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Scooby-Doo Mysteries Challenge
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Steph Ann and Fred Solve a Mystery
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Season 1
2. A Clue for Scooby-Doo
4. Mine Your Own Business
5. Decoy for a Dognapper
7. Never Ape an Ape Man
10. Bedlam in the Big Top
15. Go Away Ghost Ship
16. A Night of Fright Is No Delight
Season 2
Season 3
1. Watch Out! The Willawaw!
Thanks for setting this up, Lanelle!For my first one, I'm going to go with Season 2, Episode 3, Jeepers, It's the Creeper.
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3. Jeepers, It's the Creeper
While on their way to their high school's barn dance, the gang comes across a knocked-out bank guard and his ransacked car. After he mumbles to them some clues, they discover that the local banks have been robbed by a mysterious zombie-like phantom called the Creeper.
To help the team solve the mystery, read:
1. a book where the MC attends school
2. a book where someone loses consciousness
3. a book where a money is exchanged
4. a book the MC has a nickname
5. a book with 'Mystery' on the book's main page
Completion PostAuthor: Deanna Raybourn
Book: A Murderous Relation
Date Read: 5/1/20
Task: A book with 'Mystery' on the book's main page
How it Fits: Mystery MPG on book's page
Next Episode Choice: Season 2, Episode 7, Who's Afraid of the Big Bad Werewolf?
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7. Who's Afraid of the Big Bad Werewolf?
Out on a camping trip, the gang hears the sounds of a wolf, so they decide to follow wolf-like tracks to the open and empty grave of Silas Long, who was supposedly a werewolf. They follow his tracks further to an old abandoned sawmill filled with wool, empty barrels, and the werewolf ghost himself.
To help the team solve the mystery, read:
1. a book with a mountain on the cover
2. a book with 'wolf' in the text of the book
3. a book where the MC goes to a graveyard
4. a book that someone else has abandoned (DNF)
5. a book with 'Mystery' on the book's main page
Completion PostAuthor: J.K. Rowling
Book: Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone
Date Read: 5/3/20
Task: A book that someone else has abandoned (DNF)
How it fits: Tagged as DNF by 116 people.
Next Episode Choice: Season 2, Episode 6, A Tiki Scare is No Fair
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6. A Tiki Scare Is No Fair
Shaggy and Scooby's vacation in Hawaii is interrupted by a ghostly witch doctor, who warns the tourists and natives they are on the sacred grounds of the island god Mano Tiki Tia and to stay away from the cursed village. Later, the gang's guide John Simms goes missing, so it is up to the gang to search for him in the supposedly cursed village, where they eventually run into the witch doctor, and the giant statue of Mano Tiki Tia.
To help the team solve the mystery, read:
1. a book where the MC goes on vacation
2. a book set on an island
3. a book with a character named John
4. a book with 'statue' in the text of the book
5. a book with 'Mystery' on the book's main page
Completion PostAuthor: Sarah Addison Allen
Book: The Sugar Queen
Date Read: 5/4/20
Task: A book where the MC goes on vacation
How it fits: Towards the end, the MC goes on her honeymoon.
Next Episode Choice: Season 1, Episode 6, What the Hex Going on?
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6. What the Hex Going On?
Mystery Inc. is headed to their friend Sharon Wetherby's estate. When they arrive, Sharon's Uncle Stuart disappears, and when they find him, he says he was beckoned by the voice of the Ghost of Elias Kingston from the Kingston Mansion. The gang find themselves wrapped up in the tangle of the spooky ghoul of Elias Kingston who wants the family treasure.
To help the team solve the mystery, read:
1. a book about friends
2. a book whose title starts with 'U', 'N', 'C', "L', or 'E' (ignoring 'a', 'an', 'the')
3. listen to an audio book
4. a book that you consider to be a treasure
5. a book with 'Mystery' on the book's main page
Completion PostAuthor: J.K. Rowling
Book: Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets
Date Read: 5/9/20
Task: A book that you consider to be a treasure
How it fits: I think the whole Harry Potter series is phenomenal and has easily earned "treasure" status.
