The Seasonal Reading Challenge discussion

25.7 - M1nks's task: The Games We Played

Childhood games always give me happy nostalgic smiles when I think of them. Here are some which have given me many happy hours.

This is a two book task. Pick two books from two different options.

Required: State which options you used when you post.

1. Game of Life - An old childhood favourite. Here you start out and move through the board, getting married, having kids and retiring to a millionaires mansion. Or that is what is meant to happen!

To celebrate 'The Game of Life' read a book which has 'Autobiography' or 'Biography' as a main page genre.

2. Escape from Colditz - A little more obscure, this boardgame was a huge hit with those kids lucky enough to know about it. You play either prisoners trying to escape a German POW camp or the German guards trying to keep them in there.

To recreate the excitement of this wonderful game read a book which has 'World War II' or which has 'Spy' or 'Espionage' as a main page genre.

3. The Smiling Game - I was always hopeless at this one, in fact I always lost before my turn officially started. The challenge was for one person to remain poker faced while everyone else did everything they could to make them laugh (no touching allowed). A guaranteed way to brighten up a rainy afternoon.

To (hopefully) being a smile to your face, read a book with the main page genre 'Humor'

4. Kick the Can - We also played a lot of games outside, some more annoying to the neighbourhood than others. One which was a lot of fun and which didn't disturb anything more than the odd flowerbed, was 'Kick the Can', a night time game. Here one person would be 'it' and the others would scatter. Whoever was 'it' would try to catch everyone in his or her flashlight, sending them to prison (standing by the can). Anyone could free the prisoners by sneaking over and 'kicking the can' which made a loud sound.

To honour this game, played in the dark, read a book with a cover that is at least 50% black according to TinEye. To extract colors in TinEye, use the picture on the book's main page (as-is, not enlarged) and uncheck the box that says "exclude background color from extracted colors," if it is checked. Further directions on how to use TinEye can be found in message 4 of this help thread.

Required: Include the cover in your post.

Approved:


Option 2. , , , ; ;

Reserved

To use TinEye

• Navigate to the main page of the book you've chosen
• Right click on the picture of your book (as-is on the main book page)
• Choose "copy image address" or just "copy"
• Paste the image address in the box that says "enter image URL"
• As an alternative, you may drag-and-drop your cover image onto the TinEye page. Or, you can choose "open image in a new tab" (or window) and copy the URL in the address bar and paste that into TinEye.
• Go to https://labs.tineye.com/color/
• Click "extract colors"
• Scroll down and uncheck the box that says "exclude background color from extracted colors," if it is checked
• Add the percentages listed beside any color that has black in parentheses beside it

This thread is now open!

Copying this here for Opt 4 so that I don't have to redo it later for

https://labs.tineye.com/color/1af7264...

For #2, will you accept Ostland? It is a dual timeline story, most of which is set during WWII. The other part is set after the war and is the war crime trial of the Nazi officers. It is all tied in to WWII, though. Thanks.

I will. I've asked the Mods to change the task to reflect that option 2. asks for the WW II genre which your book has.

Could you please note for World War II? Thanks.

Rina wrote: "Could you please note for World War II? Thanks."

Noted

Please confirm: World War II for

Book Concierge wrote: "Please confirm: World War II for "

Confirmed

when i used tineye I got 87% black for American War - can someone sanity check for me?

https://labs.tineye.com/color/46a8a9a...

I got the same thing Dee! 86.7% black! (Just to add: I used the thumbnail on the book you linked, I mention this because I noticed that I don't always get the same results with different editions.)

Dee, I got the same using the Main Page cover.

Diane Whitney wrote: "Please verify In Farleigh Field WWII MPG. It's currently second from bottom."

Done

Just to double check, for Option 2, is embedded is okay for WWII?

Trish wrote: "Just to double check, for Option 2, is embedded is okay for WWII?"

Of course :-)

For option 2, please verify The Moscow Sleepers for Spy Thriller>Espionage.

Thanks!

Morning

Could you just confirm that you can see World War II on the MPG page of The Master Plan: Himmler's scholars and the Holocaust. I'm seeing genres, but not number of users, so I'm not sure how close they are to the bottom.

Thanks.

Sandy wrote: "For option 2, please verify The Moscow Sleepers for Spy Thriller>Espionage.

Thanks!"

Confirmed

Trish wrote: "Morning

Could you just confirm that you can see World War II on the MPG page of The Master Plan: Himmler's scholars and the Holocaust. I'm seeing genres, but not number of users, so..."

That's fine.

To find out the number of users you just need to click on the 'See Top Shelves'.

Thanks. Mainly I wanted to make sure you could see it.

Verifying that is 76% black

https://labs.tineye.com/color/8ec310d...

please verify Captive in Iran as biography

Shanna_redwind wrote: "please verify Captive in Iran as biography"

Verified