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The game of Connect Four was my inspiration.

It is adapted to a 6x6 matrix as we'll be rolling 2 die to determine moves. Each cell will note the Shelf from which you are to read from or if you’re lucky, a Free-Read.

Official Game Period: 15 October - 11 November 2012

Object of the Game: to have read off all the cells rolled and therefore, also Connect Three within 4 weeks.

Note: Books must be read in order of corresponding cells rolled.

:
First dice (on the left) - go horizontally
Second dice (on the right) - go vertically

So if I roll 5 & 1: It's a Free-Read
if I roll 1 & 5: I'd have to read from shelf 'historical-romance'

You may roll ahead to plan your reads but to Connect Four Three, you will have read from 3 cells which are connected either vertically, horizontally, or diagonally.

If you roll the same numbers more than once, ignore any doubling up as technically, when you're playing Connect Four, once you've filled in a spot with a coin, you can't touch it anymore. So, you don't have to read more than 1 book for a particular cell.

1st / 2nd = Shelves

1 / 1 = family
1 / 2 = manga
1 / 3 = historical-fiction
1 / 4 = children-s
1 / 5 = historical-romance
1 / 6 = adult

2 / 1 = paranormal-romance
2 / 2 = memoir
2 / 3 = FREE-READ
2 / 4 = scifi-fantasy
2 / 5 = contemporary-romance
2 / 6 = summer-2012

3 / 1 = FREE-READ
3 / 2 = audiobook
3 / 3 = series
3 / 4 = mysteries
3 / 5 = audiobooks
3 / 6 = part-of-a-series

4 / 1 = 5-stars
4 / 2 = favorite-authors
4 / 3 = wish-list
4 / 4 = general
4 / 5 = e-books
4 / 6 = 2010

5 / 1 = FREE-READ
5 / 2 = historical
5 / 3 = cookbooks
5 / 4 = fun
5 / 5 = thriller
5 / 6 = comedy

6 / 1 = women
6 / 2 = favorite-books
6 / 3 = England
6 / 4 = FREE-READ
6 / 5 = 2009
6 / 6 = high-school

Reporting:

Roll 1: 1st / 2nd = [Shelf1]: [Title 1]
Roll 2: 1st / 2nd = [Shelf2]: [Title 2]
...
Roll X: 1st / 2nd = [ShelfX]: [Title X]

Connect Three: Rolls X, Y, Z

Read 0/X

Participants:


Amy - 4/8
Coralie - 6/7
Ebony - 1/7
Lyn M
Sam - 1/8
Tien - 5/6

Updated 11/8 - LAST WEEK ;)

The reporting format looks a little messy so here's a real live example ;p

Roll 1: 1 / 5 = historical-romance: Remembrance - Read 10/31
Roll 2: 1 / 1 = family: Love Anthony - Read 11/05
Roll 3: 2 / 5 = contemporary-romance: Masks - Read 11/05
Roll 4: 5 / 6 = comedy: Preloved - Read 11/06
Roll 5: 5 / 1 = Free-Read: Fire Baptized- Read 11/07
Roll 6: 3 / 5 = audiobooks: At Risk - Read 11/08

Connect Three: Rolls 1, 3, & 6

Read 6/6 - COMPLETED

I'm in, though I'm mainly in cos i love planning, I have no hope of reading all these books before the cut-off dates haha!

Will make all my roles, to get connect 3 then come back and select books later, I assume I can do that?

Roll 1: 2/5 = contemporary-romance Can You Keep a Secret? by Sophie Kinsella
Roll 2: 5/3 = cookbooks The Naked Chef by Jamie Oliver
Roll 3: 1/4 = children-s Spot Goes to the Farm by Eric Hill (reading books with children counts, right?)
Roll 4: 2/3 = free read Dead Poets Society by N.H. Kleinbaum
Roll 5: 4/2 = favorite-authors Northanger Abbey by Jane Austen
Roll 6: 4/1 = 5-stars Dracula by Bram Stoker
Roll 7: 6/4 = free read Blood Ties by Pamela Freeman

Connect Three: Rolls 2, 5 & 7.

Read 0/7

How far into the shelf pages can we go? Like, does a book need to be on the first 2 pages of the shelf to count, or does it count as long as it's been shelved there?

