The Challenge Factory discussion

The Race to 100 is a competitive contest to see which team can read their way to 100 first. This is a 10-week race, but it's possible to finish in less time.

Can you and your team get to 100 before the other teams?


team 10
Maritza
Trio
Jade (aka MrsTosh)
Apoorv

Details:
You have six (6) days to read one (1) book.
Your book must match a task in a category. Your team will reach 100 sooner if your book fits more tasks. Your book can match up to three (3) tasks.

Week 1: April 9 - 14
Week 2: April 16 - 21
Week 3: April 23 - 28
Week 4: April 30 - May 5
Week 5: May 7 - 12
Week 6: May 14 - 19
Week 7: May 21 - 26
Week 8: May 28 - June 2
Week 9: June 4 - 9
Week 10: June 11 - 16


Rules:
You can't begin reading your book until Wednesday morning, 12:01 a.m. your time.
You must finish and report your book by Monday night 11:59 p.m. your time.
Books must be 140 pages or more.
Audio books must be at least 3 hours long.
Graphic Novels must be at least 200 pages.

Sample Completion Post
Name:
Book and Author:
Pages:
Date Read:
Task:
How It Fits:
2nd Task:
How It Fits:
3rd Task:
How It Fits:

(omit 2nd and/or 3rd task information if not using them)

There are 20 tasks in 5 categories that will need to be read for.
* Each task needs to be completed once to win the race. *

Task Count: 89/100

Numbers (series # or in the publication date; double digits need to be intact)
1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20

Letters (first word of the title or author's initial; do not ignore A, An, The)
A, B, C, D, E, F, G, H, I, J, L, M, N, O, P, R, S, T, V, W

Tags (does not need to be on the book's main page)
Fiction, Romance, Fantasy, Mystery, Young Adult (or YA), History or Historical, classic(s), standalone, reread (or re-read), audiobook(s), favorite or favourite, library, tbr, dnf, 5 star(s), 4 star(s), 3 star(s), 2024, 2023, own (or owned)

Settings (must be at least 50% of the story)
Africa, Australia or New Zealand, Canada, Central or South America, mainland Europe,
a Mediterranean country, the UK, California, New York, Texas, Washington state, on a farm, on a small island, at a school, in space or a different planet, on or in a vehicle, 1925 or earlier, in the future, a fantasy world, very near to where you live

Scavenger Words: (borrowed words from Deb's Scavenger Hunt. Thanks, Deb!)
You may change the word by adding an S, ED, or ING)
bowtie, bronze, carve, crust, dread, drain, field, foundation, grease, hint, instrument, legend, lock, opal, orange, partridge, railroad, stall, stout, trophy

Sabotages and Boosts
* Each sabotage or boost can only be used once.
* Sabotaging is optional. It is not mandatory.
* No sabotages on Week 10.
* Only 1 sabotage will be effective for a receiving team each week. (In other words, if Teams 2, 3 and 7 all send a sabotage to Team 5, only 1 will be in effect. The first sabotage submitted for a specific team in the sabotaging team's weekly Completion Post will be accepted. You will lose your sabotage even if it doesn't affect a team.)


Flat Tire - this sabotage will limit 1 player on a team to read for 2 tasks


Rain Delay - this sabotage prevents 1 player from beginning to read on Wednesday; that player cannot begin reading until Friday



USED High Octane Fuel - this boost allows 2 players to read for a 4th task



USED Guest Driver - this boost adds a player to your team for 1 week (in other words, a player can read a 2nd book for up to 3 more tasks)

First of all, pick a name for your team, group, or squad.

Second, decide who will keep track of the team's claimed and completed tasks. It can be on a spreadsheet or here in a post.

Third, decide who will make the team's Completion Posts. (It can be one person, or you can take turns. The team's Completion Post can be posted as soon as everyone has reported. The latest the team Completion Post can be posted is Tuesday morning.)

Fourth, decide what strategy or method your team will use to read for the tasks.

Last of all, check your engine and tires, gather your crew (check out library books and charge your devices), purchase fuel (snacks and soda), and get ready for a great race!

