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Oh also before I forget! I know you signed up with a mystery number so I just put in a random min and max number for you on the spreadsheet.
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Game 1: Poppy Flowers
🗿 Olmec: Poppy Flowers, also known as Vase and Flowers and Vase with Viscaria, is a painting by Vincent Van Gogh with an estimated value of US $50 millions to $55 million. It was stolen from Cairo’s Mohamed Mahmoud Khalil Museum in August 2010 and is yet to be found.
Egyptian officials erroneously believed they had recovered the painting only hours after its theft when two Italian suspects attempted to board a plane to Italy at Cairo International Airport. The same painting had been stolen from the same museum on June 4, 1977, and was recovered ten years later in Kuwait.
The painting is small, measuring 65 x 54 cm and depicts yellow and red poppy flowers. It is believed that Van Gogh painted it in 1887, three years before his suicide. The painting, which is of a vase and yellow and red poppies, contrasted against a dark ground is a reflection of Van Gogh’s deep admiration for Adolphe Monticelli, an older painter whose work influenced him when he first saw it in Paris in 1886.
🗿 Round 1: The Mote1. 'Water' in text (pg/% & quote)
2. Letters W,A,T,E,R are in the series title (in any order)
3. Author's initials are in RIVER
4. Title has the word 'WET' in it
5. Read a book from the Mediterranean List
6. MC's first/last name starts with WStarts: November 1st
Ends: November 5th
🗿 Round 2: The Steps of Knowledge
(view spoiler)
🗿 Round 3: The Temple Games
(view spoiler)
🗿 Final Round: The Temple Run
(view spoiler)
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Alaina wrote: "☘Misericordia☘ ~ The Serendipity Aegis ~ wrote: "Dutifully checking in :) 🐆"Oh also before I forget! I know you signed up with a mystery number so I just put in a random min and max number for yo..."
Okay :) Not sure if I'll match your guess, since I'll likely be all kinds of busy but let's live and see what actually happens :)
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Who is excited for the new challenge? I know I am!
I am, but I feel like all the books I had planned to read for next month do not cover any of the 1 round prompts. LOL
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😂😂 it’s all good you can bank them for future rounds.
Alaina wrote: "Who is excited for the new challenge? I know I am!" Yep :) Lots of great prompts for us out there :)
I expect that after this challenge we'll all be able to add to the list of our unusual reading locations such gems as:
The 3 Observatories
The Lightning Room
The Heart Room
The Lightning Room
The Wall Climb
The Room of the Royal Gongs
The Ledges
The Room of Harmonic Convergence
The Room of Fallen Columns
The Troubled Bridge
The Holes of Python
The Treasury of Golden Orbs
Gotta love these! :)
Checking in! :)Sorry for being late, didn't know we were supposed to check in until now.
🐅 Hear us R-R-Rrrrrrroar! 🐅
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Sorry for being late, didn't know we were supposed to check in until now."
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Cindy wrote: "Checking in"Cindy, I see you're reading Attachments. Would you like to do a BR on it? It's been ages since I read it and I think it was a fun read. Totally worthy of a reread.
☘Misericordia☘ ~ The Serendipity Aegis ~ wrote: "Cindy wrote: "Checking in"Cindy, I see you're reading Attachments. Would you like to do a BR on it? It's been ages since I read it and I think it was a fun read. Totally worthy of a..."
Yeah i'd be okay with doing a BR on it. I'll have to admit I have never done a BR so you will have to let me know all that I need to do. I haven't started the book yet, when would be good for you?
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Game 1: Poppy Flowers
🗿 Olmec: Poppy Flowers, also known as Vase and Flowers and Vase with Viscaria, is a painting by Vincent Van Gogh with an estimated value of US $50 millions to $55 million. It was stolen from Cairo’s Mohamed Mahmoud Khalil Museum in August 2010 and is yet to be found.
Egyptian officials erroneously believed they had recovered the painting only hours after its theft when two Italian suspects attempted to board a plane to Italy at Cairo International Airport. The same painting had been stolen from the same museum on June 4, 1977, and was recovered ten years later in Kuwait.
The painting is small, measuring 65 x 54 cm and depicts yellow and red poppy flowers. It is believed that Van Gogh painted it in 1887, three years before his suicide. The painting, which is of a vase and yellow and red poppies, contrasted against a dark ground is a reflection of Van Gogh’s deep admiration for Adolphe Monticelli, an older painter whose work influenced him when he first saw it in Paris in 1886.
