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The Chain Game - February 2021
Janice wrote: "Janice wrote: "Here's a whole thread devoted to our toppler tea."They are still selling our tea! Proper Toppler & Tipsy Toppler. You will find them towards the bottom of the Signature Blends page."
That's so amazing!! It was years back! Sadly, they don't deliver outside the US.
Kristie wrote: "I'm not sure what happened. My cc received the charge, but no confirmation. Maybe I just put my email address in wrong. Who knows. I almost added an herb to the tea, then thought I would just try..."
So excited for you, Kristie!
Kristie wrote: "I just ordered as well, but I seem to have had some weird payment issue and I didn't get a confirmation, but my cc says it's there, so... I guess we'll see. Computer glitch?"Same thing happened to me, but my bank online says it was charged.
Jayme wrote: "Kristie wrote: "I just ordered as well, but I seem to have had some weird payment issue and I didn't get a confirmation, but my cc says it's there, so... I guess we'll see. Computer glitch?"Same ..."
Oh, so it must be an issue with them. Well, that's good to know, I guess. I was wondering what I did wrong. lol
I'll have to check and see if I still have some Toppler tea. It's be really good now since it's so cold out.
Kristie wrote: "Jayme wrote: "Kristie wrote: "I just ordered as well, but I seem to have had some weird payment issue and I didn't get a confirmation, but my cc says it's there, so... I guess we'll see. Computer g..."hey there - I just received an e-mail saying that my tea is on the way.
I just got an email too. I am looking forward to the Toppler and the tea this cold February weekend.
I got my shipping notification as well! Yay!!
Yay! We will all be sipping tea and reading up a storm...at least it is supposed to storm here in middle Georgia, USA. Icy rain...
I am not sure i understand this but i dont have any on my TBR with those words I am happy to search for books I can maybe commit to 3 in the weekBooks i could read for words the brackets are to tell me how i can get them
Butterfly Butterfly Skin (BB)
cold Cold Comfort
Dark A Dark And Stormy Night (KU)
dawn Bartholomew Mills and the January Dawn (KU)
deadly Deadly News (scribd)
these are just an example i could get something for every word but is the idea to read a chain with the same word in every book or to move from a starting word
say i read Deadly news and then the next person read something with News as starting word or in title
Marie (UK) wrote: "I am not sure i understand this but i dont have any on my TBR with those words I am happy to search for books I can maybe commit to 3 in the weekBooks i could read for words the brackets are to t..."
Could you copy and paste this message into our team thread where we can help you figure out how they'll fit the chains we've currently identified?
Marie (UK) wrote: "is the idea to read a chain with the same word in every book or to move from a starting word say i read Deadly news and then the next person read something with News as starting word or in title ."
You do not need every book in a chain to have the exact same word, unless your team set it up that way. You just need any one word from a title to be in the next title.
Sorry, I thought Marie was asking more specific things to our team's strategy, not a question clarifying the toppler's criteria.
Janice wrote: "Sorry, I thought Marie was asking more specific things to our team's strategy, not a question clarifying the toppler's criteria."I think the first half of her question was team specific, but the second part looked like something I could answer.
Received my "Toppler Teas" yesterday!! Can't wait to sip and read. Thanks Janice for sharing the thread about the teas. I'm in the process of creating a tea blend for my "Beach Gals." This summer is the 25th year that we've been renting a beach house together and was looking for the perfect celebration gift. :)
That's excellent, Jayme! So glad you got it in time for the toppler. :)
Jayme wrote: "Received my "Toppler Teas" yesterday!! Can't wait to sip and read. Thanks Janice for sharing the thread about the teas. I'm in the process of creating a tea blend for my "Beach Gals." This summer..."
Oh wow. That's amazing! Enjoy your beach vacation.
Sounds great Jayme! The tea will be a fun inclusion to your celebration.
I got my tea yesterday too. :) Funny thing is that I have a tea diffuser ball, but I ordered the bags just because they're easier. It is still loose tea. They just give you bags to use. lol
Time to start! Happy topplering, everyone!!
Don't forget your toppler tea!
I’m still looking forward to my tea! We are having an ice storm here and my electricity went out hours ago so no heating water for me yet. It is pretty miserable here. I’m hoping they are able to fix the problem soon.
I hate that. I hope you have a fireplace or generator or some way to stay warm. Scary stuff. I am halfway through my first book. It is....something. I dozed off a couple of hours ago,for about 20 minutes. This was around 3:00. When I woke up, I thought it was night. It was and is so dark outside. Low temps tonight but I’m not complaining considering what you are dealing with at the moment.
