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TT2-Mini Non-Reading Games & Puzzles for Cupcakes - May - from LK
PUZZLE #13: B'dazzled Blue
Moderators of Nothing but Reading Challenges wrote: "Woohoo! Coming in just 15 minutes after first place, Teresa (ilovebakedgoods) from Cadet Blue finishes the "Mean Green"
puzzle.
Guacamole for you!
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Woo hoo! I just ate nachos so this is kind of fitting for me, hehe!
Moderators of Nothing but Reading Challenges wrote: "Well, you can come back to it later, Teresa. ☺"Bwahaha! Come back after you gave me incentive to keep trying? I don't think so, LOL! I ended up finding the one I kept missing but it turned out to fit a category I thought I was finished with, so then I had to figure out which one in that category was the one that belonged elsewhere. LOL
PUZZLE #15: B'dazzled Blue
Teresa, you did it by categories? Whoa. Babe. Novel approach. **hee hee** (Pun intended.)
Team Mauvelous
You know you're on the boards too much when you dream about them! I had a dream about this one and the green cover challenge, LOL!
ilovebakedgoods (Teresa) wrote: "You know you're on the boards too much when you dream about them! I had a dream about this one and the green cover challenge, LOL!"Too funny!! I still keep seeing green covers when I close my eyes :)
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No more green covers!!! MY EYES!!!!Two green cover games... someone likes green!
Steven wrote: "No more green covers!!! MY EYES!!!!Two green cover games... someone likes green!"
I know, right?! We need something more subdued now...like uh..pink? I don't know, LOL! I guess there really isn't a good color to look at for a long period of time.
I really did like the Mean Green puzzle, though! That must have taken a long time to put together. I kept wishing I could enlarge the covers, though, hehe.
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Diane - Mango Tango
Barbara★ - Mauvelous
Steven - Mango Tango
guacamole times three!
From green book covers to guacamole pictures. This is a very green thread, LOL!! I'm not really even a fan of guacamole but argh, those pictures make me want Mexican food so bad. I'm like one of Pavlov's dogs when I see pictures of anything remotely Mexican food (i.e., even if it's not authentic, or something I don't like). Okay, that's it. I'm going for a walk to the library to return books and get a few others out and to get my mind off the foods in this thread!! LOL! Think I'll eat a couple of
during the walk.
I will share my guacamole with others. I'm not a fan... even though avacado is a superfood and chock full of nutrition. Only time I eat avacado is when it's in a sushi roll I like haha.
Teresa, I normally like Mexican food... but I gorged myself silly at Moe's Cinco de Moe's special yesterday, and am sick to my stomach from it all today... so I'll avoid it for now! Stupid holidays... always make me eat!
ilovebakedgoods (Teresa) wrote: "We need something more subdued now...like uh..pink? I don't know, LOL! I guess there really isn't a good color to look at for a long period of time."Maybe white? But oh boy, then the covers would all blend together! LOL
Barb wrote: "ilovebakedgoods (Teresa) wrote: "We need something more subdued now...like uh..pink? I don't know, LOL! I guess there really isn't a good color to look at for a long period of time."Maybe white? ..."
That's exactly what I thought, Barb! I think white seems like a good idea but then...bam...snow storm! lol
Don't give Lisa Kay any ideas (although blue would be pretty...) LOL!
Rebecca wrote: "Don't give Lisa Kay any ideas LOL!"I don't think we need to -- she comes up with enough ideas on her own :)
Rebecca wrote: "Don't give Lisa Kay any ideas (although blue would be pretty...) LOL!"I thought so, too! (Blue would be pretty)
LOL!No, I've been working on a match game for books with flowers on the cover. They will be in column, and fewer of them, so it should be easier.
Mod
Please be sure to show that you worked the puzzle; do NOT just post the bookcover. Thank you.
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Please DO NOT post solution here. Mail to ratminichallenges@gmail.com With Puzzle # in subject line. Be sure to tell me what Team you are on, though I have most of you memorized!
Doublets were word-link puzzles first created by Lewis Carroll. Changing only one letter at a time, and using the clues along the side, go from "hell" to "eden"... or vice versa!
HELL
– hollow object that makes a musical sound
– strip of leather or other material worn around the waist
– herbaceous plant (Beta vulgaris) of the goosefoot family
– insect of a large group (superfamily Apoidea, order Hymenoptera)
– pleural of the position of one who draws no opponent for a round in a tournament and so advances to the next round
– each of a pair of globular organs in the head through which people and vertebrate animals see
– nights before holidays
– flat and smooth
EDEN
Moderators of Nothing but Reading Challenges wrote: "~ Mean Green ~
Find the duplicates, there are fourteen. The books that are posted more than once
are
featur..."
This puzzle is so green that I find myself with a case of the 'green-eyed monster' and 'green with envy' at how this was able to be put together. I think I'm too 'green behind the gills' to be able to work it out so I'll fly off to 'greener pastures' because 'the grass is always greener on the other side'.
Mod
LOL!
*sigh* the doublets keep piling up T_T
Team Cerulean - Hobbit blue
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Do it when you need a break from reading.
You have until the end of the Read-a-Thon.
You can submit it as a Team, or send your best player to collect your cupcake.
Please DO NOT post solution here. Mail to ratminichallenges@gmail.com
EDIT:For this Puzzle #19 Word Find, the "D" has been cut off of UNWIND. My apologies.
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Aw! Somebody's happy. ☺
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Thank you, Kirsten (Team Cerulean), for pointing out the wrong definition was posted!
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ohhh test bunny! *insert donkey voice (from shrek)* pick me! oh oh oh pick me
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PM'd it to you, Eni! See you after I get some sleep. Let me know if I need to change/improve the directions.**waves bye**
sure. it's 8am here and i just finished my book yay! getting rdy to go do some chores :| sleep is for the weak! and for those who actually have jobs lol
Oh, I hope the GRs mail isn't down. I haven't gotten any in a couple of hours.Did you get it, Eni?
yeah i got it =) i'll get on it since procrastination of chores is my middle name!
Zara wrote: "This puzzle is so green that I find myself with a case of the 'green-eyed monster' and 'green with envy' at how this was able to be put together. I think I'm too 'green behind the gills' to be able to work it out so I'll fly off to 'greener pastures' because 'the grass is always greener on the other side."LOL!! Very clever!
Moderators of Nothing but Reading Challenges wrote: "PUZZLE #18 - Doublets from "H E L L" to "E D E N"Please DO NOT post solution here. Mail to ratminichallenges@gmail.com With Puzzle # in subject line. Be sure to tell me what Team you are on, thou..."
Hooray! Another Doublet! Right behind my old nemesis, the slider puzzle, hehe!
Moderators of Nothing but Reading Challenges wrote: "PUZZLE #19 Word Find
: ~ One Word Titles We've Read ~
Do it when you need a break from reading.
You have until the end of the Read-a-Thon.
You can submit it as a Team, or send your best pla..."
Yay, another word find!!! Double happiness between the doublet and the word find, yay! This almost makes up for the fact that I left my book at work tonight. Blast it! I was hoping to finish it today, grrr. I won't be able to get it until late tonight and then I won't be able to read, except on my lunch break, boo hoo.
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Guacamole for you!