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I think we have the same problem actually (Krakatoa Go Go). I noticed the formulas might be weird.(Though we haven’t added any books yet 😉)
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(Though we haven’t added any books yet 😉)"
Thanks. I've gone through all the sheets and recopied and pasted :) Should be fine now
Not sure if it matters because we weren't given injuries from the Countdown Stage, but in the "Mods Check" (Krakatoa Go Go) it still says:All countdown tasks read? No
All team members read for at least one task? No
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All countdown tasks read? No
All team members read for a..."
fixed, so you don't get an unpleasant tic from the wonkiness! ;-P
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Thank you!
Hi moderators.I read The Valley of Shadows as Mike Massa's debut book for task 1. While he wrote a short story that was included in the anthology Black Tide Rising I don't think that counts as writing a whole book. The first time he was involved in a novel length story was the book that I read.
Beth, Team Not Yet
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/...
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Thank you!"
It is the same time. Countdown will be posted soon along with the round 2 tabs on the spreadsheets
To clarify because the FAQ Goals S/S didn't cover this.Read a book with red writing on the cover where the title contains the letters L-A-V-A (doesn't need to be in that order)
Can the red writing be the author's name?
Can I use the first letter of the title in cyrillic for the spell-it-out? E.g. can I use Отстрел невест for O?And can we use any character in the book, who has some dialog? Or MC only?
And can we use words from safezone group 2 for spell-out in group 3 or only words from the countdown tasks?
That is neat that you can read cyrillic. I only ever got as far as being able to read street signs, food labels, and menus.
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Read a book with red writing on the cover where the title contains the letters L-A-V-A (doesn't need to be in that order)
Can the red writing be the author's name? ..."
Yes
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That'll be OK: we can call on expert resources if necessary. that said, if you use a cyrillic letter that is not obviously the equivalent of english letter, please make is clear (link to a transliteration tool or something) for the Mods who struggle with other alphabet systems ;-)
And can we use any character in the book, who has some dialog? Or MC only?"
Check out the rules; we've not changed from our normal approach.
And can we use words from safezone group 2 for spell-out in group 3 or only words from the countdown tasks?
Countdown tasks only
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When you add books to the spreadsheet, could you please also link the text to the book read? It makes it hard to check things without a link (and we may accidentally penalise you if we look at the wrong book because we have searched incorrectly, for example).
We will assume the linked book is the one you read, and the one that fits the task (or not!)
Make sure you link the right book!
For tasks 6 and 1 that involve the 1001 books and NPR lists, are we just going by shelving here? Because I assume these are lists that are regularly changed. I know the 1001 books one does. They also probably have multiple shelf names here on good reads. Do we use the 1001 shelf, the 1001 books shelf, NPR, NPR books etc.., see where I'm going with this? There's also multiple listopia lists for both.
Mary, Mary, Just a bit contrary wrote: "For tasks 6 and 1 that involve the 1001 books and NPR lists, are we just going by shelving here? Because I assume these are lists that are regularly changed. I know the 1001 books one does. They al..."there's a link to the lists to use on the spreadsheet (column H) :)
Mary, Mary, Just a bit contrary wrote: "Totally missed that."Happens to me all the time. :)
Ok, so I know we can use a word more than once if it shows up in more than one task. What about when the same word shows up more than once in the same task?
Melanie wrote: "Ok, so I know we can use a word more than once if it shows up in more than one task. What about when the same word shows up more than once in the same task?"Came here to ask exact same question!
Like in Round 2 #10 has "with/with" and #6 has "you/you/you"...
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Alysa wrote: "Came here to ask exact same question!
Like in Round 2 #10 has "with/with" and #6 has "you/you/you"... .."
FAQ will apply.
It says "but if a word is used twice (e.g. "an" is in more than one task), you can spell it for each instance it is used" (I've tidied up spelling & punctuation)
Clear enough, surely?
I think what made me second guess it is that the FAQ says you can use it for each instance it is used but the example it gives it for a word used in more than one task.
Righto.So if a team decides to use both "withs" in #10, we would have to put something like
WITH - Task #10 (1)
WITH - Task #10 (2)
This is also probably a dumb question, but we can only "regenerate" if we lost points in Round 1, right?Like, if we had no injuries, we cannot do the regenerations for extra bonus points?
(I do see there are 50 bonus points for doing Safezone Group 1 though ;D)
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Like, if we had no injuries, we cannot do the regenerations for extra bonus points?"
Or any damage you get during Round 2...
Last bullet-point of the info should answer the other question...
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Very few teams were doing it, and we felt sorry for SZ1 tasks, decided to make it more enticing....
For task 3 of SF2 in round 2, can it be tha word lemons in the title? I have "Vampiros y limones" (Vampires and lemons, though the original title is Vampires in the Lemon Grove) and I'm not sure if it'll work
Paula wrote: "For task 3 of SF2 in round 2, can it be tha word lemons in the title? I have "Vampiros y limones" (Vampires and lemons, though the original title is Vampires in the Lemon Grove) and I'm not sure i..."
Oooh, good book!
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but lookit that lovely bat! he's not nasty!(I agree that the beetle in Paula's version
has a good claim to be nasty...)
Cat wrote: " but lookit that lovely bat! he's not nasty!(I agree that the beetle in Paula's version
has a good claim to..."LOL
That bat looks nasty to me.
They have rabies, right
I think I'm going bat crazy and not in a good way
:)
I love bats. The ones in India are really fun to watch. That is a very happy cartoony bat either way. (The ants here on the other hand...)
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I'm a bat lover, me!
None of which really helped Paula though, did it?!
I suspect that plural lemons will be OK..
For Task #8 "tagged MPG Sci-Fi"Everything that I've looked at has had it written out as Science Fiction.
Is that acceptable? Or has anyone found any examples yet that show "Sci Fi" abbreviation on MP?
Alysa wrote: "For Task #8 "tagged MPG Sci-Fi"Everything that I've looked at has had it written out as Science Fiction.
Is that acceptable? Or has anyone found any examples yet that show "Sci Fi" abbreviation o..."
When I type Sci Fi into the Genres look up, it reverts to Science Fiction. I was assuming that is what we needed to go by.
Leslie Ann wrote: "
would u consider this bright green"
Yes. The Kindle edition is even brighter than that one.
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Everything that I've looked at has had it written out as Science Fiction.
Is that acceptable? Or has anyone found any examples yet that show "Sci Fi" abbreviation o..."
Science Fiction is absolutely acceptable, of course!
Yay!Ya never know. This could have been like CUTTHROAT! :D
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This is (slightly) more relaxed ;-)
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Yes, a few times when we have considered rules or questions in the mod group we’ve reminded ourselves this isn’t cutthroat 😉😂
On the NPR list - can we use books from previous years that are linked on that first page or only those on the 2018 list?
Shelby, that’s in the FAQ section. It’s anytime during the challenge.
So can the books used the make a ladder be from anything we have read since the start of the first leg of the challenge, both books that we have used in the challenge and books that we have no used?
Laura wrote: "Shelby, that’s in the FAQ section. It’s anytime during the challenge."Dangit - I looked through the FAQ - sorry I missed it.
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The spreadsheet for Team Us Versus the Volcano (https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/...) isn't auto filling the points in saf..."
Fixed! Thanks for including the sheet link :)
you were right: the formulas hadn't been properly copied: it's something that you could've fixed yourself, but we are equally happy to sort out for you :)