The Perks Of Being A Book Addict discussion

                                ~April Mini Challenge~

This is an optional mini challenge for our UNO players from April 7 to April 25.

Just when you thought Easter was over for another year! You are invited to join our UNO Easter Egg Hunt for some extra points in the last month of our team challenge.


Easter Egg Hunt
So many coloured eggs! Try and collect them all!
For each book your team reads with a cover that is predominantly one of these covers you can claim an extra 5 points. You can only claim one of each colour. If you do manage to collect at least one of each colour you will receive an additional 10 bonus points:
♔ Blue
♔ Brown
♔ Gold
♔ Orange
♔ Green
♔ Yellow
♔ Grey
♔ Purple
♔ Pink
♔ Red
♔ Black
♔ White

Easter Scavenger Hunt
Find these words... they are all products used to naturally dye eggs for Easter
For each book your team reads that contains one of these words in the text or title (plurals are acceptable), you can claim an extra 5 points per word found. Your team can claim each word more than once (there is no limit), HOWEVER, you can only claim a maximum of three words per book and each word only once per book. For example, if you find the word "tea" in your book 3 times, you can only claim 5 points. But it you find "tea" in your book and a team mate also finds "tea" in a book, you can both claim 5 points.

♔ Blueberry
♔ Grape
♔ Coffee
♔ Walnut
♔ Tea
♔ Dill
♔ Chilli
♔ Turmeric
♔ Spinach
♔ Chlorophyll
♔ Apple
♔ Beetroot (or Beet)
♔ Onion
♔ Carrot
♔ Paprika
♔ Cranberry
♔ Raspberry
♔ Hibiscus
♔ Red Wine
♔ Orange
♔ Lemon
♔ Chamomile (or Camomile)
♔ Celery
♔ Cumin
♔ Saffron

◈ Books used for this mini challenge do not need to be separate books for what you are claiming for your UNO hands
◈ You can't use the same book for the egg hunt and scavenger hunt. That means if you have a pink book that contains the words "saffron" and "grape" you will need to decide if you want to use it for the colour OR the words. It can not be used for both.
◈ Books read between April 7 to 25 count for this mini challenge
◈ The usual book length rules apply, Books must be more than 160 pages in length and Children's books and Graphic Novels can not be used unless by word count they can be verified as more than 40,000 words using arbookfind.com
◈ Team spreadsheets will be updated with an April Mini Challenge tab so that you can track your books and claim your points

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Is Yellow supposed to be in the color list twice?

For the Scavenger Hunt, do the words have to be used in the context of the product used as the dye? I've already come up with "The Grapes of Wrath", "Adam's apple", and "orange" used as a colour not a food.

Can we use the word "beets" as well? I don't know that many people would refer to them as "beetroots".

Sorry, yellow should be once. I've updated :)

Sarah - the context doesn't matter, just the word, so your examples would all be ok

KayLynn - I'll accept both as I think "beets" is more of an American term

Could this cover work for silver?

I think you can use it for white or grey (no silver on the list) ;)

Thanks! I should finish my coffee before posting questions . . .

Karen, will this work for brown book cover?

sure does Jingles. I'd love to know what it is like. Are you reading it?

For red wine does it need to be those words exactly or would reference to a bottle or glass of red do?

yes it does need to be "red wine" (as we are looking for the exact words not the context)

Karen wrote: "sure does Jingles. I'd love to know what it is like. Are you reading it?"

Thanks, Karen!

I finished it yesterday. I liked it okay, but not nearly as much as I did The Book Thief. Maybe that is a bit of an unfair comparison though.

Sometimes it just seemed to lag, and I wanted it to hurry up and move forward.

With The Book Thief, the story pulled me in right from the beginning. This one didn't do that.

Would this count for a pink cover?

jingles wrote: "Karen wrote: "sure does Jingles. I'd love to know what it is like. Are you reading it?"

Thanks, Karen!

I finished it yesterday. I liked it okay, but not nearly as much as I did [book:The Book Th..."

It is always hard when a writer has such an amazing book and then has to follow up. I'll still read it, but maybe I won't rush out for it then ;)

Jennifer wrote: "Would this count for a pink cover?"

My husband says yes, so I'll listen to him and say yes ;)

Karen, isn't it supposed to be the other way around - your husband is supposed to listen to you ;)

haha
I know, but I drive him nuts with getting his opinions on things for team challenges, so if I don't listen to him he may not help anymore... teehee

Haha. Good strategy, that, Karen.

Dear Karen's Mr.:

This cover would count for what color?

lol Jennifer!
I'd say black

Wonderful! TYTY :-D

Would this work for purple or grey? It's kind of a weird mix.

That is an odd one. My husband says grey :)

Okay thanks!

For "red wine" can we substitute types of red wine, like Pinot Noir, instead of "red wine"?

Nope. Has to be exact words (so just "wine" won't count either) or a plural

i really wish i had of been on good reads to sign up for this UNO challenge. I think this would have been alot of fun. I hope there is another.

I'm sure we will do another one Jennifer :D

Is "camomile" without the h ok?

Are plurals allowed for the words e.g. raspberries and blueberries?

Karen, will this work for a gray cover?



And will this work for blue? Because it's such a busy cover, not sure there is enough blue here.

Sarah wrote: "Is "camomile" without the h ok?"

I googled, and I had some trouble finding "camomile", but it does seem to be a recognised alternative spelling of "chamomile" so it is ok

Alison wrote: "Are plurals allowed for the words e.g. raspberries and blueberries?"

yes

jingles wrote: "Karen, will this work for a gray cover?



And will this work for blue? Because it's such a busy cover, not sure there is enough blue here.

[bookcover:The I..."

Jingles you're in luck. I asked my husband "what colour is that?" (nose turned... "ummmm grey?"
and "what colour is that?" (very definitive) "blue"

Thank you, Karen! And thank your hubby for me :)

I always have the worst luck with cover colors. So I usually just ask because what looks purple to me, looks blue to someone else. LOL

lol I hear ya
That's why he gets the colour job :)

Karen wrote: "Sarah wrote: "Is "camomile" without the h ok?"

I googled, and I had some trouble finding "camomile", but it does seem to be a recognised alternative spelling of "chamomile" so it is ok"

Thanks Karen.

More questions (sorry!).



Is there enough orange on this to count?

Yes that's ok Sarah

Thanks Karen. :)

Hi Karen, are cranberry and craberry the same thing?

Not the I can see. Cranberry is the fruit
http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cranberry

Oh, I thought it was supposed to be cranberry haha, since there are so many other fruits etc on the list.

What is craberry, does anyone know? I can't google or wiki it because it auto defaults to cranberry...not that we've found the word yet either way lol, just wondering. :)

Denise wrote: "Oh, I thought it was supposed to be cranberry haha, since there are so many other fruits etc on the list.

What is craberry, does anyone know? I can't google or wiki it because it auto defaults to..."

I found cranberry and asked because as you said craberry defaults to cranberry. I have no idea what a craberry is.

Ah, now I see. Typo in the list ; it should be craNberry

ok, perfect.. perhaps I will be the first to use it:)

Is this purple? The reader says she calls it mostly purple but a bunch of different colors as well.



This looks grey to me. Is this ok?

OR...alternately for purple....what about this?

I've gone to my colour consultant (husband) and only 1 out of 3 I'm afraid. The RL Stine book is good for purple, but the other two he doesn't think work for the colours you've asked