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GUILD ACTIVITIES
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Then, click any link in the sidebar for more information about each activity.
IMPORTANT:
One of our guild shops recently received a warning from Neopets about holding contests. As a result the Guild Council has decided that some changes are necessary to safeguard the guild. As part of these changes, we are making every effort to remove the term "contest" from all our...well, contests. So, all contests are being renamed to avoid the term contest and the contest page has been renamed the "Activities" page. Contests will mostly be referred to by their names or by using the term "Activity". Thanks for understanding!
Please note: You may only take part in these activities from one account, even if you have multiple accounts that are members of the guild.
Special Activities
Don't miss your chance to participate in these activities, which are only here for a limited time!
Build the Guild
For those of you who missed the excitement, as part of our one year anniversary celebration back in July 2003 we decided to build the Guild Headquarters in the Grand Librarian's (cute_chic4eva) account. Over the last year and a half, we invited guild members to design the rooms and gardens in Guild Headquarters (with a limit of 25,000 np in value for each room). A panel of judges, including one guest judge for any shop being built, determined which design would be used for the specified areas.
The designers of the chosen rooms each received a 50,000 np gift certificate for use in any of the guild shops.
Round 13 designs chosen were: Kaycewells designed the best Girls Bathroom
There were no designs submitted for the Mentors Meeting area. This room was held over to Round 14.
Round 12 designs chosen were: Leameadow designed the best Board Room Jennycolada designed the best Boys Bathroom
Round 11 designs chosen were: Urezwa designed the best Council Offices Mickeymab designed the best Trophy Room
Round 4 designs chosen were: Magik117 designed the best Wishing Well Garden
There were no designs submitted for the Hobby Room. This room was added to Round 5.
As this month it is the Card and Stamp Shop's turn to run the monthly activity, we thought it would be a nice idea to give our card and stamp collecting members an opportunity to see what an (almost) complete stamp page or a very full Neodeck looks like.
For this reason we would like to find the people in the guild with the largest stamp and card collections and link to their pages from our shop. It always is a great help to be able to see what that expensive card looks like once it has been placed in the Neodeck, or to see whether it is really worth putting all those Neopoints in trying to complete that page of stamps.
To enter, please send a neomail to booklovers_cardshop with the subject line "The Greatest Album" and telling us which stamp page or Neodeck you would like to enter. Remember, don't mention the word "contest" anywhere in your neomail.
If you are entering your Neodeck, it would be really nice if you could tell us how many different cards you have in there, that way we would only have to count the top contenders. Also please tell us if your Neodeck has a special theme – we are planning to link to several Neodecks, and if there are several of similar size and makeup, it would be nice to have some themed ones with unusual cards instead.
To enter a page from your stamp album (you can enter your pages of coins, coconuts, and seashells too) we ask that you have at least 10 items on that page. We also ask you only to enter if you agree to us linking to your album or page from the card shop – that is the main point of the activity, after all!
You have until the 24th of July to enter your album, then we will judge the entries. The owners of "the greatest albums" will receive prizes. So get to collecting!
Time is up, so here are the results!
We looked at the stamp albums and Neodecks of everybody that entered our greatest album activity.
The greatest Neodecks in this guild are those owned by
rjmc8888 with 273 cards (out of 356)
and
agravegal with 230 cards
Buzz and CK have severe doubts that they will be able to find a card for your prize!
For the stamp album we had entries for the following pages:
Mystery island: juliac240, mickeymab and trickenzie with 13 stamps each
Virtupets: trickenzie with 19 stamps
Tyrannia: nickeeeee69 with 19 stamps
Haunted Woods: trickenzie with 18 stamps
Neopia Central: trickenzie with 22 stamps
Neoquest: rjmc8888 with 20 stamps
Snowy Valley: spamela15 and wetherstone with 23 stamps each
Meridell vs. Darigan: trickenzie with 18 stamps
Lost Desert: trickenzie with 22 stamps
The Battledome: trickenzie with 22 stamps
Battle for Meridell: trickenzie with 15 stamps
NeoquestII: trickenzie with 15 stamps
Evil Coconuts: trickenzie with 10 coconuts
Seashells: mizzkis with 10 seashells
The other pages (especially coins) were either not entered, or entered with less than 10 items on them, so we didn’t count them.
