UNO Pre Challenge Chat

[UNO Pixie, Our UNO Helper]

Can't wait to start?

Would you like to chat to other UNO addicts?

Feel free to chat about everything and anything here :)

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Good introductory info:

-Name
- Team Challenge experience
- Have you joined UNO before?
- Favourite genres
- Book you can't wait to read in 2018

[Laura]

Hello, fellow UNO lovers!!

Can't wait for this to start!!! Woot, woot!

[Lisa - (Aussie Girl)]

Yep, me too. This is my 3rd UNO, definitely one of my favourite group challenges.

[Michelle]

Hiii, I can't wait either, though this is my first Uno. (:

[Bryndís]

YEEEE sounds so fun! can't wait! I joined just too late last year to participate, but no Im SO in! 😀😀

[Karen ⊰✿, Avaricious Reader]

I love the eagle-eyes that saw these threads and we haven't even sent out an announcement yet ;)

(We will announce after New Years)

[Karen ⊰✿, Avaricious Reader]

For those return players, did you notice a slight change in the rules from previous years?
*hint* the change is a bit wild ... ;)

[Laura]

Karen ⊰✿ wrote: "For those return players, did you notice a slight change in the rules from previous years?
*hint* the change is a bit wild ... ;)"

I did! It definitely adds a nice twist to the challenge.

[maria helena]

Can't wait for this to start (and love the changes)

[Karen ⊰✿, Avaricious Reader]

Thanks MH!

[Alison]

Yay I love Uno. One of the first team challenges I ever took part in.

That Wild change is making it harder though.

[Eldarwen]

Woohoo! Uno is back! :-D

Hello people :-)

[Annika]

Hey everyone! :D

[Teri]

Really excited-this is my first UNO challenge

[Melindam]

Hoooray!!! This would be my 2nd challenge. I joined the one last year & enjoyed it a lot.

[DoodlePanda]

This sounds really exciting, I'm considering joining :D

[Annika]

You definitely should! It's the best team challenge there is. Though fair warning, it's addictive ;)

[DoodlePanda]

Annika wrote: "You definitely should! It's the best team challenge there is. Though fair warning, it's addictive ;)"

I'm just worried I'd let the team down or something! :O
How many books would be needed from each person?

[Annika]

DoodlePanda wrote: "Annika wrote: "You definitely should! It's the best team challenge there is. Though fair warning, it's addictive ;)"

I'm just worried I'd let the team down or something! :O
How many books would be..."

Don't worry about letting your team down, Uno is about having fun, we try to make the teams as even as possible in terms of books everyone reads, so read what you can and when you can :)
I don't know that we have a specific lower limit, but you should read at least 1 book each month.

[DoodlePanda]

Oh 1 book per month I can do easily! :D

I think I'm gonna try it then!

[Kirsten]

HI!!

Name: Kirsten
- Team Challenge experience: I've done a couple now.
- Have you joined UNO before? just last year w/ team Poirot
- Favourite genres: fantasy, scifi, historical fiction, speculative, apocalyptic, autobiographies
- Book you can't wait to read in 2018: (mainly just more than I did this past year) though a few that I finally want to get to are: Born with Teeth, The Death Cure, The Man with the White Beard...

[Annika]

Hi Kirsten!! :)

[Kirsten]

Annika wrote: "Hi Kirsten!! :)"

Hi Annika! :)

[Laura]

Yay! Excited for Uno again! This will be my 3rd year participating. I love this challenge! Thank you to the mods for putting this together again!

[Laura]

I'm so excited for Uno again! It was the game that started it all for me!

-Name - Laura
- Team Challenge experience - I'm such a team challenge junkie!
- Have you joined UNO before? - This will be my 4th time. I think that means I've played every round, right?
- Favourite genres - A little bit of a lot of different stuff. Sci-Fi, Fantasy, YA, Historical
- Book you can't wait to read in 2018 - Lake Silence, A Court of Frost and Starlight, the new Throne of Glass novel, anything Jim Butcher manages to publish (I've heard there should be one in 2018!).

[Bryndís]

some more info... =)

Name: Bryndís (screenname) / Iza (real name)
- Team Challenge experience: first time, but very excited! =)
- Have you joined UNO before? just the actual card game ;-)
- Favourite genres: Horror, music, LGBTQIA+, travel, fantasy, SF
- Book you can't wait to read in 2018: The House of Sleep (one of my fave authors, but haven't read much) & Based on a True Story

[Danna]

What is UNO about

[Laura]

Danna - it is a fun team challenge where players read books to fit hands of Uno. See this board:
Uno

[Catie]

Hello everyone!
Name - Catie
Team Challenge experience - None, but I'm excited to try it!
Have you joined UNO before? Nope, first time
- Favourite genres - I like a lot of different things, but I particularly like children's lit, YA, literary fiction, horror, and some fantasy
- Books you can't wait to read in 2018 - Future Home of the Living God, Inferior: How Science Got Women Wrong—and the New Research That's Rewriting the Story, Lost Boy: The True Story of Captain Hook, and a lot more, I have waaayyy too many books on my to-read shelf lol

[Kirsten]

Hi all!

lol Catie, I too have way too many books on my TBR shelf!

