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[Jessi]

I did the same Steven except I went ease instead of south and now I have to go west twice to get back lol

[Sammy]

Steven wrote: "Well shucks, I ran into a dead end that will take multiple moves to get back to the branch in the path. *sigh* I should have known south wasn't the right way when my first instinct was east!"

D'oh! Hopefully you'll pick the right direction next time. I suspect we'll all have moments like that during this game...

I wanted to go east too at the start, but my prompt was to read a book with a page number that was a prime number, so that ruled east out. I've been stuck on a never-ending journey south since then, lol!

[Steven]

Well, Sammy, my only choice after going north twice back to the only branch is east! So I will be picking the right direction, at least for one move hahaha

[Steven]

Jessi wrote: "I did the same Steven except I went ease instead of south and now I have to go west twice to get back lol"

Oh no!!!! I wasn't wishing my pain on anyone else LOL

[Sophie, The other one]

Sam wrote: "I have a question. I signed up for novice (just title/page count, no tasks) but every step I've done has a task. Do I just ignore the task and do the direction or is my maze messed up?"

Sorry Sam, I accidentally set it up as easy. Just ignore the tasks for now.

[Tricia]

Sophie wrote: "I've just found out that everything on my tbr published on the 17th of a month, isn’t available at my library and I don't already have a copy of. Might take me a while to get moving."

Did you find one? I'm procrastinating at work, so searched my lists for you and found these published on the 17th:

One Second After by William Forstchen
Atonement by Ian McEwan
Monster, She Wrote: The Women Who Pioneered Horror and Speculative Fiction by Lisa Kroger
These Violent Delights by Chloe Gong
The Final Empire by Brandon Sanderson
In the Woods by Tana French
The Grownup by Gillian Flynn
Forward Collection Series - 6 short kindle books curated by Blake Crouch.
The Girls of Slender Means by Muriel Spark

[Jessi]

Steven wrote: "Jessi wrote: "I did the same Steven except I went ease instead of south and now I have to go west twice to get back lol"

Oh no!!!! I wasn't wishing my pain on anyone else LOL"

LOL it's okay at least my next task wasn't too difficult to get me going west again

[Sammy]

ARGH! So I read 'Wonder' for the dreaded YA task (thanks for the rec!), and hit a dead end and have to move back up to the start again. (while grumbling about the book needing a lion. I can only think of one series with lions, and I'm SO not reading those! lol)

Will the tasks change when we go back over the same spaces, or stay the same? If they're the same, I'll have the same dilemma at the start of not being able to read a book with a prime number amount of pages to move east! A wee bit of a quandry, lol.

[Sammy]

Is lion shifter acceptable for the lion task? I think I may have one of those...

[Jenny]

Hey! What do you have against Mr. Tumnus and Reepicheep?

If it doesn't have to be a talking lion, then read Out of Africa, or search for books that take place in the African savanna.

[Sophie, The other one]

Tricia wrote: "Sophie wrote: "I've just found out that everything on my tbr published on the 17th of a month, isn’t available at my library and I don't already have a copy of. Might take me a while to get moving...."

Thanks for searching through! I eventually found A Sea of Sorrow: A Novel of Odysseus which I'm looking forward to.

[Sophie, The other one]

Sammy wrote: "ARGH! So I read 'Wonder' for the dreaded YA task (thanks for the rec!), and hit a dead end and have to move back up to the start again. (while grumbling about the book needing a lion. I can only th..."

The tasks will be randomly generated for every move so you'll probably get completely different things. I can't promise the same ones won't come up again though.

I'm feeling generous so shifters will be allowed.

[Hayley]

it sucks cause some of the tasks only have one option and you have to make sure the task and the page count match to even move. I moved back twice lol. Now i'm stuck because i have to find Read a book where the ISBN10 number has 8 or more even numbers!!!!! I have had zero luck finding one with 8 even numbers!

[Tricia]

Hayley wrote: "it sucks cause some of the tasks only have one option and you have to make sure the task and the page count match to even move. I moved back twice lol. Now i'm stuck because i have to find Read a b..."

OMG, that is hard. Okay, how about looking up books by isbn? Put in numbers with 8 even numbers and see what you get? Does zero count as even?

[Jenny]

I went through a favorites list, and found some that are good.I found them from adding isbn13 to settings...(Of course the editions will be different isbns, but the ones on my list work.)

