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Team The Princess Bride

Team Members:
�� Laura Wilderman - Captain
�� Paulette - Co-Captain
�� Stacey- Co-Captain
�� Hadassah Smith
�� Sisa Kennick
�� Alekhya
�� Anna Roberson


�� Krisselle


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Team threads will be opened once the captain has a chance to come and reserve some posts

Team Members Uno shelves:
�� Laura Wilderman - Captain
�� Paulette - Co-Captain
�� Stacey- Co-Captain
�� Krisselle
�� Hadassah Smith
�� Sisa Kennick
�� Alekhya
�� Anna Roberson





The Rules

FAQ



Verify Word Count for Children's books:

In previous years we have used TinEye for cover color verification, but that is no longer required. If you have a cover that you think works, post it here. If the captains all agree, good. If we don't agree among ourselves, we'll ask the other captains in the captain's group.

Our February hands are posted!

(view spoiler)[Color Cards:
Red 0 - Paulette
Blue 4 - Sisa, What Alice Forgot (all captains have options)
Red 7 - Stacey
Yellow 3 - Alekhya, It Only Happens in the Movies
Green 3 - Sisa, Ballad of Song Birds and Snakes
Yellow 0 - Kriselle, Mislaid
Green 7 - Paulette
Red 2 - Laura
Wild Draw 4 (Green 3) Anna, In a Holidaze
Wild Draw 4 (Blue 4) - Kriselle, The Great Gatsby


Back to the '80s mini-challenge has been posted!
Feb Mini-Challenge

We have given each team a popular book from the 1980s.

As a team, you need to try and read as many books that you can connect with your 1980s book as possible. The ways the books "connect" is completely open to interpretation.

Creativity is the key to the challenge, not rules.

For example; Team XYZ is assigned The Handmaid's Tale.
They read books by Canadian authors, sci-fi MPG, books with something red on the cover, dystopian books, books where a young female is in an arranged relationship with an older male, a book where two characters do something in secret etc.

You don't need a unique reason for each book read and connected. So in the above example, we could read and connect more than one MPG Sci-Fi books (for example) to claim the mini challenge points.

1. For each book read and connected you will receive 10 points. As a team you can read a maximum of 40 books for this mini challenge.

2. If one of your team members also reads (and finishes) your assigned 80s book during the mini challenge, you will receive 30 bonus points. (There is only 30 points per team so although more than 1 team member is welcome to read the book, there are no extra points on offer)

�� Books can be started at any point since the start of the UNO challenge (Feb 1)
�� Books need to be finished after the start of this mini challenge on February 14, 9am UTC () and before March 1 at 9am UTC (when the March UNO month begins).
�� Books used for this mini challenge do not need to be separate books for what you are claiming for your UNO hands
�� The usual book length rules apply

Our book: The Color Purple
Author: Alice Walker
First published: 1982

Ideas:
flowers on cover
3 word title
Alice author/MC
Pulitzer Prize Winners
Books made into a movie
MPG: Classics, Historical Fiction, LGBT, Cultural - African American, Feminism
Location: Georgia
Author born in Georgia
Author initials A.W.
Book 1 of a trilogy
A Color in the title
Sisters
epistolary novels
most frequently challenged books (ALA list)
books with musical adaptations
- Takes place over multiple timelines
- Takes place over multiple locations
- Someone is reading a book
- Tending to farm animals/crops/farm maintenance
- MC leaves Husband
- Teaching someone to read/write
- Mother gives birth at home
- Mother gives Birth / of multiple children
- Victim of domestic abuse
- Arranged marriage / separated from a sibling
- Singing with friends/siblings/at church
Alice Walker's goodreads page says her influences were Howard Zinn & Zora Neale Hurston, so books by either of those two should work (hide spoiler)]

March hands are posted!

(view spoiler)[16 hands!

11 color cards; 4 Draw 4s!

Yikes! 12 Reverses! These will need to be a priority, because we only had 7 in February and I feel like we barely made it. We do have a Draw 2 in a hand with 2 Reverses, so that helps.