Next Episode Choice: Season 3, Episode 8, Jeepers, It's the Jaguaro
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8. Jeepers, It's the Jaguaro!
After an emergency landing in a jungle in Brazil, the gang get caught between headhunter natives, and the Jaguaro: a creature with the head of a Smilodon, and the body of an ape.
To help the team solve the mystery, read:
1. a book where the main character has an emergency
2. a book set in South American or written by a South American author
3. a book with only a head on the cover
4. a book 'dinosaur' in the text of the book
5. a book with 'Mystery' on the book's main page
Completion PostAuthor: Dianne Duvall
Book: Night Reigns
Date Read: 5/14/20
Task: A book where the main character has an emergency.
How it fits: At one point in the book, the MC is shot six times and has to escape the place she's been taken to.
Next Episode Choice: Season One, Episode Eight, Foul Play in Funland.
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8. Foul Play in Funland
The gang anticipate the opening of a theme park while clam collecting on a nearby beach. But when the theme park's lights come on and the rides start running, when the park is supposed to be closed, they try to find out who is doing it, and find the shenanigans are being caused by a strange man who walks like a torpedo.
To help the team solve the mystery, read:
1. a book that is the first of a series
2. a book set where the main character goes to a beach
3. a book with an unusual word in the title
4. a book by a male author
5. a book with 'Mystery' on the book's main page
Completion PostAuthor: Jeaniene Frost
Book: Halfway to the Grave
Date Read: 5/16/20
Task: A book that is the first of a series
How it fits: Book 1 of Night Huntress series
Next Episode Choice: Season 3, Episode 3, A Scary Night with a Snow Beast Fright
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3. A Scary Night with a Snow Beast Fright
After being invited by Professor Krueger at the North Pole, the gang finds out that he has been captured. After they meet an Inuit named Chief Minook, he gets captured as well, and the gang attempts to solve the mystery.
To help the team solve the mystery, read:
1. a book where the main character receives an invitation
2. a book with a main character's name that begins with 'K'
3. a book with 'capture', 'captures', or 'captured' in the text of the book
4. a book with a Native American character in the story
5. a book with 'Mystery' on the book's main page
Completion PostAuthor: Gena Showalter
Book: The Darkest Pleasure
Date Read: 5/23/20
Task: A book with 'capture', 'captures', or 'captured' in the text of the book.
How it fits: "Do you want to be captured by our enemy?" Kindle Location 3942.
Next Episode Choice: Season Two, Episode Eight, Don't Fool with a Phantom
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8. Don't Fool with a Phantom
While participating in the Johnny Sands Dance Game Show at the local TV station, the teens encounter a phantom made of wax, who steals a safe full of money and kidnaps the station manager. Is the phantom a hoax, or the result of a curse from an old station employee seeking revenge for the cancellation of his show?
To help the team solve the mystery, read:
1. a book with a teen-aged MC
2. a book where the MC watches TV
3. a book where the MC uses a candle
4. a book with 'revenge' in the text of the book
5. a book with 'Mystery' on the book's main page
Completion PostAuthor: Leigh Bardugo
Book: Ninth House
Date Read: 5/26/20
Task: A book with 'Myster' on the book's main page
How it fits: MPG Mystery
Next Episode choice: Season Two, Episode Five, Haunted House Hang-Up.
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5. Haunted House Hang-Up
The Mystery Machine overheats in front of an old spooky mansion, and the gang goes to look for help, but finds out that the house is being haunted by the Headless Spectre, a terrifying phantom with no head. The mystery gets even stranger when they begin to hear knocking sounds and clues leading to a treasure.
To help the team solve the mystery, read:
1. a book set during the summertime
2. a book where the MC goes looking for help
3. a book a headless person on the cover
4. a book where the MC meets a stranger
5. a book with 'Mystery' on the book's main page
Completion PostAuthor: Seanan McGuire
Book: The Winter Long
Date Read: 5/30/20
Task: A book where the MC goes looking for help
How it fits: Toby goes to the Luidaeg for help when Simon shows up.
