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Scooby-Doo Mysteries Challenge
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Thank you Lanelle, I will start with Season 1 #1: What a Night for a Knight
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1. What a Night for a Knight
When Scooby-Doo and Shaggy find an abandoned pick-up truck with a knight's armour in the front seat, the gang deliver it to the museum in place of the missing professor. However, this Black Knight is said to come alive every full moon. As the gang investigate the knight, they realize that it is a full moon, and the knight has come alive...!
To help the team solve the mystery, read:
1. a book with a vehicle on the cover
2. a historical book
3. a book with a moon on the cover
4. a book with an author whose last name starts with 'B', 'L', 'A', 'C", or 'K'
5. a book with 'Mystery' on the book's main page
Completion post:Author: Amanda Bouchet
Book: Nightchaser
Date Read: May 2, 2020
Task:4. a book with an author whose last name starts with 'B', 'L', 'A', 'C", or 'K'
How it Fits: Bouchet starts with 'B'
Next Episode Choice: Season 1 #2 A Clue for Scooby-Doo please
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2. A Clue for Scooby Doo
At Rocky Point Beach, the gang encounter the ghost of an old sea diver. A sailor claims it to be the ghost of Captain Cutler, who, according to legend, died at sea many years ago when his boat got wrecked and he is getting his revenge.
To help the team solve the mystery, read:
1. a book set by the sea or ocean
2. a book where the main character spends time on a boat
3. a ghost story
4. a book where someone gets revenge
5. a book with 'Mystery' on the book's main page
Completion post:Author: Clare O'Beara
Book: Dining Out Around the Solar System
Date Read: May 4, 2020
Task: 2. a book where the main character spends time on a boat
How it Fits: the MC spends a day on a boat on the Thames watching the Neptunians work
Next Episode Choice: Season 1, #3. "Hassle in the Castle" please
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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:Author: Clare O'Beara
Book: Dining Out with the Gas Giants
Date Read: May 5, 2020
Task: 5. a book with 'Mystery' on the book's main page
How it Fits: the Genres listed on the book's page include Mystery > Crime
Next Episode Choice: Season 1, #4: "Mine Your Own Business" please
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4. Mine Your Own Business
When the gang get lost in the desert, and end up in Gold City, a spooky ghost town, they check into a deserted inn. The owner explains that everybody has been scared off by the Miner Forty-Niner. They wind up in another mystery involving an abandoned gold mine and a ghostly, moaning miner.
To help the team solve the mystery, read:
1. a book set in a desert
2. a book where the main character spends the night at a hotel, motel or inn
3. a book with a spooky cover
4. a book where the main character goes underground (in a cave, the subway, a basement, etc.)
5. a book with 'Mystery' on the book's main page
Completion postAuthor: Bella Falls
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Date Read: May 9, 2020
Task: #3. a book with a spooky cover
How it Fits: the cover has a crystal ball and black cat and a witch hat
Next Episode Choice: Season 1, #5. "Decoy for a Dognapper" please
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5. Decoy for a Dognapper
When Mystery Inc. hear about a series of dognappings, they investigate. But when Scooby is dognapped, mistaken for another dog, the gang track him to a secret hideout in the desert where they face a witch doctor and a ghostly Indian on horseback.
To help the team solve the mystery, read:
1. a book where the main character has his/her own business
2. a book that is part of a series
3. a book where a kidnapping occurs
4. a book where a doctor is a significant part of the story
5. a book with 'Mystery' on the book's main page
Completion postAuthor: Rhys Ford
Book: Dim Sum Asylum
Date Read: May 17, 2020
Task: 3. a book where a kidnapping occurs
How it Fits: the MC's childhood friend and his grandmother are both kidnapped and the MC needs to find them.
Next Episode Choice: Season 1, #6. "What the Hex Going On?" please
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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 postAuthor: Sarah Fine
Book: The Warrior
Date Read: May 20, 2020
Task: 1. a book about friends
How it Fits: a group of friends defeats the evil demi-god and together replace her as a group instead of one person
Next Episode Choice: Season 1, #7 "Never Ape an Ape Man" please
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7. Never Ape an Ape Man
The gang take jobs as extras on the set of Daphne's uncle, John Maxwell's, movie set of The Ape Man of Forbidden Mountain. But, a real apeman has been sabotaging the movie and Mystery Inc. need to catch this ape before he causes the movie to end permanently.
