Saar's Cluedo Challenge

[Fiona]

CLUEDO


Sign-ups are open.
The challenge is open-ended.

Let’s investigate a murder, shall we?

The Challenge
1. Sign up here and I will create a challenge thread for you.

2. You will read one book for every suspect, room and murder weapon, making it 21 tasks.

3. The tasks can be read in any order with the following exception: The first 3 tasks need to be one of each category. These will form your character, the room you’re in and the weapon you use for self defense. The last task you read of each category will make up your guess for murderer, crime scene and murder weapon.

4. Before posting your tasks, I will generate a random constellation of murderer, crime scene and murder weapon. For each right guess through your final tasks, you will receive a point. There will be one point given for every category that you finish and you will be awarded 1 point if your character consists of 2 or more of the murderer’s pieces.

5. If you are stuck, please let me know in your thread. You can then choose which task you want to substitute with a book that meets the general challenge rules. PLEASE NOTE that you can only use this out once throughout the challenge. If you want another break, you can use 7 points from your account to buy it. You can only use points from other challenges.

6. Please make a completion post in your thread using this template:

Book:
Author:
Date completed:
Task:
How it fits:

7. If you don't have a personal point account thread yet, request one here.

8. General challenge rules apply. The completion date of a book counts.

[Fiona]

TASKS

Suspects
Miss Scarlett: Read a book that has a movie adaptation.
Reverend Green: Read a book set between 1940 and 1970.
Colonel Mustard: Read a book with a mustache on the cover.
Professor Plum: Read a book with a title that starts with either C or S.
Mrs. Peacock: Read a book with a ball gown on the cover.
Mrs. White: Read a book in which someone drinks wine. State the page and a brief passage.

Murder weapons
Candlestick: Read a book with “music” tagged on the main page.
Dagger: Read a book with more than 400 pages.
Lead Pipe: Read a book set in Chicago.
Revolver: Read a book set in either Germany or Austria.
Rope: Read a murder mystery.
Wrench: Read a book with “key” in the title.

Crime Scenes
Kitchen: Read a book in which someone bakes. State the page and a brief passage.
Ballroom: Read a book with “LGBT” tagged on the main page.
Conservatory: Read a book with a garden on the cover.
Dining Room: Read a book set in a hotel.
Billiard Room: Read a book set in the 18th century.
Library: Read a book in which books play a significant role.
Lounge: Read a book with a female main character in her 20s.
Hall: Read a book set in any country’s capital.
Study: Read a book with the numbers 2 and 4 in the page count.

[Fiona]

CHALLENGE PROGRESS
Your character: Miss Scarlett | Dagger | Ballroom

Suspects completed: 2/6

Murder weapons completed: 1/6

Crime scenes completed: 1/9

Your guess:

Points:

[Saar The Book owl]

Book: The Call of the Wild
Author: Jack London
Date completed: 05/20/'23
Task: Miss Scarlett: Read a book that has a movie adaptation.
How it fits: 'The call of the wild' was made into a movie.

[Saar The Book owl]

Book: If You Tell: a True Story of Murder, Family Secrets, and the Unbreakable Bond of Sisterhood
Author: Gregg Olsen
Date completed: 05/28/'23
Task: Dagger: Read a book with more than 400 pages.
How it fits: 41 pages.

[Saar The Book owl]

Book: Nick en Charlie hebben elkaar meer dan ooit nodig
Author: Alice Oseman
Date completed: 06/17/'23
Task: Ballroom: Read a book with “LGBT” tagged on the main page.
How it fits: the graphic novel has the tag LGBT.

[Saar The Book owl]

Book: Salt & Broom
Author: Sharon Lynn Fisher
Date completed: 08/07/'24
Task: Professor Plum: Read a book with a title that starts with either C or S.
How it fits: title starts with S.