R1: Super Series How To Play, Discussion, & Help

[Jenne]

This is a team challenge that will require one book a week. The object of the game is to roll the dice (there will be a link to the website to roll) and move along the board. The first team to pass the finish line wins the game.

Captains will roll the dice by clicking here on Fridays once their team has completed their reads. Captains you will use two dice when rolling.You may not advance until all of the team's reviews are in. If a player or team falls behind the team has to wait until the next Friday to roll. That being said it's very important to finish and review your book on time.

How to pick a book:
If you land on single digit spot for example lets say you land on spot 5 then you have to read a book that's #5 in a series. For double digit numbers, for example you land on spot 48 you can read either a #4 or a #8 in a series. Stand alone books will count as a #1 or a #0. I don't expect anyone to read a series out of order and for people that don't really read series books that still want to play there will be an alternate option.The alternate option this round will be done a little different than last time. There will be an alternate option for each spot.

Sign ups are open now through February 3th. Teams will be formed on February 4th and the game will begin on Friday the 7th.

There will be a separate thread for captains to post their place on the board after rolling and a separate thread for captains to post a link to the teams completed reviews.
Teams will have a chance to earn 1 Free Pass to roll. To earn your free pass once your team has completed their reads a day before the next roll. Once your team has done this you will have 1 free pass. The free pass will allow a team to roll if they are missing one review before the cutoff.
Re-reads are allowed
Page limit is 150
When using an anthology you may use any of the numbers in the book except for the .5 since this means 1/2. But you must review each story in the anthology.
Series # will be based on how GR has it listed.
Any questions please feel free to ask!

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[Jenne]

The alternates:
Each number corresponds with the spot on the board.
For colors: The cover has to be at least 50%
For locations: As long as the book takes part at all in the given location .
For Shelves: Any book on the given shelf
For Publication Years: I'll be using how GR has it's publication date listed.
For Authors Names: The first, middle, or last name of the author is ok.
For Titles: Only the first word of the title. A, An, And, and The do not count.
So if the letter is B: The Best Day would be ok. Dear Betty would not be ok.


1. Location: China
2. Author: K
3. Color: Green
4. 2005
5. Maybe
6. Title: H
7. Location: Arizona
8. Author: P
9. Color: White
10. 2010
11. 4-Stars
12. Title: B
13. Location: France
14. Author: E
15. Color: Blue
16. 2003
17. loved
18. Title: N
19. Location: Texas
20. Author: G
21. Color: Purple
22. 2012
23. lendable
24. Title: W
25. Location: Kansas
26. Author: S
27. Color: Pink
28. 2004
29. bookclub
30. Title: C
31. Location: New York
32. Author: A
33. Color: Black
34. 2013
35. hardcover
36. Title: D
37. Location: Italy
38. Author: R
39. Color: Yellow
40. 2007
41. audio
42. Title: K
43. Location: Oregon
44. Author: L
45. Color: Red
46. 2009
47. purchased
48. Title: M
49. Location: England
50. Author: J
51. Color: Gray/Silver
52. 2002
53. started
54. Title: R
55. Location: Florida
56. Author: F
57. Color: Orange
58. 2008
59. keepers
60. Title: P
61. Location: South America
62. Author: C
63. Color: Green
64. 2011
65. reviews
66. Title: E
67. Location: California
68. Author: T
69. Color: Red
70. 2012
71. stand-alones
72. Title: S
73. Location: Russia
74. Author: W
75. Color: White

[Sue]

Jenne, I have a question? Can a person play in both games?

[Jenne]

Hmm I guess you could if you can keep up and keep track of it. The days we'll roll are slightly different.

[Sue]

Jenne I read a book a day....lol (love audio, I can listen while doing regular work) :)

[Jenne]

Alright grasshopper if you'd like to do both knock yourself out :)

[Sue]

Thank you....This challenge really helps with series challenges...:)

[Steph Ann]

Does this start on Friday the 7th or Sunday the 9th? Right now, it says Sunday the 7th. :)

[Jenne]

The 7th for SS, I knew copying and pasting was gonna get me somewhere on here.....

[Dalene]

the 150 page limit, is that minimum or maximum?

[Jenne]

minimum.

[Dalene]

thank you, I was hoping that is what it was.

[Maddie]

Can we swap between series and stand-alone books? Or do we have to choose just one?

[Jenne]

You can use a series book or use the alternate on any roll, no limit on either. Just remember when using a standalone if it doesn't qualify for the alternate you can only use it when you're on a spot that has a 1 or 0.

[Catherine]

just a question...are we doing the regular game (like the original scrabble)?

[Jenne]

Not sure I understand your question?

[Catherine]

we had a game that was a challenge to find specific words in our books..for example..word of week: spot...so we had to find books with title or author name using these lettres...then there was a bonus word which had to be somewhere in the book :)

[Christina]

Why are there 2 dice? Is this so we know what our category is for the next week? I'm just trying to figure out how easy it's going to be to get books that fit the categories. Most of them seem to be generic enough to fit quite a few books.

