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The "March Mini" tab has been added to all team spreadsheets which shows the tasks to complete.Please take any questions to your captains who will ask in the captains group
March is where your team will take on the role of Detective or Criminal and either solve a crime, or try to get away with one!
This is an optional mini challenge for our UNO players.
◈ Books with a read date between March 15 - March 31 count. (countdown to the start of the mini challenge is here)
◈ Books can be started at any point since the start of the UNO challenge (Feb 1)
◈ As a team, you will have a mixture of tasks to complete. These include spell-it-outs, cover items, words in text, and words in title. All of the tasks you need to complete are on your team spreadsheet
☞☞ If you team has been allocated to the DETECTIVE group:
In order to solve the crime you will need to complete all of your tasks AND read a book that someone on a CRIMINAL team has read during UNO. Once that is done, you have caught the criminal and will be given 30 bonus points
☞☞ If you team has been allocated to the CRIMINAL group:
In order to get away with the perfect crime you will need to complete all of your tasks AND read a book that someone on a DETECTIVE team has read during UNO. Once that is done, you are free and will be given 80 bonus points
◈ 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
Spell-it-out rules
For this mini-challenge, you are using the same rules that apply for UNO. So a letter needs to be the first letter in the book title, author first name or surname, character name or nickname, or setting. Articles (a/an/the) can be ignored in the book titles. For this spell-it-out, you can also use the first letter in the series name.
DETECTIVE TEAMS ☟
Alex Cross
Hannah Swensen
Harry Bosch
Inspector Maigret
Kurt Wallander
Maisie Dobbs
Miss Marple
Nancy Drew
Sally Lockhart
Stephanie Plum
CRIMINAL TEAMS ☟
Cormoran Strike
Daisy Dalrymple
Flavia deLuce
Inspector Erlendur
Inspector Morse
Inspector Rebus
Jack Frost
Jack Reacher
James Bond
Jane Rizzoli
Lily Bard
Mikael Blomkvist
Nick Charles
Phillip Marlowe
Phryne Fisher
Sherlock Holmes
Veronica Mars
February Results
Team Name Total Ranking
Miss Marple 2805 1
Sally Lockhart 2795 2
Maisie Dobbs 2790 3
Alex Cross 2785 4
Nancy Drew 2775 5
Harry Bosch 2770 6
Insp Maigret 2770 6
Kurt Wallander 2755 8
Hannah Swensen 2750 9
Insp Erlendur 2740 10
Stephanie Plum 2735 11
Daisy Dalrymple 2730 12
Jack Reacher 2710 13
Jack Frost 2705 14
James Bond 2700 15
Jane Rizzoli 2700 16
Phryne Fisher 2695 17
Cormoran Strike 2675 18
Veronica Mars 2665 19
Flavia deLuce 2660 20
Lily Bard 2660 21
Phillip Marlowe 2650 22
Sherlock Holmes 2650 23
Inspector Rebus 2645 24
Inspector Morse 2615 25
Mik Blomkvist 2535 26
Nick Charles 2505 27
Congratulations to all the teams who solved the mini challenge mystery!!The full solution and explanation are now available here
💉 Elaine killed Faustus Dutton
💉 A syringe full of toxin was hidden inside the mattress. When Faustus Dutton lay down, he compressed the mattress, forcing the needle into his back and depressing the plunger.
💉 The syringe could only have been hidden by an expert seamstress.
All three siblings had the same motive: to prevent their father from giving away their inheritance. And living in the house, all three had the same opportunity to sneak into their father’s bedroom during the daytime.
All three had an opportunity to steal the fatal drug from the nurse’s station when their father was recovering from his angioplasty two weeks before his death. And any of the three could have gotten into their father’s room to hide the syringe in the daytime, when it was predictably empty and unlocked.
Motive and opportunity being equal, Tubert focused on the means by which the toxin had been delivered. The room was locked from the inside, so the victim was alone in the room when he was killed. He died within seconds of being injected, so he couldn’t have locked the door behind his murderer before realizing he had been poisoned. If some sort of drug-delivering projectile had been shot into the victim, they would have found the needle when they did the autopsy.
Tubert deduced that the murderer had secreted an extended syringe full of the succinylcholine inside the mattress with the needle pointing up, just below the surface of the mattress. When Faustus Dutton had laid down and compressed the mattress against the platform bed, his enormous weight had pushed the needle into his back and compressed the plunger, self-administering the deadly toxin.
Assuming the death to have been a heart attack, no one had checked for needle marks at the time of death. And the murder weapon had not been visible when the body was removed because the mattress had expanded back to its normal height, once again concealing the deadly needle within. The murderer, not anticipating that the room would be locked up, had planned to remove the syringe without a trace in the same manner in which it was planted.
When Tubert examined the bed, he saw no evidence of tampering on the mattress. But he knew that the murder weapon had to be inside it. Which meant that the murderer had to have been the only suspect with the skills to take the mattress apart and sew it back together so expertly that no one would notice — Elaine, the professional seamstress.
March is just around the corner!
Books read after March 1, 2019 at 7pm AEDST (Australian Eastern Daylight Savings Time) count for March. To see when this is in your time zone, use this countdown
Main cities, FYI:
Tokyo: 5pm, 1st March
London: 8am, 1st March
New York: 3am, 1st March
San Francisco: Midnight, 1st March
Check out other cities here
welcome back Claire!We have messaged JL and Deeksha and they will be placed on another team if they still want to play
Apoorv wrote: "I presume we can backtrack your finished books from the beginning of February..."Yes :)
