Hobbit Games

[❀Tea❀]

[❀Tea❀]

~Round II - Tower Teams Read-a-Thon~

◈ Duration: May 1st PST 8:00 AM (GMT 4PM) to May 12th 8:00 AM (GMT 4 PM)
◈ Team’s Page Goal: Each participant sets a page goal – the total sum of goals from each team member will be the Team's Page Goal. - only finish date counts!
◈ Points for:

*1 point per member reaching goal
*20 points if 50% of the team members reach page goal
*30 points if team goal is reached
*50 points if all the team members reach page goal

◈ Theme : historical

*1 point per book read
*30 points if 50% of team members read a book representing the theme
*50 points if all the team members read a book representing the theme

◈ Cover: blue

*1 point per book read
*30 points if 50% of team members read a book with the team color
*50 points if all the team members read a book with the team color

✔ ◈ Mini-Challenges & Games
◈ At the end of the Read-a-Thon event post your final results on the thread, as well as the books read during that time.
◈ The winner of the Read-a-Thon will be the team with more points achieved and will receive a 4 book advantage on the team's total


Mods' RaT spreadsheet
Hobbits' spreadsheet

[Ezi]

I commit to 1500 pages

[Turtlecollector Dennis]

CHALLENGES WITHIN THE CHALLENGE INDEX

Google Spreadsheet Look at the tabs at bottom for the correct updates

Challenge Results

May Read-a-Thon
June Hobbit Game

[Turtlecollector Dennis]

May 1 - May 12, 2013

Final Results May 12, 2013 - 19836/16850
Ezinwanyi - 3382/3000
(historical) (blue)

Tea - 3026/3000
(historical) (blue)

Turtlecollector - 4375/4000
(blue) (historical)

Jojiwoji - 2028/2000
(historical) (blue)

Melissa - 877/1000
(historical) (blue)

Karen - 1894/1500
(blue) (historical)

Jenny - 1064/300
(historical) (blue)

md - 1030/300
(historical) (blue)

Dee - 849/800
(historical)

Sanz - 832/500
(historical)

Gemma - 479/450
(blue)

[Ezi]

ummm, is it just you and I?

[❀Tea❀]

No, this is thread for planing :)

Or better to say, we were planing to post here challenges so we don't have to scroll through main thread to see what needs to be done :D

And so far all teammates are in for RaT ☺

[Turtlecollector Dennis]

Don't forget, this game is also running now if you are participating. Jojiwoji has 1 point already and md has 20 points on the first day!

June Hobbit Games Challenge

How many points can you achieve in June?

10 pts each - books 160-250 pgs

1 pt each - books 251-500 pgs

5 pts each - books 501 and over

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This is a less intimidating complicated game (if you are confused about the inter-team game) with just three rules. Participation occurs at the same time so any books read can count toward both games if you want them to. In this game it is possible for slower readers to get the same amount of points as the faster readers if they can read several smaller books, since I looked at our book lists and most of the faster readers' books are between 250-500 pages.


1. Books must be finished in June, but not necessarily started in June.
2. Books must fit into one of the 3 page count areas.
3. Have fun reading!

As always, participation is NOT mandatory. Please only participate if you want to and will have fun doing so.

[Ezi]

Thanks. I'm ready:)

[❀Tea❀]

~ Seven Percent Solution ~

For seven weeks in June and July, the challenge we put forward to all the Teams is 7%! If only one Team completes this task, we will award them six (6) additional books/points. If it is split, as it was for May, we will award each Team reaching the goal three (3) additional books/points.

It is NOT mandatory that all Team Members participate. You may do this challenge as a Team, or have only one member do it. Yes, one member may do one book or some or all seven books from one category. For example, one member may read, for Category #2 Color of the Team Ranked Ahead, three books and leave the remaining four for their other Team Members.

In addition, if a Team Member says they are NOT going to participate due to time constraints or lack of interest, but a watchful Captain or Co-Captain notices that one of their books applies towards a challenge category, said Captain/Co-Captain may use the book.

GOAL : Your Team’s mission is to read 49 books. That would be seven books from a choice of seven categories. Yes, you may read 14 books from one category that you adore (essentially doing it twice), and ignore another completely. However, you may NOT read two books from one category and five from another to equal seven. Nor, if you are doing a category twice, read 10 from one and four from another.