Color Cards:
Green 4 - Laura
Green 5 - Laura
Blue 6 - Stacey
Yellow 6 - Paulette
Yellow 8 - Paulette
Red 3 - Paulette
Yellow 1 - Anna
Blue 7 - Paulette
Blue 6 - Sisa
Green 0 - Paulette
Yellow 9 - Stacey
Draw 4 - Stacey (Blue 6)
Draw 4 - Laura (Blue 6)
Draw 4 - Stacey (Blue 7)
Draw 4 - Anna


Reverse:
Sisa - Ask Again, Yes, read by Paulette
Hadassah - Pride & Prejudice, read by Laura
Laura - How the Light Gets In, read by Stacey
Sisa - Before She Knew Him, read by Paulette
Paulette - Tell Me Lies, read by Stacey
Paulette - Confess, read by Anna
Laura - Fair Game, read by Anna
Laura - Dead Heat, read by Anna
Laura - Burn Bright, read by Anna
Sisa - The Vanishing Half
Alekhya - A Christmas Carol (hide spoiler)]

April color cards!

Green 7 -Laura
Yellow 1 - Paulette
Blue 8 - Sisa
Yellow 7 - Paulette
Blue 2 - Laura
Red 9 - Sisa
Blue 6 - Paulette
Red 1 - Paulette
Red 3 - Laura
Yellow 9 - Alekhya
Yellow 3 - Stacey
Green 4 - Paulette
Red 8 - Laura
Yellow 6 - Alekhya
Red 4 - Paulette
Yellow 8 - Stacey
Green 1 - Anna
Blue 3 - Paulette
Draw 4 (Red 3) - Hand has Draw 2 - (Laura)
Draw 4 - Paulette (Blue 8)
Draw 4 - Laura (Blue 6)

Reverses (We have 11)
Sisa
Sisa
Stacey
Stacey
Laura
Laura

Hello everyone! It's so nice to meet you all. I think everyone here is new to me, so I'm looking forward to getting to know all of you.

The Princess Bride is one of my favorite movies!

I'm a stay-at-home homeschooling mom of 6 girls (my oldest got married this Summer, my youngest is 11). We have 5 cats and a plethora of chickens.

Uno is one of my favorite team challenges. I love that we can pretty much use anything that you want to read. I read a bit of just about everything. Romance, Fantasy, Mystery, Sci-Fi, UF, Paranormal, and even the occasional non-fiction book.

What does everyone else like to read?

Also, can you please link to your Uno shelf for me? Thanks!

Hey there, everyone! My name is Sisa and I live in San Antonio, TX.
I am a SAHM with my 4-year-old daughter, and I help lead a hiking group that does local and statewide hikes.
I started doing the Popsugar Reading challenge a few years ago, and since then I feel like my taste in books has really broadened. I enjoy reading pretty much every genre, so it just depends on what I'm in the mood for. This is my 3rd year playing UNO and I can't wait!
I also love The Princess Bride! It's one of my favorite books and movies, and I even love the memoir, As You Wish: Inconceivable Tales from the Making of The Princess Bride, by Cary Elwes. So, all of that to say, I'm super excited to be on this team with you guys!

Not to get ahead of the game, but I've already started looking at my books, and I have a few that fit the color cards. I'm not sure how you guys organize that, but I just wanted to let you know. :)
Anxious People (yellow 0- character Zara)
Magic Lessons (yellow 3- author Hoffman)
The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes (green 3- character Casca Highbottom; green 7- character Volumnia Gaul)



Anyways, I can't wait to spend the next few months getting to know y'all and adding some new books to my always growing TBR. :P

Edit: here is the link to my UNO shelf- /review/list...

Laura wrote: "Hello everyone! It's so nice to meet you all. I think everyone here is new to me, so I'm looking forward to getting to know all of you.

The Princess Bride is one of my favorite movies!

I'm a stay..."

I love kitties! We just adopted one a few weeks ago. :D

Hi everyone! Welcome to The Princess Bride team.
Im your co-captain again the year, its my third year playing UNO and its a lot of fun and a great way to kick of some solid reading for the year!

a little bit about me...