We do not have a generator and will probably get one for next winter. We never had one in our old house and we would lose electricity all the time. Fortunately, we had a wood fireplace in that house so we didn’t get too cold. We had one particularly bad ice storm there and lost electricity for a week. We decided to finally get a generator. We sold the house a couple of years later and never once needed the generator. That generator stayed with the house.
Funny thing is we’ve been saying for a while that we really miss our wood fireplace. We have a gas fireplace, but it looks pathetic and doesn’t throw any heat so we never use it. We have someone coming to the house next week to give us an estimate to get it replaced with a wood fireplace. Unfortunately, that doesn’t help us now.
So, for now I’m just snuggled in blankets with the dogs and hoping they can fix it quickly. It’s been out for about 6 hours now. Fingers are crossed.
Stay warm Kristie. You guys are getting slammed. We are just getting cold rain here.
Jayme wrote: "Stay warm Kristie. You guys are getting slammed. We are just getting cold rain here."Hope they get it fixed soon. Snuggle up with those dogs - they're lovely and warm.
I hope your electricity comes back on soon! Fingers crossed and positive thoughts are coming your way. Snuggle in and enjoy your cocoon.
Thanks, guys. Electricity is still out. I can only check in when I take a drive to get internet and charge my phone. Hope everything is going well for everyone. It looks like you’ve all got it under control. Beth - You can join team one, if you’d like.
Hi Kristie - Crossing fingers you all have power soon.Could you clarify scoring? I've been peeking at other teams' spreadsheets (I know I'm competitive) and it seems that teams are scoring the books read differently.
Is it that you get 15 points for each book read if you go over 9 books?
example: A team has read 10 books so they have 150 total points
or
1 -4 books= 20 pts (5 pts each), 5 -8 books = 40 pts (10 pts each), 9-10 books = 30 pts (15 pts each) 90 total points and any book read after would be 15 points
Also, the scoring is per chain not total accumulated books?
I just want to make sure everyone is on the same page :)
Heh, I hadn't thought about the latter way .... I saw it as the former. Either way though, Kristie knows they way scoring should be so it would have all come out in the wash at the end :)
I went your 2nd way as Kristie wrote it:1st 4 books in the chain = 5 points per book
books # 5-8 in chain = 10 points each
book # 9 and beyond in chain = 15 points each
and the scoring would be per chain.
Our team read it as the second way too, but when I saw Lynn's scoring I thought "hey, we might have more points." so I thought I'd ask our brilliant toppler leader. :)
Jayme wrote: "Hi Kristie - Crossing fingers you all have power soon.Could you clarify scoring? I've been peeking at other teams' spreadsheets (I know I'm competitive) and it seems that teams are scoring the bo..."
It's the second way, Jayme. The scoring starts over with each chain. So if you read 16 books but split them between two chains you would need to start with the 5 point books again.
Adding on to your example, if you had two chains, the first with 10 books, it would be 90 points total. Then, you have a second chain, with six books, you would start over - the first four 5 points each & the next two 10 points each, so a total of 40 points for the second chain.
Lynn wrote: "Heh, I hadn't thought about the latter way .... I saw it as the former. Either way though, Kristie knows they way scoring should be so it would have all come out in the wash at the end :)"
Sorry, Lynn! You'll need to re-score. :)
That's ok, no worries .... not that difficult to change
20 minutes left! Hope you're all wrapping up your final reads. :)
That's it for this toppler! I hope you all had fun! Thanks for playing along with us. :)Captains - Please send your final scores to me.
It was good fun, Kristie. Thanks for the great idea!
I second Pragya's thoughts :) Fabulous fun, thank you so much!
Waaaa! It's over. :( I had such a great run of books. Two were 5 star reads and the others were 4 star reads. I really liked the concept of this toppler too. Great idea Kristie!
Great fun! Knocked off a few for challenges and several that I had on my TBR list for ages!
This was awesome, Kristie! Can't wait for the next one!
Glad you all had fun! I had a good time too and good reads. :)
Thanks for an awesome Toppler, Kristie!
Another great toppler, Kristie! Thank you!
Thanks from me too Kristie. It was a great team challenge. Right up my street! And I found some gems to read, that I wouldn't have picked up otherwise...
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I almost added an herb to the tea, then thought I would just try it as is. I can always add a cinnamon stick, cloves, or something in there later. :) It sounds good, so I'm looking forward to receiving it. It would be great if it was here before the toppler.