The Challenge Factory discussion

Your tales for theme/tasks:
Snow White
Princess and the Pea
The Turnip

Captain:NancyHelen TCF Grimm
Grace Grimm
Angie TCF Grimm Readers
Jacki TCF Grimm
Sam Grimm
Lanelle Grimm Challenge
Theo Grimm Game
Sallie (GeorgiaGirl) TCF Grimm
Cathie Faery Tale Challenge
Sandy (Sign up post 46) TCF Grimm

Grimm Readers Spreadsheet
Finished Tasks
Snow White Spreadsheet

Scoring:
Page Points:
150-200 = 20 points
201-300 = 25 points
301-400 = 30 points
401-500 = 35 points
501+ = 40

Re-telling = 50 points
Author Initial = 50 points
Team Name Title = 50 points
Mini Challenge = 20 points
Every set of 10 theme/tasks completed = 100 points

Acceptable words for Team Name Bonus:
Cinderella: Cinder, cinders, Ella
Snow White: Snow, snowed, snows, snowing, white, whites
Little Mermaid: Little, Wee, Small, Mermaid, Merfolk, Merman
Red Riding Hood: Red, reds, ride, riders, riding, rider, hood, hoods, hooded
Beauty & the Beast: beauty, beautiful, beauties, beast, beasts, beastly
Sleeping Beauty: Sleep, sleeping, sleepy, asleep, beauty, beautiful, beauties
Peter Pan: Peter, pan, pans


Author Initial Bonus Combinations:
AI
AN
AS
AU
BE
CI
DE
DI
DR
DT
EA
EB
ED
EE
EL
EM
EP
ER
ET
GB
GH
HE
HI
HO
ID
IN
IT
LA
LE
LI
LL
MA
ME
ND
NG
NO
OD
OO
OW
PA
PE
PI
RE
RI
RM
RP
SL
SN
ST
TE
TH
TL
TT
TY
UT
WH
WW
YA

Task One Colours
17th June to 1st July

Snow White has white in the title, read any book with something white on the cover.

Mini Challenge 1

Once Upon a Time:
Dates: 17th June until 23rd June

The How To's:
Every fairy tale starts with once upon a time…

➜This week any book who's cover has a method of telling time on it (clock, sun, watch, hourglass, etc)
➜A number in the title (series # doesn't count!) or a method of telling time in the title.
➜Series name counts as title (again excluding the series #)
➜Numbers that are spelled out are ok too for example Eighth Grave After Dark
➜First, Second, third in the title are ok too.

Will score you an additional 20 points per book.

Mini Challenge #2 ~ Prince Charming

Duration: 6/24-6/30

The How To's:
♕Any book with a single male on the cover
♕Any book written by a male author
♕Any book that's in a male's POV
♕Any book that has a male narrator

Each book will score you 20 points.
Books must be at least 150 pages
*Any book FINISHED after this one begins is ok to use

Links to some retelling lists

Snow White Retellings
Beauty and the B east Retellings
Cinderella Retellings

Hello team mates!

Hi Angie and everyone.

Hi everyone - checking in!

Hey all :)

Going through all my books trying to find some high points! If anyone has some good recommendations I'm open to ideas :)

Hello teammates! I'm going to look for books right now.

Hi team!

hello everyone

Hi everyone! :)

I'm already looking though my books for ones that will fit. Too bad there's still a whole week before this actually gets going!

Here's an example of the tracking, scoring, 10 tasks etc in this post

Sometimes "seeing it" is better than me trying to explain it lol.

Hi everyone :-).

Still trying to figure everything out. I've never heard of "The Turnip"?

Cathie I hadn't either. I'd looked up some in Wikipedia to get the synopsis so I could hash out some task ideas. I have an ancient copy of Grimm's tales and I just opened it up and saw that one and it was unique enough and flexible enough that I could work with it.

https://www.goodreads.com/search?utf8...

Various liptopia fairy tale retelling lists
*Note* not all books on all the lists are re-tellings.

Cathie wrote: "Hi everyone :-).

Still trying to figure everything out. I've never heard of "The Turnip"?"

I read it as the Enormous Turnip when I was a kid and was one of my favourites that and the Bremen Town Musicians Band and Snow White and Rose Red.

Okay. I have a couple of books picked out that will give us points.
Let me know if I got it wrong.

Mini Challenge - (there is a clock on the mantle)
PP - 25
FTR - 50
TNB - 0
AI - 0
MCP - 20

Task - (the white rose)
PP - 25
FTR - 50
TNB - 50
AI - 0

When we have a new challenge like this launched it takes the questions in order to work the kinks out and find any holes.

In order to keep things simplified I'm going to change the ruling on re-tellings, modern tales, etc.


IF IT'S BEEN SHELVED AT LEAST 5 TIMES AS A RE-TELLING OR FAIRY TALE IT'LL COUNT TOWARDS THE FTR BONUS.

IF IT'S ON A FAIRY TALE LISTOPIA I'LL TAKE IT

SO THIS WILL MAKE ROMEO& JULIET AND WIZARD OF OZ COUNT SINCE THEY'VE BEEN SHELVED MULTIPLE TIMES.


And I'm not shouting that just making it visible :)

Is anyone willing to be a captain or co-captain?

