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Season 1
1. What a Night for a Knight
2. A Clue for Scooby-Doo
4. Mine Your Own Business
5. Decoy for a Dognapper
6. What the Hex Going On?
7. Never Ape an Ape Man
8. Foul Play in Funland
9. The Backstage Rage
10. Bedlam in the Big Top
11. A Gaggle of Galloping Ghosts
13. Which Witch Is Which?
14. Spooky Space Kook
16. A Night of Fright Is No Delight
17. That's Snow Ghost
Season 2
1. Nowhere to Hyde
2. Mystery Mask Mix-Up
3. Jeepers, It's the Creeper
5. Haunted House Hang-Up
Season 3
1. Watch Out! The Willawaw!
4. To Switch a Witch
5. The Tar Monster
6. A Highland Fling with a Monstrous Thing
7. The Creepy Case of Old Iron Face
8. Jeepers, It's the Jaguaro!
9. Make a Beeline Away from That Feline
10. The Creepy Creature of Vulture's Claw
12. Scooby's Chinese Fortune Kooky Caper
14. Don't Go Near the Fortress of Fear
15. The Warlock of Wimbledon
16. The Beast is Awake in Bottomless Lake
I've decided to make a round of one task per season. Season 1: 15 - Go Away Ghost Ship
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15. Go Away Ghost Ship
The newspaper reports that local shipping company owner C.L. Magnus' company is going out of business, because the ghost of the pirate Redbeard is haunting the harbor and looting Magnus' ships. After reading the story and consulting Magnus, the gang sets out to see if they can stop the ghost.
To help the team solve the mystery, read:
1. a book with an author whose name starts with 'C' or 'L'
2. a book with a red-haired character in it
3. a book with 'harbor' in the text of the book
4. a book where the MC reads a book
5. a book with 'Mystery' on the book's main page
Possible reads: -Authors with names on C or L
Who knows, maybe there are some redheads in them. 😀
Completion post #1Season 1: 15 - Go Away Ghost Ship
Author: Gail Carriger
Book: Changeless
Date Read: may 17th
Task: 1, 5
How it Fits: a book with an author whose name starts with 'C' (Carriger), paranormal mistery (searching the cause for humanisation of supernatural creatures)
Next Episode Choice: Season 2: 8 - Don't Fool with a Phantom
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8. Don't Fool with a Phantom
While participating in the Johnny Sands Dance Game Show at the local TV station, the teens encounter a phantom made of wax, who steals a safe full of money and kidnaps the station manager. Is the phantom a hoax, or the result of a curse from an old station employee seeking revenge for the cancellation of his show?
To help the team solve the mystery, read:
1. a book with a teen-aged MC
2. a book where the MC watches TV
3. a book where the MC uses a candle
4. a book with 'revenge' in the text of the book
5. a book with 'Mystery' on the book's main page
Completion post #2Season 2: 8 - Don't Fool with a Phantom
Author: Shirley Conran
Book: Savages
Date Read: 18th june
Task: 4
How it Fits: 'revenge' in the text of the book: https://books.google.si/books?redir_e... (I've read the translation so this was the only way to do it.)
Next Episode Choice: Season 3: 11 - The Diabolical Disc Demon
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11. The Diabolical Disc Demon
The gang goes to Decade Records recording studio to see a live recording from their friend, Jimmy Lewis, but the building is haunted by the Phantom, who is trying to find a song by a missing writer, and will stop at nothing until he gets it.
To help the team solve the mystery, read:
1. listen to an audio book
2. a book with a building on the cover
3. a book with 'phantom' in the text of the book
4. a book where someone sings
5. a book with 'Mystery' on the book's main page
Completion post #3Season 3: 11 - The Diabolical Disc Demon
Author: Chris Carter
Book: The Crucifix Killer
Date Read: 24th june
Task: 5
How it Fits: mistery (trying to identify the killer)
Next Episode Choice: Season 1: 3 - Hassle in the Castle
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3. Hassle in the Castle
After getting lost in the fog, the gang arrive on Haunted Isle, where they meet an unearthly ghost haunting an old, abandoned castle.
To help the team solve the mystery, read:
1. a book where the main character gets lost
2. a book set on an island
3. a book not set on Earth
4. a book someone else did not finish (DNF)
5. a book with 'Mystery' on the book's main page
Completion post #4Season 1: 3 - Hassle in the Castle
Author: Stanisław Lem
Book: Solaris
Date Read: 27th june
Task: 3
How it Fits: not set on Earth (set in space, on a space station above planet Solaris)
Next Episode Choice: Season 2: 6 - A Tiki Scare Is No Fair
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6. A Tiki Scare Is No Fair
Shaggy and Scooby's vacation in Hawaii is interrupted by a ghostly witch doctor, who warns the tourists and natives they are on the sacred grounds of the island god Mano Tiki Tia and to stay away from the cursed village. Later, the gang's guide John Simms goes missing, so it is up to the gang to search for him in the supposedly cursed village, where they eventually run into the witch doctor, and the giant statue of Mano Tiki Tia.
