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OK...so if a bankrupt occurs in the midst of the spins, would I need to start over on my goal? (I have rolled a bankrupt on spin 17 but not yet reached my goal.)
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I you rolled 'bankrupt' on #17 then you take 10% off the total pages from 1-16.
Then if you rolled 'bankrupt' again on #23 then you take 10% off the total pages from 1-22...
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I you rolled 'bankrupt' on #17 then you take 10% off the total pages from 1-16.
Then if you rolled 'bankrupt' again on #23 then you take 10% off the total pages from 1-22"
So adding 1-22 I get: 7182 - 507 (roll 17) = 6675. Is that correct? Or do I skip roll 17 and take 10% of the books read only, which would be 7182 (roll 17 skipped in calculation) - 718 (roll 23) = 7111 pages rather than 6675 (subtracted roll 17) - 668 (roll 23) = 6007 pages. In one case, I have finished and in the other case I have about 600 pages to go.
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Looking at your plan, Bea, this is what I've got:
Total pages for 1-16 = 5,359
Roll 17 -> take away 10% (536) = 4,823
Total pages for 18-22 = 1,823
Total pages for 1-22 = 4,823 + 1,823 = 6,646
Roll 22 - take away 10% (665) = 5,981
Sorry, Bea... 658 pages to go...
Tien wrote:Total pages for 1-16 = 5,359
Roll 17 -> take away 10% (536) = 4,823
Total pa..."
Thanks, Tien, for the sample of how to figure this all out!
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Total pages for 1-16 = 5,359
Roll 17 -> take away 10% (536) = 4,823
Total pages for 18-22 = 1,823
Total pages for 1-22 = 4,823 + 1,823 = 6,646
Roll 22 - take away 10% (665) = 5,981
Sorry, Bea... 658 pages to go..."
Thanks, Tien. I appreciate the help. I am not sure why I was so dense. Now to figure out how I got Roll 17 10% as 507 rather than 536!
You be no math major :)
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Usually I am pretty good...but Ed was definitely better. He could do the math in his head much more quickly than I can. For this game, I think it is still a matter of concentration not quite back to normal since he died. Oh, well.
BTW, Tien's math was correct. So back to working on my plan.
Bea wrote: "Jayme(the ghost reader) wrote: "You be no math major :)"Usually I am pretty good...but Ed was definitely better. He could do the math in his head much more quickly than I can. For this game, I th..."
I can add, subtract, multiply and divide in my head. Not all of them at once though. :)
The "Lose a Turn (LOT)" books don't count toward your total, but do they count when deducting pages after spinning a bankrupt?I spun LOT in spin 10 and a Bankrupt in spin 14. Do I deduct from the number of pages I read in the spin 10 book? Did that make any sense?
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Tien wrote: "No don't include LOT book in any of your calc"Yay! I need all the help I can get!
Do books need to be started in 2018, or can they be begun in 2017? Or some percentage read before 2018?
The book I am going to start reading is on the doorstoppers shelf list, can I start it now? I don't think I will have it finished by January 1.
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We don't have the rule where you can start reading a book prior to official starting time of challenge mostly because our challenges are annual in nature rather than seasonal so the answer to your question is no, sorry, you'll have to wait til 1st to read...
In saying that, however, you could start it as soon as Australia hits the 1st of Jan ;D
Tien wrote: "In saying that, however, you could start it as soon as Australia hits the 1st of Jan ;D ."LOL! Thanks, Tien.
Tien, in this example above, under D - Completion...
Completed
Spin 1
Spin 2 - read
Spin 3 - read
Spin 4 - read
Spin 5 - read
Spin 6 - read
Spin 7 - read
Spin 8 - read
Spin 9
Spin 10
You may ignore Spins 1, 9, & 10 and claim completion of Round.
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Let's say that Spins 1, 2, 3, and 4 are shelves and Spin 5 is a "Bankrupt" - so in this case, for Spin 5, the player would only have to deduct 10% of the pages for the books used based on Spin 2 - Spin 4; no need to figure to deduct 10% of any pages associated with a Spin 1 book, because it's not being used for completion (because there were enough pages for completion without it and all completed spins were still consecutive); is that correct?
Thanks!
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Now that I'm almost done with Scattershelves, I'm starting my planning for this one. A quick question, how are you checking the shelves? Do you check the list linked or the book's shelves. The reason I ask is that I've found books shelved as "Colonialism" on the book's shelves but it does not appear in the list linked because GR has now limited the number of pages that the list goes up to.
Thanks.
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Tien wrote: "I'll check it whichever way, Lauren, so best if you link me up so I don't try to do both, thanks:)"Thanks, Tien. This makes it much easier to find books! :)
Lauren wrote: "Now that I'm almost done with Scattershelves, I'm starting my planning for this one. A quick question, how are you checking the shelves? Do you check the list linked or the book's shelves. The re..."