Came across a good book for this -

Ruby Red by Kerstin Gier



Total PP for this post: 30
Total FTR for this post: 0
Total TNB for this post: 50
Total AI for this post: 0
Total MCP: 20 (clock on cover)
** white on cover for theme **


FYI:
PP stands for page points
FTR stands for fairytale retelling
TNB for team name bonus
AI for author initial
MCP stands for mini challenge points.

Lanelle wrote: "Is anyone willing to be a captain or co-captain?"

I have the problem of being clueless when it comes to spreadsheets.

These two work well. Second is anthology with one author fitting the inital bonus.



Task White
Total PP for this post: 30
Total FTR for this post: 50
Total TNB for this post: 50
Total AI for this post: 50



Task White rabbit
Total PP for this post: 30
Total FTR for this post: 50
Total TNB for this post: 50
Total AI for this post: 50 Laura Lascaro

Grace wrote: "Lanelle wrote: "Is anyone willing to be a captain or co-captain?"

I have the problem of being clueless when it comes to spreadsheets."

Me, too. I might be able to get my husband to do a spreadsheet for us, but I'm hoping one of our teammates has this valuable knowledge. Anyone?

I can do spreadsheets, so I don't mind doing it if no-one else wants to? If anyone wants to give me a hand though, that would be great.

I am happy to help to track the books and points and if you have an idiots guide to the spreadsheet I will try.

Grace wrote: "These two work well. Second is anthology with one author fitting the inital bonus.



Task White
Total PP for this post: 30
Total FTR for this post: 50
Total TNB..."

I might try and find that anthology! I like the sound of it :)

I can co-captain, but I'm semi-new to this type of game and I'm worried I may not have everything straight lol

Grace and Jacki, if you like, I can get the spreadsheet organised and then both of you could help out keeping it up to date? I am in the UK so my timezone is different to quite a few players so it is always good to share with people from the US as I'm often asleep when things are happening!

NancyHelen I am in the UK too :) I am happy to try. I can gather info in tracking posts if that helps.

That would be fab, Grace! I'm just setting the spreadsheet up now.

Jacki, I think all of us are semi-new here. I know that I don't have everything straight :) I'm still trying to figure out the Author's Initials thingy.

OK everyone, I have set the spreadsheet up here:

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/...

Hopefully all of my formulas will work automatically! That's the plan anyway, but the proof will be in the using of it. I'll keep it updated, but do keep an eye on it in case I miss anything.

When you post your books up, if you could let me know the page numbers as I have set the spreadsheet up to automatically add the appropriate points when I plug in how many pages the book has. It saves us having to go back and check the points each time and probably makes it easier to post your books.

If you can think of anything else that will improve the spreadsheet, let me know...

Hey, everyone. I'm patting myself on the back. I convinced my IRL book club to read for our next meeting on the 25th. I just checked. It will get points for Author's Initials!

NancyHelen I requested access to the spreadsheet.

Lanelle I just check the initials against that list which is very useful. I have a couple more that work for the task and all bonus points but not the mini.

short at 175 pgs

320 pgs

I've just granted you access, Grace.

Thanks. That looks great, nice and clear.

Lanelle wrote: "Hey, everyone. I'm patting myself on the back. I convinced my IRL book club to read for our next meeting on the 25th. I just checked. It will get points for Author's Initi..."

I had that one lined up for another challenge but haven't started it yet. Definitely going to hold off until this starts up, and reap all the bonus points! :P

Another one with good points this is the same book but has less obvious white on cover, just snowflakes but shows all the right shelves.

Although it says 3 in series, they seem to be just connected by the fairytale theme, they are stand alone stories.

Another (non-fairy tale) one:

It'll fit the task, plus gets AI and TNB points, and 35 PP points.

I'm trying to find some options from different genres and so far that seems like one of the best non-fairy tale ones I've found!

NancyHelen wrote: "Grace and Jacki, if you like, I can get the spreadsheet organised and then both of you could help out keeping it up to date? I am in the UK so my timezone is different to quite a few players so it ..."

I'm in the US!! Just requested access to spreadsheet!

NancyHelen, I've requested access to the spreadsheet. I'm not around much this week because I'm frantically memorizing Italian for a light opera I'm singing in the weekend, but I'm willing to help out as needed once life gets back to normal when the challenge starts.

Jacki and Theo, I have given you both edit access as well.

I think the easiest for everyone will be to post your books here in this thread and one or two of us can then update the spreadsheet. But if everyone keeps an eye on it, just to make sure that nothing gets missed, then we should all be good.

Really looking forward to getting started!

Jacki wrote: "Came across a good book for this -

Ruby Red by Kerstin Gier



Total PP for this post: 30
Total FTR for this post: 0
Total TNB for thi..."

Thank you Jacki for posting the abbreviaions dictionary!

Cathie wrote: "Jacki wrote: "Came across a good book for this -

Ruby Red by Kerstin Gier



Total PP for this post: 30
Total FTR for this post: 0
Tot..."

I borrowed it from someone else's post lol. :D

Well, thank you M'am for borrowing! :-)

I was checking our list of team members against who has checked in, and it looks like Sandy hasn't been by the thread yet.