Fanfare Please....

Team Racecar

Team Tulip

Team Boot

Team Train

Team Battleship

Team Train

Team Tulip

Releases this week have been:
Ultima Thule from Team Scottie-Dog
Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet from Team Top Hat
Legends and Myths of Hawaii &  The Legend of Bagger Vance from Team Battleship
La cuisine aphrodisiaque from Team Moneybag
Too Close to Home from Team Boot
All the Rivers Run & A Trunk Full of Books from Team Train
Valkoinen hotelli & Isät kulkivat pilven alla from Team Tulip
Ich mach was mit Stoff  & Ich mach was mit Papier from Team Wolf
Vår man i Havanna; Den tredje mannen from Team Racecar

All of which leaves us tipping our caps at Team Top Hat, our winners :) Hurrah!

During the course of our game, 225 books have been released into the wild - of those 28 were caught, with 21 new members signed up and 6 books re-released (so far....). So, frankly, I think we're all kinda winners.

Thanks everyone for playing, I hope you all had fun

Turn Fifteen - The Final Move

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 22nd October
Refresh on how to play here
Chatter about the turn in the forum

There won't be any bonus points this week as GoG doesn't want to be in a position of effectively choosing the winner by picking who gets the bonuses :)

gameboard in progress

This Turn's Challenges:

Teams Battleship
Castles & Palaces  (Dice Rolls 12)
     + Collect the Greens

Team Boot
Home  (Dice Roll 6)

Team Iron
Chance card: beginnings and endings double release challenge  (dice roll 10)

Team Moneybag
Cloud Nine (dice roll 5)

Team Racecar
Underground (dice roll 8)
     + Passing Go Free Release

Team Scottie Dog
Tower  (dice roll 8)

Team Thimble
Tree (Dice Roll 6)
 
Team Tophat
Home  (dice roll 4)

Team Train
Water (dice roll 3)
     + collect the utilities

Team Tulip
Hotel (dice roll 2)
     + Collect the Dark Blues

Team Wolf
Tables & Chairs  (dice roll 7)
      + Passing Go Free Release

Have fun! 

Turn Fourteen Releases

A Clue leading to the crime scene...

Team Tulip: Treasure Island released in a bookcrosser's playground - the UK Uncon!
Team Racecar: Dan Henry i vilda västern released at a  book fair on Sweden's West coast
Team Moneybag: Der Angst hat, bist doch du left at the foot of a tower. Les mésaventures de Minty Malone is about a Private Eye who is betrayed by her fiancee, so is released in honour of the colour yellow's association with betrayal (it's a french thing, apparently! To do with the yellow unions, who betrayed the regular unions by returning to work) - the book is left outside a detective's office, of course
Team Scottie-Dog: Stop the World is the biography of a Scottish nationalist, released by the statue of the first First Minister of Scotland
Team Boot: Kruununpuisto left in a historic park. Pay the Devil left by a Halloween Store
Team Train: Southern Cross left at the Southern Cross Arcade. The Golden Compass left at a central train station, from where the finder could take it in any direction
Team Tophat: Reader's Digest Het beste boek (1977) (Reader's Digest Best Books 1977) includes the Great Train Robbery, and was left with a stolen train
Team Battleship: Planes, Jets & Helicopters left at an Army museum full of planes, jets and helicopters
Team Wolf: What's That Pest helps them keep the greenery green in the Botanical Gardens. Venusneid
released at a wedding, in hopes that the finder will be on cloud 9. 

Team Boot

Bonus Points go to....
Team Tophat for pulling off the theft of the century
Team Scottie-dog for inclusion of political humour
Team Train for most identically named book / location

That book has a yellow belly!

Team Moneybag

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! 

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

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!

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