I live in Melbourne, Australia. Its summertime here, so I'm looking forward to ramping up my reading game outside in the great outdoors. I love a good thriller, crime, mystery book, a little historical fiction .... romance books are definitely not my thing.

Looking forward to chatting to you all, Sisa I remember you from my first year playing UNO we were in the James Bond team, great to see you back :)

My Shelf
UNO-2021

Sisa wrote: "Hey there, everyone! My name is Sisa and I live in San Antonio, TX.
I am a SAHM with my 4-year-old daughter, and I help lead a hiking group that does local and statewide hikes.
I started doing the ..."

Hey Sisa,
Great to see you back again for UNO! Oh I love to go hiking too, day hikes or multi day hikes are always fun. and fabulous for audio books too

Sisa wrote: "Not to get ahead of the game, but I've already started looking at my books, and I have a few that fit the color cards. I'm not sure how you guys organize that, but I just wanted to let you know. :)"

Did you want to read all three of those? Just checking because I have you down as 4/month. It's fine to read more, but I don't want to put you down for all three if that's not your intention and then have you stress about it!

I have an option for a Green 3 or a Green 7, but in our Captain's chat none of us have any yellow options yet.

I knew there was something I forgot! To explain how I've found that UNO works well.

I can set up a tracking spreadsheet if people would prefer it, but otherwise, if you post a completion post here, and tell us what #s a book works for, the captains will add it to our team spreadsheet. We'll use the following priorities:

1. We start with the color cards. We'll have those planned out before the month starts, most likely. This will include the Wild Draw 4s.

Then, as people post completions,
2. We fill in the difficult letters/numbers. 5, 7, 8. If a book works for one of those numbers, it should go there, even if there are open cards in earlier hands (we'll get all the hands completed!).

3. Next we look at difficult hands. For February, that would be Hand 5 & 7, with 2 Draw 2s each. Also, Hand 13 will require care because there are 2 Wilds, 3 8s, and 1 5, so at least one of the Wilds will need to be filled with an 8 or a 5.

4. Finally, if a book doesn't fit one of the above steps, or we are done with one (or all) of them, then we just start at the top and fill in the first spot that the book works for.

Following this plan, we won't finish a hand for the first few weeks of the month, but when we start to finish the hands we will get them done quickly!

Hey everyone! I'm Anna. I think this is my 3rd year playing Uno, I probably should go look at my shelves to verify that...but I love this challenge. I live in the Louisville, Ky area and work in pediatric healthcare. I work during the week and am off on weekends which is usually when I catch up on a lot of reading. I've been with my husband in all 15 years, back since college days, and we have one dog, Trooper, who really thinks he's human. I love reading almost anything but sci-fi is growing on me. I can't wait to get to know everyone. I haven't looked ahead but I've been holding on to for Uno so I know that book will be read for me at some point in the next three months. Sisa, you read it first and then I'll use it for a reverse card in the next round. :)

Here's a link to my uno shelf: /review/list...

Sisa wrote: "Hey there, everyone! My name is Sisa and I live in San Antonio, TX.
I am a SAHM with my 4-year-old daughter, and I help lead a hiking group that does local and statewide hikes.
I started doing the ..."

I might need to ask about these in the Captain's group. Anxious People looks a bit Orange to me, and Magic Lessons looks a little Brown to me.

bamaace83 wrote: "Hey everyone! I'm Anna. I think this is my 3rd year playing Uno, I probably should go look at my shelves to verify that...but I love this challenge. I live in the Louisville, Ky area and work in pe..."

Hey Anna, Welcome to the team! What is it with animals, I have a cat who thinks he's a human too and when he doesn't get his way he will huff and walk off... nice!

Hi all! I'm Stacey and I live in Cincinnati, OH. This is my 2nd year playing and I enjoyed it so much that I'm a co-captain this year.

My most read genres are thriller/mystery/horror and sci-fi although many of my all time favorite books are outside of that. I love finding new books so I hope everyone will recommend their favorites during the challenge.

