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Team Innovation Jelly

Team Members:

❅ Deanna - Captain
❅ Annalisa - Co-captain
❅ Anan Ashraf
❅ Vernice
❅ Sunny
❅ Ann Sicker
❅ Sharon A.
❅ Romina
❅ Alejandra
❅ Morta


♕ Team Spreadsheet

Team Innovation Jelly Member Shelves
❅ Deanna
❅ Annalisa
❅ Anan Ashraf
❅ Vernice
❅ Sunny
❅ Ann Sicker
❅ Sharon A.
❅ Romina
❅ Alejandra
❅ Morta

Important Links
📚 All About UNO & Announcements
📚 UNO FAQ
📚 Innovation Jelly Planning Spreadsheet

Rules in a Nutshell
- 100 pages (verify 25k words / 3hrs for Childrens, Poetry, Plays etc MPG)
- rereads OK after 6 months
- Spell out using title / author name / speaking character name / location
- Letters to find Z O T H F I S V E N K P
- Numbers in title or #series

Helpful Links
AR Bookfind - for checking page count of children's books
Uno Blue Ideas Shelf
Uno Green Ideas Shelf
Uno Red Ideas Shelf
Uno Yellow Ideas Shelf

February Cards
(view spoiler)[Total Cards for All Hands

Card	Frequency
0	1
1	5
2	9
3	4
4	10
5	6
6	5
7	8
8	6
9	2
Skip	7
Reverse	12
Wild	4
Draw 2	7

COLORED CARDS
1 Red
1 Blue
3 Yellow
4 Yellow
4 Green
6 Green
9 Blue
Also 3 Wild Draw 4 cards, so we need to duplicate 3 of these.

Full List of Cards by Hand
(view spoiler)[
Hand One
Wild Draw 4
3
Draw 2
2
Skip
Wild
5

Hand Two
6
4
2
7
2
9
1 Red

Hand Three
8
3
Wild
Wild Draw 4
Reverse
Reverse
Skip

Hand Four
Reverse
7
2
1
4
7
4 Yellow

Hand Five
Reverse
7
2
1
4
7
6

Hand Six
8
3
4
7
5
8
3 Yellow

Hand Seven
Reverse
Reverse
Reverse
9
4
Reverse
Wild

Hand Eight
2
Reverse
5
5
5
5
9 Blue

Hand Nine
Skip
2
3
Draw 2
Wild Draw 4
Skip
Draw 2

Hand Ten
0
Draw 2
4
Skip
Draw 2
7
4 Green
Hand Eleven
Reverse
Skip
Skip
4
2
Draw 2
6
Hand Twelve
1
1
4
1
7
Reverse
1 Blue

Hand Thirteen
8
8
4
Wild
8
Reverse
0

Hand Fourteen
Draw 2
9
2
6
6
4
6 Green (hide spoiler)] (hide spoiler)]

March Cards
Total Cards for All Hands

Card	Frequency
0	6
1	7
2	5
3	7
4	9
5	7
6	10
7	4
8	5
9	9
Skip	8
Reverse	9
Wild	3
Draw 2	5

COLORED CARDS
0 Red
0 Blue
2 Red
2 Red
3 Blue
4 Green
5 Green
9 Yellow
9 Blue
Also 2 Wild Draw 4 cards, so we need to duplicate 2 of these.

Full List of Cards by Hand
(view spoiler)[
Hand One
Skip
4
Skip
Draw 2
1
Draw 2
9

Hand Two
8
1
4
Reverse
6
Reverse
0 Red

Hand Three
2
Reverse
Reverse
8
2
6
4 Green

Hand Four
Wild Draw 4
1
5
6
Draw 2
4
9 Yellow

Hand Five
1
Wild
5
0
Reverse
2
7

Hand Six
3
1
Wild Draw 4
Skip
0
Skip
2 Red

Hand Seven
3
9
9
Reverse
9
Reverse
5

Hand Eight
4
6
9
6
5
Wild
2 Red

Hand Nine
0
5
3
Skip
4
8
5

Hand Ten
Skip
4
6
Draw 2
9
9
0 Blue

Hand Eleven
6
7
3
7
0
0
2

Hand Twelve
7
Skip
3
6
6
Draw 2
3 Blue

Hand Thirteen
Skip
1
9
4
4
8
0

Hand Fourteen
Reverse
1
Wild
3
6
5
9 Blue

Hand Fifteen
Reverse
9
8
3
2
4
5 Green (hide spoiler)]

Countdowns

Countdown to Start of UNO
Reminder: Only books started after the start of the challenge can be used for UNO>
Start times around the globe:
Sydney: 7pm, 1st February
Mumbai: 1.30pm, 1st February
Tokyo: 5pm, 1st February
London: 8am, 1st February
New York: 3am, 1st February
San Francisco: Midnight, 1st February

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Hello everyone! Welcome to Team Innovation Jelly and UNO 2020!

