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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.
CHALLENGE PROGRESSYour character: Miss Scarlett | Wrench | Kitchen
Suspects completed: 6/6 🕵️
Murder weapons completed: 6/6 🔪
Crime scenes completed: 9/9 🏠
Your guess: Colonel Mustard | Lead Pipe | Billiard Room
Points: 3
Book: The Vanishing HalfAuthor: Brit Bennett
Date completed: 28 Apr 23
Category: Crime scenes
Task: Kitchen: Read a book in which someone bakes. State the page and a brief passag
How it fits: Chap 7 - the MC bakes a cake for her neighbour
"IN JUNE, she baked her guilt into a lemon cake with vanilla frosting. The idea arrived suddenly—before she could second-guess, she was tugging a bag of flour out of the cupboard, hunting through the refrigerator for eggs. She would go crazy skulking around her own home.."
Book: Never Let Me GoAuthor: Kazuo Ishiguro
Date completed: 28 Apr 23
Category: Suspects
Task: Miss Scarlet: Read a book that has a movie adaptation
How it fits: Made into a movie into 2010
Book: The Turn of the KeyAuthor: Ruth Ware
Date completed: 4 May 23
Category: Murder Weapon
Task: Miss Scarlet: Wrench: Read a book with “key” in the title.
How it fits: Has key in the title
Book: Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and TomorrowAuthor: Gabrielle Zevin
Date completed: 5 May 23
Category: Murder Weapon
Task: Dagger: Read a book with more than 400 pages.
How it fits: 418 pages
Book: Clockwork AngelAuthor: Cassandra Clare
Date completed: 8 May 23
Category: Suspects
Task: Professor Plum: Read a book with a title that starts with either C or S
How it fits: Title starts with C
I'm assuming you mean the Professor Plum task? :)
Book: A Court of Mist and FuryAuthor: Sarah J. Maas
Date completed: 9 May 23
Category: Crime Scenes
Task: Study: Read a book with the numbers 2 and 4 in the page count
How it fits: Page count 624
Book: All Rhodes Lead HereAuthor: Mariana Zapata
Date completed: 13 May 23
Category: Murder weapons
Task: Candlestick: Read a book with “music” tagged on the main page.
How it fits: Music tagged in mpg 9
Book: Nine LiarsAuthor: Maureen Johnson
Date completed: 13 May 23
Category: Murder weapons
Task: Rope: Read a murder mystery.
How it fits: This book is about our MC, Stevie about solving a murder that happened years ago to a group of 9. MpG has murder mystery.
Book: The Daughter of Doctor MoreauAuthor: Silvia Moreno-Garcia
Date completed: 18 May 23
Category: Suspects
Task: Mrs. Peacock: Read a book with a ball gown on the cover.
How it fits: Carlota, the MC, is wearing ball gown on the cover
Book: Big Little LiesAuthor: Liane Moriarty
Date completed: 18 May 23
Category: Crime Scene
Task: Lounge: Read a book with a female main character in her 20s.
How it fits: Jane, one of the MCs, is 24 year old in the book
Ch 4
Sorry,” said Madeline. “I was being frivolous. It was because I was thinking of my own frivolous youth. Or maybe because you’re so young and I’m so old, and I’m trying to be cool. How old are you? Do you mind myasking?”
“Twenty-four,” said Jane.
Book: The Girls I've BeenAuthor: Tess Sharpe
Date completed: 19 May 23
Category: Crime Scene
Task: Ballroom: Read a book with “LGBT” tagged on the main page
How it fits: LGBT 2nd MPG
Book: The GirlsAuthor: Emma Cline
Date comp Suspects
Task: Reverend Green: Read a book set between 1940 and 1970.
How it fits: Majority of the novel is set in 1969, when Evie is 14. In the Blurb, "Northern California, during the violent end of the 1960s"
Just tracking: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.
Book: Our Wives Under the SeaAuthor: Julia Armfield
Date completed: 25 May 23
Task: Mrs. White: Read a book in which someone drinks wine. State the page and a brief passage.
How it fits:
Twilight Zone- Miri's chapter
"Sam opened a bottle of red wine from the Co-op and someone asked if there was anything for dessert...Poppy said to me at one point, red-wine mouthed and leaning towards me with the affect of someone who might have designs on my tonsils. "
Book: Clockwork PrinceAuthor: Cassandra Clare
Date completed: 29 May 23
Task: Hall: Read a book set in any country’s capital.
How it fits: Set in London, UK's capital
Book: The Last WordAuthor: Taylor Adams
Date completed: 07 June 23
Task: Library: Read a book in which books play a significant role
How it fits: The main theme of the story revolves on a trapped situation which arises due to negative book review. The author of the book takes this very seriously and his past novels could also be real incidences.
Book: It Happened One SummerAuthor:Tessa Bailey
Date completed: 31 Jul 23
Task: Suspects: Read a book with a mustache on the cover
How it fits:
Congrats! You finished the category "suspects". 1 point will be awarded to your point account :)
Book: One Italian SummerAuthor: Rebecca Serle
Date completed: 28 Aug 23
Category: Crime Scenes
Task: Dining Room: Read a book set in a hotel.
How it fits: During most of the book, the character resides in a hotel during vacation. The hotel individually also plays a role in the magical realism loop.
Book: Slaughterhouse-Five Author: Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
Date completed: 29 Sep 23
Category: Murder Weapons
Task: Revolver: Read a book set in either Germany or Austria.
How it fits: Mainly set in Dresden, Germany
Book: Look CloserAuthor: David Ellis
Date completed: 07 Jan 24
Task: Lead Pipe: Read a book set in Chicago
How it fits:
Set in Chicago
As per Blurb, "Simon and Vicky couldn't seem more normal: a wealthy Chicago couple, he a respected law professor, she an advocate for domestic violence victims."
Congrats! You finished the category "murder weapons". 1 point will be awarded to your point account :)
Book: The Family Game Author: Catherine Steadman
Date completed: 13 Feb 24
Task: Conservatory: Read a book with a garden on the cover
How it fits: Garden on cover (with maze in it)
Book: The Duchess DealAuthor: Tessa Dare
Date completed: 14 Feb 24
Task: Billiard Room: Read a book set in the 18th century.
How it fits: Using my free pass - fits general guidelines
Congrats! You finished the category "crime scenes". 1 point will be awarded to your point account :)
You completed the Cluedo challenge!Your character/start position was: Miss Scarlett | Wrench | Kitchen
Your final guess is: Colonel Mustard | Lead Pipe | Billiard Room
The murderer, murder weapon and crime scene is: Professor Plum | Candelstick | Billiard Room
You get one point for guessing Billiard Room right!
An additional 15 points will be awarded for completing the challenge :) Good job!
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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.