Roll 1: 1/3 = historical fiction The Shifting Fog
Roll 2: 3/6 = part of a series Moon Over Soho
Roll 3: 6/4 = FREE READ My Mate Shofiq
Roll 4: 2/2 = memoir Fishing in the Styx
Roll 5: 2/6 = summer 2012 WWW: Wake
Roll 6: 2/5 = contemporary romance The Mermaid Chair
Roll 7: 3/1 = FREE READ A Sapphire for September
Connect Three: Rolls 1, 4 & 7

Read 7/7

I deleted my prior entry because I got confused on my rolls and messed up my grid. I also think I need more info.

Tien, what happens if I roll the same combo twice? Do I read two books for that box and then only need one more? Do I discount the duplicated roll and roll again?

@Ebony: that's fine, you can choose / change your books later but not your rolls :)

As long as the book is on that shelf, it doesn't matter which page :)

@Coralie: ah... I was probably really lucky that I didn't get a double roll so I didn't think about this part of the ruling! Well... technically, you already have "filled" this cell (playing Connect Four), so you can't put another coin in there so I'd say ignore any doubling up so you can take out your Roll 5 (noting doubling up with Roll 3). I'll amend the rules above. Cheers!

Btw, Ebony, for the sake of procastination, I actually planned books for challenges that I am not even trying to participate in (just cus I really don't have time for them) but it's just really fun wasting time that way, LOL

All right. I have decided not to do this game, Tien. I just rolled the die to plan out and found that I would need to read 14 books! Just not possible with my life, schedule, and other challenges.

Rolled 6/2, 5/2, 5/1, 2/2, 5/5, 1/6, 3/2, 1/1, 4/3, 3/6, 5/6, 3/4, 3/6, 4/5 with a diagonal from books 11, 12 and 14!

I'm assuming we can't overlap books with either of the prior 2 challenges...

Roll 1: 4/5 = e-books - The Fault in Our Stars
Roll 2: 3/6 = part-of-a-series - Daughter of Smoke and Bone
Roll 3: 1/5 = historical-romance - Cleopatra's Moon
Roll 4: 5/1 = FREE-READ - The Spellmans Strike Again
Roll 5: 6/4 = FREE-READ - The Mark of the Golden Dragon: Being an Account of the Further Adventures of Jacky Faber, Jewel of the East, Vexation of the West, and Pearl of the S
Roll 6: 5/2 = historical - The Shadowy Horses
Roll 7: 4/3 = wish-list - UnWholly
Roll 8: 5/3 = cookbooks - The Homemade Pantry: 101 Foods You Can Stop Buying and Start Making

Connect 3: Rolls 4, 6 & 8

Read: 8/8

OMG, Bea - before when I was trial-ing this game, I always get somewhere around 7 or 8 rolls to connect three!

Btw, your last 2 rolls aren't needed, you got connect three with rolls 2, 9, & 12 ;) I know, still too many!

@Amy: yes, no overlapping books :)

Bea wrote: "All right. I have decided not to do this game, Tien. I just rolled the die to plan out and found that I would need to read 14 books! Just not possible with my life, schedule, and other challenges..."

Bea...I don't know if it will help, but it looks like you'd need to read 12 rather than 14. You get a diagonal connect 3 with rolls 2, 9 and 12. Still a lot of books, but 2 fewer than you thought.

I'm soooo in!!!

I totally missed the 2,9,12 Amy and Tien. However, that is still too many books. I will sit this one out.

Bea wrote: "I totally missed the 2,9,12 Amy and Tien. However, that is still too many books. I will sit this one out."

No worries, Bea - you're in 2 and there are 2 more to come ;)

I think I'll have to choose between this one and Game 2 (since I'm still not even half-way through the mini-SAT). Here are my rolls:

Roll 1: 1/3 = historical fiction
Roll 2: 6/3 = England
Roll 3: 5/3 = cookbooks
Roll 4: 4/2 = favorite-authors
Roll 5: 5/6 = comedy
Roll 6: 2/2 = memoir
Roll 7: 6/4 = free-read

Connect Three: Rolls 3, 4, & 7

Read 0/7

I think I'll probably choose this one to sit out, because of the cookbook in roll 3. I always have trouble finding one I like there. But I'll leave my rolls posted here just in case I change my mind.

of course for my first roll, one of the books on the shelf, is the one I started yesterday!!! lol!

