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Team Liesel Meminger

Team Members:

� Jessica (Captain)
� Natalie (Co-Captain)
� Cecily
� Venecia


� Abigail (Co-Captain)

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Team shelves
Jessica's Uno shelf
Natalie's Uno shelf
Venecia's Uno shelf
Cecily's Uno shelf

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O (Zero)
Read a book that:
- has a 0 or Zero in the title
- has a title starting with Z
- has an author first name or surname starts with Z
- has a character with a first name, surname or nickname starting with Z
- is set in a place name starting with Z
- is a "stand-alone" book (i.e. not part of a series)

1 (One)
Read a book that:
- has a 1 or One in the title
- has a title starting with O
- has an author first name or surname starts with O
- has a character with a first name, surname or nickname starting with O
- is set in a place name starting with O
- is book 1 in a series

2 (Two)
Read a book that:
- has a 2 or Two in the title
- has a title starting with T
- has an author first name or surname starts with T
- has a character with a first name, surname or nickname starting with T
- is set in a place name starting with T
- is book 2 in a series

3 (Three)
Read a book that:
- has a 3 or Three in the title
- has a title starting with H
- has an author first name or surname starts with H
- has a character with a first name, surname or nickname starting with H
- is set in a place name starting with H
- is book 3 in a series

4 (Four)
Read a book that:
- has a 4 or Four in the title
- has a title starting with F
- has an author first name or surname starts with F
- has a character with a first name, surname or nickname starting with F
- is set in a place name starting with F
- is book 4 in a series

5 (Five)
Read a book that:
- has a 5 or Five in the title
- has a title starting with I
- has an author first name or surname starts with I
- has a character with a first name, surname or nickname starting with I
- is set in a place name starting with I
- is book 5 in a series

6 (Six)
Read a book that:
- has a 6 or Six in the title
- has a title starting with S
- has an author first name or surname starts with S
- has a character with a first name, surname or nickname starting with S
- is set in a place name starting with S
- is book 6 in a series

7 (Seven)
Read a book that:
- has a 7 or Seven in the title
- has a title starting with V
- has an author first name or surname starts with V
- has a character with a first name, surname or nickname starting with V
- is set in a place name starting with V
- is book 7 in a series

8 (Eight)
Read a book that:
- has an 8 or Eight in the title
- has a title starting with E
- has an author first name or surname starts with E
- has a character with a first name, surname or nickname starting with E
- is set in a place name starting with E
- is book 8 in a series

9 (Nine)
Read a book that:
- has a 9 or Nine in the title
- has a title starting with N
- has an author first name or surname starts with N
- has a character with a first name, surname or nickname starting with N
- is set in a place name starting with N
- is book 9 in a series

Skip
Read a book that:
- has a title starting with K or P
- has an author first name or surname starts with K or P
- has a character with a first name, surname or nickname starting with K or P
- is set in a place name starting with K or P
OR you can choose to "skip" reading a book for this cards (and get no points for this card)

Draw 2
Use the same book for two cards in this hand (and get points for both cards)

Reverse
One member of your team must read a book another team member has already read

Wild
Read a book that can fit any of the requirements for cards 0-9

Wild draw four
Read any book!

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For each book read to match a 0-9 card, the team gets 20 points
For each book read to match a Skip or Reverse, the team gets 25 points
For each book read to match a wild or Wild draw four card the team gets 30 points
For each hand completed, the team gets a bonus 15 points

IMPORTANT
Books must be more than 100 pages in length and Children's books and Graphic Novels can not be used unless by word count they can be verified as more than 25,000 words using arbookfind.com

Note
For book titles starting with an article (A/An/The), the article can be ignored or used. So The Hiding Place, for example, could be used as title starting with T or H

Re-reads are ok provided it has been more than 6 months since last read

Hiya team!! I am super stoked to get Uno 2017 started! Has anyone ever participated in the Uno challenge before? Last year was my first time and it is still one of my favorite team challenges!

I saved a post for our Uno shelves, so when you get one designated just post a link and I'll put them all in one spot for easy reference:)

Hi! This is my first time playing Uno, but I've done plenty of other group challenges. I've heard good things about this so I'm excited :)

Here's my shelf link

Hi ladies, this is my first time playing Uno. I actually joined the group just to play. :-)

My Shelf

Am I the only Indian, or will we be getting more members?

