Readopoly #2 (Jan-Feb 2014): Rules & Questions

[JoLene, Mistress of the Challenge]

Play Readopoly Challenge - #2

It was so much fun the first time, let’s play it again :-D Wintertime is reading time so let’s make a game of it! What's better is playing a game of "Readopoly", where reading your books earns you "book bucks" (or shortened to BB) to buy famous literary properties. Let’s see who earns the builds the best property portfolio by the end of February!

Thanks to Sue for creating the initial gameboard and idea and to Hasbro producers of Monopoly which was the inspiration for this challenge. Apologies for those not familiar with the original game.

You may start earning “book bucks” with any books started and completed between midnight on Jan 1, PST through 11:59pm Feb 28 PST (also known as GoodReads time). Your last roll must also be taken by 11:59pm on Feb 28th.

GENERAL RULES:
1) All books used for the challenge should be started on or after January 1st. You may join the challenge at any time.

2) Audiobooks and ebooks are accepted, but they must have a print copy with estimated number of pages. Re-reads are permitted for this challenge.

3) There is no genre requirement or minimum page requirements for this challenge with the following exceptions: Graphic novels must be at least 100 pages. If a book is tagged as as “middle grade”, “childrens”, “juvenile” or on the main page, then it must be at least 250 pages.
Bonus tasks may have some specific requirements related to genre, or page number.

4) ALL page counts, regardless of edition or version read, will be determined by the most popular edition of the book on Goodreads. The most popular edition is the one that shows up first when you search for the book.

5) When claiming a book, please link to the title of the book (not the cover) so that it can be verified. If you only link to the cover, it will not be counted. To link to a book, use the add book/author link just above the comment box and make sure that the book title button is selected. EXCEPTION for the cover bonus task listed below.

6) Bonus tasks validation: In order for the bonus task to be validated, the task requirement must obvious. If character driven, it must be a major character, if it’s genre, it’s only the books main page. Example, occupation in finance must be a major character that is multiple or scenes or pivotal to the plot. A good rule of thumb is that I can tell from the GoodReads description if this book meets the criteria. You can also point me to an external source.

7) You must be able to accept private messages from me in order to play. If your profile is private, then please friend me and say that you are playing “readopoly”. I will send any “issues” with your moves/scoring to you directly. If I need to send you 3 messages about the SAME issue, then I will stop scoring your posts. (Due to the nature of this game -- I have to be a bit stricter).

8) There are a lot of rules, but it's pretty easy once you get started. Have fun!!

[JoLene, Mistress of the Challenge]

READOPOLY GAME BOARD

1) Each person will be playing on their own game board. When you “buy” a space, think of it as developing a property. If you land on it again, you can collect the rent from your tenants.

You are NOT competing against others to buy the properties. However, there is a bit of friendly competition because we will be comparing bank balances and your property portfolio. Your property portfolio will be worth that amount that you collect in rent when you land on it (1/2 the purchase price, or if you own all colors, the sum of rents on all colors). Railroads and utilities will only be worth 50 BB a piece.

2) The Readopoly board consists of several different types of spaces which allow you to do earn, lose or spend book-bucks. Detailed explanations of the spaces are below. Purchase price is listed on those spaces that are for sale.