Hi Guys, these just popped into my head.
Let's Book It
Let The Reading Begin
Final Chapter
Centurion Readers

Hey Team, so happy to be here. This challenge sounds very fun and competitive - which can make it more exciting. Happy to help keep track of things or do completion posts, as needed.
Here are some more team name suggestions:

- Just 10 more minutes...
- Count to 10
- TENacious Readers
- Bookish inTENtions

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UPDATES

✔ Week 1: Team Completion Post | Check-in Post | Task Tally (14)
✔ Week 2: Team Completion Post | Check-in Post | Task Tally (26)
✔ Week 3: Team Completion Post | Check-in Post | Task Tally (38)
✔ Week 4: Team Completion Post | Check-in Post | Task Tally (50)
✔ Week 5: Team Completion Post | Check-in Post | Task Tally (62)
✔ Week 6: Team Completion Post | Check-in Post | Task Tally (74)
✔ Week 7: Team Completion Post | Check-in Post | Task Tally (89)

Hi everyone! I'm looking forward to this one :)

I like Bookish inTENtions - that's clever! But I'm happy to go along with any team names.

As far as strategies I'm also flexible.

I knew someone would put a spreadsheet together!!! If everyone is okay with using it for keeping track? I'm sure we'll need to make a copy for our team, but they posted it in the Q&A thread.
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/...

I've sent friend requests to you Apoorv and Maritza.

Hey everyone, just checking in :) looking at the team I think I have been in teams with most of you before.

I like TENacious Readers and Bookish inTENtions for team names.

Thanks for tagging the spreadsheet Trio, always finding it easier tracking my reads on a SS rather than just by a post.

Also happy to help with tracking things. I have done various challenges and been in very relaxed teams where the last person to complete their read, posts the weeks completion or been in others more regimented with a captain who makes completions. I am easy with either :) Looking forwards to playing with you guys.

Hi, yes I see some familiar names here. Go with majority on team name but I like Tenacious Readers.
Planning to read - Tempted by Hades: A Romantasy Greek Gods and Shifters Story
Fits the follow categories -
Numbers - book 1 in series
T in title
MPG Fantasy
Setting Fantasy World
Word - carve, instrument, dread

for strategies... does it matter which thing we try to finish first if they all need to be finished?

Alrighty, TENacious Readers it is!
And here is our tracking spreadsheet: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/...

I would be happy to maintain it as we go, if we want to make completion posts here.

Trio wrote: "for strategies... does it matter which thing we try to finish first if they all need to be finished?"

Not particularly, technically 34 books should do the trick.
But the scavenger words might be the tricky one, so it might be better to focus on them primarily (or specifically look out for them within our reads).

Maritza wrote: "Hi, yes I see some familiar names here. Go with majority on team name but I like Tenacious Readers.
Planning to read - Tempted by Hades: A Romantasy Greek Gods and Shifters Story
F..."

Added this to the spreadsheet.
Maritza, when you come across it, please add in the sentence/location for carve from the book. Thanks! :)

Think I am going to read this week 1. Hits a few of the tasks so will see what everyone else has before I post the completion


Numbers: 3
Letters: W (title) K,C (authors initials)
Tags: Fantasy, 5*, audiobooks, 2023, owned, dnf, favourite, library, re-read
Setting: Central/ South America (Guatemala) (Louisiana)(New Orleans)
Scavenger:
Dread: Yet now the coming moon made both dread - Loc 33%
Field: nearly half a football field wasn’t forthcoming - Loc 15%
Foundation: even the great foundation stones erupted into the sky - Loc 24%
Grease: “I think Tierney meant now can we grease this Lykae?” - Loc 26%
Hint: And with that teasing hint of a sight came an unwelcome realization - Loc 23%
Instrument: leaving the yoke mangled and the instrument panel shredded - Loc 83%

Apoorv wrote: "Alrighty, TENacious Readers it is!
And here is our tracking spreadsheet: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/...

I would be happy to ma..."
I will probably post my completions straight to the spreadsheet as I don't always have access to the GR web version, if I am working away when the completion post is due. But can always get on googledrive.