[Catherine]

maybe I did this one in another group!!!!! lol :)

[Jenne]

Catherine that was WWGRF, in having a blonde moment. This game is totally different from it though.

[Jenne]

Christina its two dice per roll. So to kind of figure out your possible spots and alternates just know that it could be between 2 and 12 spots from your current spot. Most of the alternates are pretty broad. The locations can be the trickiest. There's a website though that helps for that. I think it's www.bookssetin.com

[Becca]

Jenne wrote: "Christina its two dice per roll. So to kind of figure out your possible spots and alternates just know that it could be between 2 and 12 spots from your current spot. Most of the alternates are pre..."

That website is extremely helpful. It's what I use for these challenges, :)

[Christina]

Love the website! Thanks! For the shelf labeled audio, I don't have to listen to the audiobook, but just pick a book that was on that shelf, correct?

[Jenne]

Right!

[JoAnne]

Good questions! Like that this is one book per week this time around.

The two dice will get us through faster. Last time we only used one die. Rolling a 12, for example, only matters to advance us on the game board. It's what we land on that counts for the book # in a series to read (except the first roll of course)

[D.G.]

A few questions...

If I understand correctly, #1 in series are not allowed at all? (as #1 and 0 count for standalones?)

If my team falls in spot #12...can I read a book that's 12 in the series (I just happen to have a couple :)

For publication year, are we talking about original publication year or can we also use the publication year for the edition that we are reading?

[JoAnne]

D.G. wrote: "A few questions...

If I understand correctly, #1 in series are not allowed at all? (as #1 and 0 count for standalones?)

If my team falls in spot #12...can I read a book that's 12 in the series (I..."

#1 in a series is allowed if you land on a 1, 11, 21, etc. You can also use 0 or 1 to read a stand alone.

If you land on 12 you can read book 1, 2 or 12 in a series or a standalone book for the 1 - Goodreads must show that it's a series and that number book in the series.

Goodreads also determines the publication year, etc.

[D.G.]

Thanks, Joanne. That's helpful. :)

I understand that GR determines pub year...my question though is if we are going with original publication year (no matter the publication of that edition) or can we also use the publication year of the edition. To show you an example...

- This book was first published in 1985 but this particular edition was published in 2009. Can we only use the first year? (In this case, we couldn't use it at all because 1985 is not one of the alternate years.) Or can we also use the publication date of that particular edition? (Which means I could use this book if my team happen to fall on spot #46.)

[Jenne]

DG I'd take that book as 2009 since it says it on there. When using one like that though make sure to use the right edition when posting your review.

[D.G.]

Jenne wrote: "DG I'd take that book as 2009 since it says it on there. When using one like that though make sure to use the right edition when posting your review."

Great, Jenne. Thanks! That definitely gives more options. :)

[D.G.]

Hi Jenne - I don't know if you meant for this to happen but the color white is in the list twice (#9 and #75.)

[Jenne]

Lol, yeah I used all of the basic colors and didn't want to get into shades, or funky colors so I just reused it since there's no guarantee a team would land on it twice.

[D.G.]

Jenne wrote: "Lol, yeah I used all of the basic colors and didn't want to get into shades, or funky colors so I just reused it since there's no guarantee a team would land on it twice."

Oh yes, I just noticed that you used several colors twice. :)

[JoAnne]

Until the last comment I didn't realize that the alternates were preassigned already.

[D.G.]

I can't wait for this game to get started! I have two series books I want to get started but I'm saving them because they are high numbers! Sigh...

[Jennifer H]

Jenne, what time on Fri. will the first roll happen?

[Jenne]

Anytime Friday that captains want to roll. As long as it's Friday central time you're good.

[Jennifer H]

Thanks!

[Sheila]

Jenne, Team 1 will be called

■ The One's to Beat! ■

and I will be the captain.

[Jojobean]

Just to be clear we can read standalones right? They would count for # 1 and 0 in a "series"

Also for the alternate options for each space, does the book we read have to be part of a series or it doesn't matter?

[Jenne]

That's right and alternates can be a standalone or part of a series so long as they fit the given alternate.

[Jennifer C.]

Jenne~

I'll be the captain for Team 3 and our name will be "Vicious & Delicious".

[Elishia]

Hi Jenne
Team 6 will be called Series-us-Six and i'll be the captain.

[Becca]

Team 7 shall be called Double 'O' Seven, and Vicky and I will be co-captains, :)

[Belinda]

Captain for team 2 - split second readers checking in :)

[[deleted user]]

Hi Jenne Team 8 checking in! I'm going to be team captain and our team name is going to be The Termin8ers(thanks to Nichole, who's husband is addicted to action movies...lol)

[JenniferJ]

I will be captain for team 4 and our team name will be "The FOURce is with us"

Happy Reading all and Good Luck!

[Mandy]

Hi Jenne, I'm going to be captain for Team 5. Our name is going to be "Monkey Spankers" =D

[Jenne]

If anyone still has a teammate yet to check in please let me know.

[Jenne]

Oh yeah and don't forget each team can earn a free pass to roll once a team has finished all of their reads a day early. The free pass will let a team roll one time if they're missing a review.