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Round the World with Nellie Bly
Yep that makes sense, thanks for that!
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STAGE 3
Rolled 1/Square 44 = Hong Kong: no Task on Board; Challenge Task: Read a book with some kind furniture in title or on cover: The Tiger Who Came to Tea
- finished 1/15/2013 Rolled 3/Square 47 = Off Formosa: Task on Board: Go Back 5 days: Square 42 = Joss, China: no Task on Board; Challenge Task: Read a book with cover of close up of a head:Ysabel
- finished 1/15/2013 Rolled 5/Square 47 = Off Formosa (2nd visit): Challenge Task:Read a book set in East Asia: The Samurai's Garden - finished 1/17/2013
Rolled 2/Square 49 = Yokohama: Task on Board: Go Ahead 1 Day
Square 50 = Yokohama: no Task on Board; Challenge Task: Read a book in connection to journalism (for example, a bio on a journalist, a novel with a journalist protagonist, etc): Don't Blink - finished 1/23/2013
Rolled 3/Square 53 = Yokohama / Delay: Task on Board: Go Back 5 Days
Square 48 = New Year's Day: Task on Board: Go Ahead 5 Days
Square 53 = Yokohama / Delay (2nd visit): Challenge Task: Read a book with 4 words in title: The Memory Keeper's Daughter - finished 1/28/2013
Rolled 2/Square 55 = On the Pacific: Task on Board: Go Back 2 Days
Square 53 = Yokohama / Delay (3rd visit): Challenge Task: Read a book with 4 words in title: Tonight I Said Goodbye - finished 1/29/2013
Roll 6/Square 59 = Clear: no Task on Board; Challenge Task: Read a book about or by one of these women listed (it can be a bio on one of these women or any work/s written by any of these women):The Hyde Park Murder - finished 1/31/2013
Roll 4/Square 63 = Collision: Task on Board: Go Back 15 Days
Square 48 = New Year's Day (2nd visit): no Challenge Task; Task on Board: Go Ahead 5 Days
Square 53 = Yokohama / Delay (4th visit)
Challenge Task: When You Reach Me- finished 2/1/2013
Roll 6/Square 59 = Clear: Challenge Task: Read a book about or by one of these women listed (it can be a bio on one of these women or any work/s written by any of these women): Murder at the Hobcaw Barony finished 2/7/2013
Roll 5/Square 64 = On A Raft: Task on Board: Lose 2 Throws:
In One Person finished 2/4/2013
Roald Dahl's Revolting Rhymes finished 2/9/2013
I had the same in this sequence of squares susan
Lynn's Sixth Stage of TravelOriginal Start: 2012-11-29 06:04:00 UTC
Currently on Square 64
Rolled 3
64+3= Square 67 = Lose 1 Throw
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@LynnB - wow, Sixth (!) Stage of travel. The weather must be somewhat awful for you ;)
Tien wrote: "@LynnB - wow, Sixth (!) Stage of travel. The weather must be somewhat awful for you ;) "Yup. Hitting lots of storms along the way, it seems like. But I'm weathering through them ... and the end is finally in sight now.
Lynn's Seventh Stage of TravelOriginal Start: 2012-11-29 06:04:00 UTC
Currently on Square 67
Rolled 4
67+4= Square 71= Go to End (Day 73)
END DAY - FINISH LINE
Yay! I've rolled it, but have to finish the book for my Sixth Stage of Travel before posting my time.
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Original Start: 2012-11-29 06:04:00 UTC
Currently on Square 67
Rolled 4
67+4= Square 71= Go to End (Day 73)
END DAY - FINISH LINE
Yay! I've rolled it, but have t..."
Ooh, good timing, Lynn, despite the storms :)
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Stage 2
Rolled 2. Moved to square 23 (translated work)
Book: Love in the Time of Cholera
Rolled 2: Moved to square 25 (Lose a throw).
Book of choice:
And so it goes. :)
I finished my last book and have traveled Round the World with Nellie Bly!Original Start: 2012-11-29 06:04:00 UTC
End Timestamp: 2013-01-17 03:36:52 UTC
I have no idea how much time this is - I'll have to figure it out and edit in the results....
Umm... 51 days, I think.
