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TCF Monopoly Maddison vs VampAmber vs Megs vs Delitealex
Property/Shelves
- Version BMediterranean Avenue – Books read must start with M. - Must read 1 book to own. Must read 2 books if the property is owned.
Baltic Avenue - Books read must start with B. - Must read 1 book to own. Must read 2 books if the property is owned.
Oriental Avenue - Books read must start with O. - Must read 1 book to own. Must read 2 books if the property is owned.
Vermont Avenue - Books read must start with V. - Must read 1 book to own. Must read 2 books if the property is owned.
Connecticut Avenue - Books read must start with C. - Must read 1 book to own. Must read 2 books if the property is owned.
St. Charles Place – Author’s first or last name must start with C. - Must read 1 book to own. Must read 2 books if the property is owned.
States Avenue - Author’s first or last name must start with S. - Must read 1 book to own. Must read 2 books if the property is owned.
Virginia Avenue - Author’s first or last name must start with V. - Must read 1 book to own. Must read 2 books if the property is owned.
St. James Place - Author’s first or last name must start with J. - Must read 1 book to own. Must read 3 books if the property is owned.
Tennessee Avenue - Author’s first or last name must start with T. - Must read 1 book to own. Must read 3 books if the property is owned.
New York Avenue - Author’s first or last name must start with N. - Must read 1 book to own. Must read 3 books if the property is owned.
Kentucky Avenue - Author’s name or book title must start with K. - Must read 1 book to own. Must read 3 books if the property is owned.
Indiana Avenue - Author’s name or book title must start with I. - Must read 1 book to own. Must read 3 books if the property is owned.
Illinois Avenue - Author’s name or book title must start with I. - Must read 1 book to own. Must read 3 books if the property is owned.
Atlantic Avenue - Author’s name or book title must start with A. - Must read 2 books to own. Must read 4 books if the property is owned.
Ventnor Avenue - Author’s name or book title must start with V. - Must read 2 books to own. Must read 4 books if the property is owned.
Marvin Gardens - Author’s name or book title must start with M. - Must read 2 books to own. Must read 4 books if the property is owned.
Pacific Avenue - Author’s name or book title must start with P. - Must read 2 books to own. Must read 4 books if the property is owned and 1 of those books must also have a green cover.
North Carolina Avenue - Author’s name or book title must start with N. - Must read 2 books to own. Must read 4 books if the property is owned and 1 of those books must also have a green cover.
Pennsylvania Avenue - Author’s name or book title must start with P. - Must read 2 books to own. Must read 4 books if the property is owned and 1 of those books must also have a green cover.
Park Place - Author’s name or book title must start with P. - Must read 3 books to own and 1 of those books must also have a blue cover. Must read 5 books if the property is owned and 2 of those books must also have a blue cover.
Boardwalk - Author’s name or book title must start with B. - Must read 3 books to own and 1 of those books must also have a blue cover. Must read 5 books if the property is owned and 2 of those books must also have a blue cover.
