February UNO Mini Challenge

[Karen ⊰✿, Avaricious Reader]

Laura wrote: "I am starting a book for the mini-challenge that fits the "read a book your Valentine team has read this month." So I went perusing their team spreadsheet and picked a book. When I was reading the ..."

Unfortunately if it is a children's book it needs to be 25,000 words as the mini challenge follows the same book rules as the challenge. (Not a very nice present to give to your valentine's team... :o. )

[Laura]

Thanks, Karen. It's a better present than if I hadn't said anything and then they turned out not to get points for that hand, and therefore, the 10 hands after it, right?

[Venecia]

❤ Read up to ten books your valentine team has read in Feb or added in Feb of any year

What do we do if they Added it in Feb, but Read it in Sept? Can we still use it or does read override add?

[Natalie]

For "Read up to fifteen books your valentine team has read that was first published in Feb of any year for 5 points each" does there need to be a read date? Or is being on the shelf good enough?

[Ora]

Natalie wrote: "For "Read up to fifteen books your valentine team has read that was first published in Feb of any year for 5 points each" does there need to be a read date? Or is being on the shelf good enough?"

Can't remember if it was this thread or in the captain groups, this was uno pixie's answer

Uno Pixie has updated task for part one of the mini challenge

We've had questions about:

Read a book your valentine team has read in Feb or added in Feb of any year

To give more flexibility, we will allow the book to be on any shelf (not just the read shelf) provided the "added" date is in Feb of any year

[UNO Pixie, Our UNO Helper]

Laura wrote: "Thanks, Karen. It's a better present than if I hadn't said anything and then they turned out not to get points for that hand, and therefore, the 10 hands after it, right?"

Absolutely!

[UNO Pixie, Our UNO Helper]

Venecia wrote: "❤ Read up to ten books your valentine team has read in Feb or added in Feb of any year

What do we do if they Added it in Feb, but Read it in Sept? Can we still use it or does read override add?"

Yes that would count as it can be either added or read in Feb of any year

[UNO Pixie, Our UNO Helper]

Natalie wrote: "For "Read up to fifteen books your valentine team has read that was first published in Feb of any year for 5 points each" does there need to be a read date? Or is being on the shelf good enough?"

It doesn't need a read date (as I know some people don't always add them), but needs to be on their read shelf

Tip:
If you want to know a way to find books for this part here is what I do, but you may know of another way you can share?

- Go to the person's profile
- Click "compare books"
- On the right hand side of this page up the top are shelves. Change "your shelves" to "to-read" and "their shelves" to "read"
- Then you get (probably a short) list of books that are on your TBR that they have read. Then I just click into each book to check the "first published" date
:)

You can also use this link:
https://www.goodreads.com/user/compar...
And in your URL where it has the user number (in this case it is mine, 52624155), change that to the user your are looking at. So for our mod, Karen, her user name is 8460201-karen, so you would swap out the 52624155 in that URL for 8460201

[Laura]

UNO Pixie wrote: "Laura wrote: "Good question! I'm going to read One Fell Sweep, which is written by a husband/wife team. Would that work? ..."

Not for that reason, but Ilona Gordon has a famous author friend....."

Can I get another hint, please?! :)

[Karen ⊰✿, Avaricious Reader]

Laura wrote: "UNO Pixie wrote: "Laura wrote: "Good question! I'm going to read One Fell Sweep, which is written by a husband/wife team. Would that work? ..."

Not for that reason, but Ilona Gordon has a famous a..."

LOL!
Here you go:
http://happyeverafter.usatoday.com/20...

[Laura]

Karen ⊰✿ wrote: "Laura wrote: "UNO Pixie wrote: "Laura wrote: "Good question! I'm going to read One Fell Sweep, which is written by a husband/wife team. Would that work? ..."

Not for that reason, but Ilona Gordon ..."

Thanks! :)

[Kaley]

This was touched on in answering a previous question so sorry for the repeat, but I just wanted to verify I wasn't interpreting it wrong.

For "Bonus ❤ Read one book that was first published on the 14th of February of any year for 10 points" ... Can we still get the points for that one even if we don't finish the rest of the tasks in part one?

[UNO Pixie, Our UNO Helper]

Kaley wrote: "This was touched on in answering a previous question so sorry for the repeat, but I just wanted to verify I wasn't interpreting it wrong.

For "Bonus ❤ Read one book that was first published on the..."

Yes you can still get the points :)

[Venecia]

Shouldn't the max points for the Valentine mini be 320, if a team has completed all the tasks? One team has finished so far but the ranking file shows their points as 290.

[Laura]

Venecia wrote: "Shouldn't the max points for the Valentine mini be 320, if a team has completed all the tasks? One team has finished so far but the ranking file shows their points as 290."

It looks like the formula is not adding in the completion bonus.