My uno shelf: uno2021

bookswithpaulette wrote: "bamaace83 wrote: "Hey everyone! I'm Anna. I think this is my 3rd year playing Uno, I probably should go look at my shelves to verify that...but I love this challenge. I live in the Louisville, Ky a..."

Animals are a hot mess. I think your cat and my dog must be long-lost cousins. Trooper is lazy all day long and just lays around but from 6 pm to 9 pm, he is alert and ready to play and all attention should be on him. I think that he thinks his day time job is to be a bum and then when we get home from work it's time for him to be noticed. He even does that if we are off or when we were home off and on last spring during quarantine.

I'll have time later this week to really search and see which color books that I can take. I think now that you say it that book may look a little more orange than yellow but maybe we can get lucky. It's just sitting there waiting for me to read. I know that I can take a wild or green 3 with . Main character has a last name of Hollis.

bookswithpaulette wrote: "Sisa wrote: "Hey there, everyone! My name is Sisa and I live in San Antonio, TX.
I am a SAHM with my 4-year-old daughter, and I help lead a hiking group that does local and statewide hikes.
I start..."

Hey Paulette!! Yes, I remember you as well! It's great to play with you again! :D
And I agree, hiking is so much fun! If I could start every day with a hike, and end every day with a book, what a wonderful world this would be! :)

Laura wrote: "Sisa wrote: "Not to get ahead of the game, but I've already started looking at my books, and I have a few that fit the color cards. I'm not sure how you guys organize that, but I just wanted to let..."

Yes, I would love to read all three, if that's okay with everyone else. I'll just see how much time I have when I'm done before I commit to any more. And I agree, pictures can be so tricky, because colors look different to everyone. At home, Anxious People looks like a mustard yellow, and Magic Lessons looks like a golden yellow. Let me know what the captains decide, and I'll go with whatever y'all say. :)

bamaace83 wrote: "Hey everyone! I'm Anna. I think this is my 3rd year playing Uno, I probably should go look at my shelves to verify that...but I love this challenge. I live in the Louisville, Ky area and work in pe..."

Yes, I've been holding on to it too! It's been hard just seeing it sit on my shelf, and listening to all they hype. haha :D
I might be remembering wrong, but I think that we could both read it for color cards this round, if one of us reads it for the WD4?
Edit: as long as the captains approve it for a yellow cover

Hi everyone! I'm Alekhya (pronounced a-lake-ya). I'm a 23-year-old from India. This is my first UNO and I'm really excited about it.
I love to read anything as long as it is fiction. Historical fiction is my newly found interest.
I've taken up a new job a few months ago that eats up a lot of my time. I don't read as much as I'd like to because of that but I still manage 2-3 books a month.

This is my shelf:
/review/list...

Laura wrote: "I knew there was something I forgot! To explain how I've found that UNO works well.

I can set up a tracking spreadsheet if people would prefer it, but otherwise, if you post a completion post here..."

As mentioned above I'm new here and I'm not entirely sure I got the hang of it after reading it 2 times.😅Hopefully, things will become more clear soon 🤞🏻🤞🏻

Does this count for Yellow-3. Just trying to understand how it works...

Hi, my name is Krisselle. I am an accountant from the Philippines. This is my first time joining this challenge. Actually, I never heard about this game before. I find it fascinating and I want to try it.
Please have patience on me.

This is my uno shelf: 2021-uno

Alekhya wrote: "
Does this count for Yellow-3. Just trying to understand how it works..."

Hello Alekhya! Welcome to UNO! I think you're going to love it. It's so fun and easier to understand once we start playing. You'll have it down before you know it! And to answer your question, yes that book would definitely work for yellow 3, because the cover is mostly yellow and the author's name starts with an H.
That's a great find! :)

For those who are new to UNO, I feel like this cheat sheet really helped me my first year.

0- Z
1- O
2- T
3- H
4- F
5- I
6- S
7- V
8- E
9- N
Skip- K or P

I wrote it down on my phone and referenced it when looking for books. It really helped until I had them all memorized, and now I'm finding UNO titles even when we're not playing throughout the year. :D

I found another book on my shelves last night that would work for Blue 4, in case one of those other books don't work as yellow.
What Alice Forgot (character Frannie)

yellow-0?

