The Perks Of Being A Book Addict discussion
UNO - Pre-Challenge Chat
Except for finishing The Power I basically haven't read anything at all since ttvi, I just felt so drained afterwards :( but I'm sure uno will get us back on track Melinda! :)
Jonny wrote: "But seriously...I just joined. What is this UNO Challenge?"There are instructions and a faq thread to look at, but in a nutshell, Uno is a team card game. Uno hands are dealt to the teams by the moderator, and the team has to read books that fit the cards dealt. Every Uno card has a value attached to it. Numbers become letters for a Spell-it-out challenge. For example, if you are reading a book to cover a 2 card, you will read a book that starts with the letter T. Each hand there will be colored cards dealt which means if you get a red 2, you would read a book beginning with T that has a red cover.
There are also monthly mini-challenges to try to finish in addition to the dealt hand, which may be anything. Perhaps a scavenger hunt, where there will be a bunch of tasks to fill, like trying to find a book with a squirrel on the cover, or a book that has the word "Cuckoo" in the text. The mini-challenges will be whatever the crazy moderators decide for us. *shudder*
Hope that helps.
Hey Christina! Great to have you around,too. :)Thanks for the encouragement. Yes TTVI was exhausting for me as well, but it will be nice to get back on track a bit.
Jonny, check out the "all-about-uno" thread!
Christina wrote: "Except for finishing The Power I basically haven't read anything at all since ttvi, I just felt so drained afterwards :( but I'm sure uno will get us back on track Melinda! :)"I'm still trying to finish my first book of 2019!
Seems easy enough. It's probably a little more difficult that it sounds, but entertaining.
Jonny wrote: "Seems easy enough. It's probably a little more difficult that it sounds, but entertaining."It's pretty easy, up to the point that you have to find 4 yellow cover books with an I character. At least, that's when I start cursing the book gods! ;-P
Pro-tip - if you like classic Sci-Fi, Gollanz does a line of pure yellow covers :)
Melindam wrote: "Hey Christina! Great to have you around,too. :)Thanks for the encouragement. Yes TTVI was exhausting for me as well, but it will be nice to get back on track a bit."
You were a star, Melinda!
Jenny wrote: "There are also monthly mini-challenges to try to finish in addition to the dealt hand, which may be anything. Perhaps a scavenger hunt, where there will be a bunch of tasks to fill, like trying to find a book with a squirrel on the cover, or a book that has the word "Cuckoo" in the text. The mini-challenges will be whatever the crazy moderators decide for us. *shudder*..."
And so you GIVE THEM IDEAS??????!!!!!
more to the point, ideas involving my bete noire, the squirrel! Add brown to that and I'd have to run away and hide from GR for a bit!
Laura I see The Perfect Nanny is one of your current reads - how do you like it so far? I read it last year for a blue card I think, it sounded so interesting to me!! but then I ended up a bit disappointed to be honest...
Ahhh, hello Cat! *waving madly* You warm my heart with yr kind words. :)
Cat wrote: "And so you GIVE THEM IDEAS??????!!!!!more to the point, ideas involving my bete noire, the squirrel! Add brown to that and I'd have to run away and hide from GR for a bit!"
Ahahahahaha :-)))
Karen β°βΏ wrote: "Hi Erin - it is automatic as soon as the form is submitted. Looks like yours didnβt go through"Okay I will do it again.
Eldarwen wrote: "Cat wrote: "And so you GIVE THEM IDEAS??????!!!!!more to the point, ideas involving my bete noire, the squirrel! Add brown to that and I'd have to run away and hide from GR for a bit!"
Ahahahaha..."
I was wondering why "Squirrel" came into my head. I thought it was a random idea, but clearly, I was channelling your issues. Kinda sorry about that.
Christina wrote: "Laura I see The Perfect Nanny is one of your current reads - how do you like it so far? I read it last year for a blue card I think, it sounded so interesting to me!! but then I ended up a bit disa..."Hi Christina,
Like you; I thought the synopsis looked really interesting, but I am also disappointed. The first few pages of the book were intriguing. The middle dragged; I think its why its taking me soooo long to finish! Looking for my next 2019 reads to be a bit more entertaining. I may have to go back and check out all the books everyone 's waiting to read!
Laura, if you like mystery/thriller I can give you some recs if you'd like :)And you're always done with Perfect Nann now, wooh!
Laura wrote: "Christina wrote: "Except for finishing The Power I basically haven't read anything at all since ttvi, I just felt so drained afterwards :( but I'm sure uno will get us back on track Melinda! :)"I'm still trying to finish my first book of 2019!"
