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Jamie wrote: "Hey Lexi! I'll try and answer a few and anyone else can jump on and correct me if I'm wrong. What we set is just a guess so you can read more or less. In the first message there is a link to our ..."
I normally use Goodreads on my phone. That's why I haven't seen anything except a part of the picture😂
Thank you for your explanation:)
I never really wrote a review. Hope that isn't a problem?
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Jamie wrote: "@Lexi - You'll have to write a review for the book to count. I believe that status updates will work as well if you do those instead of reviews."I always do multiple status updates, but I'll try writing reviews😅
Thanks
I’ve got all 7 words of todays StrandsDo I post them here when I have them or does everyone puzzle for themselves?
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Whatever is in banked can be used for page points at the end if we don’t use all the banked books.
Jamie wrote: "We all do them as a team, so I think we have all the books we need for this strand. You can put your books in the banked tab and we can possibly use them for the next set of words. Whatever is in..."
I will put the books in there in a minute.
Since the strands game renews everyday, our "words" do aswell or not? If so I have the words of todays puzzle (the theme "literary couples") and could post them here but I wasn't sure if I should. That was more my question.
@Lexi I don’t think we follow the NYT daily strands, but the strands that Alaina provides for usalso, i spotted an issue but not sure if it’s just me, in the ‘Strands’ tab Alaina says that the bolded answers are correct. But she didn’t bold HISTORICAL, does that mean we didn’t get that? Then again, that doesn’t really make sense because if we got everything else that can be the only correct answer.. 🤔
so sorry if y’all are waiting for me to finish Heartless Hunter, i’m 71% through and will do my best to finish asap 😅
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@Lexi - I went back to the rules and it says that: Each team will be given the same Strands to start off with and then receive different ones after finishing.
So once we finish this set of words, we will get a new set.
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I‘ve got a few words but some of them have to be wrong cuz I only found 5 wordsMidnight
Prince
Dance
Pumpkin?
Slipper?
Lexi wrote: "I‘ve got a few words but some of them have to be wrong cuz I only found 5 wordsMidnight
Prince
Dance
Pumpkin?
Slipper?"
The only thing that I found that was different was the word Pink
okay i’ve got all the words!prince
spell
midnight
dance
slipper
pumpkin
CINDERELLA
Just started a book about Cinderella. Think I’ll be done tomorrow.Then we’ll have “Cinderella” as well:)
i'll have to see if any of my current books fit these 😅
I took 2, I'd finished 2 books earlier todayworking on another but I haven't run words yet to see what it would work for.
if anyone has time to check what we have in the bank, we might be able to have this set done but if no one has time, no worries!
Thanks esther for figuring out this new round! Just posted for PUMPKIN. We have CINDERELLA and SLIPPER left.
I'm almost done with my book. It contains both words, cinderella and slipper. My next book contains slipper.
I think I'm done with both books tomorow.
Except you can find one of those words somewhere else I'd put them in the speadsheet tomorrow I think.
By the way: I'm surprised of how much I'm reading in the past days😂 Haven't spend that much time into reading for a long time
Lexi wrote: "I'm almost done with my book. It contains both words, cinderella and slipper. My next book contains slipper.
I think I'm done with both books tomorow.
Except you can find one of those words some..."
Sounds great! The challenges will do that to you haha. Participating in this group definitely upped my reading this past year.
Also, check out the buddy reads if you haven't already. There may be someone already or interested in reading the same book as you. It's fun to read books with others and it gets you some extra points.
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Woohoo! We got a new one. I believe I've figured it out. If someone wants to check it out and confirm that would be great. This is what I got:
CARDINAL SINS
GREED
ENVY
PRIDE
GLUTTONY
WRATH
LUST
SLOTH
Should be interesting!
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great job everyone! keep up the good work, we’re going really fast 🤪
I slotted my book for “lust” but if anyone finishes one that fits, feel free to delete mine and I’ll use it later. Probably won’t finish until Wednesday
I blinked and we're on the 3rd strand?! I'm getting there guys, I'll get a book with a word read slowly but surely!
checking in - excited to be part of this new game
Jessie (Saffity) wrote: "I blinked and we're on the 3rd strand?! I'm getting there guys, I'll get a book with a word read slowly but surely!"awe, no worries! it's only the 6th! lots of time to grab one!
Tiffany wrote: "checking in - excited to be part of this new game"Welcome!!
awe, no worries! it's only the 6th! lots of time to grab one!"I'll get them done! I'm sure! My 3 grown up books this month! Until then, I'll keep plugging in my kids' books for page points, every little bit counts!
Whoot just saw we got "Cardinal Sin"!!! Now to get Lust claimed and we move to a new strand.
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Jamie wrote: "I have a banked book that will fit Lust. I can slide it in and remove Kim's book so we have it finished."Please!! I'm sure we can get kim's book in somewhere else!
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You guys are crushing this! Also I’m glad you found one to replace mine because idk if I’m going to finish that one lol
Found the words in the new puzzle and added them to the S4 tab
Kim wrote: "You guys are crushing this! Also I’m glad you found one to replace mine because idk if I’m going to finish that one lol"Awe, I hope it gets better or you move on to a better one!
Okay, using banked books, I think I completed our Strand.
Woohoo! I'm on the board with a real book! BTW, I was watching you guys figure out the newest strand and you're all machines! That was so fast!
woot way to go Jessie!! I've added the other words to the spreadsheet. not sure if i will have time to go through the banked books but will try after i do dumb adult work stuff 😫
Oh, glad I did mine then, you probably wouldn't have been able to find it, it's a very VERY old book that I read off archive dot org.
I think I've posted what I could from our banked but I definitely could have missed one!off to read more, I'll be back 😊😊
Darn, I almost had saxophone in a spell out but I'm missing the E 😭😭😭(I'm Starting to Worry About This Black Box of Doom Jason Pargin)
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What we set is just a guess so you can read more or less. In the first message there is a link to our team spreadsheet. You can put your books on the banked tab if we don't use them for any of the words that we found for the strand. There are already a couple of us that have banked books, so just follow that.
If you use a book that goes for a word in the strand, you would put your book on the tab labeled S1 etc. (I believe it will be S2 for the next strand once we finish this strand). You also would put your stuff on the review page. There is also a link to that in the first message. There is a template of what we need in msg 1 as well.
I believe we will get new strands once we complete the current one.
Hope this helped some!