Krisselle wrote: "

yellow-0?"

Yes, that works! Great find! :)

Welcome Alekhya and Krisselle! Great to have you on board, couldn't resist adding a gif :) Both of those yellow cards look good to me.

bookswithpaulette wrote: "

Welcome Alekhya and Krisselle! Great to have you on board, couldn't resist adding a gif :) Both of those yellow cards look good to me."

Love it! 😻 haha

Sisa wrote: "For those who are new to UNO, I feel like this cheat sheet really helped me my first year.

0- Z
1- O
2- T
3- H
4- F
5- I
6- S
7- V
8- E
9- N
Skip- K or P

I wrote it down on my phone and reference..."

Thanks! This was precisely what I did too. I tried shifting between tabs for a while but ended up writing a similar cheat sheet on a post-it note. :D

Thank you for the welcome Sisa and Paulette!! I already feel like this will be a yearly thing for me from now! 😊

Can the letters be the beginning of the author's name or do they have to be the beginning of the tittle or can it be both?

Dark King

blue

So, I posted Anxious People and Magic Lessons in the Captain's Group for color verification. And several of the other captains feel that wether they are yellow or not doesn't matter, because it doesn't hit 50%. :(

Sisa wrote: "For those who are new to UNO, I feel like this cheat sheet really helped me my first year.

0- Z
1- O
2- T
3- H
4- F
5- I
6- S
7- V
8- E
9- N
Skip- K or P

I wrote it down on my phone and reference..."

That's a great idea. It really does last for several months after UNO, where you keep thinking in terms of cards a book will work for! :)

Hadassah wrote: "Can the letters be the beginning of the author's name or do they have to be the beginning of the tittle or can it be both?"

We can use the following: author's first or last (not middle) initial, title, character, setting, # in title, or # in series (0 is standalone).

Hadassah wrote: "Dark King

blue"

That does look like it works for blue, but our only Blue color card is a 4. Does it have a character with an F name?

Does this work for everyone?

Color Cards:
Red 0 - Paulette
Blue 4 - Sisa, What Alice Forgot (all captains have options)
Red 7 - Stacey
Yellow 3 - Alekhya, It Only Happens in the Movies
Green 3 - Sisa, Ballad of Song Birds and Snakes
Yellow 0 - Kriselle, Mislaid
Green 7 - Paulette
Red 2 - Laura
Wild Draw 4 (Green 3) Anna, In a Holidaze
Wild Draw 4 - Kriselle, The Great Gatsby

If no one posts another one, I can take the other Draw 4

Laura wrote: "Does this work for everyone?

Color Cards:
Red 0 - Paulette
Blue 4 - Sisa, What Alice Forgot (all captains have options)
Red 7 - Stacey
Yellow 3 - Alekhya, It Only Happens in the Movies
Green 3 - S..."


Yes, looks good to me.

by Gayle Forman
I can re-read this for the other Wild Draw 4 if it works for Blue 4

This will works for Blue-4 too.

Krisselle wrote: "

This will works for Blue-4 too."

Great, I can take up one of the "difficult" numbers later on.

Laura wrote: "So, I posted Anxious People and Magic Lessons in the Captain's Group for color verification. And several of the other captains feel that wether they are yellow or not doesn't matter, because it doe..."

That makes sense. Thanks for checking! :D

Laura wrote: "Does this work for everyone?

Color Cards:
Red 0 - Paulette
Blue 4 - Sisa, What Alice Forgot (all captains have options)
Red 7 - Stacey
Yellow 3 - Alekhya, It Only Happens in the Movies
Green 3 - S..."

Looks great! Wow, our team rocks! Can't wait to start reading these books. :)

It just means that we will use Anxious People for something else because it's been sitting there waiting on me to read it. I keep hearing it whisper at me from the bookshelf. I can definitely take up some difficult numbers when we get rolling. Great job everyone on filling in those colors. I was busy watching the events on the tv yesterday and didn't really have time to check in.