To help the team solve the mystery, read:
1. a book where the main character gets a job
2. a book that has been made into a movie
3. a book that has been tagged 'Realistic Fiction'
4. a book that is the last of its series
5. a book with 'Mystery' on the book's main page
Completion postAuthor: Kwana Jackson
Book: Real Men Knit
Date Read: May 26, 2020
Task: 1. a book where the main character gets a job
How it Fits: Kerry has been working 2 part time jobs and now that she has her degree she gets hired on full time which is her dream job
Next Episode Choice: Season 1, #8. "Foul Play in Funland" please
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8. Foul Play in Funland
The gang anticipate the opening of a theme park while clam collecting on a nearby beach. But when the theme park's lights come on and the rides start running, when the park is supposed to be closed, they try to find out who is doing it, and find the shenanigans are being caused by a strange man who walks like a torpedo.
To help the team solve the mystery, read:
1. a book that is the first of a series
2. a book set where the main character goes to a beach
3. a book with an unusual word in the title
4. a book by a male author
5. a book with 'Mystery' on the book's main page
Completion postAuthor: Carysa Locke
Book: Pirate Nemesis
Date Read: May 28, 2020
Task: 3. a book with an unusual word in the title
How it Fits: "nemesis" is a cool but unusual word
Next Episode Choice: Season 1, #9 "The Backstage Rage" please
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9. The Backstage Rage
The gang investigate an abandoned theater where they face a spooky phantom and his puppets, all connected to a counterfeiting operation!
To help the team solve the mystery, read:
1. a book where the main character gets left behind
2. a book where the main character goes to a theater
3. a book where a face is the focus of the cover
4. a book whose title has double letters in its title (puppet)
5. a book with 'Mystery' on the book's main page
Completion postAuthor: Jana Deleon
Book: Bullets and Beads
Date Read: May 29, 2020
Task: 4. a book whose title has double letters in its title (puppet)
How it Fits: "Bullets" has double Ls
Next Episode Choice: Season 1, #10 "Bedlam in the Big Top" please
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10. Bedlam in the Big Top
The gang stumble upon a circus that is supposedly haunted by a ghost clown that starts to hypnotize some of them with a gold coin.
To help the team solve the mystery, read:
1. a book with 'stumble' in its text
2. a book with a circus animal in the story
3. a book that is humorous
4. a book that you purchased
5. a book with 'Mystery' on the book's main page
Completion postAuthor: K.T. Grant
Book: Xavier's Loving Arms
Date Read: May 31, 2020
Task: 1. a book with 'stumble' in its text
How it Fits: Chapter 6, page 69, "... she looked back to see a dreamy haze cross Leila's face. When she stumbled at at jostle from behind, Dev grabbed her waist..."
Next Episode Choice: Season 1, #11 "A Gaggle of Galloping Ghosts" please
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11. A Gaggle of Galloping Ghosts
While on their way to Franken Castle, the gang stop to get their fortunes told by a gypsy. She warns them "they will meet their doom" if they go to the castle. The gang goes to the castle anyway, where they are confronted by Count Dracula, Frankenstein's monster and the Wolfman.
To help the team solve the mystery, read:
1. a book with 'castle' in the text of the book
2. a book where something bad happens to the MC
3. a book with a significant character who is nobility
4. a book that is considered a classic
5. a book with 'Mystery' on the book's main page
Completion postAuthor: Sara Bourgeois
Book: Sympathetic Magic
Date Read: June 1, 2020
Task: 2. a book where something bad happens to the MC
How it Fits: the MC almost dies
Next Episode Choice: Season 1, #12 "Scooby-Doo and a Mummy, Too" please
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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 postAuthor: C.N. Crawford
Book: Agent of Enchantment
Date Read: June 3, 2020
Task: 4. a book whose author's first name starts with 'C', 'O', 'I', 'N'
How it Fits: author's first name is initial "C"
Next Episode Choice: Season 1, #13 "Which Witch Is Which?" please
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13. Which Witch Is Which?
