Two is Better than Uno

[Jannene]

Hi all, here is team two!!

Team 2
Katrisa
Cherie
Jannene
TrudyAn
Ayacchi
Amanda (Mandy)
Casceil
Mary

Tracking Spreadsheet

[Casceil]

I hope the rest of you understand the rules better than I do.

[Kristie, Moderator]

Casceil wrote: "I hope the rest of you understand the rules better than I do."

I know this is more complicated than a lot of the topplers. Feel free to ask for clarification on anything you find confusing in the main thread. I check there often. I think once you get started it will be easier. :)

[Trudy]

Hi team! This looks like a great toppler. Off to gopher.

[Kristie, Moderator]

Hi team 2! You have a new player joining your team. Her name is Mary and she should be checking in soon.

[Cherie]

Hi team! I am off to see what Kristie posted now. ;o)
I love UNO!

[Mary]

Checking in to Team 2! I’ve never done one of these before so bear with me. Excited to try!

[Mary]

So what’s our team name, our theme? Feeling lost!

[Jannene]

Any suggestions on the team name??

[Jannene]

Casceil, I think we need to plan for Hand 1. Each one of us picks a task that fits for hand one and then we can move onto Hand 2.

I’ll get the spreadsheet going unless someone else on the team volunteered to be captain as well.

[Cherie]

Funny, but with the theme, I think Team 2 fits, but we could be Team "Trompers" or "Terrible" or "Terminators".

I have been gophering the titles for the books that I already own. I have 23 that I could read that cover a range of categories.

I have six 0s, seven 1s, two 2s, four 3s, five 4s, one 5, four 6s, no 7s, two 8s, one 9, four Skips, three Draw 2s, and one Wild Draw 4, The Art of Racing in the Rain, which can also be a 6.

I can probably read 4 books or maybe 5, depending on which ones I take (6 might be a stretch, depending on the pages). I am even willing to do the Reverse task for Hand 1 if no one else wants it.

I think the Reverse is going to be interesting to do for the first hand.

[Jannene]

I put up the spreadsheet. I have a separate sheet for planning. I'll put down yours Cherie of the possibilities.

[Jannene]

Cherie wrote: "Hi team! I am off to see what Kristie posted now. ;o)
I love UNO!"

I have UNO Attack at home. I love how it spits out the cards to you.

[Ayacchi]

I'm planning on reading some series so I might be able to read some for topplers (the less pages the better as long as it's 175s I guess). Will do proper gophering now and put the list down. Anyway I'm not good with naming and all I think is Two by Two 😂

[Cherie]

I might be able to come up with a 7 book. Pyramids is currently available from my library as an ebook. I cannot decide if I should borrow it now, or wait until the toppler date is closer.

[Cherie]

If no one wants the Reverse for Hand One, I would really like to have it. I will listen to a book that TrudyAn recently listened to, The Last Painting of Sara de Vos.

[Ayacchi]

My options are:
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The Trumpet of the Swan
Card 0 － mostly white cover (?)
Card 8 － author E. B. White
Card Wild Draw 4 － animal as main character/on cover

Then
Card 1 － mostly red cover
Card 2 － #2 in series
Card 2 － title starts with T
Card Skip － child as main character (?)

Summer Term at St Clare's ✔
Card 3 － #3 in series
Card 6 － title starts with S
Card 8 － author Enid Blyton
Card Skip － child as main character
Card Draw 2 － takes place in school
Card Wild Draw 4 － season in title (summer)✔

The Mystery of the Strange Messages (my copy is 251 pages)
Card 8 － author Enid Blyton
Card Skip －#10 or higher in series (#14)
Card Skip － child as main character

Fifth Formers of St Clare's (my copy is 288 pages)✔
Card 4 － title starts with F
Card 6 － #6 in series
Card 8 － author Enid Blyton✔
Card Skip － child as main character (?)
Card Draw 2 － takes place in school✔

Second Form at St Clare's (my copy is 259 pages)✔
Card 4 － #4 in series✔
Card 6 － title starts with S
Card 8 － author Enid Blyton
Card Skip － child as main character
Card Draw 2 － takes place in school

Claudine at St Clare's✔
Card 5 － #5 in series✔
Card 8 － author Enid Blyton
Card Skip － child as main character (?)
Card Draw 2 － takes place in school

Haunted (my copy is 194 pages)✔
Card 3 － title starts with H
Card 7 － #7 in series✔
Card Draw 2 － author R. L. Stine

The New Year's Party
Card 9 － #9 in series
Card Draw 2 － author R. L. Stine

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Hand 1 possibilities:
Card 4 － Fifth Formers of St Clare's
Card Wild －
Card 4 － Second Form at St Clare's
Card 6 － Second Form at St Clare's , Summer Term at St Clare's , Fifth Formers of St Clare's
Reverse －
Card 5 － Claudine at St Clare's , Then
Card Wild Draw 4 － The Trumpet of the Swan , Summer Term at St Clare's

[Katrisa]

Hi Team! I am a bit overwhelmed by the rules for a minute :) I will see what I can gopher for!

[Katrisa]

Jannene wrote: "Any suggestions on the team name??"

