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Michelle's Empty Nest’s comments from the Game Night group.

No worries...thanks!

Team 5 would like to be Paperback Park Rangers, please.

I'll post in the thread to have it updated!

Task: 2) Read a book with the word "pocket" in the text
Book / Author: Beautiful Disaster by Jamie McGuire
Date Read: 6-2-2024
Rating: 3⭐️
Fits: Page 34; "he folded them away in his pocket"

Yes, that is fine...I'll take #2.


On a Reading Expedition
Reading Explorers
Paperback Park Rangers

Hey! Great to see you here!

I will join in and will need a partner, please.

May 13, 2024 --- Snake Oil





Snake Oil is an American game show that premiered on September 27, 2023, on Fox. The show is hosted and produced by David Spade.


Contestants and their celebrity advisors are asked to separate the legitimate inventions from the made-up ones.


Contestants on the show begin with a "bank" of $50,000 that they can choose to invest in a selection of eight different products which are presented to them by entrepreneurs at the beginning of the show. The products presented to the contestants are a combination of real products and fake products, or "snake oil," and contestants must decide which products are legitimate ventures. Winning contestants receive up to $220,000 for correctly guessing which products are real and which are snake oil, contingent on their score going into the final round and how much of a risk they choose to take. If the contestant finds out the other player made a mistake and picked a Snake Oil product they can choose to poach the product that is Real and bank the money to prevent it from being lost.


The first season of the show was met with mixed reviews from critics. Decider's "Stream It or Skip It" review gave the show a mostly positive reviewing, highlighting its premise and contestants, but criticizing the hour-long runtime as being overly long and describing Spade's hosting as seeming "half-asleep" at some points. Melissa Camacho of Common Sense Media also praised the show's premise but found Spade's hosting to be low energy, giving the show 3 out of 5 stars overall.


Complete ONE of the following:

1. Read a book with a snake on the cover.
2. Read a book you rated 3 stars or less.
3. Read a book where a character seems "fake" {your interpretation}.
4. Read a book with all the letters of O-I-L found in the title.

May 6, 2024 --- Deal or No Deal





Deal or No Deal is the name of several closely related television game shows, the first of which (launching the format) was the Dutch Miljoenenjacht (Hunt/Chase for Millions). The centerpiece of this format is the final round (a.k.a. the "case game" or "main game" ) which is played with up to 26 cases (or, in some versions, boxes), each containing randomly assigned sums of money. After the player for the case game is determined, this contender claims (or is assigned) one case or a box at the start of the game, without its contents being revealed. The contestant then chooses the other cases or boxes, one at a time, to be immediately opened and removed from play. Throughout the game, the player is offered an amount of money or prizes to quit, being asked the titular question, "Deal or no deal?" If the contestant rejects every deal and eliminates all the other cases or boxes, the player keeps the money that was in the original case or box. Thus, the contestant "wins" depending on whether the player should have taken one of the deals or should have held onto the original case or box until the very end.


The gameplay of the show differs from country to country. In some countries, there is a preliminary contest in which the studio audience is whittled down to one final contender by several trivia question rounds, this final contender then proceeds to the main game. This was the format used by the Dutch show "Miljoenenjacht" (Hunt/Chase for Millions) which initiated the "Deal or no Deal" game (originally the Dutch show was based on a German format called "Die Chance deines Lebens" (The Chance of your Lifetime) which was based on trivia questions and did not have the briefcase element at all). There are also some versions with the number of players equal to the number of cases, each player receives one case. Via a short trivia round or a random selection, one player is selected to be the contestant for the main game with his case. In other countries, there is only one preselected contestant who will play the main game without any preliminary contest.


The main game revolves around the opening of a set of numbered briefcases, each of which contains a different prize (cash or otherwise). The contents (i.e., the values) of all of the cases are known at the start of the game, but the specific location of any prize is unknown. The contestant claims (or is assigned) a case to begin the game. The case's value is not revealed until the conclusion of the game.


The contestant then begins choosing cases that are to be removed from play. The amount inside each chosen case is immediately revealed; by process of elimination, the amount revealed cannot be inside the case the contestant initially claimed (or was assigned). Throughout the game, after a predecided number of cases have been opened, the "Banker" offers the contestant an amount of money and/or prizes to quit the game; the offer is based roughly on the amounts remaining in play and the contestant's demeanor, so the bank tries to 'buy' the contestant's case for a lower price than what's inside the case. The player then answers the titular question, choosing:

"Deal", accepting the offer presented and ending the game, or
"No Deal", rejecting the offer and continuing the game.


