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Scooby-Doo Mysteries Challenge
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Hi Lanelle!Thank you so much!
I will start at the beginning, Season 1, Episode 1, please.
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1. What a Night for a Knight
When Scooby-Doo and Shaggy find an abandoned pick-up truck with a knight's armour in the front seat, the gang deliver it to the museum in place of the missing professor. However, this Black Knight is said to come alive every full moon. As the gang investigate the knight, they realize that it is a full moon, and the knight has come alive...!
To help the team solve the mystery, read:
1. a book with a vehicle on the cover
2. a historical book
3. a book with a moon on the cover
4. a book with an author whose last name starts with 'B', 'L', 'A', 'C", or 'K'
5. a book with 'Mystery' on the book's main page
Completion Report:Author: K.J. Charles
Book: Band Sinister
Date Read: finished 5/2/2020
Task: "2. a historical book" and "4. a book with an author whose last name starts with 'B', 'L', 'A', 'C", or 'K'"
How it Fits: historical book (specifically, historical romance) and author has a last name that starts with 'C'
Next Episode Choice: Season 1, Episode 2
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2. A Clue for Scooby Doo
At Rocky Point Beach, the gang encounter the ghost of an old sea diver. A sailor claims it to be the ghost of Captain Cutler, who, according to legend, died at sea many years ago when his boat got wrecked and he is getting his revenge.
To help the team solve the mystery, read:
1. a book set by the sea or ocean
2. a book where the main character spends time on a boat
3. a ghost story
4. a book where someone gets revenge
5. a book with 'Mystery' on the book's main page
Completion Report:Author: Amy Rae Durreson
Book: A Frost of Cares: A Winter Ghost Story
Date Read: finished 5/4/2020
Task: "3. a ghost story" and "5. a book with 'Mystery' on the book's main page"
How it Fits: ghost story and the mystery of the ghost (also with one of the MC's previous partner)
Next Episode Choice: Season 1, Episode 3
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3. Hassle in the Castle
After getting lost in the fog, the gang arrive on Haunted Isle, where they meet an unearthly ghost haunting an old, abandoned castle.
To help the team solve the mystery, read:
1. a book where the main character gets lost
2. a book set on an island
3. a book not set on Earth
4. a book someone else did not finish (DNF)
5. a book with 'Mystery' on the book's main page
Completion Report:Author: Josh Lanyon
Book: All She Wrote
Date Read: finished 5/5/2020
Task: "5. a book with 'Mystery' on the book's main page"
How it Fits: book 2 in a mystery series
Next Episode Choice: Season 1, Episode 4
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4. Mine Your Own Business
When the gang get lost in the desert, and end up in Gold City, a spooky ghost town, they check into a deserted inn. The owner explains that everybody has been scared off by the Miner Forty-Niner. They wind up in another mystery involving an abandoned gold mine and a ghostly, moaning miner.
To help the team solve the mystery, read:
1. a book set in a desert
2. a book where the main character spends the night at a hotel, motel or inn
3. a book with a spooky cover
4. a book where the main character goes underground (in a cave, the subway, a basement, etc.)
5. a book with 'Mystery' on the book's main page
Completion Report:Author: Sarina Bowen
Book: Top Secret
Date Read: finished 5/6/2020
Task: "2. a book where the main character spends the night at a hotel, motel or inn"
How it Fits: the MC spends the night at a hotel twice (but both MCs spend the night at a hotel together once for a birthday weekend celebration)
Next Episode Choice: Season 1, Episode 5
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5. Decoy for a Dognapper
When Mystery Inc. hear about a series of dognappings, they investigate. But when Scooby is dognapped, mistaken for another dog, the gang track him to a secret hideout in the desert where they face a witch doctor and a ghostly Indian on horseback.
To help the team solve the mystery, read:
1. a book where the main character has his/her own business
2. a book that is part of a series
3. a book where a kidnapping occurs
4. a book where a doctor is a significant part of the story
5. a book with 'Mystery' on the book's main page
Completion Report:Author: Heidi Cullinan
Book: Special Delivery
Date Read: finished 5/7/2020
Task: "1. a book where the main character has his/her own business" and "2. a book that is part of a series"
How it Fits: MC has his own trucking business and this book is a part of the Special Delivery series
Next Episode Choice: Season 1, Episode 6
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6. What the Hex Going On?
Mystery Inc. is headed to their friend Sharon Wetherby's estate. When they arrive, Sharon's Uncle Stuart disappears, and when they find him, he says he was beckoned by the voice of the Ghost of Elias Kingston from the Kingston Mansion. The gang find themselves wrapped up in the tangle of the spooky ghoul of Elias Kingston who wants the family treasure.