🗿 Round 1: The Mote1. 'Water' in text (pg/% & quote)
2. Letters W,A,T,E,R are in the series title (in any order)
3. Author's initials are in RIVER
4. Title has the word 'WET' in it
5. Read a book from the Mediterranean List
6. MC's first/last name starts with WStarts: November 1st @ Midnight (in your own time zone)
Ends: November 5th @ Midnight (in your own time zone)
🗿 Round 2: The Steps of KnowledgeQ: Poppy Flowers is also known as what?A - Vase and Flowers: ‘Flower(s)’ in text (pg/% & quote)
B - Vase and Weeds: ‘Weed(s) in text (pg/% & quote)
C - Vase with Butterfly: ‘Butterfly/Butterflies’ in text (pg/% & quote)
**The correct answer will be revealed on 11/11**Starts: November 6th @ Midnight (in your own time zone)
Ends: November 10th @ Midnight (in your own time zone)
🗿 Round 3: The Temple Games
(view spoiler)
🗿 Final Round: The Temple Run
(view spoiler)
Cindy wrote: "☘Misericordia☘ ~ The Serendipity Aegis ~ wrote: "Cindy wrote: "Checking in"Cindy, I see you're reading Attachments. Would you like to do a BR on it? It's been ages since I read it a..."
Great! Basically, from how I get it, we don't need to be reading 100% simultaneously to do a BR (like, are you reading this chapter while I'm reading it). Would 4-5 Nov work for you? We can be slightly late to the thread.
I'll ask for the thread right now:(https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...), and as soon as it's opened, each of us will have to do, in our own reading time, at least 4 status check points across the reading (I usually do more but that's just mee, most people jot just 4 notes).
If any of us doesn't show up for the BR, it still counts as a BR for the one who showed up.
The BRs look slightly like this thread (or any in the neighbouring BR folders): https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...
Alaina wrote: "**The correct answer will be revealed on 11/11**" Alaina, what will guessing the correct/wrong answer do to our points?How do we post our answers and what's the catch (I mean, the answer's right there)?
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How do we post our answers and what's the catch?"
LOL, I don't think I mentioned anything about bonus points if you read for the correct answer. Hmm, I'll have to sit and think about that.
As for the task, you guys can read for either A, B, or C throughout Round 2. So when you post on your team's review thread,
Review: add here
Buddy: add here
Pages: ###
Vase and Flowers: 'Flower' in text (pg/% & quote)
How it fits: Pg 283, "..into a multipetaled flower.."
Alaina wrote: "☘Misericordia☘ ~ The Serendipity Aegis ~ wrote: "Alaina wrote: "**The correct answer will be revealed on 11/11**" What will guessing the correct answer do to our points?How do we post our answers..."Ah, ok, so all these are equivalent reads ultimately, right? Okay :)
Cindy wrote: "☘Misericordia☘ ~ The Serendipity Aegis ~ wrote: "Cindy wrote: "Checking in"Cindy, I see you're reading Attachments. Would you like to do a BR on it? It's been ages since I read it a..." We got our BR thread here: https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...
Ugh, I'm behind on my first round book reviews, but I'll work on then slowly.
Okay, I'm done with reviews.It sucked, because my last reads were so meeh. That's my fault for picking books more to suit the tasks, than enything else. lol It's 11.23 pm for me, so I'm done with round 1.
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lol oh reviews...
Ok, I've no idea what that pendant means. Is it good or bad that we have a half of it? Is there something in particular that we are supposed to do with it and I just missed? :) Sorry, if that's a dumb Q. (It likely is :))I thought there was something about the rooms where if you read for the wrong room you lose a pendant (or a piece of it?). But that's not the current game, is it? Or else?
Just wanted to jot a short note that I'm gonna be AWOL for some timeslots during Nov (that's what I meant by the mystery number, not that I'd read 200 bpm :))
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In the sign ups, it states the following:
🗿 Temple Run: Will have tasks/challenges that fit the 12-13 rooms throughout the temple. Each temple run will have 3 guards, so if someone on the team reads for a room with a guard the team will lose half a pendant.
🗿 For rounds 1-3 in each game, the winning team of each round will receive a full pendant. Whereas the remaining teams will receive half a pendant.
So the pendants just help you towards the Temple Run since 3 of the rooms within the game will have a temple guard.
Alaina wrote: "So the pendants just help you towards the Temple Run since 3 of the rooms within the game will have a temple guard." Ahhha. So, for each book read for a guarded roQom will bring the amount of pendants down by 0.5? If I and 2 someone elses, we between us read 10 books, hit the guarded rooms, say, 7 times, 4x 1 of them, 3x another 1 of them between ourselves, how many pendants do we stand to lose? Or am I getting this wrong? We can all read for the same room? Do we all have to chose different ones?
Hitting 1 room 30 times loses just 0.5 pendants? Or would that be 15 ones?
Can the pendants get to the negatives (I'm pretty sure I'd proficient in getting there - there are so many cool locations that I'd love to put on the spreadsheet!
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LOL I love it all! Okay so once you read for a task/room that a guard is in - you lose half a pendant. It wont happen if you read for that task/room again after that because now the guard is gone. Having leftover pendants will be a good thing when it comes to the Temple Round. It means bonus points!
Alaina wrote: "☘Misericordia☘ ~ The Serendipity Aegis ~ wrote: "Alaina wrote: "So the pendants just help you towards the Temple Run since 3 of the rooms within the game will have a temple guard." Ahhha. So, for e..." Ah-ha, so, it's like that guard grabs that pendant and runs off with it :) Wowser. Can we all read for the same room then? So as not to hit all the rooms with all the guards?
