Tuesday 23 October 2012

Fanfare Please....

Team Racecar
Team Tulip
Team Boot
Team Train

Team Battleship

Team Train
Team Tulip

Releases this week have been:
Ultima Thule from Team Scottie-Dog
Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet from Team Top Hat
Legends and Myths of Hawaii &  The Legend of Bagger Vance from Team Battleship
La cuisine aphrodisiaque from Team Moneybag
Too Close to Home from Team Boot
All the Rivers Run & A Trunk Full of Books from Team Train
Valkoinen hotelli & Isät kulkivat pilven alla from Team Tulip
Ich mach was mit Stoff  & Ich mach was mit Papier from Team Wolf
Vår man i Havanna; Den tredje mannen from Team Racecar

All of which leaves us tipping our caps at Team Top Hat, our winners :) Hurrah!

During the course of our game, 225 books have been released into the wild - of those 28 were caught, with 21 new members signed up and 6 books re-released (so far....). So, frankly, I think we're all kinda winners.

Thanks everyone for playing, I hope you all had fun

Tuesday 9 October 2012

Turn Fifteen - The Final Move

Submit the details of your teams completed challenge - including a link to the book's page (and pictures if you want) - by PMing Vekiki. Please also post on the forum so we can see your release!
Submissions deadline: 21.00 GMT (that's 9 PM, London time) on Monday 22nd October
Refresh on how to play here
Chatter about the turn in the forum

There won't be any bonus points this week as GoG doesn't want to be in a position of effectively choosing the winner by picking who gets the bonuses :)

gameboard in progress

This Turn's Challenges:

Teams Battleship
Castles & Palaces  (Dice Rolls 12)
     + Collect the Greens

Team Boot
Home  (Dice Roll 6)

Team Iron
Chance card: beginnings and endings double release challenge  (dice roll 10)

Team Moneybag

Cloud Nine (dice roll 5)

Team Racecar
Underground (dice roll 8)
     + Passing Go Free Release

Team Scottie Dog
Tower  (dice roll 8)

Team Thimble
Tree (Dice Roll 6)
 
Team Tophat
Home  (dice roll 4)

Team Train
Water (dice roll 3)
     + collect the utilities

Team Tulip
Hotel (dice roll 2)
     + Collect the Dark Blues

Team Wolf
Tables & Chairs  (dice roll 7)
      + Passing Go Free Release

Have fun! 

Monday 8 October 2012

Turn Fourteen Releases

A Clue leading to the crime scene...

Team Tulip: Treasure Island released in a bookcrosser's playground - the UK Uncon!
Team Racecar: Dan Henry i vilda västern released at a  book fair on Sweden's West coast
Team Moneybag: Der Angst hat, bist doch du left at the foot of a tower. Les mésaventures de Minty Malone is about a Private Eye who is betrayed by her fiancee, so is released in honour of the colour yellow's association with betrayal (it's a french thing, apparently! To do with the yellow unions, who betrayed the regular unions by returning to work) - the book is left outside a detective's office, of course
Team Scottie-Dog: Stop the World is the biography of a Scottish nationalist, released by the statue of the first First Minister of Scotland
Team Boot: Kruununpuisto left in a historic park. Pay the Devil left by a Halloween Store
Team Train: Southern Cross left at the Southern Cross Arcade. The Golden Compass left at a central train station, from where the finder could take it in any direction
Team Tophat: Reader's Digest Het beste boek (1977) (Reader's Digest Best Books 1977) includes the Great Train Robbery, and was left with a stolen train
Team Battleship: Planes, Jets & Helicopters left at an Army museum full of planes, jets and helicopters
Team Wolf: What's That Pest helps them keep the greenery green in the Botanical Gardens. Venusneid
released at a wedding, in hopes that the finder will be on cloud 9

Team Boot
Bonus Points go to....
Team Tophat for pulling off the theft of the century
Team Scottie-dog for inclusion of political humour
Team Train for most identically named book / location
That book has a yellow belly!