To help the team solve the mystery, read:
1. a book about friends
2. a book whose title starts with 'U', 'N', 'C', "L', or 'E' (ignoring 'a', 'an', 'the')
3. listen to an audio book
4. a book that you consider to be a treasure
5. a book with 'Mystery' on the book's main page
Completion Report:Author: Marguerite Labbe
Book: A Little Side of Geek
Date Read: finished 5/9/2020
Task: "1. a book about friends" and "2. a book whose title starts with 'U', 'N', 'C', "L', or 'E' (ignoring 'a', 'an', 'the')"
How it Fits: book about friends and title starts with 'L'
Next Episode Choice: Season 1, Episode 7
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7. Never Ape an Ape Man
The gang take jobs as extras on the set of Daphne's uncle, John Maxwell's, movie set of The Ape Man of Forbidden Mountain. But, a real apeman has been sabotaging the movie and Mystery Inc. need to catch this ape before he causes the movie to end permanently.
To help the team solve the mystery, read:
1. a book where the main character gets a job
2. a book that has been made into a movie
3. a book that has been tagged 'Realistic Fiction'
4. a book that is the last of its series
5. a book with 'Mystery' on the book's main page
Completion Report:Author: Charlie Cochet
Book: The King and His Vigilant Valet
Date Read: finished 5/3/2020
Task: "4. a book that is the last of its series"
How it Fits: third and final book of the Paranormal Princes series
Next Episode Choice: Season 1, Episode 8
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8. Foul Play in Funland
The gang anticipate the opening of a theme park while clam collecting on a nearby beach. But when the theme park's lights come on and the rides start running, when the park is supposed to be closed, they try to find out who is doing it, and find the shenanigans are being caused by a strange man who walks like a torpedo.
To help the team solve the mystery, read:
1. a book that is the first of a series
2. a book set where the main character goes to a beach
3. a book with an unusual word in the title
4. a book by a male author
5. a book with 'Mystery' on the book's main page
Completion Report:Author: Deanna Wadsworth
Book: The Boyfriend Cruise
Date Read: finished 5/10/2020
Task: "1. a book that is the first of a series" and "2. a book set where the main character goes to a beach"
How it Fits: first of the Pride of the Caribbean series and the MCs are on a cruise and they dock in Aruba where they go to two beaches
Next Episode Choice: Season 1, Episode 9
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9. The Backstage Rage
The gang investigate an abandoned theater where they face a spooky phantom and his puppets, all connected to a counterfeiting operation!
To help the team solve the mystery, read:
1. a book where the main character gets left behind
2. a book where the main character goes to a theater
3. a book where a face is the focus of the cover
4. a book whose title has double letters in its title (puppet)
5. a book with 'Mystery' on the book's main page
Completion Report:Author: Lily Morton
Book: Charlie Sunshine
Date Read: finished 5/12/2020
Task: "2. a book where the main character goes to a theater" and "3. a book where a face is the focus of the cover"
How it Fits: the MCs go to the Globe theatre to see a Shakespeare play and face is the focus of the cover of this book
Next Episode Choice: Season 1, Episode 10
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10. Bedlam in the Big Top
The gang stumble upon a circus that is supposedly haunted by a ghost clown that starts to hypnotize some of them with a gold coin.
To help the team solve the mystery, read:
1. a book with 'stumble' in its text
2. a book with a circus animal in the story
3. a book that is humorous
4. a book that you purchased
5. a book with 'Mystery' on the book's main page
Completion Report:Author: N.R. Walker
Book: The Hate You Drink
Date Read: finished 5/13/2020
Task: "1. a book with 'stumble' in its text"
How it Fits: location 536 - "Every time I stumbled, every time I fell apart, Erik put me back together again."
Next Episode Choice: Season 1, Episode 11
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11. A Gaggle of Galloping Ghosts
While on their way to Franken Castle, the gang stop to get their fortunes told by a gypsy. She warns them "they will meet their doom" if they go to the castle. The gang goes to the castle anyway, where they are confronted by Count Dracula, Frankenstein's monster and the Wolfman.