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You all can do whatever you want in the Temple Run.
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Game 1: Poppy Flowers
🗿 Olmec: Poppy Flowers, also known as Vase and Flowers and Vase with Viscaria, is a painting by Vincent Van Gogh with an estimated value of US $50 millions to $55 million. It was stolen from Cairo’s Mohamed Mahmoud Khalil Museum in August 2010 and is yet to be found.
Egyptian officials erroneously believed they had recovered the painting only hours after its theft when two Italian suspects attempted to board a plane to Italy at Cairo International Airport. The same painting had been stolen from the same museum on June 4, 1977, and was recovered ten years later in Kuwait.
The painting is small, measuring 65 x 54 cm and depicts yellow and red poppy flowers. It is believed that Van Gogh painted it in 1887, three years before his suicide. The painting, which is of a vase and yellow and red poppies, contrasted against a dark ground is a reflection of Van Gogh’s deep admiration for Adolphe Monticelli, an older painter whose work influenced him when he first saw it in Paris in 1886.
🗿 Round 1: The Mote1. 'Water' in text (pg/% & quote)
2. Letters W,A,T,E,R are in the series title (in any order)
3. Author's initials are in RIVER
4. Title has the word 'WET' in it
5. Read a book from the Mediterranean List
6. MC's first/last name starts with WStarts: November 1st @ Midnight (in your own time zone)
Ends: November 5th @ Midnight (in your own time zone)
🗿 Round 2: The Steps of KnowledgeQ: Poppy Flowers is also known as what?A - Vase and Flowers: ‘Flower(s)’ in text (pg/% & quote)
B - Vase and Weeds: ‘Weed(s) in text (pg/% & quote)
C - Vase with Butterfly: ‘Butterfly/Butterflies’ in text (pg/% & quote)
**The correct answer will be revealed on 11/11**Starts: November 6th @ Midnight (in your own time zone)
Ends: November 10th @ Midnight (in your own time zone)
🗿 Round 3: The Temple Games
For this Temple Game, teams will be searching for floral paintings. So each team will have to spell out the word FLOWERS during this round. The book’s title, series title, or author’s first/last initial can be used towards a letter. Also, only one book per letter.F -
L -
O -
W -
E -
R -
S -Starts: November 11th @ Midnight (in your own time zone)
Ends: November 15th @ Midnight (in your own time zone)
🗿 Final Round: The Temple Run
(view spoiler)
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H, P, A, T, S, J, or R.
Sorry guys, work kept me so busy for past few days, I haven't done any reading. But I finally have some breathing room, so I'll start reading something.
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Alaina wrote: "So I did a 'Wheel Decide' for extra points for Round 2 for correct guesses. The wheel ranged from 1-5 and it landed on 4! So for each correct guess will get 4 extra points! Woohoo!" Wow! Great news! :)
Agnė wrote: "Sorry guys, work kept me so busy for past few days, I haven't done any reading. But I finally have some breathing room, so I'll start reading something." Agnė, don't worry about that, I'm the same way. I'm like goashhh, will I ever get that weekend?
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Q: Poppy Flowers is also known as what?A - Vase and Flowers: ‘Flower(s)’ in text (pg/% & quote)
B - Vase and Weeds: ‘Weed(s) in text (pg/% & quote)
C - Vase with Butterfly: ‘Butterfly/Butterflies’ in text (pg/% & quote)
The correct answer was, A - Vase and Flowers. 20 extra points were given.
I started reading a book on October 27th and finished it recently. Does it count in this challenge? What am I supposed to do? For only page points, can I just post the bookcover, the review and the page numbers? And the book was an audiobook, so how do I calculate? There is no printed edition of the book.
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What's the book? How much did you read/listen to in November?
Alaina wrote: "For Round 2, you have guessed correctly 5 times for the following question,Q: Poppy Flowers is also known as what?
A - Vase and Flowers: ‘Flower(s)’ in text (pg/% & quote)
B - Vase and Weeds: ‘We..."
Thank you:) (although I did not contribute at all; really sorry about that)
The answer was so obvious.
Alaina wrote: "Devika wrote: "I started reading a book on October 27th and finished it recently. Does it count in this challenge? What am I supposed to do? For only page points, can I just post the bookcover, the..."
Camp Red Moon
I don't remember how much I listened to:(
I only started updating the progress from November 7. I would say around 75%? Not sure, but you can take that as the percentage I read.
So sorry for the inconvenience caused...
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So that's about 4 hrs and 32 mins long.
4 hrs and 32 mins = 272 mins (4*60 = 240 + 32)
272*150 words per min = 40,800 words
40,800/250 words per page = 163.2 pages
So I would round it to 163 pages total for this book.
At 75%, that means you read 122 pages for November. So you can count it for the current round your team is on if it fits the spell out. If not, then you can put it on hold until it works for a round/game that the team is currently on.
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