1) GO - Collect 200 BB each time you pass. If you land on GO, add 400 BB to your banked total.
2) Filbert Street - 60 BB
3) Treasure Chest - 10x dice roll to your bank account
4) Cannery Row - 60 BB
5) Income Tax - “T” Bonus Task or Pay 75 BB
6) The Old Patagonian Express Railroad - 200 BB
7) Perdido Street - 100 BB
8) Opportunity - “O” Bonus Task or Roll dice - Evens gain 50 BB, Odds lose 50 BB
9) Bluestone Road - 100 BB
10) Scotland Street - 120 BB
11) JAIL - Visiting: Free Space
In Jail - “J” Bonus Task OR roll doubles to leave; may leave on 4th try
12) Charing Cross Road - 140 BB
13) The Lightning Thief Electric Company - 150 BB
14) Mulberry Street - 140 BB
15) Zebra Drive - 160 BB
16) The Hogwarts Express Railroad - 200 BB
17) Mango Street - 180 BB
18) Treasure Chest - 10x dice roll to your bank account
19) Peachtree Road - 180 BB
20) Sunset Boulevard - 200 BB
21) Free Parking - Add 100 BB to your bank account
22) Cherry Tree Lane - 220 BB
23) Opportunity - Bonus Task or Roll dice - Evens gain 50 BB, Odds lose 50 BB
24) Britannia Road - 220 BB
25) Baker Street - 240 BB
26) The Polar Express Railroad - 200 BB
27) Blossom Street - 260 BB
28) The Water for Elephants Works - 150 BB
29) Main Street - 260 BB
30) Windsor Gardens - 280 BB
31) Go to JAIL - Do not collect 200 BB for passing GO
32) Tara Road - 300 BB
33) Treasure Chest - 10x dice roll to your bank account
34) Privet Drive - 300 BB
35) Eccles Street - 320 BB
36) The Orient Express Railroad - 200 BB
37) Opportunity - Bonus Task or Roll dice - Evens gain 50 BB, Odds lose 50 BB
38) Savile Row - 350 BB
39) Luxury Tax - Bonus Task or Pay 200 BB in taxes
40) Piccadilly - 400 BB

[JoLene, Mistress of the Challenge]

PLAYING READOPOLY

1) Everyone starts on the go space. You will roll dice using the following URL: http://www.random.org/dice/?num=2
You may only roll once per day. You may sit on a space as long as you like. You can also use real dice --- we trust you :-D You can not take multiple turns if you miss a day.

2) You will move around the game-board based on your roll of the dice. When you hit space 40 (Piccadilly), you will continue counting your dice roll moving around to space 1 “GO”. When you pass “GO”, you collect 200 BB.

3) The following are the instructions for the spaces. When posting your turn, you will indicate the action that you chose based on the space that you land on. The actions are underlined in the instructions.

Properties: indicated by a colored square.
Buy: If you have enough book-bucks already in your bank account, you may purchase the property.
Collect Rent: If you own the property, you may collect the rent and deposit into your bank account.
Pass: If you do not want to do anything (saving your BB for a rainy day), you can just sit there for your turn.

Railroads & Utilities (Grouped together for simplicity)
Purchase: If you have enough book-bucks, you may purchase the railroad or utility.
Collect Rent: If you own the railroad or utility, you may collect 50 BB x (# of RR and # utilities owned). Example, you own 1 utility and 1 RR, when you land on one that you own, you would get 100 BB.
Pass: Do nothing. You do NOT have to purchase a property when you land on it.


Treasure Chest
Deposit: You roll the dice again (but do not move) and earn 10 times the dice roll as book bucks.
Example, you roll a 5 and 2, you get to deposit 70 BB in your account.

Opportunity
Bonus Task: You may complete one of the following bonus tasks (earn additional 100 BB):
O.1) Read a book set in Atlantic City.
O.2) Read a book with the word “Street” or a synonym in the title (e.g., road, drive, boulevard)
O.3) Read a book which prominently features a standard monopoly game token on the cover: wheelbarrow, thimble, man on horse, dog, race-car, battleship, cannon, iron, sack of money, shoe, thimble, top hat.
O.4) Read a book which features the name of a boardgame in the title. (Secret LIFE of Bees, The RISK Pool) [NOTE: if this is a more obscure boardgame, you must provide a “proof” link - BoardGameGeek.com is the preferred source)
O.5) Read a book set in the 1930’s; Monopoly was first published in 1935.
O.6) Read a book whose cover features one of the colors of the properties (more than 50% of the cover); the colors are brown, blue, green, red, orange, yellow, purple or light blue. NOTE: please link to cover on this one.
OR
Roll Dice: You roll the dice again, but do not move.
If the total of roll is even, you earn 50 BB.
If the total of the rol is odd, you lose 50 BB.

