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3rd Quarterly: Scrabble
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DeeNeez wrote: "All my book are MM Romance…My books scheduled for this month:
(and known letters they contain)
A C G L P S W Y [bookcover:Dead Serious Case #5 Madame Vivienne|21..."
I would like to read Arcanum! Whenever is best for you is fine. I don’t have any arcs so can move stuff around. Especially since most of my other books are audio
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hii just a friendly reminder that we have to read for ALL the letters first before we can put down HARMONY ! :)
just realized i didn't check in for the quarterly. present!
@Jessica are you reading Secrets & Sake this week? I'll read that one with you and can go request a thread
Jessica wrote: "@Dee if you can give me a week I'll read Starstruck with you.@Amanda, same to you for Contested Crown"
I'll also join Starstruck. I see it's KU so i'm good to start whenever you both are
Jessica wrote: "Books I'm reading this week in case anyone wants to buddy read with me. (All MM romance)
I'm good for Written in the Stars whenever your schedule works
we can place HARMONY on F8 to L8 ? Y will get the dbl letter score
Okay, so since we can't put on review until we've chosen a letter, but we can bank books, my personal opinion is that we don't do letter "claims" but whenever you finish a book you put it on the letters tab if it fits any of the open letters and if not put it in banked. Does that make sense?
That makes sense to me. I finally got the spreadsheets to work for me.. so now I can input data 😉
Ive finished an E put my name on it but will update everything later
Remember, the review posts have to be done for anything to count on the spreadsheet
DeeNeez wrote: "Remember, Read one book per letter using any of the following:
1. Title begins with the letter (includes “a” and “the”)
2. Letter in author’s initials
3. Series title ends with the letter
4. MC’..."
hi - first time scrabbler here - for #1 Title begins with the letter (includes “a” and “the”) - does that mean if a title begins with A, An or The you can only count it for an "A" or a "T"?
thanks :)
Annother newbie question - about the Banked Books tab:Should I just automatically put all my books here and post a review on the Review Thread? Or am I in charge of waiting till there's a spot to use it on the Letters Tab of the SS? And then post on the Reviews thread only when my book is used? Thanks!
Trio wrote: "Annother newbie question - about the Banked Books tab:Should I just automatically put all my books here and post a review on the Review Thread? Or am I in charge of waiting till there's a spot to ..."
I'm unsure about the article question, we only post in the review thread when we're actually using the book so you can put it into banked if it doesn't fit anywhere. It's why I suggested maybe we only put finished books in so that we can keep up with our posts :)
I just finished one that we could currently use but I'm gonna throw it in banked because it's got an MC with an X name so may come in handy later.
esther ⭐️ (in school) wrote: "we can place HARMONY on F8 to L8 ? Y will get the dbl letter score"This makes sense to me Esther!
Any interest in this one:
? I started last night and an MC has a Y name which might be good to have some banks of those. I only made it through chapter 1 so can hold off if anyone was interested
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Read one book per letter using any of the following:
1. Title begins with the letter (includes “a” and “the”)
2. Letter in author’s initials
3. Series title ends with t..."
Yes, you're right! Book titles that start with "a" or "the" would only count for A or T, respectively. I specified this in the rules because some other challenges we've done before allowed you to skip those letters and use the first letter of the first "real" word in the title, but the Scrabble challenge isn't using that rule. Sorry if that made things confusing!
Amanda wrote: "@Jessica are you reading Secrets & Sake this week? I'll read that one with you and can go request a thread"I might start it today, but if not definitely tomorrow. I'll do some thread requests and post when created.
Amanda wrote: "Okay, so since we can't put on review until we've chosen a letter, but we can bank books, my personal opinion is that we don't do letter "claims" but whenever you finish a book you put it on the le..."That's fine. I was thinking if might help others to pick books if they knew what letters others are reading for, but everything will get used eventually any way :)
Kim wrote: "Jessica wrote: "Books I'm reading this week in case anyone wants to buddy read with me. (All MM romance)[bookcover:Th..."Yay! It's not something I would usually read but the description sounded so intriguing. Will request a thread and maybe start on Sunday or soon after.
