UNO 2020 Pre Challenge Chat

[Eldarwen]

Melanie wrote: "Eldarwen wrote: "Melanie wrote: "See this is where my books spreadsheet comes back to bite me. I track every book purchase so I know exactly how much I spent on books last year and it's a much larg..."

Oh wow!
I'm a little terrified but it looks so pretty and is very detailled!

[Paula]

Eldarwen wrote: "Melanie wrote: "Eldarwen wrote: "Melanie wrote: "See this is where my books spreadsheet comes back to bite me. I track every book purchase so I know exactly how much I spent on books last year and ..."

I feel the same, I loved it and I'm scared of it hahaha

[Laura]

The teams are starting to be posted! Yay!!! Thank you, Uno Pixie!!!

[Eldarwen]

Now before you all jump the gun - we know you're excited ;-) - a little reminder that captains will reserve their spots first. Only once that has been done or after 24 hours are up will the team threads be opened to the remaining team members.

So please be patient a while longer :-)

[Christina]

Woooooooh!

[Laura]

I am loving these names!!

[Vicki]

I’m so excited! The team names are unique and fun!

[Elen]

Food is LIFE... Nom-nom-nom


Loving the names

[Morgana]

Well damn, 2 yellow cards already... I have to start searching in my library for those. Love the team names :)

[Tina]

Yay! This is going to be so much fun:) And this year I'm getting seven new friends! What a bonus;)

[Sunny]

I'm so excited for this to start! Gotta start planning as well.

[Alexis]

I love these team names. I cackled when I saw mine. I've always been drawn to the void.

[Chris]

These names are... sweet! I’ve always wanted to be a Rocket Muffin!

[Sha]

Lol I was so wrong

[Laura]

Annika wrote: "Laura wrote: "Lisa - (Aussie Girl) wrote: "I just re-joined our local library after about 20 years. Buying books has just got too expensive. I used to be able to buy second hand books for a couple ..."

Off to check!

[kat (wanderfulbooks)]

Melanie wrote: "Eldarwen wrote: "Melanie wrote: "See this is where my books spreadsheet comes back to bite me. I track every book purchase so I know exactly how much I spent on books last year and it's a much larg..."

It looks absolutely great!

[Robynne]

OK I found my team. Need to ask a question.
This will be my FIRST time playing UNO.

Are these 13 hands the ONLY hands the team gets for the next 3 months?

Or do we get new hands every week or every month?

Thanks.

[Elen]

Robynne wrote: "OK I found my team. Need to ask a question.
This will be my FIRST time playing UNO.

Are these 13 hands the ONLY hands the team gets for the next 3 months?

Or do we get new hands every week or e..."


We get every month new hands and every month it increases by one extra hand.
Also, mid-month we always have mini-challenges.

[Robynne]

Elen wrote: "We get every month new hands and every month it increases by one extra hand.
Also, mid-month we always have mini-challenges. "

So 13 hands in February, 14 hands in March and 15 hands in April, plus mini challenges..

edited - 14, 15 and 16 hands - sorry.

[Laura]

The mini challenges are so much fun! I can’t wait to see what the mods have in store for us this year!

[Keri]

Is there a list with who’s on what team or do we just click on each one to see which one were on?

[Kay]

Team Galaxy Dohnuts! so cool!

[Robynne]

Keri wrote: "Is there a list with who’s on what team or do we just click on each one to see which one were on?"

Click each one to see which team you are on!!

[Keri]

Ok it’ll be fun to see what teams friends are on anyway!

[Ashley]

Team Jumpsuit Biscuit! 🙋🏼‍♀️🍪 I have sent out friend requests to my team! :) Cant wait to dive into this challenge with all of you!

[Karen ⊰✿, Avaricious Reader]

Keri wrote: "Is there a list with who’s on what team or do we just click on each one to see which one were on?"

Yes, but we haven't posted yet. Waiting for captains to reserve posts and open their threads and then we will do a group announcement with a link to a s/sheet showing all the team assignments :)

Edit - Spreadsheet link is here: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/... for those who are super curious as to their team

[Vicki]

I have 2 people on my team that I’m already friends with but I don’t know either person very well. I friend requested the others.

[Robynne]

Karen ⊰✿ wrote:Yes, but we haven't posted yet. Waiting for captains to reserve posts and open their threads..."

Yes but Karen, we can still find our teams and check the hands and start looking for books that we have that fit each hand...

That is what I am doing.

[Karen ⊰✿, Avaricious Reader]

Robynne wrote: "Karen ⊰✿ wrote:Yes, but we haven't posted yet. Waiting for captains to reserve posts and open their threads..."

Yes but Karen, we can still find our teams and check the hands and start looking for..."

Yes you can :)

[Romina]

Woohoo found my team ! Won’t post until captain reserves but I’m so excited to meet you all and get started!!

I’m out of the country until Sunday so I’ll start being more active then!!

