Challenge Corner discussion

The Peacock Detectives
✔️ Jammin' Jenny
✔️ Vicki
✔️ Daniela
✔️ Alli
✔️ Keri
✔️ Kim
✔️ Bookbuyer
✔️ Bookworm
Melany

Q&A
Review
SS
**Please do your best to use the SS. This is a really in depth challenge and the SS was made to help teams keep track of everything. (:

Please check in by July 1st! :D

Woohoo! Hi team! Lots of great team members! ^_^

I am excited to participate. Go, team!

Gotcha guys checked in! :D

Checking in!!! Can’t believe it’s almost July already!

IKR?! lol.

I actually have forgotten what team I'm on because I have been chatting with Aly and Felicia on their team thread. lol. I'll have to bookmark the chat soon or I'll forget again. :P

Keri wrote: "Checking in!!! Can’t believe it’s almost July already!"

Gotcha! :D

Checking in! Go team Peacock!

Checking in :D Go Team

Got you both checked in! :D

Adding Bookworm to the team!

Checking In! Clue is my favorite board game!

BookWorm wrote: "Checking In! Clue is my favorite board game!"

I hope you end up loving the challenge then! You're all checked in! :D

OK

Hey guys. Sorry I'm late. I was sick for a few days and didn't manage to get on line. I'll let Vicki know we're here too.

Jammin Jenny wrote: "Hey guys. Sorry I'm late. I was sick for a few days and didn't manage to get on line. I'll let Vicki know we're here too."

I hope you're feeling better! I got you checked in! :D

Today was our (hubby and me) last day in Depoe Bay, Oregon. Tomorrow we leave for Klamath Falls, and spend one night, then home on Friday fairly late.

I'm so excited for this one and I love you team name: PEACOCK. I actually had a pet peacock on my grandfather's farm when I was a little girl. LOL So ready to get this game/challenge started!

Anna 'Bookbuyer' wrote: "IKR?! lol.

I actually have forgotten what team I'm on because I have been chatting with Aly and Felicia on their team thread. lol. I'll have to bookmark the chat soon or I'll forget again. :P"

LOL that's so funny! You're just a little social butterfly! lol

Felicia wrote: "Jammin Jenny wrote: "Hey guys. Sorry I'm late. I was sick for a few days and didn't manage to get on line. I'll let Vicki know we're here too."

I hope you're feeling better! I got you checked in! :D"

Thanks Felicia!

We haven't talked strategy, but I went ahead and added my name to 2 places on the SS. I'll be on the road for most of the day both tomorrow and Friday, so if I seem MIA that's why. If claiming tasks is not the way we are going to go but rather wait until we have finished reading a book, feel free to remove my name from those spots. I won't mind. I just knew I wouldn't be able to get on the computer either until late tomorrow night or late Friday.

Good point Vicki. Has anyone reviewed the rules, etc. to see how this game will work? Do we wait for something to happen that then prompts us to decide whish suspect, location or weapon we are going to go for? I'm all for pre-planning if we can.

IF I understand correctly, the one thing I think we should do is to read both categories, whether that be one person or coordinating two readers per set. In the directions, it says, "Each team will be given a conclusion they will be working towards figuring out. The conclusions will be one Suspect, one Weapon, and one Place 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."

So I think we should try doing our readings by category, finishing both together as much as possible.

Yes I think you’re right Vicki, that’s how I understand it also.

That is right ladies!

And I have you checked in Vicki! You guys are all checked in as well. :D

Okay, then I think it makes sense for us to claim tasks we think we'll finish in the first week and try to match them up as much as possible for a S/W/P guess.

ETA: I picked two tasks for one suspect and two books for one place with books I'll be reading the first week in July.

Just so everyone is aware, score posts are going to look a little different this time around. There is going to be two extra columns in the scores post. One will be to keep track of the bonus points you'll receive as an individual. The other column will be keeping track of the amount of books a member reads. This column in no way effects your scores. It is so I can make sure members are reading the amount of books that they said they would when signing up.

Felicia wrote: "That is right ladies!

And I have you checked in Vicki! You guys are all checked in as well. :D"

Thanks, Felicia. :)

Awesome. I think I finally get this. lol. Took me long enough. :)

So when we put what book we are going to read on the SS, is our strategy to complete both of the requirements for one S/W/P? For example:

Marie Lu: Asian influence
female MC

Would I have to complete both of these things for Marie Lu?

No. I'm pretty sure you have to read two books.

It is one book per category. And no, anyone can read for any category. If you claim one category it is not solely your responsibility to fill the second category for that.

ok I think I get it

Does anyone want to BR .
I don't know if this is the right place to ask this.

Okay I think we should start adding our first book to the SS. We need to figure out who is reading what so we know we have a S, W and P covered. :)

NM. See some people have already added books. lol.

So I have added my books that I want to start with to 'Weapons' as that was looking a little sparse. :)

I’ll look at what’s claimed and see what I can do to complete a set of possible

BookWorm wrote: "Does anyone want to BR .
I don't know if this is the right place to ask this."

I'll BR that with you - can you request a thread? When did you want to start?

Ok I don’t have access to a computer today, so if someone can add The Storm Crow to ‘features magic’ that will complete a set of two and it’s my first July book.
If not, I’ll try to get computer access tomorrow or the day after to add it in.

I put it in for you Keri.

Thanks! :-)

So if I'm still understanding how this works we should be very careful about posting our books and shouldn't post them as we read them. For instance if Jenny finishes Bark of Night as our first book we shouldn't then post any other suspect books until someone has finished a weapon's book and a location book.

I have added a banked tab so we can keep track of the books we have finished but can't post yet.

I am just a little bit confused. Why shouldn't we post certain books?

Jammin Jenny wrote: "BookWorm wrote: "Does anyone want to BR .
I don't know if this is the right place to ask this."

I'll BR that with you - can you request a thread? Wh..."

As soon as possible. I was kind of hoping July 1st but if that is too early then we could change it. (The thing is, this would be my first time doing a BR and I do not know what I am doing!)

BookWorm wrote: "I am just a little bit confused. Why shouldn't we post certain books?"

My understanding is we are looking for a S/W/P. One each. Although I guess we would need two books for each. Forgot about that.

So we don't want to post 6 S and 1 W and 3 P all at once as you can't move books to the next round. We want to be very carefuly to not waste any books. I don't know if I am explaining this well...

Right - I get it. We need to post books when we have the two tasks for each S/W/P so we can make a guess.

Yes. So be very aware of what has already been posted. Keep in mind some of us might not use the SS so look on the review thread too before posting. I will try to help keep the SS up to date. :)

Sounds great Book! Good looking out!

I just hope I understand this all. lol. It's been like two decades since I last played clue. lol.