Next episode choice: Season Three, Episode Six, A Highland Fling with a Monstrous Thing
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6. A Highland Fling with a Monstrous Thing
The gang travel to Scotland to visit their friend Aggie MacDuff, who says people have left her castle in fear after ghost sightings. It seems the ghost plays bagpipes to call on the Loch Ness Monster to help him scare people away from the castle.
To help the team solve the mystery, read:
1. a book set in Scotland or written by a Scottish author
2. a book with the tag 'Paranormal'
3. a book where character plays a musical instrument
4. a book with water on the cover
5. a book with 'Mystery' on the book's main page
Completion PostAuthor: Sabaa Tahir
Book: An Ember in the Ashes
Date Read: 6/1/20
Task: A book with the tag 'Paranormal'
How it fits: Tagged 'Paranormal' 117 times
Next episode choice: Season One, Episode One, What a Night for a Knight
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1. What a Night for a Knight
When Scooby-Doo and Shaggy find an abandoned pick-up truck with a knight's armour in the front seat, the gang deliver it to the museum in place of the missing professor. However, this Black Knight is said to come alive every full moon. As the gang investigate the knight, they realize that it is a full moon, and the knight has come alive...!
To help the team solve the mystery, read:
1. a book with a vehicle on the cover
2. a historical book
3. a book with a moon on the cover
4. a book with an author whose last name starts with 'B', 'L', 'A', 'C", or 'K'
5. a book with 'Mystery' on the book's main page
Completion PostAuthor: Diana Gabaldon
Book: Dragonfly in Amber
Date Read: 6/7/20
Task: A historical book
How it fits: Tagged 'historical' 1,000+ times
Next Episode Choice: Season One, Episode Nine, The Backstage Rage
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9. The Backstage Rage
The gang investigate an abandoned theater where they face a spooky phantom and his puppets, all connected to a counterfeiting operation!
To help the team solve the mystery, read:
1. a book where the main character gets left behind
2. a book where the main character goes to a theater
3. a book where a face is the focus of the cover
4. a book whose title has double letters in its title (puppet)
5. a book with 'Mystery' on the book's main page
Completion PostAuthor: Blake Crouch
Book: Dark Matter
Date Read: 6/12/20
Task: A book whose title has double letters in its title
How it fits: double Ts in "Matter".
Next Episode Choice: Season 1, Episode 12, Scooby Doo and a Mummy, Too
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12. Scooby-Doo and a Mummy, Too
While visiting a museum, the gang learn about the legend of Ankha, a 3000-year-old mummy. Legend had it that the mummy will come back alive and turn people to stone if he is removed from his tomb. Shaggy later finds a coin inside his pocket from the exhibit, and when the gang go back to return it, they find the mummy has come to life and turned the professor to stone, and now he wants Shaggy's coin.
To help the team solve the mystery, read:
1. a historical book
2. a book that you purchased
3. a book with a teacher as a character
4. a book whose author's first name starts with 'C', 'O', 'I', 'N'
5. a book with 'Mystery' on the book's main page
Completion PostAuthor: Jeaniene Frost
Book: One Foot in the Grave
Date Read: 6/17/20
Task: A book that you purchased
How it fits: I own the paperback version of the book.
Next Episode Choice: Season 2, Episode 1, Nowhere to Hyde
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1. Nowhere to Hyde
On their way home from the Malt Shop, the gang encounters the Ghost of Mr. Hyde in the back of the Mystery Machine, who runs through a marsh and sneaks into a spooky house. The house turns out to be the home of Dr. Jekyll (great-grandson of the novel character), who fears he may be transforming into the ghost. The gang begin searching the house for clues, pegging Helga, Jekyll's housekeeper, as a likely suspect, but they are pursued at every turn by the ghost.
To help the team solve the mystery, read:
1. a book with two names in the title
2. a book with a domicile on the cover
3. a book with a servant in the story
4. a book with 'ghost' in the text of the book
5. a book with 'Mystery' on the book's main page
Completion PostAuthor: Jeaniene Frost
Book: Destined for an Early Grave
Date Read: 6/19/20
Task: A book with 'ghost' in the text of the book.