You're so close! You will finish soon! ;) I finished mine first read for this year yesterday. :D
Cat wrote: "And so you GIVE THEM IDEAS??????!!!!!more to the point, ideas involving my bete noire, the squirrel! Add brown to that and I'd have to run away and hide from GR for a bit! .."
teehee
*eats another bit of popcorn*
Erin *Proud Book Hoarder* wrote: "Karen β°βΏ wrote: "Hi Erin - it is automatic as soon as the form is submitted. Looks like yours didnβt go through"Okay I will do it again."
You're there now ;)
Christina wrote: "Laura, if you like mystery/thriller I can give you some recs if you'd like :)And you're always done with Perfect Nann now, wooh!"
Yes, I do. Sure, please pass along your reccomendations. I finally finished my first book of 2019!.
I'm not recommending it to any of you:-)I am very excited about my next read! I just came from my library and picked up:
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I love picking up my library loans!
San wrote: "Laura wrote: "Christina wrote: "Except for finishing The Power I basically haven't read anything at all since ttvi, I just felt so drained afterwards :( but I'm sure uno will get us back on track M..."Thanks for the encouragement! What did you finish?
Hi! I loved UNO last year and am looking forward to this year.π Name - BarbaraAnn
π Team Challenge experience - Bingo (m/m, sos); wheelathon
π Have you joined UNO before? yes, played last year
π Favourite genres - urban fantasy, thriller, romance
π Book you can't wait to read in 2019 - Sapphire Flames probably tops the list
π Name- Donnaπ Team Challenge experience- pretty much any team challenge I can find (Wheelathon/TowerTeams/etc)
π Have you joined UNO before? Nope, somehow I missed this one in the past
π Favourite genres - Fantasy/Dystopian/Scifi
π Book you can't wait to read in 2019 - all of them!! LOL or at least as many as I can
Donna wrote: "π Book you can't wait to read in 2019 - all of them!! LOL or at least as many as I can ..."This is the best answer yet! :-)
This is my third one I think and pretty sure it was UNO here, I got sidetracked from reading and came back at the end, stalking this thread : ) so I dont miss sign up I love playing the card game and cant wait to read books for the cards
Teresa in ohio wrote: "stalking this thread : ) so I dont miss sign up I love playing the card game..."sign-ups are open already! There's a link in one of the other threads in this folder
ETA: here
π Name - DoodlePandaπ Team Challenge experience - last years Uno is the only team challenge I've done!
π Have you joined UNO before? - Yes, once
π Favourite genres - I read mostly fiction, and favourite genres are scifi, horror and fantasy
π Book you can't wait to read in 2019 - I haven't even looked, have so many books I own already and I'm trying to focus on getting through those!
Can't wait to start! :D
Okay, gang. Maybe I'm blind, but when will teams be announced?
Lauri wrote: "Okay, gang. Maybe I'm blind, but when will teams be announced?"Probably early next week ;)
Lauri wrote: "Okay, gang. Maybe I'm blind, but when will teams be announced?"That doesn't bode well for finding colour covers ;-)
In the last months I almost forgot about the excruciating happiness the use of "Mady Tineye Moody" can cause when you are hunting for the right colour-percenrage ;)
I'm a little bit confused. First timer here. I guess I don't really get how the random coloured cards come into play. I just thought that we'd get cards that had a color and # combo just like in real uno, but the instructions on the other thread don't read that way for me.
Can I get an example or see an example in maybe an archived thread?
Ooh, Mad-Tineye-Moody questions. I have two, and I do not see them in the FAQ. For audio books we use the default page number, but there is often a different cover from the default edition. Last year I listened to a book that had a yellow cover, but the default edition (paperback) was blue. I argued for the yellow cover, as that is what was published for the edition I was using, but was overruled. Which is right?
Also, there are times when I look at a physical copy of a book and see green, say, but Tineye says blue. Do we only rely on Tineye, or should we argue for exceptions? Last year I had a book with a gold cover that Tineye said was yellow, but I was told that gold won't work. I also had a book that was many colors, and looked sort of brown, but Tineye said was over 50% green. But, since it looked sort of brown, I couldn't use it for green. So I guess my question is when do we rely on Tineye, and when do we not?
I really don't expect a ruling from the mods on these questions, but I am hopeful...
Brooklyn wrote: "I'm a little bit confused. First timer here. I guess I don't really get how the random coloured cards come into play. I just thought that we'd get cards that had a color and # combo just like in ..."
Each hand that is dealt to a team has a few colored cards in it. For those cards you need to match a book cover color and the letter that corresponds to the number of the card. Most of the cards a team gets do not have a color attached to it. I don't remember the exact number of cards in a hand, but if there are 35 cards dealt, maybe 6 of them will be color cards.
So, if there is a red 2 card, you need a book that has over 50% red on the cover, and works for the letter T (T for 2).
The rest of the hand works like a regular spell-it-out, the card numbers correspond to letters.