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Original Start: 2012-11-29 06:04:00 UTC
End Timestamp: 2013-01-17 03:36:52 UTC
I have no idea how much time this is - ..."
Erm, did you finish reading at 3:36am?
Anyway, I use excel worksheet to count the number of days for me - I came up with 48 Days 21 hours 33 minutes & 52 seconds
Yay, Lynn, for finishing!
Tien wrote: "Erm, did you finish reading at 3:36am?"Well, yes, if you note they are all in UTC. Here where I live it was more like 8:36 p.m. on the 16th ... It all depends on the time zone you actually live in. At 3 a.m. I'm usually sound asleep :)
Tien wrote: "LynnB wrote: "I finished my last book and have traveled Round the World with Nellie Bly!Original Start: 2012-11-29 06:04:00 UTC
End Timestamp: 2013-01-17 03:36:52 UTC
I have no idea how much t..."
I have her at 32 minutes, not 33...lol!
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Well, yes, if you note they are all in UTC. Here where I live it was more like 8:36 p.m. on the 16th ... It all depends on the time zone you ..."
D'Oh! Silly me! I forgot that it's UTC and you're not necessarily within that timezone!
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You're probably right, Dee!
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Yep, that's fine -as long as they're the main character.
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Yep, that's fine -as long as they're the main character."
Great! I'm looking at some cute murder mysteries in which Eleanor Roosevelt is the protagonist.
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Fourth (and final) StageCurrently on square 72
Rolled a 4
Moved to finish line
I am currently listening to my final book and will post my time when I'm done.
Just finished!Start time: Timestamp: 2012-11-30 23:54:39 UTC
End time: Timestamp: 2013-01-31 23:07:29 UTC
Yay!
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Start time: Timestamp: 2012-11-30 23:54:39 UTC
End time: Timestamp: 2013-01-31 23:07:29 UTC
Yay!"
Woo hoo! Great travel, Amy :)
I think that makes 61 days 23 hours 12 minutes and 50 seconds.
Tien wrote: "Amy wrote: "Just finished!Start time: Timestamp: 2012-11-30 23:54:39 UTC
End time: Timestamp: 2013-01-31 23:07:29 UTC
Yay!"
Woo hoo! Great travel, Amy :)
I think that makes 61 days 23 hours 1..."
Thanks! You come up with the best games!
Amy wrote: "Just finished!Start time: Timestamp: 2012-11-30 23:54:39 UTC
End time: Timestamp: 2013-01-31 23:07:29 UTC
Yay!"
Congrats, Amy!
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Aww... you're welcome! :D
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Only two books on this leg and one down with one in progress, so I am posting Stage 3 leg of travel now.
Starting at square 25.
Rolled a 1. (Where is the wind?)
Square 26 (food in title or on cover).
Book: The Man Who Invented Florida (orange on cover)
Rolled a 1. (AGAIN!)
Square 27 (lose 1 throw)
Book of choice: Dead to the World
Gee whilikers! This is the slowest sailing ship...No wind, torn sails, lost the rudder.
When I get back to dry land, I plan to cut it up for kindling.
Bea wrote: "...Gee whilikers! This is the slowest sailing ship...No wind, torn sails, lost the rudder.When I get back to dry land, I plan to cut it up for kindling.
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Bea - So sorry to hear about your seafaring problems, but I'm glad you've been able to set sail again :)
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When I get back to dry land, I plan to cut it up for kindling."
You can do it, Bea!