[Tricia]

Jenny wrote: "I went through a favorites list, and found some that are good.I found them from adding isbn13 to settings...(Of course the editions will be different isbns, but the ones on my list work.)

[bookcov..."

Migrations was a fantastic book. Probably my top read from last year.

[Jenny]

One of mine too. Did you read her next one- ?
I liked it just as much.

[Tricia]

Not yet but it's definitely on my TBR list.

[Sophie, The other one]

Hayley wrote: "it sucks cause some of the tasks only have one option and you have to make sure the task and the page count match to even move. I moved back twice lol. Now i'm stuck because i have to find Read a b..."

Some of the hard tasks are very hard, sorry you are finding it so difficult. Thanks to everyone who is searching their shelves to help people who are struggling to find something that works.

To put it in perspective there are:
260 easy tasks
480 medium tasks
350 hard tasks

Not all the hard tasks are as difficult as that one, but they tend to be things that require more in depth searching to find a book. Hopefully the mix you get helps you to find it enjoyable.

This is the first time we've tried this, so we're grateful for all of you being guinea pigs while we work out the kinks.


HELP IF STUCK
If people are stuck, you can spell out either HELP or SKIP using only books that work for the direction you want to go and post the spell out in the thread including the task you are skipping in the post. You can then use one of the books to complete the square in the maze.

If you get a few tasks that are too hard, we can always reset you to a different difficulty maze.

[Emma (M)]

Can I sign up for the maze please - Easy works for me.
Thanks :)

[Sammy]

Jenny wrote: "Hey! What do you have against Mr. Tumnus and Reepicheep?

If it doesn't have to be a talking lion, then read Out of Africa, or search for books that take place in the African savanna."

I absolutely adored those books as a kid. Then I tried reading them to my kids when they were little, and the patronising tone just made my skin crawl. Completely ruined all my good memories of those books. I prefer to leave childhood favourites be now, lol.

[Sammy]

Sophie wrote: "The tasks will be randomly generated for every move so you'll probably get completely different things. I can't promise the same ones won't come up again though.

I'm feeling generous so shifters will be allowed"

That's going to make life a lot easier, thank you!

And thanks for the shifters. I'm not convinced I'm going to love the book, but I got given the entire series about 7 years ago, and I really needed a kick up the backside to finally read at least one of them. I'll at least be able to finally remove them from my shelf if it doesn't go well, lol!

[Sammy]

Jenny wrote: "I went through a favorites list, and found some that are good.I found them from adding isbn13 to settings...(Of course the editions will be different isbns, but the ones on my list work.)

[bookcov..."

100% second [bookcover:We Are Legion (We Are Bob)|32109569] if you like sci-fi. LOVE those books.

[Sammy]

I actually think all the hard tasks are brilliant (even if I'm grumbling, lol), because it gets us all talking and helping each other.
And while I'm predominantly trying to read books already on my tbr (so therefore I already own and really should have read already!), it's a great way of getting recs of books you'd never have thought of reading otherwise. :)

[Hayley]

Jenny wrote: "I went through a favorites list, and found some that are good.I found them from adding isbn13 to settings...(Of course the editions will be different isbns, but the ones on my list work.)

[bookcov..." thanks the Women in the Window had a isbn 10 that had the 8 even #. isbn13 wouldn't be hard but finding and ISBN 10 with 8 was rough lol

[Saar The Book owl]

Can I still join? I would like to try the easy level.

[Alisha]

Playing on easy and my next task is: Read a book shelved (listed on the first page on GR) as 2004 - plurals and spelling acceptable.

I cannot find a book that has 2004 as a top shelf listed on the first page. Can anyone else? Can I instead choose a book that was published in 2004?

[Lexi]

Alisha wrote: "Playing on easy and my next task is: Read a book shelved (listed on the first page on GR) as 2004 - plurals and spelling acceptable.

I cannot find a book that has 2004 as a top shelf listed on the..."

Here is the list: https://www.goodreads.com/shelf/show/...

You will just have to check if it is first page

[Alisha]

Lexi wrote: "Alisha wrote: "Playing on easy and my next task is: Read a book shelved (listed on the first page on GR) as 2004 - plurals and spelling acceptable.

I cannot find a book that has 2004 as a top shel..."

I found this page too and checked several of them and none of them have this tag on the first page.

[Sophie, The other one]

Looking through the list quickly I've found The Jane Austen Book Club, The Amateur Marriage, Bet Me, Nighttime Is My Time.

