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Lost in a Good Book Maze
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Once you have done this, there will be a blue button in the centre to create a maze. Pick your maze size (10x10 is standard and has been well tested) and difficulty (description above).
Update 22 March 2024 - you now have multiple options for task selection for your maze. You can use the traditional set (general) which has multiple difficulty settings, or you can pick one of the additional genre linked task sets (which are the same difficulty regardless of whether you select easy, medium or hard).
Any problems please either post here or message the Mod account (or Sophie directly).
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What do I put in the reader box?
Put your name. When/if these are used as a team challenge, the reader box will be more useful.
I did my first task wrong. I thought I was supposed to pick one of the three options. Having entered it and seeing how it looks, I'm guessing I was supposed to read a book that fit the first task given and either of the directions listed, too. Sorry for the foul up. Do you want to reset me or just have me go read a book that does work correctly and go from there?
No worries, just read a book that works for the task and the direction you want to go and carry on from there.
Read a book shelved/main genre (listed on the first page on GR) - Does this mean 1st page of tags or MPG?
On the 1st page of tags
Are we going by read date? If I started a book just before the challenge started, can I use it, or do you want us to start a new book after each turn?
You can start books whenever you would like, but their finish/read date has to be after the turn.
I.e I start reading Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets and Love in the Time of Cholera on 13/3 and finished them both on 17/3.
On 16/3 I get a task to read a book with MPG classics. I can use Love in The Time Of Cholera for this task.
On 18/3 My task is to read a book with a wizard in it. I can't use Harry Potter as I've already finished it.
My first task is as follows:
Task: Read a book that starts with the letter L
Direction: South (Title starts with N-Z)
How do I proceed? Do I read a book that starts with the letter L and another one with a title that starts with any letter between n and Z? If so, where do I post the two books as there is space for posting only one book.
A glitch in the matrix, sorry about this!
Instead of the title being L for the task, for now can you read a book where the author’s last name starts with L.
The same goes for anyone else who has this issue. If you get a task for a page number that ends so it is impossible to go East or West, then read a book that is that number in a series or has the number in the title.
Sorry for sounding so dense. How do I identify the directions in the maze? I see one opening but do not know whether it opens to East or North.
Directions:
The top of the maze is North. If the opening is to the right, you can move East, on the bottom of the square is South. West is the left side.
So from the starting position you have the options of East or South depending on your individual maze.
Do not understand what is meant by "Read a book shelved (listed on the first page on GR) as first-reads - plurals and spelling acceptable"
Need some links for books shelved as first reads. I tried using the search key words as 'first reads' but landed with more than 20 pages of various lists which do not even resemble 'first reads'. I do not know what I am missing here. Further, can't understand what is meant by "plurals and spelling acceptable".
On the right hand side of the books page is yheir main genres. At the bottom is a link for top shelves. If you click there it takes you to the first page of tags. Searching through can sometimes get what you want, otherwise you can click on one of the shelves and edit the url to the tag you are looking for.
Plurals - for first reads tag you could also use first read (ie changing from plural to single or vice versa).
Spelling - colour vs color etc when there are variations across languages or mistypes on people's shelves.
Is lion shifter acceptable for the lion task? I think I may have one of those...
I'm feeling generous so shifters will be allowed.
I cannot find a book that has 2004 as a top shelf listed on the first page. Can anyone else? Can I instead choose a book that was published in 2004? Or is on a list marked 2004?
Remember that the top shelf includes the first page of tags, not just the book's main page. Going by published dates or presents on a list doesn't meet the task.
Regarding the isbn tasks- when searching my books there are two searchable isbn options. Isbn and isbn13. American books tend to have 13 numbers in the isbn, so that is what I assume I would search. Is that correct?
Which ever your copy of the book has; I don't think the tasks specify one over the other.
Read a book with fairies... Do they have to be referred to by that spelling? Or would Faeries work? Weird question but books do generally make a distinction about it, especially UF Faeries.
If they are recognisably fairies (even if called a variant i.e. Fae or Faeries) that's fine. The same goes for Vamphires etc.
Yay, I'm here and inEdit: Hard too then
OMG, YES!Please sign me up. Hard level please.
Sign me up please. I'll try the Easy task level.
What's the duration of this challenge?
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Duration is as long as it takes. We've got no plans to close sign ups and I have absolutely no idea how long the mazes will take to complete...