ps: I don't think I've heard the term, 'gee whilikers' before... ;p
I've started the lose throw books of my first stage, so I'm finally planning my second stage!Stage 2;
Rolled a 3
Square 24; Read a book published in Nellie Bly’s lifetime (1864-1922 inclusive
Book: My Brilliant Career by Miles Franklin
Rolled a 5
Square 29; Read a book which author or which has a main character named BoB (Robert is acceptable)
Book: The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde by Robert Louis Stevenson
Rolled a 3
Square 32; Go ahead one day
Square 33; Read a book with some kind of animal in title or on cover
Book: The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe by C.S. Lewis
Rolled a 2
35; Read a novella
Book: Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck
Rolled a 5
Square 40; Read a book with 2 female protagonists OR with alternating perspectives (f/f, f/m, m/m)
Book: Behemoth by Scott Westerfeld
Rolled a 1
Square 41; 1 more throw
Rolled a 3
Square 44; Read a book with some kind furniture in title or on cover
Book: Cranford by Elizabeth Gaskell
Rolled a 1
Square 45; Go Ahead 3 Days
Square 48; Go ahead 5 Days
Square 53; Go back 5 Days
Square 48; Go ahead 5 days
Square 53 (second visit); Read a book with 4 words in title
Book: Between Shades of Gray by Ruta Sepetys
Rolled a 2
Square 55; Go back two days
Square 53 (third visit); Read a book with 4 words in title
Book: The Sun Also Rises by Ernest Hemingway
Rolled a 5
Square 58; Go back 3 days
Square 55 (second visit); Read a book of poems
Book TBD
Rolled a 1
Square 56; Go back 10 days (noooo!)
Square 46; Read a Mystery / Crime novel
Book TBD
Rolled a 1
Square 47; Go back 5 days
Square 42; Read a book with cover of close up of a head
Book TBD
Rolled a 1 again!
Square 43; Lose next throw
Book TBD
Oh dear... I think I may get the prize for most books read in this challenge! 12 books for stage 2, and I only gain 22 squares! Also, at the rate I'm reading, and with uni starting up in two weeks, I think I might struggle to get through challenge before Christmas! I think I must have boarded the Nelly Bly Luxury Cruise Liner by mistake!
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LOL - a nice relaxing trip for you then, Ebony ;)
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STAGE 4
Roll 3/Square 67 = Pacific Ocean: Task on Board: Lose 1 Throw.
The Dragon in the Sock Drawer finished 2/9/13
Hmmph. Pretty short stage.
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STAGE 5
Roll 6/Square 73 = Pennsylvania Railroad Depot: Task on Board: FINISH LINE
Done. YAY!
Final Timestamp: 2013-02-09 20:00:25 UTC
Original Timestamp: 2012-12-08 14:05:52 UTC
Total time: 63 days, 5 hrs, 54 min, 33 sec
And, if I counted right, 23 books.
Wow, would I love to really have a 63-day trip!
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Woo hoo! Great travelling, Susan :)
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I'm thinking of archiving this game sometime next month. There'll be a new board-reading-game to play (it's nearly ready) ;o
nellie's trip got kind of side-tracked for me...she is stuck in the middle of the ocean somewhere
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Poor Nellie-Dee! Will there be a rescue mission?
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LOL - Bea, once you get carried away with one game, you tend to forget another (I'm not pointing the finger at you, it's 'you' in general including me) ;p
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Movements/Tasks
Dice
Time Started : 2013-02-24 19:30:26 UTC
Time Finished :
Roll 1:
Rolled 3
Square 4: Go back 1 day.
Square 3: Go back 1 day.
Square 2; Go ahead 3 days
Square 5: Go back to Port (1)
Square 1: Read a book of your choice :
A Notorious Countess Confesses-3/03/13- ****
Roll 2
Square 6: Go to Southhampton (8)
Square 8: Go to Amiens (9)
Square 9: One more throw --> 2
Square 11: Go Back 2 Days
Square 9:(2nd Visit) Challenge Task: Nellie Bly is met Jules Verne on this day - Read one of Verne's book or a fantasy / sci-fi :Feral Sins-5.03.13-***********
Roll 3:
Rolled 5
Square 12:Read a romance:When You Give a Duke a Diamond
Roll 4:
Rolled 6
Square 18: Go Back 10 Days
Square 8 :One more throw-2
Square 10:Go Back 5 Days
Square 5:Read a book that is the first book in a series:Obsidian
Roll 5:
Rolled 5
Square 10:Read a book set in France:Blind Obsession
Roll 6:
Rolled 6
Square 16: Read a book with 'red' in title or which cover is mostly red.
