UNO Pixie’s Comments (group member since Feb 13, 2016)

UNO Pixie’s comments from the The Perks Of Being A Book Addict group.

Chocolate anyone?

Chocolate anyone?

Happy Easter!

Happy Easter!

Happy Easter!

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In Salfeld, Germany Easter is synonymous with an egg-bedecked tree that's the source of much local pride. Every year for more than 40 years, a prominent local family has decorated an apple tree outside its home with a spectrum of painted and embellished Easter eggs. What began as a dozen and a half plastic eggs is now a monumental collection requiring nearly two weeks to hang. Last year's tree was dressed with 9,800 eggs, many painted in extraordinary detail with landscapes and town scenes, and some covered in crochet netting and sequins.

✤ Read a book with a decorator
✤ Read a book set in a small town
✤ Read a book with a character is obsessed with a holiday (hide spoiler)]

HAPPY EASTER!

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The first chocolate eggs were made in Germany in the 19th century

❖ Read a book set in Germany
❖ Read a Book with chocolate on the cover
❖ Read a book that is 1st in a series (hide spoiler)]

Happy Easter everyone! :)

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The act of exchanging gifts of eggs dates back to the time of the Egyptians and Persians! Painted eggs were given as gifts to symbolize fertility and new life

✣ Give Easter gifts/greetings to the other teams.
1p / greeting. Each gift / greeting must be different to count. (hide spoiler)]

Tammie wrote: "Re: Colored Cards
Can the book be any cover...does it have to be the cover for the version you are reading?"

It needs to be the edition you are reading.

Diane Woods wrote: "For some reason, I can't find this anywhere. Is it okay to read short story books as long as they are 100 pages or more?"

Yes, as long as they are over 25 000 words.

Jennifer wrote: "Does a book finished in April count for April if it was started in February?"

The book can only be used in the month it was finished - so yes :)

Please welcome Melidam to the team!

Alison wrote: "This is a very book specific question but would you say Harry Potter and the Cursed Child is number 8 in the series or a standalone?

GR doesn't connect it to the rest of the series but the blurb ..."

I'm going to say no to this one. The blurb has it listed as book 8, but GR does not consider this to be a primary Harry Potter book.

Aborigines wrote: "Will we have another one this year?"

We usually only run Unu once a year, but if you want to play we might be able to add you to a team, please use the sign up form

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Questions should be asked by the captains / co-captains in the captains group.

This is an optional mini challenge for our UNO players.

✣ Only books read March 15-31 will count for this challenge.
✣ Please note that books started before March-15 don't count for this mini-challenge
✣ The countdown to the start of this mini challenge is here
✣ The usual book length requirement for UNO apply
✣ Books used for this mini challenge do not need to be separate books for what you are claiming for your UNO hands


✣ Captains, your spreadsheets have been updated in order for you to claim points

This month the mini challenge is all about our team books and authors. There are 4 ways to gain points.

As a team:

1. Read 5 books by an author of one of the team names for 15 points each
Note: Individual team member can only read each author once. It is ok if more than one team member read the same author. (see example under spoiler)
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Our team is Pixie, Tom, Mary, Anna, Joy

Sceario 1:
Pixie, Mary and Tom both read a book by Neil Gaiman
Mary, and Joy read a book by Fredrik Backman
This is ok

Scenario 2:
Pixie and Tom both read a book by Neil Gaiman
Mary, and Joy read a book by Fredrik Backman
Pixie then reads another book by Neil Gaiman
The second book read by Pixie by Neil Gaiman can not count for the mini challenge
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2. Read one book that is one of the team names for 30 points
Note: Where a team name is a series book, only book 1 of the series can count for this part

3. Scavenger hunt character names in books. Find the first name of one of the characters from our team names for 5 points each. One name per book, maximum of 10 books. Each name must be different (i.e. 10 different names need to be 'hunted')
More about this part is under this spoiler:
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Scavenger Hunt

You are looking for:
♣ Names that are characters from the books from our team names.
Team names are under spoiler (view spoiler)[
Augustus Waters
Becky Bloomwood
Bones
Buttercup
Elizabeth Bennet
Eve Dallas
Harry Dresden
Heathcliff
Hercule Poirot
Jack Torrance
Kate Daniels
Liesel Meminger
Mark Watney
Mercy Thompson
Ove
Peeta Mellark
Rachel Watson
Robert Langdon
Ron Weasley
Rose Hathaway
Sybilla (Billie) Bridgerton
Ty & Zane
Will Traynor
Yvaine
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♣ "Characters" means as per usual UNO character rules. They do not need to be listed on GR (because most character's aren't)

♣ Where one of our team names is a series book, you can take a character from any book within that series. For example, if you find Sirius that is ok as that is from Harry Potter (Team Ron Weasley)

♣ The name needs to be the name the character is known by. If they are nown as two names in their book (Sybillia and Billie) you can find either. Where they are known as one name (Mercy, not Mercedes) you can only find the name they are known as

♣ The name needs to be in context as a proper name. So finding the word "bones" in a book which is not a persons name will not count

♣ You can read the books the names derive from to find a name if you like
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You will get a 15 point bonus if your team complete all tasks for part 1-3


4. Scrabble
Create a word using the first and last letter of the team names - which words you use is up to the team - but they must be at least 4 letters long.
Read one book per letter of that word for 5 points per letter.
- 4p bonus for completed words with 7 or more letters
- 2p bonus for completed words with 5-6 letters

You can only get points for one partially finished word, i.e. if you by the end of the month have more than 1 incomplete words, you will only get 5p/book for the first word.

Example, PYRES (Yvaine is Y,E ; Buttercup is P, Kate Daniels is S, Rose Hathaway for R). Teams can complete this task more than once by creating new words, but you can't re-use letters already used.

Normal "spell-it-out" rules apply. i.e. 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.

To help you out, here are the letters, and how many of each, that are available for Scrabble:

		
A	x	1		
B	x	3
D	x	1	
E	x	6
F	x	1		
H	x	3
J	x	1
K	x	2
L	x	1	
M	x	2
N	x	5
O	x	1
P	x	2		
R	x	6
S	x	5
T	x	3
W	x	1	
Y	x	4

Venecia wrote: "I saw that for anthologies, we use the editors name for the "author" slot, but if a book is co-authored, for example by Abigail Roux [author:Madeleine..."

For co-authored books you are able to use both authors.

Rachael wrote: "For the March cards, can they include books that have been started in February?"

Yes, they can be started in February, but they need to be finished in March. :)