To help the team solve the mystery, read:
1. a book with 'castle' in the text of the book
2. a book where something bad happens to the MC
3. a book with a significant character who is nobility
4. a book that is considered a classic
5. a book with 'Mystery' on the book's main page
Completion Report:Author: Z.A. Maxfield
Book: ePistols At Dawn
Date Read: finished 5/17/2020
Task: "1. a book with 'castle' in the text of the book"
How it Fits: p43 - "“Stop the presses. Writer diversifies. Everybody liquor up and get your torches, we’re going to castle ¹ó°ù²¹²Ô°ì±ð²Ô´Ú²¹²µ.â€�"
Next Episode Choice: Season 1, Episode 12
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12. Scooby-Doo and a Mummy, Too
While visiting a museum, the gang learn about the legend of Ankha, a 3000-year-old mummy. Legend had it that the mummy will come back alive and turn people to stone if he is removed from his tomb. Shaggy later finds a coin inside his pocket from the exhibit, and when the gang go back to return it, they find the mummy has come to life and turned the professor to stone, and now he wants Shaggy's coin.
To help the team solve the mystery, read:
1. a historical book
2. a book that you purchased
3. a book with a teacher as a character
4. a book whose author's first name starts with 'C', 'O', 'I', 'N'
5. a book with 'Mystery' on the book's main page
Completion Report:Author: Cardeno C.
Book: Golden Valley
Date Read: finished 6/3/2020
Task: "4. a book whose author's first name starts with 'C', 'O', 'I', 'N'"
How it Fits: author's first name starts with 'C'
Next Episode Choice: Season 1, Episode 13
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13. Which Witch Is Which?
While lost in a swamp, the gang comes across a zombie who spooks them. In the nearby town of Swamp's End, they learn that a witch nearby brought the zombie to life, and the gang investigates.
To help the team solve the mystery, read:
1. a book where the MC gets lost
2. a book cover that you consider spooky
3. a book set near where you live
4. a book with 'investigate' in the text of the book
5. a book with 'Mystery' on the book's main page
Completion Report:Author: Piper Scott
Book: Mate
Date Read: finished 6/5/2020
Task: "4. a book with 'investigate' in the text of the book"
How it Fits: p2 - "Ian brushed a nonexistent wrinkle from his plain white Oxford shirt, then headed at a leisurely pace to investigate the source of the disturbance."
Next Episode Choice: Season 1, Episode 14
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14. Spooky Space Kook
The Mystery Machine runs out of gas in front of a farmhouse, next to an abandoned airfield, which is haunted by a UFO and its ghostly alien driver.
To help the team solve the mystery, read:
1. a book where the MC has difficulty with a vehicle
2. a book set on a farm
3. a book where the MC flies on a airplane
4. a science fiction book
5. a book with 'Mystery' on the book's main page
Completion Report:Author: Alessandra Hazard
Book: That Alien Feeling
Date Read: finished 6/2/2020
Task: "4. a science fiction book"
How it Fits: science fiction book (specifically, science fiction romance)
Next Episode Choice: Season 1, Episode 15
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15. Go Away Ghost Ship
The newspaper reports that local shipping company owner C.L. Magnus's company is going out of business, because the ghost of the pirate Redbeard is haunting the harbor and looting Magnus' ships. After reading the story and consulting Magnus, the gang sets out to see if they can stop the ghost.
To help the team solve the mystery, read:
1. a book with an author whose name starts with 'C' or 'L'
2. a book with a red-haired character in it
3. a book with 'harbor' in the text of the book
4. a book where the MC reads a book
5. a book with 'Mystery' on the book's main page
Completion Report:Author: Bonnie Dee
Book: The Masterpiece
Date Read: finished 6/9/2020
Task: "4. a book where the MC reads a book"
How it Fits: MC reads a book (specifically on p2, "He spent some quiet time each day reading the latest popular novel or touring the newest collection at one of the museums.")
Next Episode Choice: Season 1, Episode 16
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16. A Night of Fright Is No Delight
Scooby-Doo is named in the will of Colonel Beauregard Sanders, an eccentric millionaire whose life he saved several years earlier. The only way to claim the inheritance is for Scooby, and the other four heirs to stay the night in the Colonel's mansion - which they quickly learn is haunted by two phantom shadows.
To help the team solve the mystery, read:
1. a book where the MC inherits something
2. a book with a wealthy significant character
3. a book with a military person in the story
4. a book with a shadow on the cover
5. a book with 'Mystery' on the book's main page
Completion Report:Author: Bonnie Dee and Summer Devon
Book: The Gentleman and the Rogue
Date Read: finished 6/13/2020
Task: "1. a book where the MC inherits something", "2. a book with a wealthy significant character", and "3. a book with a military person in the story"
How it Fits: one of the MCs inherits something (specifically p89, "He couldn't care less about many of the things he'd inherited, especially the decorative nonsense.", one of the MCs is wealthy, and one of MCs was in the military (specifically on p27, "“You're a military man, and I'd give good odds those scars are signs of your hard service. Not that they make that body of yours any less toothsome, if you don't mind my saying so, sir.�")
Next Episode Choice: Season 1, Episode 17
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17. That's Snow Ghost
While on a skiing vacation at Wolf's End Lodge, the kids are scared by the ghost of a Yeti, called the Snow Ghost, who is believed to turn anyone he captures into ghosts. In search of clues, the gang eventually meet a Tibetan hermit who thinks he is responsible for summoning the monster.