I had no idea they were limiting like that. Good to know.
I’d like to point out it is officially Jan 1 in Australia ;)
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Yep, approx 9 hours' in now ;p
Woke up feeling a bit horrified that 2017 was over in a blink! But then, Bring On 2018 Reading Challenges! lol
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I still have 2 hours and 38 minutes to go to the New Year. I will be way behind most of you in the start of reading for 2018!!
Can you start round 2 if you haven’t completed round 1?
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Yes, you can try to do both at the same time
Tien wrote: "Mell wrote: "Can you start round 2 if you haven’t completed round 1?"Yes, you can try to do both at the same time"
Worth a shot, just tried to keep with other challenges/goals
I think for round 1 I can finish before I get to my third bankrupt, but if I read the book the spin before it, do I count the bankrupt in or can I skip it? Using your example above, it would be like this:Spin 1
Spin 2 - read
Spin 3 - read
Spin 4 - read
Spin 5 - read
Spin 6 - read
Spin 7 - read
Spin 8 - read
Spin 9 - Bankrupt
Spin 10
If I can get all my pages in with spins 2-8 does that work? or do I count the bankrupt and then add spin 10?
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Inspired by the Wheel of Fortune (tv game show), we are going to spin the Wheel of Bookshelves and read a book per shelf you've spun.
Official Start date of this challenge is January 1, 2018. Challenge will run up to December 31, 2018.
B. The Wheel
There will be 4 rounds and each round will have its own unique Wheel. On the Wheel, you will find:
20 x Shelves
2 x Lose 10% of your read pages ('Bankrupt')
2 x Read a book of 350+ pages (of your choice) but you cannot count this towards your goal ('lose-a-turn')
Round 1: Wheel of Bookshelves
Round 2: Wheel of Bookshelves (friends)
Round 3: Wheel of Bookshelves (genre)
Round 4: Wheel of Bookshelves (TBR)
C. Unlocking Rounds
All participants will have their own unique goals tailored to their reading capacity. To unlock subsequent Round (for everyone), One (1) participant will have to achieve his/her goal for the current Round (ie. to unlock Round 3, s/he will have to have met/exceeded his/her goal for Round 2, etc).
Goals are to be determined by a percentage of pages read last year (2017).
Goal for Round 1: 11%
Goal for Round 2: 12%
Goal for Round 3: 13%
Goal for Round 4: 14%
To calculate your Goal:
1. Go to My Books
2. Look below the list of shelves, under the heading of, Your reading activity, click on Reading stats
3. Select pages; the number, in white, next to the year, 2017, is the total of pages you've read for 2017
4. Take a percentage for above number (3) and that is your Goal for the Round
Go to Sign Ups for full instruction (with images) & to register your goal for participation in this challenge.
Admittedly, these totals will have been calculated by the books you've added as read on your shelves and not all of them will be accurate but it will serve our purposes for this challenge.
D. Completion
Whilst there is no limitation on planning, to claim completion, you will have to have read consecutive spins/books.
For example, 10 spins but goal's achieved by reading 7 thick books but if those 7 books are not in consecutive spin order, you can NOT claim completion.
Not Complete
Spin 1 - read
Spin 2 - read
Spin 3 - read
Spin 4
Spin 5 - read
Spin 6 - read
Spin 7 - read
Spin 8 - read
Spin 9
Spin 10
You must read for Spin 4 to claim completion.
Completed
Spin 1
Spin 2 - read
Spin 3 - read
Spin 4 - read
Spin 5 - read
Spin 6 - read
Spin 7 - read
Spin 8 - read
Spin 9
Spin 10
You may ignore Spins 1, 9, & 10 and claim completion of Round.
The books do NOT have to be read in order but at the end, there must NOT be a gap in between spins to claim completion.
NOTE: if you were unlucky enough to get 'lose-a-turn' in one of your spins and it falls in the middle of your consecutive spins/reads then it must also be completed (even if the page numbers do not count towards your goal). The 'bankrupt' spin will also have to be included in your page total but it is applicable only to the spins/pages prior to the 'bankrupt' spin (that is if spin #6 is a 'lose 10%' then the 10% has to be applied to total pages of books #1 - #5).
To claim Completion, please post in the Completed Round(s)
E. Housekeeping
1. Only 1 book to be read per spin/shelf.
2. There is no page limit for books read but note that with thicker books, the less number of books you will have to read to meet your goal & the less number of spins (& therefore, reduce your chance for a 'Bankrupt' / 'lose-a-turn' hit).
3. Use the page numbers of edition you are reading in calculating your progress. If you listened to an audiobook, we will look at the most popular edition (whatever that is) for the page numbers. If there isn't a page number for that edition, we will use the next one down on the list and so on.
4. There will be planning threads set up for each Round. Please post your plan/s in the correct thread.
5. For certain rules applicable only per rounds, please refer to that particular round's thread.