Right I've pulled myself together and have a plan for this one:

Roll 1: 5/4 = fun - The Map That Changed the World: William Smith and the Birth of Modern Geology Read 30/10/12
Roll 2: 6/6 = high-school - Airframe Read 12/11/12
Roll 3: 5/2 = historical - The valley of fear Read 12/11/12
Roll 4: 4/2 = favorite-authors - Maskerade Read 14/11/12
Roll 5: 4/1 = 5-stars - Jane Eyre Read 18/11/12
Roll 6: 2/2 = memoir - Titanic: A Survivor's Story Read 19/11/12
Roll 7: 5/1 = free read - The Walking Dead, Book Six by Robert Kirkman Read 20/11/12
Roll 8: 6/2 = favorite-books - The Magic Toyshop Read 24/11/12

Connect Three: Rolls 3, 4 and 8

Read 8/8

As usual, I'm in for this one, too. Here I go.

Roll 1: 2/1 = Paranormal Romance
Roll 2: 2/4 = Scifi-fantasy
Roll 3: 4/1 = 5 stars
Roll 4: 6/5 = 2009
Roll 5: 1/2 = manga
Roll 6: 5/1 = FREE READ (Woot!)
Roll 7: 4/6 = 2010
Roll 8: 4/4 = general
Roll 9: 5/3 = cookbooks
Roll 10:3/1 = FREE READ

Connect Three: Rolls 3, 6, and 10


So, I just have to read 10 books that don't get used anywhere else, lol. Should be a cinch......NBOT

Susan wrote: "I think I'll probably choose this one to sit out, because of the cookbook in roll 3. I always have trouble finding one I like there. But I'll leave my rolls posted here just in case I change my mind."

ROFL - I've been waiting for your rolls, Susan! It's so funny how you seem to always hit the cookbooks! I, of course, got a randomizer to pick the shelves and contemplated taking this one out (thinking of you) but... I guess I wanted to see if you'd hit it again and you DID LOL

Tien wrote: "ROFL - I've been waiting for your rolls, Susan! It's so funny how you seem to always hit the cookbooks! I, of course, got a randomizer to pick the shelves and contemplated taking this one out (thinking of you) but... I guess I wanted to see if you'd hit it again and you DID LOL "

So funny that you thought about it. And, of course, that it did happen. After all, the odds were roughly 29-7 that it wouldn't. It's almost enough to make me wonder whether someone is pulling some strings, trying to get me to spend more time cooking. NOT going to happen. :)

Ebony wrote: "Roll 3: 1/4 = children-s Spot Goes to the Farm by Eric Hill (reading books with children counts, right?)"

Sorry, Ebony - I missed your Q!
Yes, of course - especially since your shelf is childrens

BTW - I am doing all 4 games, plus the MT. TBR one, but I am not "officially" doing them, as I plan to take as long as I need to get them completed. I just like the challenge of finding the books mostly, lol.

Lyn M wrote: "BTW - I am doing all 4 games, plus the MT. TBR one, but I am not "officially" doing them, as I plan to take as long as I need to get them completed. I just like the challenge of finding the books ..."

Lyn, I thought about doing that also, especially because it looks like I will not finish the first one...but I am enjoying it. I thought that I might just finish it even if I go longer than the end date on Sunday.

Bea wrote: "Lyn M wrote: "BTW - I am doing all 4 games, plus the MT. TBR one, but I am not "officially" doing them, as I plan to take as long as I need to get them completed. I just like the challenge of find..."

That is what I am going to do, Bea.

Yes Yes I know just how addictive planning can be! I do the same myself ;)

Although, you do notice I've not limited any page lenghts etc?

Am fitting in some novellas with the hopes of completing the challenges ;)

Finally completed my first book with The Map That Changed the World: William Smith and the Birth of Modern Geology.

I am finished.

Finished!

woohoo, good stuff, guys :)

Nowhere near finished but read my second book with Airframe :-)

Congrats to those who have finished though :-D

Halfway there with my fourth book Maskerade :-D

Almost there, just two more to go...

And I'm finished with The Magic Toyshop WOOHOO!!!! :-D

Woo hoo! Good work, Sam! It feels great to be finishing off challenges one by one, huh? :)

Thanks Tien and yea it does (even if it is a little late) :-D