Team Moneybag

Thursday 27 September 2012

Turn Fourteen

Submit the details of your teams completed challenge - including a link to the book's page (and pictures if you want) - by PMing Vekiki. Please also post on the forum so we can see your release!
Submissions deadline: 21.00 GMT (that's 9 PM, London time) on Monday 8th October
New Turn will be announced on Tuesday 9th October
Refresh on how to play here
Chatter about the turn in the forum

gameboard in progress

This Turn's Challenges:

Teams Battleship & Tophat
Planes & Trains  (Dice Rolls 3 & 10)

Team Boot
Historic places  (Dice Roll 10)
      + Collect the Oranges

Team Iron
Power Station  (dice roll 3)
      + Collect the Utilities

Team Moneybag

 Tower (dice roll 3)
      + Collect the Yellows

Team Racecar
 West (dice roll 12)

Team Scottie Dog
Statues & Monuments  (dice roll 7)

Team Thimble
Rainbow's End (Dice Roll 4)
      + Collect the Pinks
 
Team Train
South  (dice roll 9)
      + Collect the Compass Points

Team Tulip
parks & Playgrounds (dice roll 7)

Team Wolf
Cloud Nine  (dice roll 2)
      + Collect the Greens

GoG
Hotel (Dice roll 2)

Have fun! 

Wednesday 26 September 2012

Turn Thirteen Releases

I do hope Team Iron aren't burning books now!

Team Battleship: Fluke is sent in a completely appreciated attempt to butter up GoG ;)
Team Scottie Dog: Teacher's Dead hopefully isn't a premonition around the Gaelic School in Glasgow, and The Secret Garden in a secret garden
Team Racecar: De röda skorna (The Red Shoes) in the red area of a red restaurant... complete with red shoelaces
Team Boot: In the Forest has lost it's reader :(
Team Thimble: Liebe kennt keine Jahre is in the middle of nowhere, while Todesblues sees off the blues (English meaning) by getting blue (German meaning; tipsy!)  in the Blue Monkey bar and Gute Nacht, mein Geliebter (Good Night My Lover) snuggles down in an IKEA bed
 Team Wolf: Alaska is an old book in a new castle. 
Team Tophat; The Calculus Affair (Adventures of Tintin) in honour of Snowy, the scottie dog... 
Team Moneybag:  A square note on a square book on a squareish chair  in a square. 
Team Iron: Der Hexenanwalt - the middle of a trilogy, in the middle of the stairs
Team Racecar: The Summer Without Men makes a first time bookcrossing-accomplice feel just as on edge as the heroine of the book!
Team Train: Playing for Pizza makes GoG think she might even be interested in sport if there was a chance of winning pizza!
Team Tulip: De Hobbit released over second breakfast :D

squares in squares in squares

Bonus Points go toooooooo......
Team Thimble for multi-lingual wordplay
old and new
Team Battleship because GoG is completely open to blatant bribery
Team Racecar for roping a newbie (even an unofficial one) into their first release

play stops for lost books!

Lost... found?
woof woof

Tuesday 11 September 2012

Turn Thirteen

Submit the details of your teams completed challenge - including a link to the book's page (and pictures if you want) - by PMing Vekiki. Please also post on the forum so we can see your release!
Submissions deadline: 21.00 GMT (that's 9 PM, London time) on Monday 24th September
New Turn will be announced on Tuesday 25th September
Refresh on how to play here
Chatter about the turn in the forum


This Turn's Challenges:

Team Battleship
Community Bookshelf (Dice Roll 4)

Team Boot
Lost (Dice Roll 6)

Team Iron
In the Middle (dice roll 6)

Team Moneybag

Square (dice roll 3)

Team Racecar
On the edge (dice roll 2)
    + collect the reds


Team Scottie Dog
School (dice roll 11)
    + collect the pinks

Team Thimble
In the Middle (dice roll 12)
    + collect the light blues
    + passing go free release

Team Tophat
In jail - point stealer! (dice roll 9)

Team Train
Sports Ground (dice roll 11)

Team Tulip
Recommend a favourite (dice roll 12)

Team Wolf
Castles & Palaces (dice roll 8)

GoG
Parks & Playgrounds (Dice roll 3)

Have fun!

