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Just 10 hours to go, and UNO is complete for another year!
UNO 2022 Finish Countdown
1 May 2022, 9.00 am UTC
https://www.timeanddate.com/countdown...
Time Zones Converter
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Questions?Ask your Captains. They either know the answer or will ask in the Captains Group :)
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April Mini Challenge TasksLet's Get This Party Started!
1. Read a book with a food on the cover or mentioned in the text
2. Read a book with a food on the cover or mentioned in the text
3. Read a book with a food on the cover or mentioned in the text
4. Read a book with a food on the cover or mentioned in the text
5. Read a book with a food on the cover or mentioned in the text
6. Read a book with a food on the cover or mentioned in the text
7. Read a book with a drink on the cover or mentioned in the text
8. Read a book with a drink on the cover or mentioned in the text
9. Read a book with a drink on the cover or mentioned in the text
10. Read a book with a drink on the cover or mentioned in the text
11. Read a book with a drink on the cover or mentioned in the text
12. Read a book with a drink on the cover or mentioned in the text
13. Read a book mentioning utensils needed for party catering (ie cutlery, plates, glasses etc.)
14. Read a book mentioning utensils needed for party catering (ie cutlery, plates, glasses etc.)
15. Read a book mentioning utensils needed for party catering (ie cutlery, plates, glasses etc.)
16. Read a book mentioning utensils needed for party catering (ie cutlery, plates, glasses etc.)
17. Read a book mentioning utensils needed for party catering (ie cutlery, plates, glasses etc.)
18. Read a book mentioning utensils needed for party catering (ie cutlery, plates, glasses etc.)
Note: Each Food / drink / utensils / parties need to be unique. For example, You cannot have 6 cups of coffee or 3 birthday parties.
Let's issue some invitations!
19. Read a book which has given another team its name
20. Read a book which has given another team its name
21. Read a book which has given another team its name
22. Read a book which has given another team its name
23. Read a book which has given another team its name
24. Read a book which has given another team its name
25. Read a book with one or more women and no men on the cover
26. Read a book with one or more women on the cover
27. Read a book with one or more people on the cover
28. Read a book with one or more children on the cover
29. Read a book with one or more men and no women on the cover
30. Read a book with one or more men on the cover
31. Read a book with one or more people on the cover
32. Read a book with one or more children on the cover
33. Read a book where someone goes to some kind of party
34. Read a book where someone goes to some kind of party
35. Read a book where someone goes to some kind of party
Note: Each Book related to a team name needs to be unique. You can read books within the series if it is a book in a series. Spin-offs or retellings can not be read unless specified on this spreadsheet: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/...
Entertainment is important, too!
36. Read a book featuring a musician (amateur or professional)
37. Read a book mentioning a musical instrument
38. Read a book featuring a famous person (real or fictional)
39. Read a book where someone gets ready for an event (party, office do... something that requires dressing up)
40. Read a book featuring a shy person
41. Read a book featuring an outgoing person
42. Read a book with a character who gets tipsy or drunk
43. Read a book where someone receives an invitation (of any kind)
44. Read a book where someone meets a certain someone
45. Read a book where someone meets a certain someone
Housewarming Party Time!
This is an optional mini challenge for our UNO players. You have now built and decorated your dream home. You have accumulated and placed several souvenirs. You have already swapped some flower cuttings with your neighbours. It is now time to show it all off to your friends and celebrate your dream home.
As a team, you need to read for the specified tasks that have been given to you.
◈ Your team has to complete 45 tasks.
◈ For each completed task, your team will receive 10 points.
◈ For completing all of these 45 tasks, your team will receive 30 bonus points.
◈ Tasks do not have to be read in order.
◈ Books can be started at any point since the start of the UNO challenge (1 February)
◈ Books need to be finished after the start of this mini challenge on 15 April, 9am UTC and before 1 May at 9am UTC (when the UNO challenge unfortunately ends) -- https://www.timeanddate.com/countdown...
◈ Books used for this mini challenge do not need to be separate books for what you are claiming for your UNO hands.
◈ The usual book length rules apply.
◈ Team spreadsheets will be updated with a mini challenge tab so that you can track your books and claim your points.
Link to 1 April Countdown
PLEASE BEWARE THE POSSIBLE CHANGES BECAUSE OF DAYLIGHT SAVING TIME SWITCH!
https://www.timeanddate.com/countdown...
Main cities, FYI:
Friday 1 April 2022
San Francisco 2am
London 10am
New York 5am
Mumbai 2.30pm
Tokyo 6pm
Sydney 8pm
Check out other cities HERE:
https://www.timeanddate.com/worldcloc...
We all know and love/hate these cards. They're fun in the game if you are not the one having to draw the cards. Here, we all love the points they give but hate the additional cover colours we need to read.
◈ This April, all that changes.
How, you ask?
Wild Draw 4 cards are no longer in play. No, in April, you get OVERLOAD cards!
◈ What are Overload cards?
Overload cards are also cover colour cards, BUT they require different colours.
The colours you can use for Overload cards are the following:
- purple
- pink
- orange
- brown
- grey
- white
- black
You can only use each cover colour once .
More questions?Ask your captains who will take it to the captains group :)
Q. if we have a Wild Draw 4 card matching a "2" or "6" color card, can we also do the swap on it and get double points?A. No - we are going with straight up 2, 6, or Skip cards
Q. if we have a Wild card, that could be a 2,6 or Skip, can we also do the swap on it and get double points?
A. No - we are going with straight up 2, 6, or Skip cards
Can alt-history / fantasy versions of Earth be used in part 3? eg Akata Witch is set in a version of Nigeria where there is magic
A. Yes
Since you just said England, we can still read books in Scotland and Ireland and Wales?