To help the team solve the mystery, read:
1. a book where the MC goes on vacation
2. a book set on an island
3. a book with a character named John
4. a book with 'statue' in the text of the book
5. a book with 'Mystery' on the book's main page
Completion post #5Season 2: 6 - A Tiki Scare Is No Fair
Author: Paul Thomas Murphy
Book: Pretty Jane and the Viper of Kidbrooke Lane: A True Story of Victorian Law and Disorder: The Unsolved Murder that Shocked Victorian England
Date Read: 4th july
Task: 3, 4, 5
How it Fits: true crime (who done it), character named John (John Huddleston - prosecutor, John Mulvany - witness), 'statue' in the text of the book: https://books.google.si/books?redir_e...
Next Episode Choice: Season 3: 3 - A Scary Night with a Snow Beast Fright
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3. A Scary Night with a Snow Beast Fright
After being invited by Professor Krueger at the North Pole, the gang finds out that he has been captured. After they meet an Inuit named Chief Minook, he gets captured as well, and the gang attempts to solve the mystery.
To help the team solve the mystery, read:
1. a book where the main character receives an invitation
2. a book with a main character's name that begins with 'K'
3. a book with 'capture', 'captures', or 'captured' in the text of the book
4. a book with a Native American character in the story
5. a book with 'Mystery' on the book's main page
Completion post #6Season 3: 3 - A Scary Night with a Snow Beast Fright
Author: Stieg Larsson
Book: The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet's Nest
Date Read: 21st August
Task: 5
How it Fits: mistery / thriller
Next Episode Choice: Season 1:12 - Scooby-Doo and a Mummy, Too
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12. Scooby-Doo and a Mummy, Too
While visiting a museum, the gang learn about the legend of Ankha, a 3000-year-old mummy. Legend had it that the mummy will come back alive and turn people to stone if he is removed from his tomb. Shaggy later finds a coin inside his pocket from the exhibit, and when the gang go back to return it, they find the mummy has come to life and turned the professor to stone, and now he wants Shaggy's coin.
To help the team solve the mystery, read:
1. a historical book
2. a book that you purchased
3. a book with a teacher as a character
4. a book whose author's first name starts with 'C', 'O', 'I', 'N'
5. a book with 'Mystery' on the book's main page
Completion post #7Season 1:12 - Scooby-Doo and a Mummy, Too
Author: Donna Tartt
Book: The Secret History
Date Read:********
Task: 3, 5
How it Fits: teacher Julian Morrow, mistery (how they did it)
Next Episode Choice: Season 2:7 - Who's Afraid of the Big Bad Werewolf?
Is it still possible to continue this challenge? I had great fun with it, but something happened and apparently I never returned and finished it.
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Sure.
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7. Who's Afraid of the Big Bad Werewolf?
Out on a camping trip, the gang hears the sounds of a wolf, so they decide to follow wolf-like tracks to the open and empty grave of Silas Long, who was supposedly a werewolf. They follow his tracks further to an old abandoned sawmill filled with wool, empty barrels, and the werewolf ghost himself.
To help the team solve the mystery, read:
1. a book with a mountain on the cover
2. a book with 'wolf' in the text of the book
3. a book where the MC goes to a graveyard
4. a book that someone else has abandoned (DNF)
5. a book with 'Mystery' on the book's main page
I went back and also finished the previous task, because I remember I had to return Secert History to the library and never came back to it. Completion post #7
Season 1:12 - Scooby-Doo and a Mummy, Too
Author: Joël Dicker
Book: La Vérité sur l'Affaire Harry Quebert
Date Read: July 4th
Task: 3, 5
How it Fits: Harry Quebert is a teacher and a writter, mistery
Next Episode Choice: Season 2:7 - Who's Afraid of the Big Bad Werewolf?
Completion post #8Season 2:7 - Who's Afraid of the Big Bad Werewolf?
Author: Blake Crouch
Book: Dark Matter
Date Read: July 4th
Task: 2, 5
How it Fits: wolf in the text ( Ten feet away, standing in weeds in front of a teetering chain-link fence, a wolf glares at me through large amber eyes), scifi mistery
Next Episode Choice: Season 2:13 - A Menace in Venice
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Got it.
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13. A Menace in Venice
The gang goes to visit their friend Antonio in Venice. They soon find out that a ghost is haunting him and the ghost plans to steal the ancient necklace Antonio is wearing.
