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Rules

Welcome to the Bookish Codenames Challenge! This game will test your bookish instincts and reward you with exciting reading tasks. Here's how to play:

Objective

Your goal is to complete as many tasks as possible, earn points, and avoid penalties. The game ends when all connection tasks, word in title and word in cover are revealed.

Setup

The List: The game features a list of 25 words (everyone will receive a different set). Each word is secretly assigned a category:

Connection Tasks (5 words): Choosing these will mean you would need to read any book that somehow connects to that word

Cover Tasks (5 words): Choosing these will mean you need to read to have that particular object on cover

Word in Title Tasks (5 words): Choosing these will mean you need to read to have that particular word in the title

Neutral Words (5 words): These have no effect—just your lucky break! You need to read any book that meets general guidelines

Penalty Words (5 words): Landing on these triggers a penalty. You need to either give 2 points or complete one of the penalty tasks

Clue master will provide clues to guide you through the list (Be aware and make the correct choice as sometimes clues can make you tempted on penalty words).

How to Play

Clues and Turns:

The clue master will give you a one-word hint (e.g., Magic). The clue master's objective is to hint toward words which are related to connection tasks, cover tasks, or words in title tasks (avoiding the neutral and penalty). The hint relates to one or more words in the list.

Based on the clue, you pick a word from the list that you think matches.

Revealing Words:

If the word is a Connection Task / Cover / Word in title , you will complete the challenge.

If the word is Neutral, nothing happens, just read any book that meets general guidelines and you move to the next turn.

If the word is a Penalty, you must complete a small penalty task.

Scoring

Connection Tasks: 2 points each

Cover Tasks: 4 points each

Word in Title Tasks: 3 points each

Neutral Tasks: 1 point each

Penalties: -2 points or complete one of the penalty tasks from below

Wild Words: 4 randomly assigned words may have special powers:
1- Swap a task for another eg: if you have "home" as cover - you can switch it to word in title / ask for challenge / change to neutral - you will get points based on the task you change it to
2- Skip a task completely
3- Skip a penalty completely
4- Substitute that word with any other word and complete that challenge accordingly eg: if you "home" as cover but you are reading a book with "girl' on cover you can change the word home to girl and complete that challenge

Skips

1 free skip is available, then 4 points per skip

Progress
Connection: 01 / 05
Word: 02 / 05
Object: 03 / 05



Your list

1- Beach - Object
2- Agent
3- Time
4- Bus - Object
5- Year - Word
6- One
7- Fire
8- Car
9- Exchange
10- Promise
11- Country
12- Gun - Penalty
13- Socks - Object
14- Paris
15- Cat
16- Friendship
17- Tree
. 18- Knife - Object
19- Curious
20- Library
21- Sisters - Connection
22- Escape
23- Death - Word
24- Tree - Word
25- Girl


Wildcards unlocked
1. Skip a penalty completely
2. Skip a task completely
3.
4.

Penalty Tasks

1- Read a book that you own
2- Read a book with author initials in "PENALTY"
3- Read from a series that you have already started
4- Read a book published before 2015
5- Read a book with any 3 letters of PENALTY in title

Points: 16
Skips: -4

First 3 cluemaster clues are:
a. Feet
b. Family
c. Forest

These 3 clues relate to 3 different words. You now guess 3 words from the above list which you think fits the clues and I will reveal what they relate to. You can complete the first 3 tasks in any order

a. socks
b. sisters
c. tree

Congrats! You revealed 3 correct words!

13. Socks - Object
Read a book with Socks on the cover

21. Sisters - Connection
Read a book that you can connect to sisters in any manner

24. Tree - Word
Read a book with Tree / Trees in title
Congrats you revealed a wild card - Skip a penalty completely
You can use your wild card at any point in the game

You can read them in any manner. Cluemaster will be back with 3 more clues after you complete these tasks!

Task: 21
Book: The Two Lives of Lydia Bird by Josie Silver
Date: 13/2 3�
Fit: Lydia has a close relationship with her sister, Elle

Task: 24
Book: The Frangipani Tree Mystery by Ovidia Yu
Date: 5/3 4�
Fit: tree in title

Task: 13
Book: The Northern Lights Lodge by Julie Caplin
Date: 21/3 3�
Fit: I think I'll have to use my free skip as I'm just not getting any socks

a. Transport
b. Period
c. Crime

These 3 clues relate to 3 different words. You now guess 3 words from the above list which you think fits the clues and I will reveal what they relate to. You can complete the 3 tasks in any order

I'll go...

a. bus
b. year
c. gun

Congrats! You revealed 2 correct words!

Bus - Object
Read a book with bus on the cover

Year - Word
Read a book with Year/Years in title
Congrats you revealed a wild card - Skip a task completely
You can use your wild card at any point in the game

Gun - Penalty
Read a penalty task or -2 points


You can read them in any manner. Cluemaster will be back with 3 more clues after you complete these tasks!

Does this mean I have 2 wildcards now? I suppose I should use my 'skip the penalty' card.

Indeed you have 2 wildcards now, you can use the penalty card now if you wish like or complete one of the penalty tasks to avoid -2 points

OK, give me a penalty task & we'll see how I go. This one is proving pretty challenging already 😃

Penalty tasks are in message 3

All books were curated with objects / words / connections from your TBR to make it tad bit easier but agree this challenge is more specific than others 🙈🙈

Gun - Penalty

Book: The Mystery Writer by Sulari Gentill
Date: 26/3 3.5�
Task: Read a book with any 3 letters of PENALTY in title
Fit: ETY in title

I'm using my free skip on YEAR.

Book: We by Yevgeny Zamyatin
Date: 9/5 2.5�
Task: Read a book with Year/Years in title
Fit: free skip

I'm buying a skip for BUS

Book: Dead to the World by Charlaine Harris
Date: 10/5 3�
Task: Read a book with bus on the cover
Fit: buy a skip

a. Ball
b. Cut
c. Rows

a. beach
b. knife
c. death

Congrats! You revealed 2 correct words!

Beach - Object
Read a book with beach on the cover

Knife - Object
Read a book with knife on the cover

Death - Word
Read a book with death/deaths title
Congrats you revealed a wild card - Skip a task completely
You can use your wild card at any point in the game


You can read them in any manner. Cluemaster will be back with 3 more clues after you complete these tasks!

Book: Treachery in Death by J.D. Robb
Date: 13/6 4.5�
Task: Read a book with death/deaths title
Fit: death in title