Let the Scrabbling begin!

[Sarah]

Great toppler as always j'mom. It was however my personal worst performance - I didn't even manage to finding she one book. RL got in the way big time. Looks like everyone else got some reading in, some more than others.

[Debra]

Although I didn't dust off any of the books I have at home, I did read a couple of really good books I've had on my TBR list for a while. And I have one of those 1200 page books at home glaring at me a lot. I should just give the darn thing away!

[Tejas Janet]

Another really enjoyable toppler. Thank you for thinking up these fun events, JMom.

I was able to read 8 books this time. My personal best to date. Only ONE was actually on my tbr list I think, but they were mostly some really good reads :)

[Janice, Moderator]

I'm wondering.. with Jack and Jackaby, can they connect at "jack"? J'mom?? Or are they only allowed to connect at one letter?

[Cherie]

I wonder what our topplers do to the GR statistics for books read, especially ones like this where everyone was going for Q and Z book titles and all of the other single letter titles? It would be fun to see the list of all of the team's titles side by side to see the overlap in titles. You have kept me entertained this week reading all of your posts.

Well done all of you who participated and those who had personal bests on books read. Your team struggles to add titles to the grids and find which titles make the most points has me on the edge of my chair waiting to see the results.

[Tejas Janet]

It has been entertaining, I agree, Cherie.

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Excellent Toppler! Sounds like we all had a great time, (I know I certainly did!).

[Kristie, Moderator]

Janice - Team 1 got called out for trying that. Lol. J'mom said no overlapping. Sorry.

[Mariab]

Thanks for a awesome Toppler Jmom!!!

[Janice, Moderator]

Kristie wrote: "Janice - Team 1 got called out for trying that. Lol. J'mom said no overlapping. Sorry."

I thought they were building on words - like adding an "s" to Queen. But you may be right. I haven't followed other teams' progresses all that closely this time around.

[Casceil]

My impression was that adding to words (like adding as "s" to make queens) was only allowed if someone read a book with "queens" as the first word. Random collisions that made words were only legal if the resulting words represented titles someone actually read. In a real game of scrabble, if one person played the word "jack," and if "jackaby" were a legal word, I believe a second person could turn "jack" into "jackaby." But I have not played all that much scrabble. Obviously, it is Jmom's call.

[Kristie, Moderator]

Janice - Oh, maybe you're right. I thought the call was that they could only intersect and not overlap. I think the queen / queens example was the one used, but we also had other words such as zoo & zoobiquity that could have overlapped. Let's see what J'mom says.

Casceil - The discussion came up because you are allowed to do that in real scrabble. But, we weren't sure if it was allowed in toppler scrabble. :)

[Almeta]

I think that the only overlap allowed is the "only one time single letter title".☻

[Janice, Moderator]

Yeah, you might be right Almeta.

@Kristie & Casceil, regular rules don't apply (usually) because we're playing YLTO's twisted version. :)

[Debra]

BTW, just to boast about my sister, Almeta, you should all check out all the skeleton memes in her group's reporting thread (One Tile Ahead). She put in a meme for every person's report and in most cases the meme ties in with the book's name or description. She always takes loads of time to make the topplers fun like this, squirreling away memes way ahead of time. OK, I'll stop bragging now!

[jaxnsmom]

Janice wrote: "I'm wondering.. with Jack and Jackaby, can they connect at "jack"? J'mom?? Or are they only allowed to connect at one letter?"

Are you asking if you can add ABY to an existing JACK? Sorry, but no.

[jaxnsmom]

Debra wrote: "BTW, just to boast about my sister, Almeta, you should all check out all the skeleton memes in her group's reporting thread (One Tile Ahead). She put in a meme for every person's report and in most..."

It always amazes me how she comes up with all her graphics. They're something I look forward to every Toppler!

[Debra]

And she keeps track of what everyone is reading, and reads a lot of books herself. I just bury my head in my books and hardly come up for a comment here and there!

[Marie (UK)]

i love topplers but this has not been my favourite although it has cleared some of my TBR I haven't felt fully involved - not sure why but there it is

[Marie Claude]

Marie wrote: "i love topplers but this has not been my favourite although it has cleared some of my TBR I haven't felt fully involved - not sure why but there it is"

I wasn't as present either, but it's because I was rarely reading at home anyways... between the elections and a couple of days away from home, I didn't have much time to post and I mostly read at night (reading way too late at night LOL)

[Joan]

thanks for the introduction to topplers - this was my first

[Almeta]

Debra wrote: "BTW, just to boast about my sister, Almeta, you should all check out all the skeleton memes in her group's reporting thread (One Tile Ahead). She put in a meme for every person's report and in most..."

It always amazes me how she comes up with all her graphics. They're something I look forward to every Toppler! ..."


Aww Shucks!