Venecia wrote: "Am I the only Indian, or will we be getting more members?"

Lol...too many chiefs, not enough Indians....

Maybe they felt you needed a lot of supervision.

Abbie wrote: "Venecia wrote: "Am I the only Indian, or will we be getting more members?"

Lol...too many chiefs, not enough Indians....

Maybe they felt you needed a lot of supervision."

Have you been blabbing? ;-)

Abigail wrote: "Hey, my first time doing this challenge too; excited to start! And my shelf is here :D

Natalie / Jessica, how do you want to organize captain duties? Any ideas?"

I'm new to the challenge, so I don't know the best way to go about organizing everything, but I'm good with spreadsheets.

Question. I see we have to finish our first hand of cards before counting towards any other hands. Does it matter the order we complete after that? Also, can we bank books as we go?

And please don't let Abbie scare you :P Venecia and I are model teammates.

I think we are all checked in!! WooHoo!

So, we can fill spots anywhere on the spreadsheet throughout the month. However, books do not count unless all the previous hands have been completed.

When we started last year our team was "calling" spots and reading for specific cards. I felt that helped with organization. Towards the middle of the challenge we changed tactics and the co-captain and myself just placed books where they would fit based on the information provided by each player. We changed it up because we had one player that didn't like us moving around her "called" books. That being said, I think a combination of both work. We can call spots and in the completed post just list all other spots it might fit in the event we run into a crunch at the end of the month. We can post a tracking spreadsheet to keep us level.

What do you guys think?

I'm also waiting to hear about banking books, can't remember what we did last year.

No banking books, but a book started one month but finished in the next works :)

So as long as the book is being read for a task, it can be used, but not placed until the previous hand is finished?

And your plan sounds fine. I only get annoyed at my books being moved if it was pain to find something that fit and I really didn't enjoy reading it. The tasks for this seem pretty broad so I don't see that being an issue :)

I will read anything if it is necessary for a task, and honestly it would annoy me if I read a book and it never got placed. But you guys can decide which spot it works best for, that I don't mind.

And we have a pretty small team so we should be able to discuss things easily, I would think.

I totally agree. I think having a smaller team will work out better in that respect. What is everyone thinking of starting with? I have so many books locked and loaded that I'm sure I have something for every card.

If I understand the rules correctly, we have to finish Hand 1 before we can assign books to any of the other hands?

I will go with what ever plan or approach you guys come up with for tackling tasks, but I will say I prefer to read for a specific task when ever possible. It helps with narrowing down my reading list since I tend to arrange that around my challenge requirements.

Sounds good to me. I have a few planned books for next month, I'll make a post later today with them.

*whispers* Captains have to ask for permission to edit the SS from the actual Spreadsheet.

Is my computer giving trouble or did some info get removed from the first few posts? I would swear that we had the details of each card listed somewhere. Also I thought my shelf was linked but now I don't see my name in the list.

We did, I'm having issues on my laptop. I was updating the links to our shelves and I lost some info. I'll see if I can fix it in a bit. Sorry.

If you go to the team spreadsheet at the top of the page, there is a tab that has all the rules/requirements within it :)

Jessica wrote: "If you go to the team spreadsheet at the top of the page, there is a tab that has all the rules/requirements within it :)"

Thanks :-) My internet is misbehaving so I wasn't if it was me or if something had changed.

Books I need to read that I won't get to before Wednesday.

Acceptance - Fits for 3 and 7

Fae - The Wild Hunt - Fits for 1 and 4

Gamers - Fits for 0 and 1

They may fit for others, I don't know about all the characters.

This what I have so far. I filled them out based on the blurbs, so they may fit more tasks once I actually get them read.

Cry Wolf (Alpha & Omega #1) by Patricia Briggs
Works for: 1, 6

A Weapon Of Opportunity by Kiernan Kelly
Works for: 0, 3, 7, 9, skip

Blood Song (Blood Singer #1) by Cat Adams
Works for: 1

Deeper Than the Dead (Oak Knoll #1) by Tami Hoag
Works for: 1, 2, 3, 9

Falling Down by Eli Easton
Works for: 0, 4, 8

TWO MORE DAYS!!!