Taxes
Bonus Task: You may complete one of the following bonus task (earn additional 100 BB)
T.1) Read a HF book which where a main character’s profession features prominently in the story line.
T.2) Read a book with a genre of “business”, “finance” or “economics”
T.3) Read a book where one of the main characters is involved in real estate: realtor, developer, property owner who collects rent (not a plantation owner)
OR pay your taxes (indicated on the space).

Go to Jail and Jail
Visit: Landing on the Jail space is like a free space. You are just visiting.
If you land on the space “Go to Jail” then you must go to the jail space without collecting “Go” bonus
Bonus Task: To get out of jail, you must either complete one of the bonus tasks
J.1) Read a book featuring a genre of “crime” or “murder mystery”.
J.2) Read a book which has more than 500 pages (a lot of time in jail ;-)
OR
Roll Dice: Roll doubles. You will get out of jail on your fourth attempt at rolling doubles.


4) When you land on a space with a bonus book task, you need to select which task you are choosing. You may continue to roll the dice and move around the board, however, you may not deposit more book-bucks (score books) from books until you have completed the bonus task. However, you may collect collect “go”, treasure chest and rent.

5) Turn Posts - only once per day
NOTE: you can combine turn and deposit posts

Example 1: Start of the game
BB Open = 200 BB
Current Space: 1
You rolled 2 dice: 3, 6
New Space: Scotland Street
Action: Buy 120 BB
BB Close = 80 BB

Example 2: Later in the game
BB Open = 546 BB
Current Space: 1
You rolled 2 dice: 3, 6
New Space: Scotland Street
Action: Collect Rent 60 BB (110 if I also own Bluestone Road)
BB Close = 596 BB

Example 3: Opportunity - take a chance
BB Open = 546 BB
Current Space: 1
Dice Roll: 2, 7
New Space: Opportunity
Action: Roll Dice: 2,3
- 50
BB Close 496

Example 4: Opportunity - take the bonus
BB Open = 546 BB
Current Space: 1
Dice Roll: 2, 7
New Space: Opportunity
Action: Bonus Task
O.5) Read a book set in the 1930’s
BB Close 546

[JoLene, Mistress of the Challenge]

BOOK-BUCKS
1) The object of the game is to be the best book-ish real estate mogul. Your score will be determined by the amount of BB in your bank account AND the value of your personal propery (sum of all the rents). There will be many opportunities to earn bucks as you travel around the Readopoly board, but be warned, there are also opportunities to lose book-bucks as well. (NOTE: The symbol for a “book-buck” is BB)

2) The easiest way to earn book-bucks is to read books. For each book you read, you will be awarded. 1 BB = 1 page read. The book MUST BE COMPLETED before depositing the pages into your bank account. NOTE: see above for how page counts are determined. You may start depositing books after Jan 1 and deposit as many books as you’d like per day.

3) You may use your book-bucks to purchase properties as you move around the board. You must already have the book-bucks in your bank account prior to landing on the square.

4) Collecting Rents: If you already own a property, you can collect rent when you land on it. Rent will be ½ of the purchase price, so if you land on Sunset Boulevard (Price 100BB), the rent will be 50BB which can be added to your account. If you own all the properties of the same color, the rent will be the sum of all the rental income for the properties of that color. Using Sunset Blvd again, if you also own Peachtree and Mango Streets, the rental income will be 280BB.

5) Bonus book-bucks: you are responsible for indicating bonuses earned. You may earn mulitple bonuses per book (example, a HF bonus + Board Bonus for 1 book)
5a) HF bonus: When you read a work of historical fiction, you receive an additional 50 BB
Definition: HF is defined as a work published at least 50 years after at least half of the events in the work. All sub-genres will be accepted, but the setting must be recognizable as our world. Example, Napoleanic wars with dragons is fine, however, Game of Thrones (loosely based on 100 years war, is not).