The big names towards the top have so many reviews that 2004 doesn’t make an impact.

[Alisha]

Sophie wrote: "Looking through the list quickly I've found The Jane Austen Book Club, The Amateur Marriage, Bet Me, Nighttime Is My Time.

The big names towards..."

Ok maybe I misunderstood the assignment! I thought it had to be literally on the "first page" i.e. the page with all the info about the book and the top 10 shelves. But now I'm understanding that it means the first page of tags. Is that right? Thank you for finding these.

[Sophie, The other one]

1st page of tags! Once I'm on my laptop for more than 5 mins I'm going to update the FAQs to make that clearer and include the info to skip a task.

[Sammy]

ARGH! Stoopid shifter book only has panthers, no lions! How dare they! lol.

[Cat]

stooopid! painful and stooopid, or just stupid?

I'm lucky that my first two tasks have been on the easier side, so I am expecting a run of hateful ISBN number tasks soon

[Jenny]

I haven't run across it yet, but regarding the isbn tasks- when searching my books there are two searchable isbn options. Isbn and isbn13. American books tend to have 13 numbers in the isbn, so that is what I assume I would search. Is that correct?

[Sammy]

Cat wrote: "stooopid! painful and stooopid, or just stupid?

I'm lucky that my first two tasks have been on the easier side, so I am expecting a run of hateful ISBN number tasks soon"

So far within bearable limits and stoopid. not going to make any of my favourite lists however, lol.

[Jessi]

Read a book with fairies... Do they have to be referred to by that spelling? Or would Faeries work? Weird question but books do generally make a distinction about it, especially UF Faeries.

[Sophie, The other one]

Jessi wrote: "Read a book with fairies... Do they have to be referred to by that spelling? Or would Faeries work? Weird question but books do generally make a distinction about it, especially UF Faeries."

If they are recognisably fairies (even if called a variant i.e. Fae or Faeries) that's fine. The same goes for Vamphires etc.

[Sonia]

Sammy wrote: "ARGH! Stoopid shifter book only has panthers, no lions! How dare they! lol."

*cough* Kate Daniels *cough*

[Sonia]

Jessi wrote: "Read a book with fairies... Do they have to be referred to by that spelling? Or would Faeries work? Weird question but books do generally make a distinction about it, especially UF Faeries."

Holly Black usually uses fairies, not fae. I think.

[Eni]

After a month of being incessantly tormented about this new maze challenge, I finally caved and I shall join you!

(Jk Sonia did talk about it A LOT but it sounds really cool)

But I'm only trying medium.

[Steven]

Eni wrote: "After a month of being incessantly tormented about this new maze challenge, I finally caved and I shall join you!

(Jk Sonia did talk about it A LOT but it sounds really cool)

But I'm only trying ..."

Yay, Eni!! :D I am doing medium too. :)

[Sonia]

It was not a month. It started 2 weeks ago.

Meh

[Eni]

Sonia wrote: "It was not a month. It started 2 weeks ago.

Meh"

You've been nagging me since before it started!

@Steven I saw! :D medium buddies :D

[Sammy]

Sonia wrote: "Sammy wrote: "ARGH! Stoopid shifter book only has panthers, no lions! How dare they! lol."

*cough* Kate Daniels *cough*"

I think I have one of those, but it's book 3 or 5 or something in the series. If I haven't found anything in my tbr by payday I'll go raid amazon :)

[Jenny]

was short and adorable, and has lions.

[Sammy]

Jenny wrote: " was short and adorable, and has lions."

I certainly like the price of that one! 77p works for me :D

[Viji]

Task: Read a book shelved (listed on the first page on GR) as first-reads - plurals and spelling acceptable

I came across the list:
https://www.goodreads.com/genres/firs...

I am reading The Most Dangerous Duke in London for another challenge. I found that this book is listed in the 'first reads' list. Could I use this book for the above task? Thanks.

[Viji]

Angie ☯ wrote: "If you have a "regular" kindle reader, like a kindle paper white - but not the Kindle Fire (at least not the older one), you can search for a word or phrase in all books on the device. Don't open a..."

Thanks a lot, Angie, for the tip. It is really helpful.

[Sammy]

Jenny wrote: " was short and adorable, and has lions."

It definitely was short and relatively painless, lol! Thanks Jenny!

Next up should be easy. A book listed on 1st page of tags as 'trilogy'. Just need to remember to look for a title in the first half of the alphabet! :)