Monday 10 September 2012

Turn Twelve Releases

*tap tap tap*

Team Thimble: The Secret Garden released in a village called Rosengarten (rose garden)
Team Racecar: Paradisets portar (Gates of Paradise) left on a stautue which will hopefully help them fly heavenward...
Team Train: Let It Bleed released in the blood bank, whilst Follow the North Star directs people to the Planetarium

Team Moneybag: Ce que vivent les roses (What Roses Live) released in the hedge ('edge if you say it with a french accent!), whilst 150 petites expériences de psychologie is left to assist those well know reds the PCF
Team Iron: Marcovaldo left in the metro, Adressat unbekannt (address unknown) left in an unaddressed envelope at a packing station and Cipolla (cucinare con la...) (Cooking with Onions) at a food market
Team Boot: The Backyard Safari goes exploring! And When We Were Orphans wings its way to a wisher
Team Tophat: Weekend Woodworking with Power Tools will help any finder build a table & chairs, Hit by a Farm in the community garden, and The Natural Soap Book at an old handwashing pump
Team Battleship: Kahala, Where the Rainbow Ends a book about the rainbow Maiden released on a sunny with showers kinda day in hope of appropriate weather....
Team Scottie Dog: The Man Who Wanted to Be Happy cheers up some commuters, who may also find Love in the Dark
Team Tulip: Pilgrim's Rest on Museum Street in the old part of town, Oranges are Not the Only Fruit in amongst the oranges at the market
Team Wolf: Der Zauberer von Oz wearing red shoes because there's no place like home,  maybe Wednesday Wizard can help her get there? 
GoG: Six Easy Piece at an Astronomy Festival where everyone is in heaven because there is no cloud and we can see the moons of Jupiter :)

Moneybag smell the roses
Team Iron hope they won't be returned to sender
DIY with Team Tophat
Team Tophat get rural
Team Tophat are squeaky clean
Team Battleship take cover in case of rain
Team Tulip go old sckool
Ignore that man behind the curtain
Team Train go off planet
Bonus Points:

Team Moneybag for accented theme
Team Iron for unmarked evelope release
Team Tophat for DIY release
Team racecar flying high

Tuesday 28 August 2012

Turn Twelve

Submit the details of your teams completed challenge - including a link to the book's page (and pictures if you want) - by PMing Vekiki. Please also post on the forum so we can see your release!
Submissions deadline: 21.00 GMT (that's 9 PM, London time) on Monday 10th September
New Turn will be announced on Tuesday 11th September
Refresh on how to play here
Chatter about the turn in the forum


This Turn's Challenges:

Team Battleship
rainbows end (dice roll 6)

Team Boot
Community Bookshelf (dice roll 4)
+ passing go

Team Iron
Underground (dice roll 4)
+ collect the browns / dark purples
+ passing go

Team Moneybag

On the Edge (dice roll 2)
+ collect the reds

Team Racecar
Statues & Monuments (dice roll 7)

Team Scottie Dog
Underground (dice roll 8)
+ passing go

Team Thimble
Parks & Playgrounds (dice roll 2)
+ collect the Dark Blues

Team Tophat
Tables & Chairs (dice roll 4)
+ collect the browns / dark purples
+ passing go

Team Train
North (dice roll 7)

Team Tulip
Historic Places (Dice roll 9)
+ collect the oranges

Team Wolf
Home (dice roll 3)
+ collect the reds

GoG
Cloud Nine (Dice roll 2)
+ Collect the Dark Greens

Have fun!
(Posted before midnight on Tuesday so technically not late! hurrah!)

Turn Eleven Releases

What'cha readin'?
Team Racecar: Jonas released by a teeny tiny school, Jeg lovet deg aldri en rosenhave (I never promised you a Rose-garden) in a ... herb garden
Team Boot: Catch Me released in superspeed time
Team Moneybag:  Die erstaunliche Geschichte des Max Tivoli makes perfect reading material for a statue
Team Thimble: The Underpainter continues it's journey westwards
Team Train: Michael Schumacher: Ferrari Racing 1998 left at the Speed Shop.
Team Scottie-Dog: Wizard of Oz warns passers-by about the Wicked Witch of theWest [Street] - book caught with a new member!
Team Iron: Temeraire / His Majesty's Dragon released at the Sir Frances Drake Hotel, since he was also known as The Dragon. The dragon theme continued with a dark blue copy of Eragon
Team Tulip: Such a Long Journey released at the start / 'Go' point of a nature trail... Faceless Killers in the middle of a nature trail... Blue Diary at the end of a nature trail
Team Battleship: Mystery of Cabin Island retro edition, left outside a vintage/antique store
Team  Tophat: Bonjour Tristesse / een Verre Glimlach / Houdt U van Brahms
(Hello Sadness and two other collected works) refers to the Dutch/ German version of the expression 'feeling blue'. Fietsen door Nederland left on a bike outside a sports park.
Team Wolf: New Zealand Fishes left with some giant shells
GoG: Sandcastles Made Simple left with a bucket and spade on a rainbow beach

old book searches for new reader
Bonus points:
Team Train go whizzing by
Team Scottie Dog for funny word play
Team Top-hat for keeping us in suspense up until the last possible second
Team Tulip for using the themes to related all three releases together