To help the team solve the mystery, read:
1. a book set during the wintertime
2. a book where a mythical creature is mentioned
3. a book where the MC lives alone
4. a book with a MC that is responsible
5. a book with 'Mystery' on the book's main page
Completion Report:Author: Anyta Sunday
Book: Marc Jillson & The Gazebo
Date Read: finished 6/15/2020
Task: "3. a book where the MC lives alone"
How it Fits: one of the MCs lives alone - and actually asks the other MC to move in with him at the end of the book
Next Episode Choice: Season 2, Episode 1
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1. Nowhere to Hyde
On their way home from the Malt Shop, the gang encounters the Ghost of Mr. Hyde in the back of the Mystery Machine, who runs through a marsh and sneaks into a spooky house. The house turns out to be the home of Dr. Jekyll (great-grandson of the novel character), who fears he may be transforming into the ghost. The gang begin searching the house for clues, pegging Helga, Jekyll's housekeeper, as a likely suspect, but they are pursued at every turn by the ghost.
To help the team solve the mystery, read:
1. a book with two names in the title
2. a book with a domicile on the cover
3. a book with a servant in the story
4. a book with 'ghost' in the text of the book
5. a book with 'Mystery' on the book's main page
Completion Report:Author: N.R. Walker
Book: Throwing Hearts
Date Read: finished 6/16/2020
Task: "4. a book with 'ghost' in the text of the book"
How it Fits: location 2578 - "Uncle Donny clearly cottoned onto the ghost reference, and he gasped. “Merrick!�"
Next Episode Choice: Season 2, Episode 2
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2. Mystery Mask Mix-Up
After attending a Chinese New Year parade, the gang goes shopping in a curio shop where Daphne buys a golden mask. The gang then visits Mr. Fong, and they soon learn from him that the mask was stolen many centuries ago from the crypt of a Chinese warlord named Zen Tuo, and now his ghost and his two phantom henchmen want it back.
To help the team solve the mystery, read:
1. a book with 'parade' in the text of the book
2. a book where someone wears a mask
3. a book where something is stolen
4. a book with two people on the cover
5. a book with 'Mystery' on the book's main page
Completion Report:Author: Sarina Bowen
Book: Bittersweet
Date Read: finished 6/18/2020
Task: "1. a book with 'parade' in the text of the book", "2. a book where someone wears a mask", "3. a book where something is stolen", and "4. a book with two people on the cover"
How it Fits: p107 - "“Morning,� Zach said, handing Jude the shovel. “Shall I start the cow parade?�", p223 - "I needed a few minutes to paste on my mask of indifference.", p163 - "That said, I was purposely avoiding any glimpse of my bank balance, and avoiding emails from my pothead roommate asking when he’d get his money back for the weed I’d accidentally stolen from him.", and there's two people on the cover
Next Episode Choice: Season 2, Episode 3
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3. Jeepers, It's the Creeper
While on their way to their high school's barn dance, the gang comes across a knocked-out bank guard and his ransacked car. After he mumbles to them some clues, they discover that the local banks have been robbed by a mysterious zombie-like phantom called the Creeper.
To help the team solve the mystery, read:
1. a book where the MC attends school
2. a book where someone loses consciousness
3. a book where a money is exchanged
4. a book the MC has a nickname
5. a book with 'Mystery' on the book's main page
Completion Report:Author: Megan Derr
Book: Of Last Resort
Date Read: finished 6/25/2020
Task: "2. a book where someone loses consciousness"
How it Fits: someone loses consciousness, specifically loc 2764, ""Look out for Méo," he mumbled as unconsciousness rushed over him. "If you see him, kill him.""
Next Episode Choice: Season 2, Episode 4
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4. Scooby's Night with a Frozen Fright
While out fishing, Shaggy and Scooby-Doo hook a two-million-year-old caveman frozen in a block of ice, which the gang learns was lost at sea during a violent storm. They take the caveman to the Oceanland aquarium, but when someone melts the ice block and the caveman goes on the rampage, the gang decides to stick around and investigate.