[Eldarwen]

Uno is a very easy and fun team challenge to start with on your way into more team challenges. It was my first one as well when it was first set up. And I've played every round since :-)

[Catie]

Haha yeah, I don't think anyone could be on GR for a significant amount of time without acquiring a massive amount of TBR books :P

[Veronica]

I am so excited the Uno Challenge is starting. I am like a kid in a candy store right now... YAY!!!

[Kate S]

Hi, I'm Kate.

I enjoy doing team challenges and participate in several each year.
This will be my second UNO challenge and I am looking forward to the fun (and a bit of the craziness that comes with it)!
I have a hard time nailing down my favorite genre. I think it changes pretty regularly. At the moment, I am most enjoying general non-fiction and literary fiction. But at other times, I like horror, mystery, suspense, science fiction, classics, historical fiction and others. I tend to shy away from romance and paranormal fiction, but even these I do enjoy from time to time.
I do not have any specific titles I am looking forward to in 2018. I am excited to start reading some of the many titles I picked up at my winter library book sale.

[Tefek]

Hi

I haven't played uno before but I'm interested in playing for the first time in this way including books!
Do you think it will be confusing for me, or I can do it?

[Laura]

Tefek, you can do it! It's a great fun challenge! Sign up, you won't regret it.

[Lisa - (Aussie Girl)]

Definitely Tefek. It's a fun challenge and your team mates will help you if you have any questions.

[Annalisa]

Hi everyone,
I loved UNO last year. I can't wait. I've been told I read all books with words. My current preferences are historical romance, fantasy, and science fiction.

[Tefek]

Laura wrote: "Tefek, you can do it! It's a great fun challenge! Sign up, you won't regret it."

Thank you!
I've signed up already :)

[Tefek]

Lisa - (Aussie Girl) wrote: "Definitely Tefek. It's a fun challenge and your team mates will help you if you have any questions."

Thanks! We'll have fun. Can't wait! *-*

[Andrea]

Last year I almost missed it , I wasn't about to do that again this year :) this is the most fun reading challenge !! <3 I am so psyched to get going, I always meet such amazing people :D

[Karen ⊰✿, Avaricious Reader]

So nice to see so many familiar faces, and welcome to all the new ones!

I was trying to think of a book for 2018 I am waiting for, as I am so far behind most books I was waiting for in a series were published last year and I haven't read yet :o
But there is one in 2018 - The Prisoner in the Castle - which is a series that unexpectedly grew on me and the last book ended on a bit of a cliffhanger

This is our fourth year of UNO. I put it together in 2015 and I can't even remember where the idea came from now. I must have been playing the card game one weekend ;)

[Romina]

Aaaah I am so excited to do this again! Loved participating last year!
I havent been reading much or on goodreads lately so Im hoping this motivates me to read more and be more active! I cant wait :D

I had a great team last year, had some great conversations and a really fun time during the challenge so Im hoping for a repeat of that :D

[Rachael]

Hi! This is all so exciting. It'll be my first UNO and I have no idea what to expect but it looks like such a fun challenge :)

[Emily]

This sounds exciting and fun! What is the deadline to sign up by?

[Beth]

This is my second one! The first one, I was captain and I had so much fun!! I can't wait to play again as I missed the last sign ups

[Karen ⊰✿, Avaricious Reader]

Well start making teams in around a week, Emily. Sign ups after we start making the teams will go to a reserve list

[Nanci]

Yay!! UNO time! Love this challenge! I have played a number of times before and also served as captain and co-captain. For those of you new to the game, you're going to love it. I'm going to be reading a lot of books I've been wanting to read on my iPad, since I'll be traveling from mid-January until late February. Hello to many familiar names!

[Emily]

Ok I’m in!!!

Name: Emily
Team challenge experience: None, this will be my first
Have you joined uno before?: no
Favorite genres: YA, horror, dystopian
Books I can’t wait to read in 2018: the throne of glass series

[Sarah]

I was so excited to get this email! I was obsessively checking threads and my inbox, lol.

This is my third UNO challenge and it’s by far my favorite!

Hello past teammates and looking forward to having new ones :-)