Two is better than Uno
Deuces Wild
It Takes 2 to Tango

[Katrisa]

I think I'll start looking for hand 2 books.
9 - Native Tongue (Black Cover)
7 - The Vampire Lestat (Title Starts with V)
6 - Shadowfell (Title starts with S)
5 - Wolves of the Calla (5th in a series)

[Cherie]

I LOVE “Two is better than UNO”!!!!!

[Janice, Moderator]

Mary wrote: "Checking in to Team 2! I’ve never done one of these before so bear with me. Excited to try!"

Hi Mary! Welcome to YLTO and your very first toppler. I hope you enjoy it. I'm not on your team but wanted to say welcome anyway.

[Cherie]

Hi Mary!

[Jannene]

Welcome everyone. I’ll add Mary to the list.

[Jannene]

I like Deuces Wild.

[Jannene]

Ayacchi wrote: "My options are: ."

Are those long enough? It looks like the number of pages are 156 regarding the St. Clare’s.

[Ayacchi]

Jannene wrote: "Are those long enough? It looks like the number of pages are 156 regarding the St. Clare’s."

My copies of St. Clare's are all 250+ pages. Or should we follow the main page pages?

[Amanda (Mandy)]

Checking in. I will go through today and see which tasks I have books to fit.

[Amanda (Mandy)]

The spreadsheet says it is locked. I can't access it.

Jannene wrote: "Hi all, here is team two!!

Team 2
Katrisa
Cherie
Jannene
TrudyAn
Ayacchi
Amanda (Mandy)
Casceil
Mary

Tracking Spreadsheet"

[Ayacchi]

Amanda (Mandy) wrote: "The spreadsheet says it is locked. I can't access it."

Just click the request access button (or something like that) and later Jannene will grant the request 👌

[Jannene]

Ayacchi wrote: "Jannene wrote: "Are those long enough? It looks like the number of pages are 156 regarding the St. Clare’s."

My copies of St. Clare's are all 250+ pages. Or should we follow the main page pages?"

You are good if your copies are more pages, it is based on what you are reading.

[Jannene]

Amanda (Mandy) wrote: "The spreadsheet says it is locked. I can't access it.”

You will have to request it since I don’t know email addresses.

[Ayacchi]

Jannene wrote: "You are good if your copies are more pages, it is based on what you are reading."

Got it, thanks Jannene!

[Katrisa]

ok - I made some changes to my plans, since my Vampire Lestat came in from the library and it's a longer book anyway, so I am just listening to it right now. For the toppler I will start with
The War to End All Wars: World War I (Author's name starts with F for card 4)

and
Shadowfell (Title starts with S - card 6)

[Trudy]

Cherie wrote: "If no one wants the Reverse for Hand One, I would really like to have it. I will listen to a book that TrudyAn recently listened to, The Last Painting of Sara de Vos."

Great choice, Cherie. I hope you enjoy it as much as I did.

[Trudy]

For hand 1, I’d like to read either
Irena's Children: The Extraordinary Story of the Woman Who Saved 2,500 Children from the Warsaw Ghetto (for card 5, I, title)
Or Crooked Letter, Crooked Letter (for card 4, F, author, Tom Franklin)

Or, if all hand 1 cards have been assigned to others, I’ll find something on hand 2.

[Jannene]

Trudy we still need card 5 for hand 1. Do you want me to put you down?

[Trudy]

Sure, I can do card 5 for hand 1.

[Ayacchi]

@Jannene the sheet says that you and Cherie are planning to read the same book, or is it typo?

[Casceil]

I have signed up for a book in Hand 2. For "9", I will read Under the Radar.

[Amanda (Mandy)]

The first 2 books I plan to read are:

The Night Tiger
--stand alone (zero)=hands 3,5, 7 or 8
--main character <18 yo(SKIP)=hands 3, 7 or 8

American Demon
--Author starts with "H" (Three)=hands 2,4,7, or 8
--Author starts with "K" and book 14 in series (SKIP)=hands 3. 7. or 8


I have several books that will fit hand 2 that I could change my plan up and use if need be. Just let me know.

[Jannene]

Ayacchi wrote: "@Jannene the sheet says that you and Cherie are planning to read the same book, or is it typo?"

Not a typo, we are doing a buddy read together and it qualifies for a few cards.

[Ayacchi]

Jannene wrote: "Not a typo, we are doing a buddy read together and it qualifies for a few cards."

That's great! At first I thought it's one book one task so I asked

[Amanda (Mandy)]

I signed up for the Reverse card for Hand 1. I have recently purchased the The Cruel Prince which was the monthly read last month and I believe I saw some of our team members participate in the discussion.

[Katrisa]

Amanda (Mandy) wrote: "I signed up for the Reverse card for Hand 1. I have recently purchased the The Cruel Prince which was the monthly read last month and I believe I saw some of our team members partic..."

Yep! I read that one last month!

[Katrisa]

Ok I found a book for hand 2. I added it to the spreadsheet. I will do
Behind Closed Doors for card 1 (#1 in a series)

[Jannene]

You guys are making my job easy by putting your reads/reservations on the spreadsheet.

[Katrisa]

Jannene wrote: "You guys are making my job easy by putting your reads/reservations on the spreadsheet."

The hardest part was coming up with a spreadsheet to neatly organize this toppler! Thanks so much!

[Jannene]

Mary, have you found any books that fit?

[Ayacchi]

I added a book for card 8 and draw 2 for hand 3. We can exchange if anyone want to do the draw 2