While lost in a swamp, the gang comes across a zombie who spooks them. In the nearby town of Swamp's End, they learn that a witch nearby brought the zombie to life, and the gang investigates.
To help the team solve the mystery, read:
1. a book where the MC gets lost
2. a book cover that you consider spooky
3. a book set near where you live
4. a book with 'investigate' in the text of the book
5. a book with 'Mystery' on the book's main page
Completion postAuthor: Carysa Locke
Book: Pirate Bound
Date Read: June 9, 2020
Task: 1. a book where the MC gets lost
How it Fits: At the beginning of the book the MC steals a space ship and just randomly jumps through space to get away from the bad guys and she has no idea where she is when the "pirates" find her
Next Episode Choice: Season 1, #14 "Spooky Space Kook" please
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14. Spooky Space Kook
The Mystery Machine runs out of gas in front of a farmhouse, next to an abandoned airfield, which is haunted by a UFO and its ghostly alien driver.
To help the team solve the mystery, read:
1. a book where the MC has difficulty with a vehicle
2. a book set on a farm
3. a book where the MC flies on a airplane
4. a science fiction book
5. a book with 'Mystery' on the book's main page
Completion postAuthor: Faith Gibson
Book: Rafael
Date Read: June 10, 2020
Task: 3. a book where the MC flies on a airplane
How it Fits: Rafael flies on an airplane to Italy
Next Episode Choice: Season 1, #15 "Go Away Ghost Ship" please
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15. Go Away Ghost Ship
The newspaper reports that local shipping company owner C.L. Magnus's 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
Completion postAuthor: Mercedes Lackey
Book: Spy, Spy Again
Date Read: June 12, 2020
Task: 1. a book with an author whose name starts with 'C' or 'L'
How it Fits: Lackey starts with 'L'
Next Episode Choice: Season 1, #16 "A Night of Fright Is No Delight" please
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16. A Night of Fright Is No Delight
Scooby-Doo is named in the will of Colonel Beauregard Sanders, an eccentric millionaire whose life he saved several years earlier. The only way to claim the inheritance is for Scooby, and the other four heirs to stay the night in the Colonel's mansion - which they quickly learn is haunted by two phantom shadows.
To help the team solve the mystery, read:
1. a book where the MC inherits something
2. a book with a wealthy significant character
3. a book with a military person in the story
4. a book with a shadow on the cover
5. a book with 'Mystery' on the book's main page
Completion postSeason 1, #16 "A Night of Fright Is No Delight"
Author: Annette Dashofy
Book: Til Death
Date Read: June 16, 2020
Task: 1. a book where the MC inherits something
How it Fits: MC inherits money from her friend / boss who died
Next Episode Choice: Season 1, #17 "That's Snow Ghost" please
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17. That's Snow Ghost
While on a skiing vacation at Wolf's End Lodge, the kids are scared by the ghost of a Yeti, called the Snow Ghost, who is believed to turn anyone he captures into ghosts. In search of clues, the gang eventually meet a Tibetan hermit who thinks he is responsible for summoning the monster.
To help the team solve the mystery, read:
1. a book set during the wintertime
2. a book where a mythical creature is mentioned
3. a book where the MC lives alone
4. a book with a MC that is responsible
5. a book with 'Mystery' on the book's main page
Completion postSeason 1, #17 "That's Snow Ghost"
Author: Bec McMaster
Book: Of Silk and Steam
Date Read: June 21, 2020
Task: 2. a book where a mythical creature is mentioned
How it Fits: there are both vampires and werewolves in the book
Next Episode Choice: Season 2, #1. Nowhere to Hyde please
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1. Nowhere to Hyde
On their way home from the Malt Shop, the gang encounters the Ghost of Mr. Hyde in the back of the Mystery Machine, who runs through a marsh and sneaks into a spooky house. The house turns out to be the home of Dr. Jekyll (great-grandson of the novel character), who fears he may be transforming into the ghost. The gang begin searching the house for clues, pegging Helga, Jekyll's housekeeper, as a likely suspect, but they are pursued at every turn by the ghost.
