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3rd Team Quarterly - CLUE Signups
The Suspects
Felicia
*book that is part of a series & author that has an F in their name
Alaina
*500+ pages & features a sarcastic (your interpretation) character
Andrea
*has a scientific aspect & book where a cat is mentioned
Juliette from Shatter Me
*book that has an MC people are scared of & authors first name start with a letter in PSYCH and their last name starts with a letter in WARD
Aelin Galathynius from Throne of Glass
*features assassins & book has more than two MCs
Leigh Bardugo
*MC is a writer & black and white only cover (absolutely no color at all)
George R.R. Martin
*features dragons & MC is a princess
Cassandra Clare
*features angels & book where a character has a tattoo
Holly Black
*features fae & mostly black cover (75%)
Lauren Blakely
*MPG erotica & dual POV
Day from the Legend Series
*features a character that loses track of time (blackouts, memory loss etc.) & male MC
Katniss Everdeen from The Hunger Games
*cover has a bow/arrow & MC can use a bow and arrow
Percy Jackson from the Percy Jackson series
*mythology on first page of tags & features gods/goddesses
John Green
*green cover (50%) & MCs name starts with a J
Jay Kristoff
*set in space & book has two authors
Marissa Meyer
*author’s name is an alliteration & fairytale retelling
Harry Potter
*features witches & features wizards
Maggie Stiefvater
*cover has a bird on it & MCs are searching for something
Rhysand from ACOTAR
*features a character with wings (angel etc.) & features a character that starts off bad and ends up good
Jacob from Twilight
*features werewolves & features vampires
Jennifer L. Armentrout
*author has a middle initial & MPG romance
Brandon Sanderson
*MPG fantasy & weapon on cover
Marie Lu
*asian influence & MC is a female
Victoria Aveyard
*features magic & MCs name starts with a V or A
Desmond Flynn from The Bargainer series
*MC is a demon & MC is a king
The Weapons
Butter Knife
*knife on cover & ‘knife’ in text
Snow
*’holiday’ in first page of tags & mostly white cover (75%)
Gun
*first page tag of ‘mafia’ & first page tag of ‘crime’
Pipe
*features a character that smokes & title words are grey/silver
Pencil
*features a character that’s someone's assistant & cover has a writing utensil on it
Rope
*’rope’ in text & title has the letters R,O, P, E in it (in any order)
Pillow
*feather(s) on cover & title words are white
Fist
*features a fight between characters & ‘punch’ in text
Water
*water on cover & blue cover (50%)
Candlestick
*fire on cover & ‘candle’ in text
Poison
*skull and/or cross bones on cover & author’s first or last name start with a P
Magnifying Glass
*glass on cover & ‘glass’ in text
Teddy Bear
*bear on cover & brown/tan cover (50%)
Paper
*book was NOT made into an audiobook & authors initials are in PAPER
Necklace
*piece of jewelry on cover & author’s first name has at least 8 letters
Clock
*clock on cover & number on cover
Wrench
*authors initials are in WRENCH & ‘tool’ in text
Car
*3 in page count (most rated edition page count) & MC drives a car
Lollipop
*dessert on cover & ‘sweet’ in text
Cellphone
*character makes or takes a call & published date has a 9 in it (9/1/2014, 12/9/2016 etc.)
Bat
*first page tag of ‘sports’ & ‘ball’ in text
Pizza
*features a character that goes to dinner & page count has a 5 in it
Shoe
*cover has a person wearing shoes on it & author’s last name has 4 letters
Electricity
*cover has lightning on it & authors first and last name have exactly 4 vowels, no more no less
Shuriken
*person wearing black on cover & authors initials in SHURIKEN
The Places
Doctor’s Office
*medical aspect & title has the letters N, E, E, D, L, E in it (in any order)
Bedroom
*bed on cover & ‘bed’ in text
Hogwarts
*MPG young adult & castle on cover
Spa
*MCs name starts with either an S, P, or A & authors first and last name start with S, P, A (must be two of the three)
Theater
*character goes to a movie theater & characters watch a movie
Winterfell from A Game of Thrones
*set in winter & ‘snow’ in text
Kitchen
*MC cooks a meal in a kitchen & some type of appliance in text (stove, fridge, microwave etc.)
