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