Sign me up for the Easy level then.
I would also like the easy level. This sounds like a really cool challenge.
i will give this a whirl.... the medium level for me pls. thanks! 📚🤎
I’ll try this. Hard level eeeeeekkkkk!c
I will try this I am going for medium please
This sounds interesting. I am in~sign me up for medium level please
Sign me up for the easy level, please.
Please sign me up for Medium. Thanks :)
I missed this. HOW IS THAT POSSIBLE?!Anyway, I want in. Hard mode, please.
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Anyway, I want in. Hard mode, please."
I did wonder after Jenny and Lexi signed up in minutes.
Happy to see all the enthusiasm from everyone!
*looks at date*Oh, the weekend. Right. That explains it. I tend to shy from computers during the weekends... And I *hate* to check goodreads on my phone.
I guess it'll be hard level for me (which I will no doubt regret soon enough, lol!) :D
I would like to sign up to try medium level please
Oooh this sounds fun! I want to sign up for the easy level!
This sounds fun! Can you sign me up for medium?
So, the crazy ones are all in the hard way :P
I'd like to sign up for the Easy level please! If I wasn't still struggling to read I'd be all over Hard but alas akjhdfl I want to still have fun!
Sonia wrote: "So, the crazy ones are all in the hard way :P"Who are you calling crazy, you nutty person?
The ones willing to read dubious books for challenges and pointsOr just for kicks... like I do most of the time
*giggles*
ohhhhhhhhhhhhhhh I'm looking so hard! sign me up for easy task level please!
Sonia wrote: "So, the crazy ones are all in the hard way :P"Hey! I resemble that accusation!
Sammy wrote: "Sonia wrote: "So, the crazy ones are all in the hard way :P"Hey! I resemble that accusation!"
It wasn't an accusation... just stating a fact
I'm in for Medium.What with my current reading pace, thanks for making the Duration "as long as it takes" :)
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What level do you want to sign up at Vaidehi?
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This sounds interesting. I'd like to sign up for Easy please =)
I'd like to try medium, please. Thanks!Lost in a Good Book Maze Challenge
Duration: As long as it takes!
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Where are we? Where are we going? Will there be books when we get there? Can I listen to an audio book on the way? All very important questions to answer as NBRC gets sucked into mazes.
This particular portal into book world separates everyone into their own maze. Your goal is to make it to the end of the maze without getting lost. You will be provided with a link to your personal maze after you sign up and each maze will have its own password protection. Can you make it to the other side? Will you get lost in a book (or more) along the way? Only time will tell.
For instructions to make your maze, see post 3.
When in your maze, you must choose a direction to travel: North, South, East, West.
Each direction has a specific quality to the book you need to read.
🏆 North - Book title starts with A-M
🏆 South - Book title starts with N-Z
🏆 East - Even number of pages
🏆 West - Odd number of pages
There are 4 difficulty levels:
Novice: Only match the requirement for the direction you want to travel.
Easy, Medium and Hard: Match the direction requirement and a task.
The tasks will generate automatically when you change squares in the maze and come from a list of tasks that contains more difficult tasks depending on the level you sign up for. Each level has a longer list of tasks to select from so on the hard level you could receive a task from either the easy, medium or hard lists; while on easy it would just be from the easy list.
The book you read needs to meet the criteria for both the direction you want to travel and the task you have drawn.
For Example:
- Task: Read a book with the MPG Science Fiction.
- Wants to travel North (title first letter A-M).
- Ender's Shadow,
Fill in all the information requested, then hit submit to make your move.
Re reads are allowed (6 month rule)
Page count = minimum 100 pages
Any format is allowed
Don't SKIP this message! I know you want to call a HALT to the tasks that make you want to PASS out and MISS the maze entirely. I don't want the fun to STOP so if you CAN'T complete a task, just ask for HELP and use one of the words in capitals as a spell out to fill the SPACE instead.
(*)Spell-it-Out Rules
Using the first letter in the book’s title, the first letter of the series name, the first letter in the author’s first or last name, or the first letter of a character’s first, last, or nick-name, or the first letter in the audio book narrator's first or last name.
If you are reading a translated version, you can also use the first letter of the translator's first or last name.
As always, if the first letter of a title starts with ‘A’, ‘An’, ‘The’, etc., you may use the first letter of the second word in the title to spell out your chosen word.