To help us get to know each other a little, please take a moment to introduce yourself and tell us where you are, if you've played UNO before, and what type of books you like reading. Also please post the name of your uno shelf (with a link if possible).

I'm Deanna, your captain for this year's UNO challenge, and I'm looking forward to enjoying this wonderful reading challenge with you! I live in Virginia and this is my second year of playing UNO. I read a fairly wide variety of genres; but my favorites would be mystery, thriller, fantasy, and science fiction.

Shelf: UNO-2020

I'll be updating the beginning posts with the challenge information. Please let us know if you have any questions.

Hi Team Innovation Jelly!

I'm excited to get to know everyone. I'm Annalisa and I’m in North Carolina. This is my fourth year playing UNO and my third year as a co-captain. Feel free to ask any questions you might have. I seem a few familiar names from last year.

I read a bit of everything, but I enjoy fantasy, science fiction, and historical romance. A few of my recent favorites are , , and the whole series was very good.

Shelf: uno-2020

I'm looking forward to discovering new books and reading with everyone for the next few months.

Hi guys! I'm Sunny, and this is my first year playing UNO - but I couldn't be more excited. I have participated in a few challenges over in the NBRC group and I always found it fun and a good way to read more.

I'm from Slovenia, a small country in Europe - I operate on a GMT+1.

Nowadays, I mostly read (young adult) fantasy, but also sci-fi, thrillers and a good contemporary here and there. With a forever-growing TBR, I try to read as much possible, but being in my last year of high school it's making it difficult to read more that 6-8 a month.

Shelf: uno-2020

I'm Ann and this is my first year at playing uno. I am very excited! My home is in upstate New York. I like to read all types of genres but mysteries are probably my favorite.

Welcome Sunny and Ann. If you have any questions please ask.

Hi, my name is Alejandra, I’m from Colombia, which is NY time. My second year playing uno, I read mostly historical romance, paranormal and fantasy, but I try reading outside my comfort zone. I read a lot of psych reference books, but they rarely end up in the uno shelves.
Look forward to all the reading we’re going to be doing.

I’m on my cel phone, I’ll try to post a link to my shelf tonight

Also... I’m planing to read Origin by Dan Brown, that works for blue 1

Will we have a planning spreadsheet or will the books everyone plans to read go through this topic only?

Alejandra wrote: "Hi, my name is Alejandra, I’m from Colombia, which is NY time. My second year playing uno, I read mostly historical romance, paranormal and fantasy, but I try reading outside my comfort zone. I rea..."
Paula from team Moonwalker Madeleines passing by.

Hola Alejandra! qué genial ver más sudamericanos participando en UNO! Que lo pases increíble =)
(Hello from a fellow southamerican)

Hello Annalisa too, hope you have a great time ^^

Hi team!

My name is Sharon and I live in Northeast Pennsylvania. I've definitely played UNO before, but I can't remember if this is my 3rd or 4th year. I love this challenge!

I ready a pretty broad range of books and usually go through spurts of binge reading different genres. Right now I'm in a little bit of a mystery/thriller stretch. I also do a mix of e-books, print books, and audio books (I have an hour commute to work). Right now, I'm finishing Hidden Bodies (I wanted to read it before I watched season 2 of YOU on Netflix) and I'm listening to Missing Pieces.

Looking forward to getting to know all of you as we play! Feel free to send me a friend request if you are comfortable doing that.

My UNO shelf

Talking about friend requests, thank you to everyone for accepting my requests to you. It will be really helpful when you are looking for books that work for reverse. We have 13 of them in February, so if you have any favorite books please suggest them. (I don’t want to make my TBR bigger, but it is great to see what everyone likes.)

Welcome Sunny, Ann, Sharon, and Alejandra!

Hi everyone! Just wanted to check in, I’ll read everything ASAP!
I’m 25, from Uruguay. Love reading everything. I’m currently in Buenos Aires for some work and will be back home on Sunday so I’ll have time to get on my computer and read everything properly. Just wanted you all to know I’m here!!

Hey everyone! I'm Vernice from Cape Town, South Africa! I've never played UNO on Goodreads before, but I love the card game and I'm looking forward to having fun with you all!

I try and read diversely, however my favorite genre's are fantasy adventures and historical fiction. I'm not a huge fan of nonfiction or classics, though there are always exceptions to the rule 😁

My Shelf

Hi guys! I'm Morta, it's my first time playing the UNO challenge and I'm really excited. I'm from Lithuania, Europe. I mostly read ya fantasy, contemporary and sometimes classics
my uno shelf

Welcome Romina, Vernice, and Morta!

A few housekeeping items:

I love spreadsheets, so I've created a tracking sheet for our books.