To help the team solve the mystery, read:
1. a book with two names in the title
2. a book with a domicile on the cover
3. a book with a servant in the story
4. a book with 'ghost' in the text of the book
5. a book with 'Mystery' on the book's main page
Completion postSeason 2, #1 "Nowhere to Hyde "
Author: E.J. Copperman
Book: Night of the Living Deed
Date Read: June 22, 2020
Task: 4. a book with 'ghost' in the text of the book
How it Fits: Two of the supporting characters are ghosts
Next Episode Choice: Season 2, #2 "Mystery Mask Mix-Up" please
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2. Mystery Mask Mix-Up
After attending a Chinese New Year parade, the gang goes shopping in a curio shop where Daphne buys a golden mask. The gang then visits Mr. Fong, and they soon learn from him that the mask was stolen many centuries ago from the crypt of a Chinese warlord named Zen Tuo, and now his ghost and his two phantom henchmen want it back.
To help the team solve the mystery, read:
1. a book with 'parade' in the text of the book
2. a book where someone wears a mask
3. a book where something is stolen
4. a book with two people on the cover
5. a book with 'Mystery' on the book's main page
Completion postSeason 2, #2 "Mystery Mask Mix-Up"
Author: Elizabeth Ashby
Book: Secret of the Painted Lady
Date Read: June 23, 2020
Task: 3. a book where something is stolen
How it Fits: diamonds stolen from the MC's friend
Next Episode Choice: Season 2, #3 "Jeepers, It's the Creeper" please
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3. Jeepers, It's the Creeper
While on their way to their high school's barn dance, the gang comes across a knocked-out bank guard and his ransacked car. After he mumbles to them some clues, they discover that the local banks have been robbed by a mysterious zombie-like phantom called the Creeper.
To help the team solve the mystery, read:
1. a book where the MC attends school
2. a book where someone loses consciousness
3. a book where a money is exchanged
4. a book the MC has a nickname
5. a book with 'Mystery' on the book's main page
Completion postSeason 2, #3 "Jeepers, It's the Creeper"
Author: Bec McMaster
Book: You Only Love Twice
Date Read: June 27, 2020
Task: 2. a book where someone loses consciousness
How it Fits: Gemma is hit over the head and kidnapped
Next Episode Choice: Season 2, #4 "Scooby's Night with a Frozen Fright" please
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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 postSeason 2, #4 "Scooby's Night with a Frozen Fright"
Author: Lani Lynn Vale
Book: Ask Me If I Care
Date Read: July 5, 2020
Task: 4. a book with the letters of 'ICE' in the title
How it Fits: Ask Me If I Care
Next Episode Choice: Season 2, #5 "Haunted House Hang-Up" please
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5. Haunted House Hang-Up
The Mystery Machine overheats in front of an old spooky mansion, and the gang goes to look for help, but finds out that the house is being haunted by the Headless Spectre, a terrifying phantom with no head. The mystery gets even stranger when they begin to hear knocking sounds and clues leading to a treasure.
To help the team solve the mystery, read:
1. a book set during the summertime
2. a book where the MC goes looking for help
3. a book a headless person on the cover
4. a book where the MC meets a stranger
5. a book with 'Mystery' on the book's main page
Completion postSeason 2, #5 "Haunted House Hang-Up"
Author: Jenn McKinlay
Book: The Good Ones
Date Read: July 12, 2020
Task: 4. a book where the MC meets a stranger
How it Fits: Maisy and Ryder meet at the beginning of the book
Next Episode Choice: Season 2, #6 "A Tiki Scare Is No Fair" please
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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 postSeason 2, #6 "A Tiki Scare Is No Fair"
Author: Anton Strout
Book: Dead Matter
Date Read: July 14, 2020
Task: 4. a book with 'statue' in the text of the book
How it Fits: the entrance to the hidden fortress is guarded by living statues
Next Episode Choice: Season 2, #7 "Who's Afraid of the Big Bad Werewolf?" please
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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:
Book:
Author:
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.