A. yes, our wording was deliberate :)
With task 4. We have to read for the cards just the same, but the 2 we read ALSO needs to have a W aspect (in addition to the T)... yes? Or are we reading it INSTEAD of the T?
You are reading W instead of T
And, I guess my next question is, do we have to only use books that we haven't yet read cards for? If so, I may need to rearrange our Team Spreadsheet... but there won't be any hope for our lone color card (2Green), since we've already read it..
A. Nothing about the books you have read is set until the end of the month so feel free to move things around as you like.
Q. For task 1, I assume same rules as with colour cards apply? cover must be >50% of said colour?
A. yes, if you are going for the colour cover
Q. for task 3, do non-fiction books count?
A. As long as it fits the usual UNO rules
Q. Category 1: each color is considered a different task? can we repeat? or, does it has to be just one orange cover but then an orange text in cover? not two orange covers I mean.
A. You can repeat. Go crazy with orange covvers if you really want to
Q. Category #2: can the same book (cover) be used by two team members? will both count?
Category #3: can countries be repeated?
A. yes and yes
Q.If we have 2 Skips and a Draw Two in one hand, and we read a Skip/Q, can we use it twice in that hand for the Draw Two card?
A. yes the card acts the same, it is just a different letter you are looking for with the Skip to get the extra points
Q.Since books used for categories 1-3 do not need to be separate books for what you are claiming for your UNO hands, does that mean that if we read a W/X/Q card for cat 4 that also works for a book in cat 1-3 we can also use it there?
A. No, it means if you read a book for cat 1-3 that isn't in your main hand then that is ok (it is the usual rule we have). because cat 4 is directly related to the cards in your hand it has to be the same. You can't use a book for more than one task in a mini
Q. For Category #2 - do we have to choose one of the options and stick to it for the entire category or can we use options from both:
◈ Read books where the cover could be a classical painting OR Fantasy painting
◈ Read books where the cover could be a classical painting AND/OR Fantasy painting??
A. You can use options from both
Q. If we read a 2 Green using the W, can we use a Traditional 2 Green (with a T aspect) when filling a WD4 in our UNO hand, or would we have to read another book with the W if we wanted to duplicate a 2 Green?
A. For the WD4, use the traditional 2 Green
Q. Just to clarify, if I have a book, Ruled by her Daddies, set on modern planet Earth (the characters even crossed over with one of her Montana Daddies books), but the country is fictional, it does not work for Category #3?
A. No. It must be a real country.
Perky House Decorating! March Mini Challenge
This is an optional mini challenge for our UNO players. You've built the house of your dreams, now it is time to decorate it!!
◈ You can mix and match from the below task options, whatever you choose is a maximum of 45 tasks (i.e. books read).
◈ You must choose a minimum of 10 tasks from each of the four categories. This means that if doing the maximum 45 tasks you would have 10 from each category and then 5 of your choice. If doing less than the maximum, for example, you only do 27 tasks, then you would need to have 10 each from 2 categories and 7 from another.
◈ Each book read can only be used for one task.
◈ If you complete all your decorations (45 tasks), your team will receive 30 bonus points.
1. Paint the walls
◈ Read books with one of the below colours as the:
>Cover of the book ; 15 points each ; or
>Colour of text on cover ; 10 points each; or
>Colour word found in text ; 5 points each.
Colours to choose from:
Orange
Purple
Pink
Black
White
Brown
Grey
2. Hang some paintings - 15 points each
◈ Read books where the cover could be a classical painting (no need to get mod approval, but if you need inspiration on what is classical, here is a good guide: https://www.toperfect.com/Classical-P...).
◈ Read books where the cover could be a Fantasy painting (as above, no approval required, but this is a good guide: https://www.toperfect.com/Fantasy-Pai...)
3. Showcase your fancy travel souvenirs - 10 points each
◈ Read books set in any real country except Canada, USA, England, Australia and New Zealand.
(to be clear, absolutely no part of the book can be set in these 5 countries, and the setting must be a country on planet Earth and not a fictional/fantasy country)
4. Swap some flower cuttings with your neighbour - double the card points value (for example, 40 points instead of the 20 points for a 0-9 card, or 60 points instead of 30 for a 0-9 coloured card)
◈ Use any 6 card in your March hands for X instead of S
◈ Use any 2 card in your March hands for W instead of T
◈ Use any SKIP card in your March hands for Q instead of K or P
◈ Books can be started at any point since the start of the UNO challenge (Feb 1)
◈ Books need to be finished after the start of this mini challenge on March 15, 9am UTC. Countdown is here: https://www.timeanddate.com/countdown...
and before April 1 at 9am UTC (When the April month of UNO begins)
◈ Books used for categories 1-3 of this mini challenge do not need to be separate books for what you are claiming for your UNO hands
◈ The usual book length rules apply
◈ Team spreadsheets will be updated with a mini challenge tab so that you can track your books and claim your points
Are you ready to decorate?
Hello Team Sleepy Hollow!We hope that 2 extra players, Ann and Sarah can join your team soon to replace Celia and Jenny.
Link to 1 March Countdown
https://www.timeanddate.com/countdown...
Main cities, FYI:
Tuesday 1 March 2022
San Francisco 1am
London 9am
New York 4am
Mumbai 2.30pm
Tokyo 6pm
Sydney 8pm
Check out other cities HERE:
https://www.timeanddate.com/worldcloc...
Hello Team Sleepy Hollow,please welcome Zoe as a new member and co-captain to your team.
All her books she started after 1 Feb, 9am UTC can be used.
Replacing Hannah