Trickenzie – we are awed! You took ten out of 14 judged categories! And especially in the rarer pages as well. Buzz and CK will come to you in the future if they have any questions about stamps. We have to admit though, that we had a few entrants with also more than 200 stamps in their albums, that for some reason only entered one or two pages. We are a bit confused about that.
Congratulations to you all - and as mentioned above we will send out our gifts as soon as the duplicated item mess is finally resolved.
We are also having a little literary geography quiz and are hoping you will take part in that as well. The questions will be posted on this page for a week for you to answer. There will be smaller prizes for every question and a grand prize for the person answering most questions right – so get out your maps and books....
Again send a neomail to booklovers_cardshop with the subject line "Geography" and the answer in the text – don’t mention the word "contest" anywhere in the neomail. Good luck to all and we hope it was fun.
Here are the results from the quiz:
The last round of our quiz was quite popular and almost everybody that entered got all the questions right – nobody had less then 4 out of 5 possible points.
The first to enter correctly was
Arispect
Congratulations!
We had to draw the other three lucky winners.
althegreat17
missemma3
sandij80
We only had three members that entered the quiz all three weeks that it was running, and with varying success on the questions that had several parts (the first and third question). So we were able to give out first to third place in the quiz overall without any problem.
1st place : sini74
2nd place : mizzkis
3rd place : sandij80
Buzz and CK were quite pleased with the results, even though they had hoped for more people to enter.
The Donations Shop shopkeeper and assistants are all animal lovers, so for August, we tested your knowledge about different types of animals.
Each week featured a different category, with different questions to solve.
Thanks to everyone who participated! We hope you enjoyed learning more about the animal kingdom. Here are the answers to the final week's questions:
Week Four--Animal World
What animal is responsible for the most human deaths worldwide?
Answer: Mosquito
What animal's tongue is twice the length of its body?
Answer: Chameleon
What animal can live for up to a week without a head?
Answer: Cockroach
What animals start out as males, and some decide to become females at some point in their lives?
Answer: Clams
What bird can sleep while it flies and apparently dozes while cruising at 25 mph?
Answer: Albatross
What animals are born pregnant without the benefit of sex and can give birth 10 days after being born themselves?
Answer: Aphids
What animal was the first cartoon character to ever have been made into a balloon for a parade?
Answer: Felix the Cat
What is the only animal whose evidence is admissible in an American court?
Answer: Bloodhound
What bird can't fly, lives in a hole in the ground, is almost blind and lays only one egg each year?
Answer: Kiwi
What animal's teeth are so sharp that they were once used as knife blades?
Answer: Beaver
Congratulations to our winners from the final week!
Nickeeeee69 received the Vortex Negg.
Leameadow, spamela15, unaculebra83, hermy_dermy, beagle008, hlss, kaycewells, and techservlib each received a Floral Easter Negg or Faerie Easter Negg.
Congratulations to our winner from the third week!
Tnmagpie received the Vortex Negg.
Congratulations to our winners from the second week!
Crazy_lil_angel received the Vortex Negg.
Coolestkiddogallery, celticrngs2, catscalll, and purrykitty77 received the mystery neggs.
Congratulations to our winners from the first week, who answered questions about horses:
Celticrngs2 received the Vortex Negg.
Hotness14, cybraria, trickenzie, and purrykitty77 received a Scented Easter Negg.
Welcome to the Codestone/Faerie exchange guild anniversary activity! We are hosting a trivia activity with two stages; here are the rules:
For the week of July 10 (Saturday) - July 17 (Saturday) there will be four trivia questions that members need to answer (the questions are listed below). This is Phase One. All responses must be received by 11:59 pm (Neopian standard time) on Saturday, July 17.