Love Irresistibly
Roll 7:
Rolled 6
Square 22:Task on Board: Go Back 1 Day
Square 21:Task on Board: Lose 2 Throws:Highlander Most WantedThe Secret of the Nagas
End of Stage 1
Stage 2
Roll 8:
Rolled 4
Square 25:Task on Board: Lose Next Throw
Mockingjay
End of Stage 2
Stage 3
Roll 9:
Rolled 6
Square Square 31:Challenge Task: The Oriental anchored for refueling on the island of Penang (coal) -Read a book with 'black' in title or which cover is primarily black"Seven Day Loan
Roll 10:
Rolled 4
Square Square 35:Challenge Task: Nellie Bly packed light (only the dress she's wearing and a gripsack) -Read a novella
Little Red Riding Crop
Roll 11:
Rolled 5
Square Square 40 :Challenge Task: Bly found about about Elizabeth Bisland who is apparently sent to race her around the world -Read a book with 2 female protagonists OR with alternating perspectives (f/f, f/m, m/m)The Siren
Roll 12:
Rolled 1
Square 40:Task on Board: 1 More Throw
Rolled 5
Square 46:Challenge Task: Bly's only fictional work was titled "The Mystery of Central Park" which generated bad reviews and poor sales -Read a Mystery / Crime novel (hopefully a good one)"
Roll 13:
Rolled 1
Square 47:Task on Board: Go Back 5 days
Square 42:Challenge Task: Bly saw a decapitated head when she visited Canton -Read a book with cover of close up of a head (ie most of the body is not shown on cover)
Roll 14:
Rolled 3
Square 45:Task on Board: Go Ahead 3 Days
Square 48:Task on Board: Go Ahead 5 Days
Square 53:Challenge Task: Bly has 4 goals in life: to work for a New York newspaper, to reform the world, to fall in love, and to marry a millionaire -Read a book with 4 words in title
Roll 15
Rolled 1
Square 54:Challenge Task: Bly's passion in journalism tend to drive her to write articles to the betterment of conditions for women and those in needs (in her later years, many babies are left at her doorstep to be adopted out and she raised much needed assistance for those in needs) - Read an "adopted" book (adopted = book gifted to you whether second hand or brand new / book purchased from second hand stores / flea markets)
Movements/Tasks
Dice
Time Started : 2013-02-24 19:30:26 UTC
Time Finished :
Roll 1:
Rolled 3
Square 4: Go back 1 day.
Square 3: Go back 1 day.
Square 2; Go ahead 3 days
Square 5: Go back to Port (1)
Square 1: Read a book of your choice :
A Notorious Countess Confesses-3/03/13- ****
Roll 2
Square 6: Go to Southhampton (8)
Square 8: Go to Amiens (9)
Square 9: One more throw --> 2
Square 11: Go Back 2 Days
Square 9:(2nd Visit) Challenge Task: Nellie Bly is met Jules Verne on this day - Read one of Verne's book or a fantasy / sci-fi :Feral Sins-5.03.13-***********
Roll 3:
Rolled 5
Square 12:Read a romance:When You Give a Duke a Diamond
Roll 4:
Rolled 6
Square 18: Go Back 10 Days
Square 8 :One more throw-2
Square 10:Go Back 5 Days
Square 5:Read a book that is the first book in a series:Obsidian
Roll 5:
Rolled 5
Square 10:Read a book set in France:Blind Obsession
Roll 6:
Rolled 6
Square 16: Read a book with 'red' in title or which cover is mostly red.