5b) Board bonus: The properties are named after famous places in books. If you read one of these books, you will receive an additional 200 BB. Listing are here:
You can only claim each bonus for a space once and you can only read one book for each space. You can claim this bonus anytime --- you do not need to land on the spot to claim it.

5c) Bonus Tasks: If you chose to read the bonus task book, you will receive an additional 100 book-bucks. Bonus tasks are associated with Opportunity, Tax and Jail spaces. You can only do each bonus option ONCE.

6) Each participant will start the game with 200 book-bucks already in your bank account.

7) Making Deposits - you can combine with a “turn” post
Here is what your deposit posts should look like:
BB Open: 200
Becoming Marie Antoinette = 224 pages
HF bonus = 50
In the Woods = 429 pages

BB Close = 903

[JoLene, Mistress of the Challenge]

LITERARY PLACES

NOTE: We are using the same books/streets as last year because of JoLene's stupid internet problems :-(

There are NO bonuses for the children's books.
When indicated, you can read any book in the series.

2 Filbert Street - Midnight for Charlie Bone
4 Cannery Row - Cannery Row

7 Perdido Street - Perdido Street Station
9 Bluestone Road - Beloved
10 Scotland Street - 44 Scotland Street

12 Charing Cross Road - 84, Charing Cross Raod
14 Mulberry Street - And to Think That I Saw it on Mulberry Street NO BONUS
15 Zebra Drive - No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency Any book in series

17 Mango Street - The House on Mango Street
19 Peachtree Road - Peachtree Road
20 Sunset Boulevard - Lew Archer series Any book in series

22 Cherry Tree Lane - Mary Poppins Any book in series
24 Britannia Road - 22 Britannia Road
25 Baker Street - Sherlock Holmes Any book in series

27 Blossom Street - Blossom Street Any book in series
29 Main Street - Main Street
30 Windsor Gardens - Paddington Bear Series NO BONUS

32 Tara Road - Tara Road
34 Privet Drive - Harry Potter Any book in series
35 Eccles Street - Ulysses

38 Savile Row - Around the World in 80 Days
40 Piccadilly - Lord Peter Wimsey series Any book in series

6 The Old Patagonian Express Railroad - The Old Patagonian Express: By Train Through the Americas
13 The Lightning Thief Electric Company - The Lightning Thief
16 The Hogwarts Express Railroad - Harrry Potter Any book in series
26 The Polar Express Railroad - The Polar Express NO BONUS
28 The Water for Elephants Works - Water for Elephants
36 The Orient Express Railroad - Murder on the Orient Express

[JoLene, Mistress of the Challenge]

Tracking Scores

I will post scoreboards periodically, but I will try to validate every 3 days or so.

I have an excel spreadsheet from before --- I will try to see if I can transfer to Google Docs. It's nifty in that it tracks your points and also automatically creates your Deposit and Turn Posts.

[JoLene, Mistress of the Challenge]

Reserved for modications or rule clarifications.....

[JoLene, Mistress of the Challenge]

Reserved for something I didn't think of

[Becky, Moddess]

JoLene, I don't remember how the rent works. Do we collect rent from other players landing on our owned properties? It seems like that would be hard to track. Or am I missing something?

[Heather]

Becky wrote: "JoLene, I don't remember how the rent works. Do we collect rent from other players landing on our owned properties? It seems like that would be hard to track. Or am I missing something?"

Last time you collected rent for yourself if you landed on a property you already own. I believe this will work the same way.

"Collect Rent: If you own the property, you may collect the rent and deposit into your bank account."