To help the team solve the mystery, read:
1. a book with 'fish' in the text of the book
2. a book a severe storm in the story
3. a book set by the ocean or sea
4. a book with the letters of 'ICE' in the title
5. a book with 'Mystery' on the book's main page
Completion Report:Author: N.R. Walker
Book: The Dichotomy of Angels
Date Read: finished 6/6/2020
Task: "1. a book with 'fish' in the text of the book" and "4. a book with the letters of 'ICE' in the title"
How it Fits: location 3326 - "When the crepe-paper streamers hung from the ceiling and they pretended to be fish, when they got to learn about octopuses and count all the legs." and the letters "ICE" are in the title
Next Episode Choice: Season 2, Episode 5
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5. Haunted House Hang-Up
The Mystery Machine overheats in front of an old spooky mansion, and the gang goes to look for help, but finds out that the house is being haunted by the Headless Spectre, a terrifying phantom with no head. The mystery gets even stranger when they begin to hear knocking sounds and clues leading to a treasure.
To help the team solve the mystery, read:
1. a book set during the summertime
2. a book where the MC goes looking for help
3. a book a headless person on the cover
4. a book where the MC meets a stranger
5. a book with 'Mystery' on the book's main page
Completion Report:Author: Megan Derr
Book: Shield of the Dragon
Date Read: finished 6/29/2020
Task: "2. a book where the MC goes looking for help" and "4. a book where the MC meets a stranger"
How it Fits: location 242 - "Diamond nodded. "Double what he pays, help with my curse� and there's a man, Cambry's secretary. His name is York. Leave him alone. Anything to do with him, I'll handle, and if he comes to harm, I'll put a bullet between your eyes."" - MC looks for help and location 797 - ""Whatever, I'm tired of discussing my personal life with strangers. Are you going to explain this prince and steward stuff to me or not?"" - MC meets a stranger
Next Episode Choice: Season 2, Episode 6
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6. A Tiki Scare Is No Fair
Shaggy and Scooby's vacation in Hawaii is interrupted by a ghostly witch doctor, who warns the tourists and natives they are on the sacred grounds of the island god Mano Tiki Tia and to stay away from the cursed village. Later, the gang's guide John Simms goes missing, so it is up to the gang to search for him in the supposedly cursed village, where they eventually run into the witch doctor, and the giant statue of Mano Tiki Tia.
To help the team solve the mystery, read:
1. a book where the MC goes on vacation
2. a book set on an island
3. a book with a character named John
4. a book with 'statue' in the text of the book
5. a book with 'Mystery' on the book's main page
Completion Report:Author: Piper Scott
Book: Swallow
Date Read: finished 7/1/2020
Task: "4. a book with 'statue' in the text of the book"
How it Fits: p4 - "The newly christened Walter's eyes dilated and he stilled to such an extent that he resembled a statue."
Next Episode Choice: Season 2, Episode 7
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7. Who's Afraid of the Big Bad Werewolf?
Out on a camping trip, the gang hears the sounds of a wolf, so they decide to follow wolf-like tracks to the open and empty grave of Silas Long, who was supposedly a werewolf. They follow his tracks further to an old abandoned sawmill filled with wool, empty barrels, and the werewolf ghost himself.
To help the team solve the mystery, read:
1. a book with a mountain on the cover
2. a book with 'wolf' in the text of the book
3. a book where the MC goes to a graveyard
4. a book that someone else has abandoned (DNF)
5. a book with 'Mystery' on the book's main page
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Scooby Doo, Where Are You! was an animated mystery comedy television series produced by Hanna-Barbera. It was on Saturday mornings and it aired from September 13, 1969, until October 31, 1970.
The show centers on four teenagers (Fred, Daphne, Velma, and Shaggy) and a Great Dane named Scooby-Doo. The group travels in the Mystery Machine, a blue and green van decorated with orange flowers, solving mysteries.
Challenge Begins: May 1, 2020
HOW TO PLAY:
1. Take a look at the Scooby Doo, Where Are You! episode list.
2. Choose your first mystery and post it into your thread.
3. The moderator will then post the related episode information and tasks.
4. Once you complete one of the tasks, post in your thread and in the Reporting thread the following:
Author:
Book:
Date Read:
Task:
How it Fits:
Next Episode Choice:
Books must be 100 pages.
Re-reads and audio books are okay.
Page count for audio books will be determined the first paper version shown on Å·±¦ÓéÀÖ. From the book's page, select “all editionsâ€�, then select the first paper edition as your guide.