I guess the hardest task will be the scavenger so we should try to concentrate on those first and mark one off with each read where possible. If that works for everyone else.

I'm good with targeting Scavenger first.

Hi Guys, It seems we are missing a numbers column.

Maritza, it is there in the drop-down in columns G, J, and M. Feel free to note things down here and I would be happy to add them to the spreadsheet, if it's easier.

Also, we can use the same kind of task with one book. For example, if one book gives us more scavenger hunt words, we can use all the 3 spots to cover scavenger hunt words only.

That way, we can wrap up the tricky words and then go to the easier number or alphabet ones if we choose to.

Apoorv wrote: "Alrighty, TENacious Readers it is!
And here is our tracking spreadsheet: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/...

I would be happy to ma..."

I need permission to use this SS? I clicked the request permission box - let me know if I'm clicking the wrong link? thanks :)

Apoorv wrote: "Also, we can use the same kind of task with one book. For example, if one book gives us more scavenger hunt words, we can use all the 3 spots to cover scavenger hunt words only.

That way, we can ..."

Sound good!

I have finished my book for this week and have updated the spreadsheet.



Claimed - Scavenger:
Field: nearly half a football field wasn’t forthcoming - Loc 15%
Foundation: even the great foundation stones erupted into the sky - Loc 24%
Grease: “I think Tierney meant now can we grease this Lykae?” - Loc 26%

Oh, okay I did not fully understand the ss.

I need to let you know that I have adjusted a few of the Tags tasks. Star can now be plural if you'd like to use it that way. i.e., 5 star(s), 4 star(s), 3 star(s)

I was thinking as far as strategy: maybe we should pick a location in addition to SH items? since we can probably only do one location per book...

Agreed, Trio.
Having said that, we can also use multiple locations for a book. There was a question asked about it to which the answer was "sure"

E.g. if I read a book set in Italy, can I use it for both "mainland Europe" and "a Mediterranean country"

Team TENacious Readers
Week 1 - Completion Post

Book Read : Answers in the Pages | David Levithan
Date Read : 11Apr2025
Tasks : Scavenger Words

DREAD: Pg. 25, "Mr. Howe must have noticed the dread on my face."
DRAIN: Pg. 87 "We're going to have to drain the swamp."
LOCK: Pg. 121 "I didn't lock myself down, or shut myself up."



BOOST : High Octane Fuel (allows 2 players to read for a 4th task)

Set in: School (Entire book set in a school, where a certain book is getting banned because of its content)

Hey Maritza and Trio, do you think you would be able to get your completion posts up by evening EST? We need to report our completion posts by midnight today. Thanks!

Just finished my book

Week 1 - Completion Post
Name: Maritza
Book and Author: Tempted by Hades: A Romantasy Greek Gods and Shifters Story by Adilyn Andrews
Pages: 256 pgs
Date Read: 04/14/2025
Task: Setting
How It Fits: Fantasy World
2nd Task: Scavenget Word
How It Fits: Instrument - page 88
3rd Task: Scavenger World
How It Fits: Carve page 137

Completion Post

Name: Trio
Book and Author: Rayne's Return by Gabbi Grey
Pages: 328
Date Read 14 Apr
Task: Scavenger Words - Opal
How it fits: Pg. 135 ""...four-year-old sister, Opal.""
Task 2: Scavenger Words - Crust
How it fits: Pg. 49: ""... dislike graham cracker crust...""
Task 3: Settings - Canada
How it fits: Set in: British Columbia, Canada
Task 4: Letter Task "R"

hi Maritza - not sure if you're familiar with posting from the SS, but if you copy the cell P and paste it here in this thread... then you just have to remove the quotation marks (" ____ ") from either end of the posting [there will be a quotation mark at the start of what you paste in your message, and a quotation mark at the end].

once you delete the " " and post the message it will look like mine above so you don't have to re-type everything.

then go back to the SS and check the box in column Q and your line will turn lavender.

Please ignore me if you already know all this!

Apoorv wrote: "Hey Maritza and Trio, do you think you would be able to get your completion posts up by evening EST? We need to report our completion posts by midnight today. Thanks!"


all posted, I won't usually leave it this late - this book took forever to finish

Do we want to use a boost or sabotage somebody?

