The Scrabble Challenge - March 2016

[Sarah Elizabeth]

Edit~A wrote: "Do we get points for finishing a line or smth like that?"

no, we're just going with the points scores for the letters ☺

[Edit~A]

Ok, thanks ☺️

[Sarah Elizabeth]

Cinthia wrote: "Can I switch teams from medium to serious? I thought I wasn't gonna have too much time to read but I just got time off approved:)"

Cinthia, you can switch to Team A. now ☺

[Megan]

I'd like to play, if there's any room. :)

Medium or serious.

[Sarah Elizabeth]

Megan wrote: "I'd like to play, if there's any room. :)

Medium or serious."

You can join Team G. - https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...

[Jamie]

Can I re-read The Heir (want to re-read before the release, read it when it first came out) and/or re-read Eldest (was hoping to get to it in Feb but didn't happen-really still need to re-read after many years)?

[Sarah Elizabeth]

Both fine ☺

[Gillian]

Just a reminder I'm in Australia Sarah so I'm starting now. Have fun everyone :)

[Sarah Elizabeth]

Thanks Gillian ☺

[Drishti]

A quick reminder. I'm going off my time zone, IST, so I'm starting in like ten minutes. I hope that's okay. :)

[Sarah Elizabeth]

Thanks Drishti ☺

[Rachel]

Hey :) just to let you know, we have one person who hasn't checked in yet :)

[Nikki]

We also have one person yet to check in team q

[Nikki]

We also have a team member who hasn't checked in yet
Team q (fun)

[Beatrice]

We have one team member who hasn't checked in (Team C)

[Nur Raihan]

Hey, I would like to withdraw myself from the challenge as I've so many things going on this month and I don't think I'm able to catch up in my reading. Sorry :(

[Rachel]

If possible could I swap to a serious team? I've got a bit more time on my hands than I expected - no worries if I can't though! :)

[Amy]

We have one team member who hasn't checked into my team (a)

[Sarah Elizabeth]

I'm just going to finish the final counts for the wedding challenge and then I'll try and fix things ☺

[[deleted user]]

We've got two members who havent checked in yet - Team N (Fun)

[Sarah Elizabeth]

Nur Raihan wrote: "Hey, I would like to withdraw myself from the challenge as I've so many things going on this month and I don't think I'm able to catch up in my reading. Sorry :("

Okay ☺

[Sarah Elizabeth]

Rachel wrote: "If possible could I swap to a serious team? I've got a bit more time on my hands than I expected - no worries if I can't though! :)"

I can't swap you at the moment because I don't have any spaces, but if anyone on a serious team hasn't checked in by this time tomorrow I'll swap you over ☺

[Sarah Elizabeth]

I'll send out a group message asking people to check in ☺ If they haven't checked in by this time tomorrow we'll assume they aren't participating.

[Nikki]

Thank you Sarah:)

[[deleted user]]

Okay thanks Sarah :)

[❤ Aly ❤]

Sarah, I had a couple buddy reads set up for the end of February but neither of us got to them in February. Do I need to get the date changed on the thread in order for them to be counted for the Scrabble Challenge or can we just use the thread with the date that we were going to use originally?

[Sarah Elizabeth]

You can go with the original date as long as its not more than 10 days ago ☺

[❤ Aly ❤]

Thanks Sarah!

[Rachel]

That's great Sarah, thank you :)

[Michaela]

Hey Mods, I have a question that many ppl may ask themselves.. am I allowed to use a letter if it is in another language (in my case Bulgarian - Cyrillic alphabet) while in English the letter is the same?
example:
M (en) - М (bg)
H (en) - Н (bg) etc.

[Nikki]

Team Q (fun) all checked in :)

[Karen]

Team K (fun) have all checked in :)

[Anna 'Bookbuyer']

Sarah can you just count pages again this challenge for books under 100 pages?

[Sarah Elizabeth]

Mickey wrote: "Hey Mods, I have a question that many ppl may ask themselves.. am I allowed to use a letter if it is in another language (in my case Bulgarian - Cyrillic alphabet) while in English the letter is th..."

Can you give me an example of a book so that I can see what you mean?

[Sarah Elizabeth]

Bookbuyer wrote: "Sarah can you just count pages again this challenge for books under 100 pages?"

no, we're not counting pages in this challenge ☹

[Anna 'Bookbuyer']

Sarah wrote: "Bookbuyer wrote: "Sarah can you just count pages again this challenge for books under 100 pages?"

no, we're not counting pages in this challenge ☹"

KK. TY. Just thought I'd check. :/

[Victoria]

Ooh, I've got a similar question to Mickey's. If we're reading in a different language do I take the original titles name or the translated title? For example, I'd like to read: Te daría el mundo which is I'll give you the sun in English but the titles are not the same. I mean, the translation in Spanish does not mean I'll give you the sun lol, if that makes sense.

[Michaela]

Sarah wrote: "Mickey wrote: "Hey Mods, I have a question that many ppl may ask themselves.. am I allowed to use a letter if it is in another language (in my case Bulgarian - Cyrillic alphabet) while in English t..."

it is in Bulgarian but the T in English is the same so can I use it so I don't have to search for editions everytime?
I mean if I need the letter T but only my edition has it and in English it starts with a different letter, am I allowed to used it?

[Katherine]

If we listen to an audiobook does it count as reading one?

[Abby]

Katherine wrote: "If we listen to an audiobook does it count as reading one?"

I do audiobooks all the time. They definitely count! :)

[Sarah Elizabeth]

Victoria wrote: "Ooh, I've got a similar question to Mickey's. If we're reading in a different language do I take the original titles name or the translated title? For example, I'd like to read: [book:Te daría el m..."

That one is fine because it uses english letters, so you'd be able to write that title on a scrabble board.

[Sarah Elizabeth]

Mickey wrote: "Sarah wrote: "Mickey wrote: "Hey Mods, I have a question that many ppl may ask themselves.. am I allowed to use a letter if it is in another language (in my case Bulgarian - Cyrillic alphabet) whil..."

This one you wouldn't be able to use because of the non-english letters. you wouldn't be able to write it on a scrabble board using english letters so we wouldn't be able to count it.

[Julia]

I'm currently reading https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/5...
is it possible to use that for S and skip the numbers?

[Sarah Elizabeth]

yep, skip the number and go with the 's' ☺

[Victoria]

Sarah wrote: "Victoria wrote: "Ooh, I've got a similar question to Mickey's. If we're reading in a different language do I take the original titles name or the translated title? For example, I'd like to read: [b..."

Thanks Sarah! :)

[Rebecca]

I know this is going to be a stupid question but I'm really struggling to come up with E's.
would count?

[Sarah Elizabeth]

That's fine, you can skip 'a' or 'the' at the start of a title if you need to ☺

[Rebecca]

THANK YOU!!! I was struggling sooo much

[Sarah Elizabeth]

The vowels can be quite hard!

[Jackie]

I'm finding Y X and Z harder than the vowels though.