Innovation Jelly Planning Spreadsheet

You can add books ahead of time and just fill in the date when you finish or add as you go. If you don't like spreadsheets or are somewhere that you don't have access to the spreadsheet, feel free to just post a completion in this thread. An example would be something like:


Date read: 2/2
Tasks:
2:character-Tara
3:author-Harris
6:character-Sookie
8:character-Eric
Skip:character-Pam
Reverse:read by Vernice
Color: yellow

In terms of planning, I usually try to get volunteers for the color cards and wild draw 4 cards ahead of time. For February, our color cards are:

1 Red - Vernice
1 Blue - Alejandra
3 Yellow - Deanna
4 Yellow - Vernice
4 Green - Annalisa
6 Green - Sunny
9 Blue - Romina
Also 3 Wild Draw 4 cards

I can take 3 Yellow with the Sookie book. (I've been saving this one for UNO, so I'll have to go look to see what other colors I have.) Wild Draw 4 for those new to UNO means for any three of our color cards, we need to read a second book to fill into the Wild Draw 4 slots. If anyone else has a color cover they want to read, let us know.

So each team member has the goal to find a book that fits a many of the categories in the first hand? Sorry if it is a dumb question. First time playing!

Ann, you can read whatever you want. We do need to look for characters, titles, authors, series numbers that fit our cards. When you make a completion post or add your book to the spread sheet just note them so we know what cards your book works for.
We would like people to claim the color cards ahead of time since they are more difficult to fill. If you have any books with a green, yellow, red, or blue cover and know you will be reading them check and see if they fit any of our color cards for the month.

Oh forgot to mention it doesn’t have to be from just the first hand it can be from any hand.

I'm kind of at the mercy of which books become available for me from the holds list at the library and which ARCs I have to read, so I usually read what I have and then see where it fits in to the cards. I'll probably just do completion posts here, if that's ok, and let you plug them in where you need them.

Ann Sicker wrote: "So each team member has the goal to find a book that fits a many of the categories in the first hand? Sorry if it is a dumb question. First time playing!"

I listed all of the possibilities in the example completion post, so that we can shuffle books around as much as needed to complete the hands as the month goes on. If your book only works for 1 option, that's fine as well.

Sharon wrote: "I'm kind of at the mercy of which books become available for me from the holds list at the library and which ARCs I have to read, so I usually read what I have and then see where it fits in to the ..."

That's perfectly fine.

here is my Uno Shelf

Uno2020

Do you think Now Entering Addamsville would work for the other yellow (because of colour)?

Sunny wrote: "Do you think Now Entering Addamsville would work for the other yellow (because of colour)?"

I don’t think there is quiet enough yellow on the cover. We are looking for about 50% yellow. It would work for a 4 card though.

Hi guys, My name is Anan, I am Egyptian, our clock is GMT+2, I am a Computer Sciences student and I love to read from different genres!
Hope this challenge would motivate me to read more.

It's my first time to join the challenge, thus I am a bit puzzled, I already forgot the meaning of the cards lol

We will help with figuring out what cards a book fits. I remember being pretty confused the first time I played, but it was still fun.

Welcome Anan!

I’m going to ask here because I’m in the fence and want a second opinion. Do you thing has a green cover? It is dark so I’m having a hard time deciding if it would be 50% green.

The background looks like a mix of blue, green, and gray in the image to me. I'm not sure it would make 50%.

I can read for the red color card as well as for a wild draw 4
If San Francisco can work for number 4, I'll also read

Vernice wrote: "I can read for the red color card as well as for a wild draw 4
If San Francisco can work for number 4, I'll also read ."

I don't think Cruel Beauty is 50% red. You could read it for a reverse though since I've read it.

San Francisco would be a 6 not a 4. Again feel free to read it for a reverse as I read it.

Deanna wrote: "The background looks like a mix of blue, green, and gray in the image to me. I'm not sure it would make 50%."

Thanks, that is kind of what I thought but wanted to check. I was hoping to find a book on my shelves that works, but my colored covers don't work for this months cards.

I've been looking at ebooks and audiobooks from my library and it looks like I'm going to need to put a hold on a book. I don't want to commit to something until I know I can get the book. I'm pretty sure I'll be able to get at least two books that meet the color covers we have for the month but I don't know what they will be yet.

Annalisa wrote: "Vernice wrote: "I can read for the red color card as well as for a wild draw 4
If San Francisco can work for number 4, I'll ..."

I put you down for 1 red with The Rosie Project. Cruel Beauty, unfortunately, doesn't have enough red to make the 50% requirement. San Francisco doesn't work for F, but one of the store customers is named Fedorov so we can use the book for 4 yellow.

Oops. I forgot to refresh the page before posting and missed Annalisa's answer.

I added for the Green 6 card and will also start adding my other pre-planned books for other cards as soon as possible.

Hi guys!
I am back home now and ready to get started on this!
Could this one work for 9 blue? Its based in New York! and could this work for 4 Green? Has a character named Francis

I will check out the spreadsheet now and try to catch up with whats been going on.