GoG encourages passers-by to build her a castle
Team Wolf hit the beach

Team Top Hat have got the blues...

Team Racecar go back to school
Start

End

Middle...

Tuesday 14 August 2012

Turn Eleven

Submit the details of your teams completed challenge - including a link to the book's page (and pictures if you want) - by PMing Vekiki. Please also post on the forum so we can see your release!
Submissions deadline: 21.00 GMT (that's 9 PM, London time) on Monday 27th August
New Turn will be announced on Tuesday 28th August
Refresh on how to play here
Chatter about the turn in the forum

[gameboard in the morning!]

Team Battleship
Chance Card: Retro themed release (Dice Roll 4)

Team Boot & Train
Superspeed (Dice Roll 2 & 9)
Release Deadline: 20th August 9PM

Team Iron
Hotel (Dice Roll 4)
     + Collect the Dark Blues

Team Moneybag & Wolf
Statues & Monuments (Dice Roll 2)

Team Racecar
School (Dice Roll 3)
       + Collect the Pinks

Teams Scottie Dog & Thimble
West (Dice Roll 12 + 2)

Team Tophat
Parks & Playgrounds (Dice Roll 7)
     + Collect the Dark Blues

Team Tulip
In the Middle (Dice Roll 11)
     + Collect the Light Blues
     + Passing Go Free Release

GoG
Castles & Palaces (Dice Roll 12)
 

Turn Ten Releases

Vroom Vroom
Team Tulip: On the limit: Panasonic Toyota Racing in 2002 with two BC cars so the finder can do their own toy racing
Team Scottie-Dog: Bridget Jones the Edge of Reason pulls back tired parents from the edge of reason, already caught with a new member too!
Team Boot: Cell is revealed to be the answer to their game of Who Am I on the forums... and another catch!
Team Top Hat: Five on a Hike Together is recommended as a great way to encourage a love of reading - dropped off at the favourite walking spot of Han-Cat's family (after some debate over where was favourite, of course!). Another catch with a lovely JE and a new member - we're on a roll this turn it seems!
Team Iron: Le Donne Del Club Omicid runs west, following Christopher Columbus from the Hotel Carvel to America! Der goldene Kompass (The Golden Compass) points the way!
Team Wolf: Anabasis Text in Auswahl at the Tree of Hippocrates... Oranges are Not the Only Fruit in another tree

Team Battleship: Caribbean in the underground stronghold of the Kingdom of Nymeria, - at the start of the underground tunnel that was built as a secret escape route in case of attack. Harry's Mad 
is about a parrot who's favourite game is Monopoly, and he always plays with the Battleship piece - released with the pigeons in Thomas Square to give them an idea of their tropical fellow birds.
Team Thimble: Asche und Diamant sent off to a wishful recipient
Team Train: Round Tower at the Top of The World Revolving Restaurant, on the top floor of the Atlantic Tower Motel. The Yellow Wallpaper in with the Yellow paint at a hardware shop, since (apparently) wallpaper isn't trendy enough to sell!
Team Moneybag: Le bêtisier du bac (The Blooper Reel) - a collection of nonsense homework & exam answers, in front of a high school. Pink Moon on a pink board at Ikea
Team Racecar: Ut i naturen breaking biological boundaries in the forest of insect-kind.
GoG: Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban on Platform 9 3/4

Bonus Points go to...
Teams Racecar & Scottie Dog for original interpretations of their themes
Team Iron for Naval Engineering Trivia
Team Train for interior décor fashioning


Team Scottie-Dog's sanity is in the balance
Team Top Hat take a stroll
Battleships prepare to skip the Kingdom
Pink!
Team Moneybag don't need to wear ass's ears!