Community Chest
2. Get out of Jail Free
3. Holiday Fund Matures - Read a Holiday themed book.
4. Yes Sir! - Read a book with a bossy character.
5. Go Directly to Jail
6. Laugh Riot - Read a book that makes you laugh.
7. Go Forward 3 Spaces
8. Fight Night - Read a book with a fight in it.
9. Advanced to St. Charles Place
10. You Inherit $100 - Read a book that was given to you or with a character in it that has inherited something.
11. Pay the Hospital - Read a book that takes place in a hospital or where someone goes to the hospital.
12. You've won a beauty contest - Read a book where a character is considered beautiful.
Chance
2. Advance to Illinois Ave
3. Fright Night - Read a book that scares you.
4. Get out of Jail Free
5. Play Ball - Read a book with a sports theme or athlete in it.
6. Go to Jail
7. Sing A Long - Read a book with a musician
8. Go Back 3 Spaces
9. Warm & Fuzzy - Read a book that makes you feel warm & fuzzy or that has a pet in it.
10. It's Your Birthday - Read a book you got for your birthday or where someone celebrates their birthday.
11. Great Job! - Read a book where the main characters works for a living.
12. Pay For School - Read a book that takes place in a school or where someone goes to school.
Tracking PropertiesMediterranean Avenue
Baltic Avenue
Oriental Avenue
Vermont Avenue - Owned by Megs
Connecticut Avenue
St Charles Place - Owned by VampAmber
States Avenue - Owned by Megs
Virginia Avenue
St James Place - Owned by VampAmber
Tennessee Avenue - Owned by Megs
New York Avenue - Owned by Megs
Kentucky Avenue
Indiana Avenue
Illinois Avenue
Atlantic Avenue
Ventnor Avenue
Marvin Gardens
Pacific Avenue
North Carolina Avenue
Pennsylvania Avenue - Owned by Megs
Park Place
Boardwalk
Reading Railroad - Owned by Maddison
Pennsylvania Railroad
B&O Railroad - Owned by VampAmber
Short Line Railroad
Electric Company - Owned by Megs
Water Works - Owned by Megs
Community Chest 2. Get out of Jail Free
3. Holiday Fund Matures - Read a Holiday themed book.
4. Yes Sir! - Read a book with a bossy character.
5. Go Directly to Jail
6. Laugh Riot - Read a book that makes you laugh.
7. Go Forward 3 Spaces
8. Fight Night - Read a book with a fight in it.
9. Advanced to St. Charles Place
10. You Inherit $100 - Read a book that was given to you or with a character in it that has inherited something.
11. Pay the Hospital - Read a book that takes place in a hospital or where someone goes to the hospital.
12. You've won a beauty contest - Read a book where a character is considered beautiful.
Chance
2. Advance to Illinois Ave
3. Fright Night - Read a book that scares you.
5. Play Ball - Read a book with a sports theme or athlete in it.
6. Go to Jail
8. Go Back 3 Spaces
9. Warm & Fuzzy - Read a book that makes you feel warm & fuzzy or that has a pet in it.
10. It's Your Birthday - Read a book you got for your birthday or where someone celebrates their birthday.
11. Great Job! - Read a book where the main characters works for a living.
12. Pay For School - Read a book that takes place in a school or where someone goes to school.
Current Space
Maddison: Tennessee Avenue
Delitealex: Free Parking
Megs: Income Tax
VampAmber: Oriental Avenue
Rolls/Player
Week 1 (5/12-5/18): Maddison: 2, Delitealex: 1, Megs: 2, VampAmber: 1
Week 2 (5/19-5/25): Maddison 1, Delitealex: 0, Megs: 1, VampAmber: 1
Week 3 (5/26 - 6-1): Maddison 0, Delitealex: 0, Megs: 1, VampAmber: 3
Week4 (6/2-6/8): Maddison: 1, Delitealex: 0, Megs: 0, VampAmber: 1
No thank you! I'll take first roll then, and if that's not allowed then I'll just roll again later :)
Rolled 4+1=5Start: Go
End: Reading Railroad (awesome spot :D)
Task: Read whatever I like
Please don't tell me I need to roll again.
Rolled 6+4=10Start: Go
End: just visiting
Task: read a novella min 50 pages
And how are we going to keep track of how many books we've got per week?
Rolled 5+3 = 8Start: Go
End: Vermont Avenue
Task: Vermont Avenue - Books read must start with V.
Maddison wrote: "And how are we going to keep track of how many books we've got per week?"I'm not sure, this is my first game. How do you want to do it? I can edit post 6 into a tracker if we want to do it that way.
I'm glad for no double-ups. I don't want to have a reading race right off the start!
Yes please! And just put down like how many books we're allowed to have read each week (using dates) or something? Does that make sense?
Haha true. But I landed on a good one :p I can use my current book I'm reading :D
Ok, have a look at post 6 and see if that works. I'm open to suggestions.And Maddison, you definitely got lucky!
Yes awesome! Thank you! :D Think you'll be able to keep up with all of that tracking?
Yeah I think it should be do-able. Let's try it. if it's too much maybe I can do a Google Docs spreadsheet or something.
Hey Megs, could you maybe add on the tracking thread where all of our locations are?
Rolled: 11 (6+5)Started On: Go
Landed On: St. Charles Place – Author’s first or last name must start with C. - Must read 1 book to own. Must read 2 books if the property is owned.