Backyard
*book title has only two words & ‘sun’ in text (sunshine, sunny etc. acceptable)
Oz
*cover has a girl wearing a dress on it & 5+ colors on cover
Park
*authors initials in PARK & book has between 400-499 pages (most rated edition page count only)
University
*MC attends college/uni & mentions a college professor
Atlantis
*features mermaids & MC has red hair
Ketterdam from Six of Crows
*set in a city on the edge of a body of water & features a character that steals something
Beach
*beach scene on cover & tree on cover
Middle Earth from The Lord of the Rings
*book has 10,000+ reviews & book has higher than a 4.25 star rating
New York City
*mentions NYC in text & based out of NYC
Paris
*tower on cover & ‘love’ in text
Platform 9 ¾
*train on cover & 9, 3, or 4 in page count (must be two of three)
Asgard
*character lives in a castle & author has a six letter first OR last name
The Four Nations from Avatar: The Last Airbender
*page count is 444 (exactly, any edition works) & book has a title and a subtitle (ex. Desired: A Dark Romance by Nicole Cypher)
Panera
*sandwich on cover & MC works at a restaurant
Bikini Bottom
*author’s initials are in SPONGE & cover features someone in a bathing suit
Andalasia from Enchanted
*MC is a witch & title starts with a A or E
The White House
*person wearing white on cover & three word title (no more, no less, alt. editions accepted)
Naboo from Star Wars
*’space’ in text & either ‘STAR’ or ‘WAR’ in title (whole word altogether)
ParticipantsAly 40-40-30 books/month
Kim
Erica
Cindee 10-15 books/month
Bookbuyer 3 books/month
Caroline 3-6 books/month
Jennifer 20 books/month
Saige 10 books/month
Andy ?
Anna 6 books/month
Alli 10 books/month
Sierra 2 books/month
Keri 4-5 books/month
Hannah 7 books/month
Celia 5 books/month
- Jemmin' Jenny 30 books/month
- Vicki 25-30 books/month
Damselflies 3-2-4 books/month
Giulia 4 books/month
Felicia 12+ books/month
Jenn 8-10 books/month
Ella 8-6-3 books/month
Daniela 5 books/month
Alaina 40-50 books/month
Ritika 10 books/month
Susan 10-12 books/month
Emeli 3-4 books/month
Betsy 5 books/month
I'm going to comment here even though you are not done lol. First comment! :P
Bahaha. That's fine. I just have to finish some things up and I'll post them. (:
lol. Take you time. I just wanted that coveted first comment. :P
Shit balls. I knew I was forgetting something guys! Please comment how many books you plan on reading those months. Keep in mind the holidays! ❤️
I was wondering about that but I looked and didn't see it. lol. I think I can do about 8 books a month. :)
This sounds like so much fun! I think I can do 3-6 books per month.
This sounds crazy, but I'm in. 20 books
Jennifer wrote: "This sounds crazy, but I'm in. 20 books"I’ve put soo much thought into this! Lol. If you have any suggestions please let me know. Haha. I’d love to hear them if you think I should change anything up. ❤️
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Meeee and idk how many books yet i'll let you know
I’m in for 6 books a month, might end up being more but will stay conservative with my estimate cause I’ve got a busy summer ahead!
I think I could read about 30 books in three months.
I’m in! I can guarantee 2 books a month, hopefully 4 books a month, fingers crossed 😅
Im in for 7 books a month! Im going on vacation than moving so Ive made my estimate pretty conservative this time around.
I'm in - I'll probably read about 90 books in 3 months
Not understanding it completely 100% yet (I'm going to have to read the explanation for a second time :') ) July 3 book, august 2 book and september 4 books
I'm in! I'm not sure how many books, for now let's say 4 a month.
I'm in. I would say about 8-10 books a month with my new schedule :)
I’m in for 25-30 books a month. If possible, please put me with Jammin Jenny.
I'm in! I'm guessing 8 books for July, 6 for August, 3 for September so basically an average of 5. So looking forward to this!
Vicki wrote: "I’m in for 25-30 books a month. If possible, please put me with Jammin Jenny."I will try. It depends how many people sign up since you guys read so much every month. I want to try to make teams fair. There will be 4 teams total. So I'll try for ya. :D
Daniela wrote: "I'm planning to read 5 books/month"Thanks for letting me know how many books! <3
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I haven't really played Clue before and I didn't understand what exactly will happen but I'm hoping my team members will help me out along the way.Anyway, I'm looking for about 10 books a month as of now. :)
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Aly wrote: "For July and August, I'll probably read 40 books each month. In September I'm going on vacation so maybe 30 books."Thanks boo! :D
Felicia I think I need to lower my books to like 3 a month. I am not at my usual reading pace at all. :)
Anna 'Bookbuyer' wrote: "Felicia I think I need to lower my books to like 3 a month. I am not at my usual reading pace at all. :)"Okie dokie.