But seriously, here is what I have lined up:

Terror in Taffeta
Cards: 1,2,6, or Skip

The Silent Sister
Cards: 1,6, or 9

The Wednesday Wars
Cards: 0,3,6 or 9

The One
Cards: 1,2,3, and Skip

And a couple others, but these are my library loans so I want to start with them :)

We have cards 7,0,4,8,1,8,3 in our first hand. I have access to the spreadsheet now so we can start plugging in books. Natalie and Abigail have you requested access? Hopefully you two have a better go at accessing it than I have. I can't access the SS at work so I will need to update it after I get home. Or ***gulps*** try to update via the app o.O

All four of us read a large number of books each month, so I know we can make quick work of the first 7 cards... then the board will be open to whatever kinds of madness we can conjure. LOL!

Right now (without knowing what Abigail has lined up), we only have Venecia's book Falling Down that works for card 8. Since we have 2 of them in hand 1 I will focus on digging through my pile to see what might work for the other 8.

I have other books for 8 as well. If needed I can do it for card 1.

Card = Frequency
0/Z = 2
1/O = 7
2/T = 6
3/H = 6
4/F = 4
5/I = 7
6/S = 5
7/V = 6
8/E = 6
9/N = 8
Skip/K or P = 8
Draw 2 = 7
Reverse = 7
Wild = 2
Wild draw four = 3

This is excluding Hand 1

I saw a planning/tracking sheet mentioned in some of the other team's threads, do we have one as well?

I can get us one. I think they posted a template in the captain's group :)

I am going to start with The Wednesday Wars for Hand 1 card 8; character name starts with "E" Mrs. Edna Bigio—the school cook who bakes cream puffs. I added it to the SS from the app, so I won't be able to make sure that it worked until I get home.

What is everyone else starting with? Anyone else excited?!?!

I am, I have books to read for other challenges that I'm holding off on so they can count for this. :-)

Yes! I am catching up on Podcasts. I didn't want to start a new book before the challenge starts.

I have two other books I will be reading. I will likely read Burn for Me tomorrow, which works for 1, 5, and 9. It's set in Houston, Texas, does that work for 2 or 3?

I also will be reading Divided Allegiance which works for 2 and The Chocolate Kiss (needs to be read by Sunday) works for 2, 4, and skip. Possibly others (characters/places).

What should I focus on? My other books can be read in about any order. I'll be adding two more to the pile tomorrow.

And sorry but asking again about the order. We have to finish Hand 1 before finishing books for other hands? Or just not place any books for other hands before hand 1 is done?

The rest of the hands can be completed in any order but we would only get points for consecutive complete ones?

I want to get that clarified as well Natalie.

I have the question in to the captain's group about finishing hand 1 before moving on. I thought I knew the answer to this, but now I'm not too sure. I'll let you know :)

Abigail wrote: "I kind of started a planning sheet on the spreadsheet, if you guys want to take a look? I think it's called "books" :) also yes, I'm so excited! I'm just catching up on my homework so I don't have ..."

This is the file was referring to, I've seen a couple of teams making reference to it.

I added a tracking spreadsheet on the first post above the links to our shelves. Abigail, I think I missed the tracking spreadsheet that you made, I can't find it. Does everyone want to use the one I posted provided by the mods? Venecia do you want to provide the cards that your books can fit in your "completed" posts and we can update the spreadsheet?

Check out This post in the main questions thread about what counts as a location. I would say that only Houston would work for Natalie's example. Thoughts?

I found out that we can work on any hand at any time during the challenge. We do not need to complete the first hand before moving on to the next. However, we need to keep in mind that we only get points for completed/ in order hands. Example: If we complete hands 1,2, 3, part of 4, all of 5-13, we will only get credit for hands 1,2,3.


We ready to start?!?!?!

We're off! Happy reading ladies.

Jessica do you want us to a completion post or just add the books to the planning spreadsheet or both?

Okay, I think I understand how everything works.

For now, I think I will just read what I need to, and check it to see what cards we are short on options for. Let me know if you want help with placing the books into slots.

For the tracking sheet is the link to the template they posted for everyone? Or a copy so that we can fill it out?

It looks like the template, the other teams I saw had their copy named after them.
One of you capts should save our copy.

I copied it over and renamed it. Use this link:

I posted my first book in the spreadsheet, if I need to post here let me know.