This process of removing cases and receiving offers continues, until either the player accepts an offer to 'deal', or all offers have been rejected and the values of all unchosen cases are revealed. Should a player end the game by taking a deal, a pseudo-game is continued from that point to see how much the player could have won by remaining in the game. Depending on subsequent choices and offers, it is determined whether or not the contestant made a "good deal", i.e. won more than if the game were allowed to continue.


Since the range of possible values is known at the start of each game, how much the banker offers at any given point changes based on what values have been eliminated (i.e. the offer increases if lower values are eliminated and decreases if upper values are eliminated). To promote suspense and lengthen games, the banker's offer is usually less than the expected value dictated by probability theory, particularly early in the game. Generally, the offers early in the game are very low relative to the values still in play, but near the end of the game approach (or even exceed) the average of the remaining values.


Only a few people have ever won the top prize on any version of the show. For a contestant to win the top prize the player would have to select the case containing the top prize and reject every offer the banker makes during the game. The chances of a player selecting the top prize are 4–5% depending on how many amounts are in the game.


Complete ONE of the following:

1. Read a book with a repeated word in the title.
2. Read a book that has been published in at least three countries.
3. Read a book with a 2 and a 6 in the publication date.
4. Read a book with a 4 or a 5 in the page count.

We were just down to needing I9, which I read for. I didn't check in the last couple of guesses because the challenge had ended and I didn't think there would be any further response after it ended.

I9
Plunder in text
Treasure Island by Robert Louis Stevenson
4-1-2024
Page 34; "that they sank or plundered"

Checked in these 3.


I found a book for plunder in text. I'll finish it tomorrow.

Emerald Odyssey Team's Completions & Guesses


Jane: Message 185
Annie: Message 189
Jane: Message 193


Guesses
Guess 1: H3
Guess 2: B9
Guess 3: B10


Sunk:
Time-Ticking Teacup (2)
Star-Stitched Schooner (4)


Hits:
H4
H5
H6
H7
J9
B8


Link to thread: https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...

Emerald Odyssey Team's Completions & Guesses


Jane: Message 185
Annie: Message 189
Jane: Message 193


Guesses
Guess 1: H3
Guess 2: B9
Guess 3: B10


Sunk:
Time-Ticking Teacup (2)
Star-Stitched Schooner (4)


Hits:
H4
H5
H6
H7
J9
B8


Link to thread: https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...

Emerald Odyssey Team's Completions & Guesses


Jane: Message 185
Annie: Message 189
Jane: Message 193


Guesses
Guess 1: H3
Guess 2: B9
Guess 3: B10


Sunk:
Time-Ticking Teacup (2)
Star-Stitched Schooner (4)


Hits:
H4
H5
H6
H7
J9
B8


Link to thread: https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...

Jane wrote: "Do we want to read for the last 3 spaces or take the 3 free guesses.

Of the 3 that missed I would most likely have put C10 as B9 but H10 and G10 wouldn't have fit anywhere else anyway.

I haven't ..."


I'm good either way. What does everyone else think?

Jane wrote: "If I'm reading our battlefield correct (but I might not be)

we finish our 5 boat with the book I finished earlier today (post 186 (H3))

Then our missing 2 boat must be
I9: Read a book with the w..."


The only thing I see that could be different is that the 3-boat could be B8 - B10 instead of B7 - B9.

Checked these in as well.

Emerald Odyssey Team's Completions & Guesses


Jane: Message 181
Jane: Message 182
Jane: Message 183


Guesses
Guess 1: H10
Guess 2: G10
Guess 3: C10



Sunk:
Time-Ticking Teacup (2)
Star-Stitched Schooner (4)


Hits:
H5
H7
J9


Link to thread: https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...

Emerald Odyssey Team's Completions & Guesses


Jane: Message 181
Jane: Message 182
Jane: Message 183


Guesses
Guess 1: H10
Guess 2: G10
Guess 3: C10



Sunk:
Time-Ticking Teacup (2)
Star-Stitched Schooner (4)


Hits:
H5
H7
J9


Link to thread: https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...