DURATION: June 1 - July 19, 2013. You have seven weeks to complete this challenge. This would only include any book finished in that time period.

1. “Behind Enemy Lines”: Go “Behind Enemy Lines” and have some of your members read books that are from the enemies’ bookshelves. Yes, more than one person may read the same book. Please state the Team and person from whose shelf you are stealing.

2. Color Ahead: Read books with a cover that has a predominant color of the Team ranked ahead of you in the last Sunday Update of May or June. If your Team is ranked first, then use the color of the Team ranked last.

3. Color Behind: Read books with a cover that has a predominant color of the Team ranked just behind you in the last Sunday Update of May or June. If your Team is ranked last, then use the color of the Team ranked first.

4. Book of the Month or “Buddy Read”: Read books that is a NBRC BOM or “buddy read” AND participate in the posting Discussion Questions. (Please check with Mod running the discussion about the day’s DQs for which you want to volunteer.) Yes, you may ask to have a “buddy read” set-up for a particular book. It must be posted in the regular NBRC group, under the alphabetical authors’ listings, and includes the regular NBRC members not involved in the Tower Teams Reading Challenge. You may all read the same book, or pick and choose which ones you want to read, or from those already designated.

5. Spell-It-Out: Read books whose title, author’s (first or last), or series name would spell “N.B.R.C. T.O.W.E.R. T.E.A.M.S. R.E.A.D.I.N.G. C.H.A.L.L.E.N.G.E.” You may ignore the indefinite and definite articles (a, an, and, the), if that helps.
Special Note: You can ONLY use a letter as many times as it occurs. For example, you may have two people read a book with a title, author or series name that starts with “T,” but you may NOT have three people doing so. Yes, you only have to do seven books. Unless you choose to do it twice, or even thrice, in which case you still MAY NOT repeat the letters, unless they are repeated in the spelling.

6. From May’s R-a-T Mini Challenges: Read books with a predominantly green color; or have a flower on the cover; or are set in a favorite holiday destination; or have a moon on the cover; or have a iconic landmark or monument on the cover; or would spell out “A.N.Y. R.O.S.E.” (same rules apply as for #5). Yes, you may count one book that has a flower, one that has a landmark, and one that helps spell “any rose” to reach a combined total of seven (7) books.

7. Seven: Read books that have seven words in the title. You may include the series name, or not, and you may ignore the indefinite and definite articles (a, an, and, the), whichever is to your benefit. Or read books that are the seventh book in a series. Or are written by an author with seven letters in their first, last, or combined names - and initials, if that helps. Or you may read books, that total seven words with the title, series name, and author combined. (Example: Summer Knight, The Dresden Files, by Jim Butcher.) Or read a book that was originally published in the seventh month (July). Or you may spell out “S.E.V.E.N. U.P.” using the same spell-it-out criteria mentioned above.

Countdown - start time

[Moderators of NBRC]

SOME CHANGES:

If only one Team completes this task, we will award them seven (7) additional books/points. If it is split, as it was for May, we will award each Team reaching the goal four (4) additional books/points. Any Team that completes at least three (3) of the following categories, for a total of 21 books, will receive a one (1) book advantage.

[Ezi]

I'm in

[❀Tea❀]

Results of July Hobbit game

1. Melissa - 100 pts
2. Turtlecollector - 66 pts
3. Ezinwanyi - 58 pts
4. Tea - 46 pts
5. Karen - 19 pts
6. Sanz - 18 pts
7. Jenny - 13 pts
8. md - 10 pts
9. Jojiwoji - 8 pts
10. Jordan - 4 pts
11. Dee - 1 pt

Points:
10 pts - books 160-250 pg
1 pt - books 251-450 pg
5 pts - books over 451 pg

[Jenny]

....finished reading /288 p. AGATHA CHRISTIES .....Jenny

[❀Tea❀]

Mods' September Challenge

interested players challenge version 7% 8,33% 9,9%
Melissa 1 17 20 24
Tea 1 12 15 18
Ezi 1 17 20 24
TC 1 22 26 31
Sanz 1 3 4 4
md 1 1 1 1
Dee 0 0 0


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