[JoLene, Mistress of the Challenge]

As Heather said.........each person is playing their own board......when you buy the property, think of it as buying an apartment building and when you land o it, you are collecting from your tenants. (See message 2)

[Becky, Moddess]

Hmm, OK. So it's basically just a payment to myself of half the value. Alrighty. :)

[JoLene, Mistress of the Challenge]

Basically, you are a slum lord and collecting from your invisible minions :-)

I tried to think of a way to play on the same board, but I thing it would be too difficult for tracking and I would need to group people with the same level of commitment.

[Becky, Moddess]

JoLene wrote: "Basically, you are a slum lord and collecting from your invisible minions :-)

I tried to think of a way to play on the same board, but I thing it would be too difficult for tracking and I would ne..."

Gotcha. It makes perfect sense now. Invisible minions! Why didn't you just say so?? :P

[Cheryl]

JoLene,
Looking forward to playing and reading with everyone else! I started the first book today and I rolled the dice already and got a 7. Are we doing the daily rolling now to advance around the board or are you wanting us to wait until you have the properties assigned with books and the spreadsheet available to us?

[JoLene, Mistress of the Challenge]

Nope, you can start moving around the board. If you land on a property, you can buy it......I will just do the substitutions. The name of property doesnt doesn't really matter. I am just changing them so that people who played last time so that they have different books for the board bonus.

[Jayme(theghostreader)]

You get one turn per day to roll the dice and move around the board. You read books to earn book bucks. One page=1 book buck so if you read a book that is 200pp that is 200 book bucks. You use book bucks to purchase properties.

[Toi Scott]

I am new here and not exactly sure how this game works, but I read through the comment thread it does seem as if everyone is helpful and willing to answer questions so count me in!! I rolled a 6. So now I just read and then roll again tomorrow??

[Becky, Moddess]

Toi Scott wrote: "I am new here and not exactly sure how this game works, but I read through the comment thread it does seem as if everyone is helpful and willing to answer questions so count me in!! I rolled a 6. S..."

Yep, you can either spend 100BB to buy Perdido Street (which means that you'd collect 50BB if you land on it your next trip around the board), or you can hold onto the 100BB and wait until tomorrow for your next roll.

[Kim]

Is there a prize for the winner or is this just for fun?

[CassieV]

JoLene wrote: "Basically, you are a slum lord and collecting from your invisible minions :-)

I tried to think of a way to play on the same board, but I thing it would be too difficult for tracking and I would ne..."

Invisible minions... :) lol, that's awesome... Pay up minions!

[Becky, Moddess]

Kim wrote: "Is there a prize for the winner or is this just for fun?"

Just fun. :)

[Jayme(theghostreader)]

If there is as many minions as Despicable Me had, we will be rolling in the BBs :)

[JoLene, Mistress of the Challenge]

Toi Scott wrote: "I am new here and not exactly sure how this game works, but I read through the comment thread it does seem as if everyone is helpful and willing to answer questions so count me in!! I rolled a 6. S..."

We try to helpful :-). I know the rules are a lot, but after you take a couple turns its pretty easy. Don't forget to log your turn in the other thread --- sorry, on iPad and not easy to multiple-task, cut/paste.

[JoLene, Mistress of the Challenge]

Kim wrote: "Is there a prize for the winner or is this just for fun?"

And the satisfaction of a job well done

[Anna]

What about books in foreign languages (e.g. German, Spanish)? Do they count as well?

[JoLene, Mistress of the Challenge]

@Anna, the book needs to be on GoodReads so that page count can be verified. (It's fine if it's the english translation). I cannot accept books where I can't validate the page count.

[Jayme(theghostreader)]

I have a question, it says, if I am reading it right, that there will be need streets and books on January 6. What if we already purchased a property and it changes Jan 6.

[JoLene, Mistress of the Challenge]

I will just change the name based on location. The street names correspond to books. Since you get bonuses for reading the books associated with a property (whether you own it or not), I wanted to change them so that the people that played the first time had different choices.

[Cindy]

Can we use Kindle editions that have a page number but no paperback or other edition for BB points?