[Almeta]

Joan wrote: "thanks for the introduction to topplers - this was my first"

Hope that you join us again.☺

[Janice, Moderator]

jaxnsmom wrote: "Janice wrote: "I'm wondering.. with Jack and Jackaby, can they connect at "jack"? J'mom?? Or are they only allowed to connect at one letter?"

Are you asking if you can add ABY to an existing JACK?..."

Well, I would word it differently by saying that the two titles, Jack and Jackaby, connect at the J, A, C, & K. I know, I know... semantics. One can only try, and try again. (view spoiler)[ Are you ready to wring my neck yet? (hide spoiler)]

[Janice, Moderator]

Debra wrote: "BTW, just to boast about my sister, Almeta, you should all check out all the skeleton memes in her group's reporting thread (One Tile Ahead). She put in a meme for every person's report and in most..."

Almeta is amazing! I always marvel at what she comes up with. And on top of it all, she reads mega books.

[jaxnsmom]

Janice wrote: "Well, I would word it differently by saying that the two titles, Jack and Jackaby, connect at the J, A, C, & K. I know, I know... semantics. One can only try, and try again. [ Are you ready to wring my neck yet? (hide spoiler)]"

I wasn't sure which way you were asking about, so I started a little confused. But that only works for a little while - then Queen Meanie steps in to take care of any pests! No neck wringing needed. ☺ ☺

[Almeta]

Cherie wrote: "I wonder what our topplers do to the GR statistics for books read, especially ones like this where everyone was going for Q and Z book titles and all of the other single letter titles? It would be fun to see the list of all of the team's titles side by side to see the overlap in titles. You have kept me entertained this week reading all of your posts. ..."

lol!

Your comments remind me of August in the year that we were all reading only books with Orange covers.

I speculated that the bookstores started buying only orange books and that the publishers changed their presses. AND then the trend abruptly stopped in September.

[Debra]

Oh, I remember that orange phase! That rainbow challenge was fun and I read a lot of books I wouldn't have normally read. I read a non-fiction book about the color indigo, just so I'd have another indigo rainbow color to report. It was quite interesting, actually.

[Debra]

Sarah, I wanted to say I'm sorry RL got in the way of you enjoying this toppler. I hope everything is working out well.

[Debra]

Marie, we have our off days/weeks. I didn't really participate that much in this toppler as far as chatting/posting goes. I read a couple of books I could have done without, but they gave our team more points as they began with Q and X. Anyway, don't analyze things too much. Hugs!

[Marie (UK)]

have we had the results?

[Sarah]

Debra wrote: "Sarah, I wanted to say I'm sorry RL got in the way of you enjoying this toppler. I hope everything is working out well."

Thanks Debra. It was a mix bag of a week but things are starting to settle down now.

[Sarah]

Marie wrote: "have we had the results?"

I'm guessing teams are still finalising their scrabble boards. Also the bonus tiles haven't been announced yet so that will change things somewhat.

[Rusalka, Moderator]

I was laughing about the orange thing in this toppler as well. I got all excited as I read two orange books! Then i realised we did the rainbow 3 years ago and I should now get over it.

Marie, I think we had until tonight US time to submit our boards, and then Jmom will do bonus points. So probably a couple more days :)

[jaxnsmom]

I think I gave teams until 9 pm EDT (or 11, I'll have to look it up) to submit their final boards. Then the fruit machine will pick the bonus tiles. Everyone cross your fingers, rub your lucky rabbit's foot, do your special dance - whatever it takes - and hope you have lucky tiles!

At work so I can't do any graphics.

[Almeta]

jaxnsmom wrote: "I think I gave teams until 9 pm EDT (or 11, I'll have to look it up) to submit their final boards. Then the fruit machine will pick the bonus tiles. Everyone cross your fingers, rub your lucky rabb..."

SPECIAL DANCE?

[Cherie]

Almeta wrote: "Your comments remind me of August in the year that we were all reading only books with Orange covers..."

The orange book covers got me interested in GoodReads and YLTO because Amy was reading and she started telling me about the challenge. I read the book too and later started on the Rainbow Challenge (I still cannot look at book covers without thinking about it). I did not get my first badge until October. I love that beautiful harvest moon that I got from Rusalka!

[Jannene]

Almeta wrote: "jaxnsmom wrote: "I think I gave teams until 9 pm EDT (or 11, I'll have to look it up) to submit their final boards. Then the fruit machine will pick the bonus tiles. Everyone cross your fingers, ru..."

That skeleton is cracking me up!

[Sandra, Moderator]

lol! Almeta, you are amazing!

[Almeta]

Thankyou jaxnsmom!☺

[Kristie, Moderator]

That dancing skeleton cracks me up!

[Lisa]

Thanks for another fantastic toppler jmom!

[Almeta]

[Sandra, Moderator]

It should be a third one: "making things disappear at households"... I'm sure there's one here...

[Almeta]

Sandra wrote: "It should be a third one: "making things disappear at households"... I'm sure there's one here..."

I hear you!☻