How it fits: "I looked up to find a ghost suddenly standing next to us." Pg. 60
Next Episode Choice: Season 3, Episode 2, A Creepy Tangle in the Bermuda Triangle
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2. A Creepy Tangle in the Bermuda Triangle
While on a boat flowing down the Gulf Stream, the gang end up in the Bermuda Triangle and discover an airplane-snatching flying saucer and a trio of Skeleton Men.
To help the team solve the mystery, read:
1. a book with 'boat' in the text of the book
2. a book set along the Atlantic Ocean
3. a book from a trilogy
4. a book with a man or men on the cover
5. a book with 'Mystery' on the book's main page
Completion PostAuthor: Rebecca Zanetti
Title: Consumed
Date Read: 6/24/20
Task: A book with 'boat' in the text of the book
How it fits: "There's no way a lair is on a boat."
Next Episode Choice: Season Three, Episode Sixteen, The Beast is Awake in Bottomless Lake
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16. The Beast is Awake in Bottomless Lake
On a fishing trip, the gang end up in Canada at the newly deserted village of Bottomless Lake. Turns out the beast has scared everyone away, which only leaves Scooby and the gang, to fritter away.
To help the team solve the mystery, read:
1. a book set in Canada
2. a book set in a very small town
3. a book from a series with 10+ books in it
4. a book without a human on the cover
5. a book with 'Mystery' on the book's main page
Completion PostAuthor: Nalini Singh
Book: Branded by Fire
Date Read: 6/30/20
Task: A book from a series with 10+ books in it
How it fits: Psy-Changeling series has 18+ books in it
Next Episode Choice: Season Three, Episode Fifteen, The Warlock of Wimbledon
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15. The Warlock of Wimbledon
The gang meets Jimmy Pelton, a star tennis player, while cruising England. Jimmy has been cursed by the Warlock Anthos that if he plays in Wimbledon, he is doomed.
To help the team solve the mystery, read:
1. a book with a character by the name of James, Jamie, or Jimmy
2. a book where the main character plays or played a sport
3. a book set in England
4. a book with 'doom' in the text of the book
5. a book with 'Mystery' on the book's main page
Completion PostAuthor: Carrie Vaughn
Book: Kitty and the Midnight Hour
Date Read: 7/1/20
Task: a book with 'doom' in the text of the book
How it fits: "...with which it seemed to face impending doom." Pg. 67
Next Episode Choice: Season 1, Episode 3, Hassle in the Castle
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3. Hassle in the Castle
After getting lost in the fog, the gang arrive on Haunted Isle, where they meet an unearthly ghost haunting an old, abandoned castle.
To help the team solve the mystery, read:
1. a book where the main character gets lost
2. a book set on an island
3. a book not set on Earth
4. a book someone else did not finish (DNF)
5. a book with 'Mystery' on the book's main page
Completion PostAuthor: Jennifer Estep
Title: Crush the King
Date Read: 7/6/20
Task: A book someone else did not finish (DNF)
How it fits: Tagged DNF by one person
Next Episode Choice: Season 1, Episode 11, A Gaggle of Galloping Ghosts
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11. A Gaggle of Galloping Ghosts
While on their way to Franken Castle, the gang stop to get their fortunes told by a gypsy. She warns them "they will meet their doom" if they go to the castle. The gang goes to the castle anyway, where they are confronted by Count Dracula, Frankenstein's monster and the Wolfman.
To help the team solve the mystery, read:
1. a book with 'castle' in the text of the book
2. a book where something bad happens to the MC
3. a book with a significant character who is nobility
4. a book that is considered a classic
5. a book with 'Mystery' on the book's main page
Completion PostAuthor: Libba Bray
Title: Lair of Dreams
Date Read: 7/9/20
Task: A book where something bad happens to the MC
How it fits: MC finds out awful truth about what happened to his lover years ago
Next Episode Choice: Season 1, Episode 17, That's Snow Ghost
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17. That's Snow Ghost
While on a skiing vacation at Wolf's End Lodge, the kids are scared by the ghost of a Yeti, called the Snow Ghost, who is believed to turn anyone he captures into ghosts. In search of clues, the gang eventually meet a Tibetan hermit who thinks he is responsible for summoning the monster.