[Jayme(theghostreader)]

You will probably need to get it approved by a moderator.

[JoLene, Mistress of the Challenge]

If GoodReads has the page count on the kindle edition than I will accept it.

[Cindy]

JoLene wrote: "If GoodReads has the page count on the kindle edition than I will accept it."

Great thanks for all your hard work!

[KristiJ]

JoLene wrote: "Tracking Scores

I will post scoreboards periodically, but I will try to validate every 3 days or so.

I have an excel spreadsheet from before --- I will try to see if I can transfer to Google Docs..."

Is there a Game Board available this year?

[Cindy]

I have a question about books read after Jan 1. I have put books into my currently reading shelf prior to actually reading them as well I have put some there and taken them out if say a library book becomes available and I want to get it read first. Is there a way to let you know that it was actually started by me after Jan first or is it too confusing and you want to stick to dates on our book links. I don't want to make it harder for your scoring it is already such a big job. Thanks in advance.

[Becky, Moddess]

JoLene, question for you - There's no minimum page count requirement unless the book is children's/YA or a graphic novel, but what about independently published short stories, like Wolverton Station? It was recently released (I read it on my kindle app) and it's only 31 pages... Would I be able to deposit that?

If not, that's fine, just thought I'd ask.

[Sue]

Cindy wrote: "I have a question about books read after Jan 1. I have put books into my currently reading shelf prior to actually reading them as well I have put some there and taken them out if say a library boo..."

Cindy, I'm going to jump in, re your question. If you navigate to the page for the particular book, you should see an area labeled 'My Review', following the general information for the book. Click on 'edit review'. Then, within the review dialog box, you should see 'Date I started this book'. (If you cannot see it right off, you may need to click on 'more options'.) Next to the year, month, and date number for 'Date I started this book' are arrows. Click on the appropriate arrow(s) to see a dropdown list, in order to edit that part of the date. In this way you can set the date to the actual date that you started the book, if, for whatever reason, the date that is already there is not accurate.

[Cindy]

Sue wrote: "Cindy wrote: "I have a question about books read after Jan 1. I have put books into my currently reading shelf prior to actually reading them as well I have put some there and taken them out if say..."

Great thanks Sue

[Rhonda]

JoLene wrote: "I will just change the name based on location. The street names correspond to books. Since you get bonuses for reading the books associated with a property (whether you own it or not), I wanted t..."
Hi, Jolene.

Is there a list somewhere of the books the street names correspond with?

Thanks

[JoLene, Mistress of the Challenge]

@ Becky, as long as there is a page number listed on GR, I will accept it.

@ Cindy, Sue said it better than I can :-)

@ Rhonda, @KristiJ, I am in the process of working on a new game board so that people who played the first time have different options. Unfortunately, I am hampered by Internet problems at home. I went to the library to work on it this afternoon and then GR went down.

I hope to be caught up on scoring AND the new game board this weekend.

[Theresa]

Good luck JoLene!!

[Theresa]

Any update on the game board...

[JoLene, Mistress of the Challenge]

Since we are still have problems with our internet.....I have decided that I will NOT update the gameboard (sorry to previous players). I am still trying to catch up on all the scoring, so I will publish it later tonight or tomorrow.

It will be the same as last year so you can look at the previous version. Please note that I will not accept any of the children's books for board bonuses.

[Theresa]

I'm sorry you're having problems with your internet. :-(

[JoLene, Mistress of the Challenge]

Me too --- it's very frustrating.....and we have now switched the modem and most of the cabling. But of course, when it's intermittent, they have a hard time finding the issue :-(

[KristiJ]

So we can just use the Game Board and "Literary PLaces" list from your Posts #5&6 from the Readopoly Nov 2012 challenge, correct? I clicked on the game board hyperlink and it brought up a new document (i.e. not the filled in one I used in 2012).