[Nanci]

Chava wrote: "Nanci wrote: "I love our library! It's only a 15 minute drive and I'm usually there twice a week. I use the online service to reserve and we have a fairly decent ebook and audiobook selection also...."

Haha! Good one, Chava!

[Christy]

Paula wrote: "Eldarwen wrote: "Melanie wrote: "Eldarwen wrote: "Melanie wrote: "See this is where my books spreadsheet comes back to bite me. I track every book purchase so I know exactly how much I spent on boo..."

I did this once with coffee, and I realized I could have taken a really nice vacation every year with my spendings on lattes. I've now purchased my own reasonably priced espresso machine. Sadly I've found other spending to make it up - probably on books!

[Lisa - (Aussie Girl)]

Wow, you gals are sooooo creative and loving my Team.

I get pretty excited looking for books that match the colour cards. I've already found half of them, better put on the brakes so others in the team can experience the fun. Can't wait to start UNO 2020!

[Madeline]

Yay! I can’t wait!

[Robyn]

Lisa - (Aussie Girl) wrote: "Wow, you gals are sooooo creative and loving my Team.

I get pretty excited looking for books that match the colour cards. I've already found half of them, better put on the brakes so others in th..."

These color cards are evil - You would think with 524 books I could find at least one that fits - but nope! Okay okay I only tried one color so far, going to see if I can match the rest of the colors lmao

[Keri]

After the first year I made shelves for each color cover so I can sift through easier lol.
But I remember the torture of having lots of yellow 7 and yellow 5 to fill!

[Robyn]

Keri wrote: "After the first year I made shelves for each color cover so I can sift through easier lol.
But I remember the torture of having lots of yellow 7 and yellow 5 to fill!"

That is actually a great idea! Maybe I should do that.

[UNO Pixie, Our UNO Helper]

Looking for colour covers for books?

In our captains group, we have decided to use standard shelf names to make our own little database of cover colours for UNO :)

These will show on the goodreads shelves and you can search these links for coloured covers!
red covers
blue covers
green covers
yellow covers

Important note
Some books on this list may not seem like the colour cover. This is because GR will show the default version. There may be a specific version that has been shelved that is the actual colour. The version you read is what you should shelve, and is what counts, for UNO

Note: If you also like to shelve coloured covers and add to these lisys, you can shelve coloured books as these shelf names:
uno-yellow
uno-green
uno-red
uno-blue

:)

[Chava]

Pixie and crew, you have done a great job!! I'm so excited to start this challenge. The names are awesome

[Kay]

Um, what if our captain doesn't show up? the captain for the donuts team hasn't appeared yet

[Jen]

Were we required to post here? I'm confused why I wasn't added to an team.

[Chelsey]

How much of the cover needs to be that color. Can i count this for yellow for example?

[Lisa - (Aussie Girl)]

Chelsey wrote: "How much of the cover needs to be that color. Can i count this for yellow for example? "

It usually has to be 50% of the cover.

Mods, are we using Tin Eye this time or by Group assessment?

[Kay]

What's Tin Eye?

[Christina]

Summertime (aka Mikayla) wrote: "Um, what if our captain doesn't show up? the captain for the donuts team hasn't appeared yet"

just give them time, they're probably busy irl - or asleep depending where they're located. whether captains reserve spots or not, the threads will be opened 24 hours after they got posted anyway ;)

[Jammin Jenny]

Lisa - (Aussie Girl) wrote: Mods, are we using Tin Eye this time or by Group assessment?."

The answer is Group assessment, but if you are unsure, then the captains/co-captains can go to the Captains Group to get a ruling there. No tineye.

[Robynne]

Summertime (aka Mikayla) wrote: "Um, what if our captain doesn't show up? the captain for the donuts team hasn't appeared yet"

Please be patient Mikayla. Your captain has 24 hours from the time the teams were posted and as of right now they have about 18 hours left to update your team threads...

[Lisa - (Aussie Girl)]

Jammin Jenny wrote: "Lisa - (Aussie Girl) wrote: Mods, are we using Tin Eye this time or by Group assessment?."

The answer is Group assessment, but if you are unsure, then the captains/co-captains can go to the Captai..."

Thanks JJ. Wow, I'm glad that Tineye has been banished to the naughty corner, LOL. It was seriously weird sometimes.

[Christina]

Lisa - (Aussie Girl) wrote: "Jammin Jenny wrote: "Lisa - (Aussie Girl) wrote: Mods, are we using Tin Eye this time or by Group assessment?."

The answer is Group assessment, but if you are unsure, then the captains/co-captains..."

I wouldn't say tineye has been,,, banished. we certainly can use it, we're just not required to :)

[Chava]

Robynne wrote: "Summertime (aka Mikayla) wrote: "Um, what if our captain doesn't show up? the captain for the donuts team hasn't appeared yet"

Please be patient Mikayla. Your captain has 24 hours from the time th..."


tick tock tick tock, clock is ticking for the captains LOL
Everyone is too excited!!