Reading: undecided
I'm thinking either
or
or
, since I have all three of them currently checked out from the library (and they all can be used elsewhere at TCF).
awesome! none of us are on the same space xD
Ok, I added our current spaces to post 6.Do you think we should track books/week or just total books read? I'm thinking if we do total books read, then if someone gets a certain number of books ahead (3? 5?), then they will stop and wait for the other to catch up a bit. What do you think?
Megs wrote: "Ok, I added our current spaces to post 6.Do you think we should track books/week or just total books read? I'm thinking if we do total books read, then if someone gets a certain number of books a..."
Sounds good 3 books ahead
Yeah that works. But I think that's also a little unfair because what if someone (probably me) gets sooo far behind and then everyone's waiting for me.. I think we should just keep track of how many books a week we're allowed to read, so that if some of us don't read that many we're able to read more in a different week to catch up? Well, not 2 books, but more like 2 rolls? Is that alright? Because some locations take more than 1 book per space.
Ok. What kind of format do you want? Just each weeks and our rolls per week?
Ok, I've finished my book and now own Vermont. I went with Variant. Still don't understand the ending at all and I don't have book 2. :(Anyway, I think we've agreed we can roll up to twice per week, so I'm going to go ahead and roll again.
Roll 3+2 = 5. That puts me on States Avenue. Author's first or last name starts with S. I'm going with Crown of Midnight by Sarah J. Maas.
I legit just finished that book Megs! Hope you like it. The start was pretty slow but overall it was good!
@Megs: I think you need to post a short review to say what you thought of the book?Completed Reading Railroad
Spot: Reading Railroad
How it fits: Whatever I want
Rating: 4 stars
Read 16/5/16
Review: I have to be honest, the first half of the book was a real let-down. I found it rather boring with not much plot. And the second half was almost a repeat of the first book, I found. But the extra little plots were amazing, like (view spoiler) and (view spoiler) I so did not expect that! Also not sure what's happening with (view spoiler) One thing I found quite repetitive was the (view spoiler) Sorry if that doesn't make sense. I don't know at all how (view spoiler) I'd like to read the next one, because I feel like it'll reveal heaps more.
Rolled a 1+1=2Start: Reading Railroad
End: Chance (bummer, not a property task :/)
Chance roll: 7
Task: Sing A Long - Read a book with a musician
I wasn't aware I needed a review, but here it is:Variant
I liked some parts of this book and wasn't crazy about others. I love the idea of a sinister boarding school and all the mystery surrounding it. But I wasn't crazy about Benson as a character. As Isaiah points out, he can be selfish and I also couldn't get into his whole loner persona. So I had some trouble connecting with him, which makes it hard for me to rate a book highly.
The other thing that bothered me was that I felt like this book needed another chapter right at the beginning. I felt like the book started really abruptly and I would have liked to have gotten to know Benson a bit more before he arrived at the school.
Because Benson was such a loner, I feel like we never got to know the other characters very well, except Becky. I would have liked to see more characterization out of Mason and Curtis and some of the others.
But I did like the mystery surrounding the school. But the ending! I don't get it. Like I actually reread the last page and I'm still confused. I'm sure the sequel will answer what is going on though.
All my other games we do, I believe. It's just easier to put one just in case.
No you're right. I went back and looked at the rules. :)
Chance Completion
Task: Read a book with a musician
How it fits: One of the girls plays the violin
Rating: 4 stars
Read 21/5/16
Review: Not as good as the last one but better than the others, I think. I didn't like this one as much as I thought I would. Not much extra stuff happened, but we did find out a little bit about some minor characters. Glad to have this series finished finally. Been reading it for about a year now on and off. I was really pleased that (view spoiler) I was surprised though that (view spoiler) The ending was a big let-down, with (view spoiler) Oh well. I can forget about all of these complex characters and sub-plots now. Glad I read this series.
Rolled a 4+2=6Start: Chance
End: States Avenue
Task: Owner's first or last name must start with S.
Not reading my next book for this in a while, I don't think. It's looking like it'll be
or
Uh oh, we are on the same spot!I've read aCoTaR and enjoyed it, but I've heard great things about Brandon Sanderson, so you should have a good read either way. :)
Oh really Megs? You and I are on the same spot. Hmmmmm guess I'd better read an S book soon! How are you going with it?