Tuesday 31 July 2012

Turn Ten

Submit the details of your teams completed challenge - including a link to the book's page (and pictures if you want) - by PMing Vekiki. Please also post on the forum so we can see your release!
Submissions deadline: 21.00 GMT (that's 9 PM, London time) on Monday 13th August
New Turn will be announced on Tuesday 14th August
Refresh on how to play here
Chatter about the turn in the forum


This Turn's challenges

Team Battleship
Underground (Dice Roll 12)

Team Boot
Chance Card: Guess Who? Make an identity themed release (Dice Roll 6)

Team Iron
West (Dice Roll 7)
    + Collect the compass points (extra 'directions / compass' themed release)

Team Moneybag
School (Dice Roll 6)
    + Collect the Pinks

Team Racecar
New Frontiers (Dice Roll 3)

Team Scottie Dog
On the Edge (Dice Roll 6)

Team Thimble
Community Bookshelf (Dice Roll 10)

Team Tophat
Recommend a Favourite (Dice Roll 3)

Team Train
Tower (Dice Roll 3)
    + Collect the Yellows

Team Tulip
Superspeed (Dice Roll 9)

Team Wolf
Tree (Dice Roll 3)
    + Collect the Oranges

GoG
Planes & Trains (Dice Roll 7)

GoG would like to know if someone weighted her dice to come up 3 so many times??? guess that is chance for you! Have Fun Everyone :)

Turn Nine Releases

Team Moneybag swing the blues away
 Team Battleship: Go the F**k to Sleep in honour of singing group The 5th Dimension's hit 'I didn't get any sleep at all'
Team Boot: Oravan portaat one of Kasenka's favourite poetry books, in her favourite places to visit
Team Iron: Badewannenblues (Bath tub) in a bathtub of it's own, along with all the other essentials needed to take a bath
Team Moneybag: Sa Majesté des Mouches a bright blue book relaxing in it's very own bright blue hammock, under a bright blue sky... but not for long, already caught! Not so much luck for Das böse Mädchen, as they got lost on the way to the release spot.... but eventually found a pointer to give them the right direction
Team Racecar: Vilsen i världen (Lost in the World) so that all those lost travelling tourists know they are not alone
Team Thimble: Lalu lalula, arme kleine Ophelia hanging out over the edge of a bog. Das Feuermal (Port Wine stain, or literally Fire Stain) left in a water fountain near the fire station, so we can be sure the fire does not spread
Team Tophat: Playing for Pizza plays the organ in a pizza joint (it's trendier than playing the piano in a gin joint)

Team Train: Change the World for Ten Bucks should help you square up your karma whatever your budget
Team Iron gone Quackers
Team Tulip: The Bellmaker rings the bell for the London Olympics from the Helsinki Olympic stadium
Team Wolf: Meine Tage als Spitzenreiter. Letzte Wahrheiten über Fußball got taken to see the football
Team Scottie-Dog: The Master Butchers Singing Club wings it's way to a wisher 
GoG: Light Lifting at the beginning of the rainbow spectrum... inside a microwave

Bonus Points:
Team Battleship for two reasons for a sleepless night in one release ;)
Team Iron for inclusion of a rubber ducky (!)
Team Moneybag for swing construction

Tuesday 17 July 2012

Turn Nine

Submit the details of your teams completed challenge - including a link to the book's page (and pictures if you want) - by PMing Vekiki. Please also post on the forum so we can see your release!
Submissions deadline: 21.00 GMT (that's 9 PM, London time) on Monday 30th July
New Turn will be announced on Tuesday 31st July
Refresh on how to play here
Chatter about the turn in the forum



Teams Battleship
Fifth Dimension (Dice Roll 12)

Team Boot
Recommend a favourite (Dice Roll 4)

Team Iron
Water (Dice Roll 6)

Team Moneybag
Lost (Dice Roll 2)
   + Collect the Light Blues

Team Racecar
Lost (Dice Roll 6)


Team Scottie Dog
Community bookshelf (Dice Roll 4)

Team Thimble
On The Edge (Dice Roll 12)
       + Collect the Reds

Team Top Hat
Cafes & Restaurant (Dice Roll 5)

Team Train
Square (Dice Roll 11)

Team Tulip
Tower (Dice roll 9)

Team Wolf
Sports Ground (Dice Roll 7)

GoG
Rainbow's End (Dice Roll 7)

Have Fun!