Love Irresistibly
Roll 7:
Rolled 6
Square 22:Task on Board: Go Back 1 Day
Square 21:Task on Board: Lose 2 Throws:Highlander Most WantedThe Secret of the Nagas
End of Stage 1
Stage 2
Roll 8:
Rolled 4
Square 25:Task on Board: Lose Next Throw
Mockingjay
End of Stage 2
Stage 3
Roll 9:
Rolled 6
Square Square 31:Challenge Task: The Oriental anchored for refueling on the island of Penang (coal) -Read a book with 'black' in title or which cover is primarily black"Seven Day Loan
Roll 10:
Rolled 4
Square Square 35:Challenge Task: Nellie Bly packed light (only the dress she's wearing and a gripsack) -Read a novella
Little Red Riding Crop
Roll 11:
Rolled 5
Square Square 40 :Challenge Task: Bly found about about Elizabeth Bisland who is apparently sent to race her around the world -Read a book with 2 female protagonists OR with alternating perspectives (f/f, f/m, m/m)The Siren
Roll 12:
Rolled 1
Square 40:Task on Board: 1 More Throw
Rolled 5
Square 46:Challenge Task: Bly's only fictional work was titled "The Mystery of Central Park" which generated bad reviews and poor sales -Read a Mystery / Crime novel (hopefully a good one)"
Roll 13:
Rolled 1
Square 47:Task on Board: Go Back 5 days
Square 42:Challenge Task: Bly saw a decapitated head when she visited Canton -Read a book with cover of close up of a head (ie most of the body is not shown on cover)
Roll 14:
Rolled 3
Square 45:Task on Board: Go Ahead 3 Days
Square 48:Task on Board: Go Ahead 5 Days
Square 53:Challenge Task: Bly has 4 goals in life: to work for a New York newspaper, to reform the world, to fall in love, and to marry a millionaire -Read a book with 4 words in title
Roll 15
Rolled 1
Square 54:Challenge Task: Bly's passion in journalism tend to drive her to write articles to the betterment of conditions for women and those in needs (in her later years, many babies are left at her doorstep to be adopted out and she raised much needed assistance for those in needs) - Read an "adopted" book (adopted = book gifted to you whether second hand or brand new / book purchased from second hand stores / flea markets)
Tien wrote: "Just checking to see how people are going with this game...
I'm thinking of archiving this game sometime next month. There'll be a new board-reading-game to play (it's nearly ready) ;o"
I would really like to play this , would you mind waiting some more time?
I'm thinking of archiving this game sometime next month. There'll be a new board-reading-game to play (it's nearly ready) ;o"
I would really like to play this , would you mind waiting some more time?
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Not a problem, Karen :)
Bon voyage ;)
Can I join Karen in her travels? No point for her to travel alone :)*quietly singing while packing her bags*
All my bags are packed I'm ready to go
I'm standin' here outside your door
I hate to wake you up to say goodbye
But the dawn is breakin' it's early morn
The taxi's waitin' he's blowin' his horn...
❀Tea❀ wrote: "Can I join Karen in her travels? No point for her to travel alone :)
*quietly singing while packing her bags*
All my bags are packed I'm ready to go
I'm standin' here outside your door
I hate to w..."
Of course ! Yay!
Two is always better than one :D:D
*quietly singing while packing her bags*
All my bags are packed I'm ready to go
I'm standin' here outside your door
I hate to w..."
Of course ! Yay!
Two is always better than one :D:D
❀Tea❀ wrote: "*goes to buy a ticket*"
*gives you discount coupon*
*gives you discount coupon*
Start: Timestamp: 2013-02-25 12:40:58 UTCFinish:
: 6Rolled: 6
Square 7: Go to Amiens
Square 9: One more throw
Rolled: 5
Square 14: Go to 18th Day
Square 18: Go Back 10 Days
Square 8: Go to Amiens
Square 9 (2nd): Amiens - Read one of Verne's book or a fantasy/sci-fi
The Fellowship of the Ring by J.R.R. Tolkien - 07.03.13 - ★★★★★
Rolled: 4
Square 13: Suez Canal - Read a book set in a place away from your home country (every book I read is away from my country :))
The Ranger by Monica McCarty - 09.03.13 - ★★★★
Rolled: 1
Square 14 (2nd): Go to 18th Day
Square 18 (2nd): Strikes a Rock - Read a Speculative Fiction (hmmm)
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams - 20.03.2013. - ★★★★
Rolled: 6
Square 24: Indian Ocean - Read a book published in Nellie Bly's lifetime (1864-1922)
Wives and Daughters by Elizabeth Gaskell - 02.05.2013. - ★★★★ - 1865
Rolled: 2
Square 26: Colombo - Read a book with some kind of food in title or on cover
by Jenn McKinlay - 01.05.13 - ★★★Rolled: 1
Square 27: Ceylon - Lose Next Throw - Read book of your choice
One Good Earl Deserves a Lover by Sarah MacLean - 05.05.2013. - ★★★★
*END OF STAGE 1*
Karen wrote: "*gives you discount coupon*"Thanks :)
I'll wait for you in Amiens :D
Ah ! Already ahead of me ! Lol!
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That's fine, Ebony. As long as it's a whole 'book' even though you're reading half of your print edition which actually contain 2 books.
I'm pretty sure I understood your question so I hope the response makes sense!