And yeah I've read Steelheart before, and it was good. Been meaning to read it again so I can finish the series.
Life's been kicking my butt extra hard lately, but I am still here. Almost half way through Outlaw Hunter by Carol Arens, and hopefully life'll finally give me a dang break so I can catch up on my reading.
Hopefully you can get a bit of reading time this weekend VampAmber.I kind of got distracted by another book but I will hopefully finish mine by Monday since its a long weekend here.
Oh right so I'm not going to own this one then, seeing as I'm not getting to my book for a looong time.
Rolled: 11 (6+5)Started On: Go
Landed On: St. Charles Place – Author’s first or last name must start with C. - Must read 1 book to own. Must read 2 books if the property is owned.
Read: Outlaw Hunter by C arol Arens finished 5/22/16
Review: When I clicked "finished" on here, I put the rating as three stars, but it really only deserves about two and a half at best. It was pretty interesting to read, and most of the characters were decently fleshed out to different extents, but there were way too many things that flat out annoyed me for me to really give it any rating higher. For starters, I absolutely loathed the fact that the MC (Melody) (view spoiler), though I'm sure she didn't do it on purpose, it was just the easiest for the author so that she could make her as miserable as possible whenever it would help the plot. The author had a hard time making up her mind in other parts, too, like how (view spoiler) I wish I was exagerating in that last sentence, I really do. And it drove me absolutely nuts for the last fourty or so pages. Gyarg! And don't even get me started on Dixie! That woman was more like a parody of an old school Disney villian than an actual human being. I seriously expected her to bust out in a monologue at any moment (though she did literally "cackle" at a few different points, so I guess that's close enough). Also, there were quite a few momets where a character temporarily suffered from too-stupid-to-live syndrome. Basically, not a good read. Definitely avoiding the author completely in the future. *sighs*
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Monopoly Rules
• You do not need to wait for the other player to finish reading before you take your next turn. As soon as you're done reading, go ahead and roll.
• Each property is represented by a shelf. For each grouping of shelves/properties you would read a certain amount of books from that shelf. Once you finish the amount of books you would then “Own” that shelf.
• If you land on an “owned” shelf you would have to read a certain amount of books above what the owner had to read.
• If one person “owns” all of the books in a group (think Mediterranean and Baltic) and another player lands on their properties they would be able to recommend at least one of the books that the player has to read.
• Utilities – For the Electric Company – Read a book where the characters have electric chemistry. For Water Works – Read a book that makes you cry. Books have to be 150 pages or more.
• If a player lands on an “Owned” utility, then the owner will recommend a book with electric chemistry or that makes them cry.
• Railroads – For Reading Railroad – Read whatever you want. For Pennsylvania Railroad – Read a book set in Pennsylvania. For B&O Railroad – Read a book that someone else thought stunk. For Short Line – Read a novella. Page minimum 150 for all but Short Line. 25 page minimum for the novella.
• If a player lands on an “owned” railroad, the owner will recommend a book for that specific railroad.
• Chance and Community Chest – there are 12 cards for each. If a player lands on one of those spots they will roll the dice a second time and then would “pull” the corresponding card and do whatever it says on the card. Once a card is used, it will be out of play unless needed to finish the game. Books for this would need to be at least 150 pages.
• Being in Jail – To get out of jail you would need to have one of the get out of jail free cards, roll doubles on one of your next three turns or read a book where a character is arrested or has been in jail. Books for this would need to be 150 pages or more.
• Just Visiting – Read a novella of your choice, 50 page minimum
• Free Parking – Read any book 100 pages or more
• Go – Read any book of 200 pages or more
• Luxury Tax/Income Tax – Read a book with a rich character, a really poor character or someone that works in a bank. 150 pages or more
• Each roll, you'll post your starting spot, the roll and your new spot on the board.
• When you finish your book you'll post the spot your on, book name, rating, when it was finished and a short review of the book. If you were supposed to read a book that had a specific element (water works utility, book that made you cry), then please mention that in the review.
• Re-reads are allowed.
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