[JoLene, Mistress of the Challenge]

Yes, use post 5. I'm not sure what hyperlink you are clicking on :-(, but let me know so I can fix it.

[KristiJ]

JoLene wrote: "Yes, use post 5. I'm not sure what hyperlink you are clicking on :-(, but let me know so I can fix it."

Tracking Points

Here is a link to a google document spreadsheet to use for tracking points.
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/c...

NOTE: the "drop-down" list boxes do not seem to work on either an ODS or excel. I put the choices in "note" in the cell. I can directly send you an excel file where all the functionality works. The instructions are the same (listed below)

You should be able to follow the link to open and then save a copy for yourself. (I’m not sure if works for people with gmail accounts). I also have an Excel version, so you can PM your email and I can send.

This spreadsheet has several sections:
1) The game board, listing which also lists the actions for each space. You can use the first column to indicate what space you are currently occupying.
Owned Properties: When you buy a property, you will put an “X” in column F to indicate that you bought it. The spreadsheet will automatically calculate the rent that you get and also change the action column to be collect rent.

2) Turn module starting on row 45.
This automates much of your turn and will also generate the HTML for your turn posts.
The cells that have a blue background are where you will input data. Here is the order of what you will do.
Step 1) Set-up: Update the current space (cell D48) to the number in New Space (cell D50). Reset cells C52 and C53 to “None”
Step 2) Roll: Input your dice roll into cells D49, E49
Step 3) Chose Action: Your new space is automatically calculated. If it is a property space, you will select an action from the drop-down list in cell C52, otherwise select an action from C53.
Properties: It will tell you if you can buy a property or collect rent and the amount
Other actions: If you chose bonus task, indicate which one in cell D53.. If it’s a space that you need to roll the dice again, then enter the roll in cells D53,E53
Step 4) Make Deposits: If you have read any books and want to add to your BB balance, you can type in up to 3 books in the rows 59-61. You can enter the book name, pages and then select from the drop-down list which bonuses, the book qualifies for. The total will be calculated. If you have passed Go or landed on Go, this bonus will show up on row 62.
Step 5) Post to Good Reads: Once your turn is complete, you can copy cells: I48-I57 to a post in Good Reads. If you have deposited any books, you will have to record those at the end of the entry by adding the link, pages and any bonuses. YOU MUST POST TO GR BEFORE YOU MOVE TO STEP 3. OTHERWISE YOUR TOTALS WILL BE OFF.
NOTE: There is a one turn lag for a property that you bought to show up in the property value.

3) Resetting after your turn.
Make sure that you have updated your GR posts before moving to this step.
3a) Recording your turns: You need to record any actions which add or subtract from your BB balance in the rows starting at row 66. This of this section as a check book register. The easiest way to record is to copy and paste from the “action” cells.
Property Actions: If you bought property or collected rent, copy cells C52:F52. You MUST use Paste as value from the edit menu. If you do not, then you will get invalid entries. If you paste again as values it will fix itself.
Other Actions: If you have done another action which changes your BB, you copy C53:F52. You should also record when you chose to do a bonus task as a reminder.
Deposits: You also copy the book section since this adds to BB balance by copying cells C59:F61. If you earned the Go bonus you should also include this.
NOTE: the formulas in the running total column (H) will subtract BB amount (colF) if the word in Action column C) is either Buy or Pay Taxes; otherwise it will add.
You may also add a date and enter the GR post which this turn was recorded.
3b) Recording Property Purchases If you bought property, you will go to the gameboard and record the purchase by placing an X in the Bought Column (F) in the property row. This will then change the action to Collect rent.

[Melanie]

Am I correct in assuming that we can only use fiction books as book deposits (e.g. no non-fiction)?

Thanks,

Melanie

[JoLene, Mistress of the Challenge]

Thanks KristiJ --- I thought I had removed that for Readopoly #2. I didn't update because people did not seem to be using it.

@Melanie, you can read any type of book unless there is a task requirement that calls for fiction.