To help the team solve the mystery, read:
1. a book set during the wintertime
2. a book where a mythical creature is mentioned
3. a book where the MC lives alone
4. a book with a MC that is responsible
5. a book with 'Mystery' on the book's main page
Completion PostAuthor: Ilona Andrews
Book: Magic Burns
Date Read: 7/19/20
Task: A book where the MC lives alone
How it fits: Kate lives by herself
Next Episode Choice: Season 3, Episode 14, Don't Go Near the Fortress of Fear
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14. Don't Go Near the Fortress of Fear
The gang arrives at Puerto Rico to visit the ancient fortress El Moro. While there, the kids run into a ghostly commander named Juan Diego who warns them to stay away from his creepy fortress.
To help the team solve the mystery, read:
1. a book set in a place with two words to the title, i.e.; New York, St. David, Gold Coast
2. a book with the letters 'El Moro' in the title (must have 2 Os)
3. a book where the main characters receives a warning
4. a book where the main character has to defend himself/herself
5. a book with 'Mystery' on the book's main page
Completion PostBook: Mister Bodyguard
Author: Lauren Rowe
Date Read: 7/23/20
Task: A book where the main character receives a warning
How it fits: Zander is warned about acting inappropriately with Aloha.
Next episode choice: Season 3, Episode 13, A menace in Venice
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13. A Menace in Venice
The gang goes to visit their friend Antonio in Venice. They soon find out that a ghost is haunting him and the ghost plans to steal the ancient necklace Antonio is wearing.
To help the team solve the mystery, read:
1. a book with an Antonio, Anthony, Tony or Toni in the story
2. a book set in Italy
3. a book with the letters of 'ghost' in the title
4. a book that you find haunting or disquieting
5. a book with 'Mystery' on the book's main page
Completion PostBook: A Madness of Sunshine
Author: Nalini Singh
Date Read: 7/26/20
Task: A book with Mystery on book's main page
How it fits: Mystery is first genre listed on main page
Next episode choice: Season 3, Episode 12, Scooby's Chinese Fortune Kooky Caper
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12. Scooby's Chinese Fortune Kooky Caper
The gang travel to China to visit a friend. While there, the gang run into the Moon Monster, who is turning people into stone if they run into its shadow.
To help the team solve the mystery, read:
1. a book set in China or written by a Chinese author
2. a book about friends
3. a book with a moon on the cover
4. a book with something made of stone on the cover
5. a book with 'Mystery' on the book's main page
Completion PostBook: Sleeping Beauties
Author: Stephen King
Date Read: 8/12/20
Task: A book with 'Mystery' on the book's main page
How it fits: Mystery a MPG for the book.
Next Episode choice: Season Three, Episode Five, The Tar Monster
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5. The Tar Monster
The gang go to the ancient city of Byzantius in Turkey. On the way there, they meet the Tar Monster, who frightens the workers away while opening the inner sanctum.
To help the team solve the mystery, read:
1. a book with a very old character in it
2. a book set in a place that starts with a 'T'
3. a book with a title that spells 'monster'
4. a book where the main character uses a very private room or place
5. a book with 'Mystery' on the book's main page
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Scooby Doo, Where Are You! was an animated mystery comedy television series produced by Hanna-Barbera. It was on Saturday mornings and it aired from September 13, 1969, until October 31, 1970.
The show centers on four teenagers (Fred, Daphne, Velma, and Shaggy) and a Great Dane named Scooby-Doo. The group travels in the Mystery Machine, a blue and green van decorated with orange flowers, solving mysteries.
Challenge Begins: May 1, 2020
HOW TO PLAY:
1. Take a look at the Scooby Doo, Where Are You! episode list.
2. Choose your first mystery and post it into your thread.
3. The moderator will then post the related episode information and tasks.
4. Once you complete one of the tasks, post in your thread and in the Reporting thread the following:
Author:
Book:
Date Read:
Task:
How it Fits:
Next Episode Choice:
Books must be 100 pages.
Re-reads and audio books are okay.
Page count for audio books will be determined the first paper version shown on Goodreads. From the book's page, select “all editions”, then select the first paper edition as your guide.