The Challenge Factory discussion

Partner Challenge
Monthly

Players
D.L.
Christine

Links
Q&A

Book Completions Post in your thread in this format:
Book:
Author:
Pages:
Date Read:
Word Chosen:


Free Guesses (every three book completions) Post in your thread in this format:
Free Guess Word:

Challenge Rules
📗Books must be a minimum of 140 pages
📗Graphic novels are allowed provided they meet the minimum page requirement
📗Audiobooks are allowed. Minimum 3 hours.
📗Any book in any language will be accepted as long as it meets the criteria
📗Rereads are allowed

Current Lingo Word
Lingo Word
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Example
The Slippery Slope Slippery
is not the Lingo word. (Green is a correct letter in the correct spot, Yellow is a correct letter in the wrong spot, and Black is an incorrect letter)

Guess Log
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Word 2


Word 3


Word 4


Score
D.L.: 5
Christine: 10

Hi Christine! I look forward to playing this game with you. It sounds fun. Kind of like Wordle?!!

Hi D.L.! I am looking forward to playing this game as well. I really enjoy Wordle. My starting word was finally word of the day a little while back and I quit playing because I couldn't decide on a new word LOL.

Ahhhh, R seems a bit hard do far but I am looking!

Christine wrote: "Hi D.L.! I am looking forward to playing this game as well. I really enjoy Wordle. My starting word was finally word of the day a little while back and I quit playing because I couldn't decide on a..."

R is a hard one to start with. I am scouring my TBR lol

I am going to be jealous when you find one! I'm still looking...

OK. I just read through the Q&A and see that we can use R words that are longer and shorter than 8 letters. That helps. I missed that in my first read through of the rules, or I forgot the rules lol.

Christine wrote: "I am going to be jealous when you find one! I'm still looking...

OK. I just read through the Q&A and see that we can use R words that are longer and shorter than 8 letters. That helps. I missed th..."

That's good to know about the titles! I managed to find 2 8-letter "R's" on my TBR. I am shocked but happy lol I know we're "competing" against each other but I'll tell you the titles anyway in case so you might want to track down either of the books if they sound interesting to you:

I'll Be Damned: How My Young and Restless Life Led Me to America's #1 Daytime Drama by Eric Braeden (Restless)
Reckless Girls by Rachel Hawkins (Reckless)

Thanks! I have one so far -

When She Returned by Lucinda Berry

I am going to try and track down a book with an I, O, U or some combination to give us the vowels.

Happy New Year!

Guess #1:
Book: I'll Be Damned: How My Young and Restless Life Led Me to America's #1 Daytime Drama
Author: Eric Braeden
Pages: 288
Date Read: 1/2/25
Word Chosen: RESTLESS

Completion Post for my 1st Guess ~

Book: When She Returned
Author: Lucinda Berry
Pages: 293
Date Read: 01.05.2025
Word Chosen: RETURNED

Guess #2
Book: Shakespeare's Christmas
Author: Charlaine Harris
Pages: 214
Date Read: 1/6/25
Word Chosen: CHRISTMAS

Hmmmmmm. I obviously did not understand how this game worked lol. I got it now.!

Ignore the parenthesis. My head is hurting so that was just to remind me that those letters were past the 8 letters and I could ignore those.

That's okay Donna! I really hope you feel better soon!

Christine wrote: "Hmmmmmm. I obviously did not understand how this game worked lol. I got it now.!"

I know what you mean. I thought all books had to start with the letter "R" but I checked out threads and I guess other non-R words are allowed to help get clues :)

Completion Post for my 2nd Guess ~

Book: From Hollywood with Love: The Rise and Fall (and Rise Again) of the Romantic Comedy
Author: Scott Meslow
Pages: 422
Date Read: 01.06.2025
Word Chosen: ROMANTIC

I was closing in on my third book to guess "romantic" but wasn't fast enough lol Great job

Thank you. It happens to be my day off or I never would have been able to finish the book today. The stars aligned on this one.

You have a new Lingo word. Good luck!

Donna wrote: "You have a new Lingo word. Good luck!"

Thank you! I hope you feel better soon :)

Book: A Begonia for Miss Applebaum
Author: Paul Zindel
Pages: 180
Date Read: 1/8/25
Word Chosen: BEGONIA

Completion Post Guess 1 ~

Book: Reasonable Doubt: A Shocking Story of Lust and Murder in the American Heartland
Author: Steve Vogel
Pages: 479
Date Read: 01.09.2025
Word Chosen: HEARTLAND

D.L. wrote: "Book: A Begonia for Miss Applebaum
Author: Paul Zindel
Pages: 180
Date Read: 1/8/25
Word Chosen: BEGONIA"

I would actually like to use my free guess now please since I've read 3 books and haven't used it before.

Free Guess World: WRINKLES

Completion Post 1/3:
Book: Spirit Seeker
Author: Joan Lowery Nixon
Pages: 197
Date Read: 1/10/25
Word Chosen: SPIRIT

I would like to use my free guess please ~

WIRELESS

Completion Post Guess 1 out of 3

Book: Annapurna: A Woman's Place
Author: Arlene Blum
Pages: 272
Date Read: 01.10.2025
Word Chosen: Woman's (or Woman)

Completion Post Guess 2 out of 3

Book: My Dark Vanessa
Author: Kate Elizabeth Russell
Pages: 395
Date Read: 01.13.2025
Word Chosen: VANESSA (If we can't use names than the work DARK please and thank you!)

Completion 2/3:
Book: I Know What You Did Last Summer
Author: Lois Duncan
Pages: 198
Date Read: 1/14/25
Word Chosen: SUMMER

Completion 3/3:
Book: The Hitchhiker
Author: R.L. Stine
Pages: 165
Date Read: 1/16/25
Word Chosen: HITCHHIKER

Yep, I see the problem. I messed up on woman. Let me fix it for you.

That should help lots.

Thank you so much. I will puzzle it out :)

Thank you

Completion Post Guess 3 out of 3

Book: Royally Crushed
Author: Melanie Summers
Pages: 332
Date Read: 01.17.2025
Word Chosen: Royally

I have been trying word combinations with these letters for days and nothing really makes sense. There is only one word I came up with that uses all 8 letters and it's a very strange one. I am afraid to use my guess word and be wrong....

D.L. wrote: "Completion 3/3:
Book: The Hitchhiker
Author: R.L. Stine
Pages: 165
Date Read: 1/16/25
Word Chosen: HITCHHIKER"

Oh well, using my third book guess. This letter combination doesn't make much sense to me but I'll try lol

Guess word: GENOMICS

Good Word!

I don't know what else it could be with all those letters lol