Team TENacious Readers
Week 1

Completion Post

✔ Apoorv: Answers in the Pages | David Levithan | 11Apr2025 | Completion Post
✔ Jade: Wicked Deeds on a Winter's Night | Kresley Cole | 10Apr2025 | Completion Post
✔ Maritza: Tempted by Hades: A Romantasy Greek Gods and Shifters Story | Adilyn Andrews, Alicia Montgomery | 14Apr2025 | Completion Post
✔ Trio: Rayne's Return | Gabbi Grey | 14Apr2025 | Completion Post



Did you use a boost? - YES
- High Octane Fuel: Apoorv and Trio read for a 4th task for their respective books.
Are you sabotaging a team? - NO

No, I don't know how to do all that :()

Maritza wrote: "No, I don't know how to do all that :()"

Message 3 above has the specific details.
We can use the High Octane Fuel boost, that gives 2 players to read a fourth task for our books.

I'm fine going with that BOOST, I usually read 3-4 books each week.

Sweet! Trio, if you can find another task for your book, there is a column in the spreadsheet to update that. Also, please update the completion post above with the 4th task.

I can take one more task and will update my post too.

EDIT: In the interest of time, since the deadline is 11:59, Trio, I used your book for the Letter Task - for R as the book title. Spreadsheet is updated, please add that to your completion post above. Thanks! :)

Our team is checked in for Week 1.
Great job, team! Onto the next fun week! :)

I got my book on queue for next round.

Apoorv wrote: "

EDIT: In the interest of time, since the deadline is 11:59, Trio, I used your book for the Letter Task - for R as the book title. Spreadsheet is updated, please add that to your completion post above. Thanks! :)."

OH! I'm sorry, this was for last week's book? I assumed it was our upcoming week Sorry I didn't see your message in time, glad you were able to find somewhere for it to fit.

Apoorv, I've updated my completion post above to include that 4th task.

what am I doing wrong on the SS? I'm entering the next book but I can't input settings or tags? there's just a #ref coming up.

Trio wrote: "what am I doing wrong on the SS? I'm entering the next book but I can't input settings or tags? there's just a #ref coming up."

Should be all set now. Let me know if it still is causing any trouble.

Completion Post - Week 2

Name: Trio
Book and Author: His Shield by Sue Brown
Pages: 190
Date Read 17-Apr-2025
Task: Tags - Library
How it fits: Tagged: Library (3 users)
Task 2: Letters - H
How it fits: Title H
Task 3: Tags - 3 stars
How it fits: Tagged: 3 stars (2 users)

Completion Post - Week 2

Name: Maritza
Book and Author: Secret Slave: Kidnapped and Abused for 13 years. This is my story of survival. by Anna Ruston
Pages: 293
Date Read 19-Apr-2025
Task: Scavenger Words - Stall
How it fits: Loc. 14%: "Nana took me to a stall where they.."
Task 2: Letters - S
How it fits: Title S
Task 3: Tags - Audiobook(s)
How it fits: Tagged: 19 (users)

Team TENacious Readers
Week 2 - Completion Post

Book Read : None of This Is True | Lisa Jewell
Date Read : 18Apr2025
Tasks :

Scavenger Words
LEGEND: Pg.327, "Pg. 327: "... legend, sis, seriously. A Legend."
Setting:
Location: London, England, UK
Letters:
J: Author J - Jewell, Lisa

Hey Jade, when you get a chance, can you please post your completion post here? We should be all set for the weekly check in right after. Thanks! :)

Team TENacious Readers
Week 2

Completion Post

✔ Apoorv: None of This Is True | Lisa Jewell | 18Apr2025 | Completion Post
✔ Jade: Honeymoon For One | Portia Macintosh | 17Apr2025 | Completion Post
✔ Maritza: Secret Slave: Kidnapped and abused for 13 years. This is my story of survival. | Anna Ruston | 19Apr2025 | Completion Post
✔ Trio: His Shield | Sue Brown | 17Apr2025 | Completion Post



Did you use a boost? - NO
Are you sabotaging a team? - NO