My Buddy Reads:Started July 1
Open for Business https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...
Starting July 8
Starstruck https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...
Starting July 10
Arcanum https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...
Saige wrote: "Yes, you're right! Book titles that start with "a" or "the" would only count for A or T, respectively. I specified this in the rules because some other challenges we've done before allowed you to skip those letters and use the first letter of the first "real" word in the title, but the Scrabble challenge isn't using that rule. Sorry if that made things confusing!l..."thank you - I'm glad I asked. I know usually you can use or ignore the articles, but the way you worded it seems clear - only A or T. But I figured it doesn't hurt to ask :)
just to clairify about Banked Books please?so I only post the review in the Reviews Thread when it is actually being used.
When it does fit, will I be the one to move it over to one of the Active Letters?
thanks again everyone
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so I only post the review in the Reviews Thread when it is actually being used.
When it does fit, will I be the one to move it over to one of the Active..."
Yes, please only post reviews when the book is actually being used. If you finish a book that doesn't work for any of the current letters, you can bank it and post it later.
You do not need to move letters between active and complete - I'll update that on the review thread and on your SS as you post for letters. The only thing you need to post on the review thread other than reviews is the placement for when you want to play a word
btw i don’t mind if any of y’all help me post my reviews, i might be busy studying for tests!
Hi Toshita, I think you can move your book over to the Letters section so we can complete one Rthen we'll just be left with one R !
Jessica, will you be posting your completions ? or do you need any of us to help you x
esther ⭐️ (in school) wrote: "Hi Toshita, I think you can move your book over to the Letters section so we can complete one Rthen we'll just be left with one R !
Jessica, will you be posting your completions ? or do you need ..."
on it now
I’m currently reading a book with an R, but can’t finish till late this evening. Have guests over for the Holiday celebration.
Id forgotten it was 4th July .Hope eveyone has a good time
Just to say, like Esther, I am more than happy for people to use my banked books - I'm going camping tomorrow and will be trying not to be on the internet too much, so feel free to post them in the review thread if you have time/inclination :)
Remember we need to finish all the letters not just the ones we need to use for HARMONY
So we need two Rs…. And we need to be sure all the other letter in the spreadsheet have coordinating reviews posted for Saige
I’m also okay with people posting my reviews if a banked book fits somewhere 🙂
Seconded, feel free to move around/post on the review thread for any books I have in the banked tab!!
esther ⭐️ (in school) wrote: "Hi Toshita, I think you can move your book over to the Letters section so we can complete one Rthen we'll just be left with one R !
Jessica, will you be posting your completions ? or do you need ..."
Just posted for both Rs
heyy, just a heads up that i just did some moving of books on the SS as well as posted reviews for some!for our next word, i think our best option is JAR from G7-G9. if any of you guys spot a better option don't hesitate to voice it out, my brain is dead from studying 🥲
esther ⭐️ (in school) wrote: "heyy, just a heads up that i just did some moving of books on the SS as well as posted reviews for some!for our next word, i think our best option is JAR from G7-G9. if any of you guys spot a bet..."
What about Jail instead of Jar?
Could make Quail , but not sure if best to use the Q when we can get extra points
Janeylou wrote: "Could make Quail , but not sure if best to use the Q when we can get extra points"Queen would get us a double word score, or should we hold on to Q for triple word/letter? I'm thinking do Jail this turn and wait for a T, then put QUOTE starting from J6
Def think we need to get double / triple letter for Q
But just realize, we may not find a double or triple for place for the Q as the board progresses …
PLAQUEoff the A?
L and Q on double letter
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@Amanda, same to you for Contested Crown"
I've got no timeline for it. Anytime this quarter, whatever works for you :)
Last time I listed all the books I currently had planned and then finished them before others could get to them so this time I just put what I have on my radar and would like to read if anyone is interested