I'm in-- I'm new, so not 100% sure how it all works. I'm excited to try it out though... approx. 5 a month
For this third quarterly team challenge, I wanted to try something different. In the past we’ve done challenges based on movies, holidays, us mods, etc. But we haven’t had many challenges based on games. We’ve had monopoly and bingo. So we’re giving games another go by having a challenge based on the board game Clue!
There will be 25 suspects, 25 weapons, and 25 places. To make this easier on myself I’ll be referring to suspects as S, weapons as W, and places as P going forward in this post. There will be two categories per S, W, and P. Teams will work together to complete the categories for the S, W, and P. Each team will be given a conclusion they will be working towards figuring out. The conclusions will be one S, one W, and one P just like in the normal game. Once a team finishes both of the two categories for a S/W/P, during a score update I will have all of the S,W, & P listed and will cross them out as you go. If you should guess correctly I will comment in your teams chat thread that you have successfully guessed the S/W/P and you can cease completing categories for the remaining S/W/P.
All books will be counted towards one category and once the scores are updated there is no switching. So should you guess a weapon and it happens to not be the weapon in your conclusion the books used for those two categories are done and cannot be moved. But, for example, should there be five posts on the review thread when I go to update scores and the first post out of the five guesses the correct weapon but post two is also guessing a weapon you can repost that book for another category. I will comment when doing a score update which books can be reposted for another category.
To reiterate, BOOKS CANNOT BE MOVED ONCE THEY ARE COUNTED FOR POINTS! If you want to move a book around before I post scores you must comment again on your review thread what you want to switch it to. But once scores are updated and your book is counted towards a certain category there is no changing it.
***Scores will only be updated once per week day (hopefully), on most Saturdays, and never on Sundays. So keep this in mind when you post your reviews as you will not always right away get an answer for the S/W/P you are making an accusation towards. I will be on Goodreads a lot so I might pop onto review threads just to check for accusations.***
Members will receive points based on the pages read following the grid below and if they participate in buddy reads or the books of the month. But for this challenge, points won’t play a factor on being the winning team. The winning team will have figured out the most conclusions. Points will only count if there is a tie amongst the top most conclusions achieved. (For example if team 1 who has 1,000 points and team 2 who has 1,100 points both figured out 7 conclusions then team two would be the winning team based on their points earned.)
Teams conclusions will be chosen randomly by me. Yes, you can get a repeat S/W/P so do not think if you’ve had a suspect already that you cannot get them in a future conclusion. You might still need to read for those categories.
So basically, this challenge is all about the luck of the books read by participants of the challenge and which categories teams decide to complete first.
The points members get will go towards your final added total of all challenges during the months of July through September to figure out the winner of the $10 bookdepository.com book.
The general challenge rules can be found here.
Page Points
1 - 99 pages → 0.5 pts (and it will only count for page points - not clues)
100 - 149 pages → 1 pt
150 - 249 pages → 2 pts
250 - 349 pages → 3 pts
350 - 449 pages → 4 pts
450 - 549 pages → 5 pts
550+ pages → 6 pts
Buddy Reads will DOUBLE your points.
BOTM will TRIPLE your points.
When posting reviews to the review thread, please post them like the following:
Bookcover
Review: Link
Pages: #
BR: Link (if applicable)
S/W/P: category - subcategory (ex. Suspect: Felicia - part of a series)
How it fits: if necessary
*it is unnecessary for example to put a “how it fits” for both of the subcategories for my name. However, for in text subcategories (and others like it where I cannot verify that it is legit from the GR page) you must put how it fits the subcategory.
Members will receive five (5) bonus points for their team if they read a book that matches the category they’re reading for. (For example, if I were to read The Cruel Prince and use it for the category Holly Black - features fae I will receive 5 bonus points. OR if I am reading Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone and I use it for Platform 9 ¾ - 9,3,4 in page count I will receive 5 bonus points) This only works for suspects and places. No bonus points will be given for any weapon categories.
I know this was a lot of information regarding this challenge so if you have any questions please ask them below or here.
When signing up please comment how many books you plan on reading for the months of July, August, and September. Keep in mind the holidays y’all! ❤️