Jenny, in my other groups the ruling of the challenge mod is law. So when the mod says the cover is yellow it is yellow no questions about it. The only time we can question the ruling is, when the same book gets different rulings.We also have the rule that you can only use the cover of the book you read if it has to have a main colour . But I think it would make sence to say you can use the average page count for the other editions as page count for the audiobook.
Jenny, Thanks for the explanation. I think I get it now.
Jenny wrote: "Also, there are times when I look at a physical copy of a book and see green, say, but Tineye says blue. Do we only rely on Tineye, or should we argue for exceptions? Last year I had a book with a gold cover that Tineye said was yellow, but I was told that gold won't work. I also had a book that was many colors, and looked sort of brown, but Tineye said was over 50% green. But, since it looked sort of brown, I couldn't use it for green. So I guess my question is when do we rely on Tineye, and when do we not?"Last year we had a different "group" for (co-) captains/ Mods and If you saw that book is one colour but Tineye says other then we took this book to captain table and we voted - if it's one or another colour. So there is a chance that your book will work or ... not. Also, if the book looks green then it's green, but using Tineye to be sure that this works and your hand/card will count.
About Audiobook - Last year, you could shelf either audiobook edition or default edition. Just pages for Audio were taken from default edition.
But keep in mind that rules for this year can be changed, everything is possible :D
Cool. Let the color battles commence! (Or colour battles if you prefer). Teehee.
Whoever said that Tineye is the main tool to be used? :-pHonestly, some covers make it hard, especially when you go down the gold/yellow or the turquoise/blue/green route.
Rule of thumb though: when you look at the cover and it screams a particular colour at you, usually that is the colour you can use it for. Of course, there are covers that yell a particular colour but aren't really just the one colour. Example:
- whenever I look at it, I think "green" instantly, but it couldn't actually be used for a green cover because while that is the colour that sticks out, it isn't 50%.Tineye is a tool to be used when you're on the fence because there are, say, 2 dominant colours on the cover. Don't make Tineye the rule. Look at the cover. Then go to your team. Feel free to use tineye though to verify a cover you're wondering about.
But honestly, make your own lives (and ours) easier and go with books where it's clear which colour the cover is as much as possible. Not always easy, I know, especially if you want to make one book fit for as many challenges as possible, but.. you get the idea :-)
(Eta: Basically what Elen said :-))
Yeah, I was trying to head off disputes over covers beforehand. I know, silly me. On the path to making life easier for all...
Eldarwen wrote: "Whoever said that Tineye is the main tool to be used? :-p"and don't expect the independent arbitrator (AKA Mr Karen) to agree!
His eyes & and my eyes do NOT see the same colours!
It's good to do it beforehand! Because it does make life easier during the challenge, that's for sure.But we all know how fickle Tineye can be, hence the Madeye Moody.... :-)) and the reason why we're stretching the notion of "if in doubt or lack of majority votes for a colour, don't use it" - which, I know, can suck at times.
Cat wrote: "Eldarwen wrote: "Whoever said that Tineye is the main tool to be used? :-p"and don't expect the independent arbitrator (AKA Mr Karen) to agree!
His eyes & and my eyes do NOT see the same colours!"
Haha, that's a shame!
Mr Karen often agrees with mine ;-)
Eldarwen wrote: "Mr Karen often agrees with mine ;-) ":-) That's good - a definite boon when he gets consulted for your cover :)
I've come to the realisation that my colour-words are often askew from the majority :-/
Cat wrote: "Eldarwen wrote: "Mr Karen often agrees with mine ;-) ":-) That's good - a definite boon when he get's consulted for your cover :)
I've come to the realisation that my colour-words are often aske..."
I'm in the same boat. I have issues with color lines, such as where red stops and orange begins etc.
That's where it comes in handy when you have a team of people around you who can weigh in. Sometimes it's pretty hard to figure out which colour it really is when it could be borderline something else.
Just waking up, but I would like to second/third what Elen and Eldarwen said.At some point over the years we have all gone tineye crazy. I think I can pin point it back to Wobble where if it wasnβt over 50% using that tool then you couldnβt use it. But that was a crazy challenge.
UNO was designed to be more laid back. It was designed for those who have never done team challenges before, or veterans who just want something a bit easier. It was never designed as a competitive challenge but is meant to be a social one (hence why I started it in this group).
So if you have a book you think is a certain colour, post to your team thread. If your team agrees you are good to go. If your team or captains arenβt sure they may use tineye. The captains can also take it to the captains group (where the result is binding).
If you have an audiobook you can use the cover you are reading - you can even shelve that edition. It is just the page numbers that come from the default edition to make sure it meets the challenge requirements.
Brooklyn wrote: "Jenny, Thanks for the explanation. I think I get it now."Thanks Jenny!
Brooklyn - here is a spreadsheet from a team last year if it helps to visualise
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/...
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