Bridgerton
Ty & Zane
Will Traynor
Yvaine
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♣ "Characters" means as per usual UNO character rules. They do not need to be listed on GR (because most character's aren't)

♣ Where one of our team names is a series book, you can take a character from any book within that series. For example, if you find Sirius that is ok as that is from Harry Potter (Team Ron Weasley)

♣ The name needs to be the name the character is known by. If they are nown as two names in their book (Sybillia and Billie) you can find either. Where they are known as one name (Mercy, not Mercedes) you can only find the name they are known as

♣ The name needs to be in context as a proper name. So finding the word "bones" in a book which is not a persons name will not count

♣ You can read the books the names derive from to find a name if you like
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You will get a 15 point bonus if your team complete all tasks for part 1-3


4. Scrabble
Create a word using the first and last letter of the team names - which words you use is up to the team - but they must be at least 4 letters long.
Read one book per letter of that word for 5 points per letter.
- 4p bonus for completed words with 7 or more letters
- 2p bonus for completed words with 5-6 letters

You can only get points for one partially finished word, i.e. if you by the end of the month have more than 1 incomplete words, you will only get 5p/book for the first word.

Example, PYRES (Yvaine is Y,E ; Buttercup is P, Kate Daniels is S, Rose Hathaway for R). Teams can complete this task more than once by creating new words, but you can't re-use letters already used.

Normal "spell-it-out" rules apply. i.e. Letter needs to be the first letter in the book title, author first name or surname, character name or nickname, or setting. Articles (a/an/the) can be ignored in the book titles. For this spell-it-out, you can also use the first letter in the series name.

To help you out, here are the letters, and how many of each, that are available for Scrabble:

		
A	x	1		
B	x	3
D	x	1	
E	x	6
F	x	1		
H	x	3
J	x	1
K	x	2
L	x	1	
M	x	2
N	x	5
O	x	1
P	x	2		
R	x	6
S	x	5
T	x	3
W	x	1	
Y	x	4

This is an optional mini challenge for our UNO players.

✣ Only books read March 15-31 will count for this challenge.
✣ Please note that books started before March-15 don't count for this mini-challenge
✣ The countdown to the start of this mini challenge is here
✣ The usual book length requirement for UNO apply
✣ Books used for this mini challenge do not need to be separate books for what you are claiming for your UNO hands


✣ Captains, your spreadsheets have been updated in order for you to claim points

Questions should be asked by the captains / co-captains in the captains group.

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