To help the team solve the mystery, read:
1. a book with an Antonio, Anthony, Tony or Toni in the story
2. a book set in Italy
3. a book with the letters of 'ghost' in the title
4. a book that you find haunting or disquieting
5. a book with 'Mystery' on the book's main page
Completion post #9Season 2:13 A Menace in Venice
Author: Isabel Yap
Book: Never Have I Ever
Date Read: August 22nd
Task: 4
How it Fits: book that you find haunting or disquieting (folk horror)
Next Episode Choice: Season 3:6 A Highland Fling with a Monstrous Thing
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6. A Highland Fling with a Monstrous Thing
The gang travel to Scotland to visit their friend Aggie MacDuff, who says people have left her castle in fear after ghost sightings. It seems the ghost plays bagpipes to call on the Loch Ness Monster to help him scare people away from the castle.
To help the team solve the mystery, read:
1. a book set in Scotland or written by a Scottish author
2. a book with the tag 'Paranormal'
3. a book where character plays a musical instrument
4. a book with water on the cover
5. a book with 'Mystery' on the book's main page
Completion post #10Season 3:6 A Menace in Venice
Author: Peter Benchley
Book: Jaws
Date Read: 20 november
Task: 4
How it Fits: Book with water on the cover
Next Episode Choice: Season 1:6 - What the Hex Going On?
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6. What the Hex Going On?
Mystery Inc. is headed to their friend Sharon Wetherby's estate. When they arrive, Sharon's Uncle Stuart disappears, and when they find him, he says he was beckoned by the voice of the Ghost of Elias Kingston from the Kingston Mansion. The gang find themselves wrapped up in the tangle of the spooky ghoul of Elias Kingston who wants the family treasure.
To help the team solve the mystery, read:
1. a book about friends
2. a book whose title starts with 'U', 'N', 'C', "L', or 'E' (ignoring 'a', 'an', 'the')
3. listen to an audio book
4. a book that you consider to be a treasure
5. a book with 'Mystery' on the book's main page
Completion post #11Season 1:6 - What the Hex Going On?
Author: Libba Bray
Book: The Diviners
Date Read: 14. December
Task: 3,5
How it Fits: audiobook, paranormal historical mistery
Next Episode Choice: Season 2:4 - Scooby's Night with a Frozen Fright
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4. Scooby's Night with a Frozen Fright
While out fishing, Shaggy and Scooby-Doo hook a two-million-year-old caveman frozen in a block of ice, which the gang learns was lost at sea during a violent storm. They take the caveman to the Oceanland aquarium, but when someone melts the ice block and the caveman goes on the rampage, the gang decides to stick around and investigate.
To help the team solve the mystery, read:
1. a book with 'fish' in the text of the book
2. a book a severe storm in the story
3. a book set by the ocean or sea
4. a book with the letters of 'ICE' in the title
5. a book with 'Mystery' on the book's main page
Completion post #12Season 2:4 - Scooby's Night with a Frozen Fright
Author: Fredrik Backman
Book: The Winners
Date Read: feb 28
Task: 2
How it Fits: there is a storm
Next Episode Choice: Season 3:2 - A Creepy Tangle in the Bermuda Triangle
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2. A Creepy Tangle in the Bermuda Triangle
While on a boat flowing down the Gulf Stream, the gang end up in the Bermuda Triangle and discover an airplane-snatching flying saucer and a trio of Skeleton Men.
To help the team solve the mystery, read:
1. a book with 'boat' in the text of the book
2. a book set along the Atlantic Ocean
3. a book from a trilogy
4. a book with a man or men on the cover
5. a book with 'Mystery' on the book's main page
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Scooby Doo, Where Are You! was an animated mystery comedy television series produced by Hanna-Barbera. It was on Saturday mornings and it aired from September 13, 1969, until October 31, 1970.
The show centers on four teenagers (Fred, Daphne, Velma, and Shaggy) and a Great Dane named Scooby-Doo. The group travels in the Mystery Machine, a blue and green van decorated with orange flowers, solving mysteries.
Challenge Begins: May 1, 2020
HOW TO PLAY:
1. Take a look at the Scooby Doo, Where Are You! episode list.
2. Choose your first mystery and post it into your thread.
3. The moderator will then post the related episode information and tasks.
4. Once you complete one of the tasks, post in your thread and in the Reporting thread the following:
Author:
Book:
Date Read:
Task:
How it Fits:
Next Episode Choice:
Books must be 100 pages.
Re-reads and audio books are okay.
Page count for audio books will be determined the first paper version shown on Goodreads. From the book's page, select “all editions”, then select the first paper edition as your guide.