Everyone who answers all four questions right will move on to Phase Two: two new trivia questions will be neomailed to them on on Sunday, July 18, and the members will have a week to answer these trivia questions. All Phase Two responses must be neomailed to bookluver_codestones by Sunday, July 25, at 11:59 pm (Neopian standard time).
The prizes will be awarded as follows:
1st place - 20,000nps worth of prizes
2nd place - 13,000nps worth of prizes
3rd place - 8,000 nps worth of prizes
and there will be 2 random winners picked from all of the entries.
Here are the four questions for Phase One:
Name the 6 red codestones and where you get them.
What was Aethia searching for?
What neopet species used to have these species names instead:
tigren
macy gray
polypup
fuzio
frogstomp
(I will give you a hint: you may find the link between new names and old names, just look on the guild website.)
This member is ranked as a librarian, has a mutant kiko and was one of many people to recieve the Member of the Month award. Who is it?
Please remember to neomail your answers to the Phase One questions to bookluver_codestones by 11:59pm (NST) on Saturday, July 17. Put "Trivia" in the subject of your neomail.
These activities are ongoing. Read the rules and join the fun!
Guild Worker of the Month
To recognize the hard work of our fabulous guild workers, we have instituted a "Guild Worker of the Month" award. You can see the award and past winners on the guild's Awards page.
All guild members are encouraged to nominate a shopkeeper, assistant, monitor, welcomer, webmaster, or other guild worker throughout the month based on interactions with them while taking part in various guild activities. Guild personnel are also encouraged to nominate their fellow workers based on their knowledge of each person's "behind-the scenes" activity.
Click here to find a list of shopkeepers and assistants, and here to find a list of council members, monitors, welcomers, webmasters, and other guild workers.
- The puzzle introduction and all clues will be posted every other week on the GOBL Activities page.
- You have until the end of Saturday, March 18 (11:59 PM NST), to solve the puzzle and submit your answer. Only one answer is allowed per person, and please do not submit answers from multiple accounts.
- Answers must be submitted to techservlib. Answers sent to other accounts may not receive credit.
- Prizes worth 10,000 NP each will be awarded to three people, selected at random from all those who submitted the correct answer before the activity deadline.
- Winners will be announced and prizes will be awarded on the day following the puzzle's ending date. The solution to the previous puzzle will also be released at that time.
- Feel free to discuss the puzzle and clues amongst yourselves, but please DO NOT post solutions or hints on the Guild Message Board.
Avatar Pets
Michelle, Steve, Troy and Vicky each decided to purchase a paint brush and paint their pets colours to earn an avatar. Can you figure out which brush (Grey, Orange, Pink or Snow) each used, and the pet species they used them on (Cybunny, Grundo, Koi, or Kougra)?
Try to solve the puzzle using these clues:
The four players are: 1) Michelle, 2) the one who painted a Koi, 3) Troy, and 4) the one who painted a pet Grey.
Of course, the player who bought the Orange Paint Brush used it on a Grundo.
There are no Snow Kougras, nor Snow Koi.
Troy painted the Cybunny; Steve used the Grey Paint Brush.
You may also find this ready-made logic grid helpful in solving the puzzle. (If you can't view this PDF file, you may need to download the free Adobe Reader program, which is available here.)
And for all those that find the general idea of logic puzzles difficult, here is a general describtion
Good luck to all participants :) Submit answers and questions or comments to
techservlib.
Last puzzle solution:
Adam planned to read 5 books, but was distracted by his nephew.
Jeff hoped to read 2 books, but caught up on his sleep instead.
Karen spent her vacation watching DVDs, instead of reading 3 books.
Sarah set up a wireless network for her sister, instead of reading 6 books
Last puzzles lucky participants were ldybadger, ladoora, and micacamcamtop
Mystery Item of the Week
Mystery Item for the week of April 16-29
Your mission (should you choose to accept it) is to search Neopets and send a neomail to
poogle_the_sorcerer with the name of the item pictured above.
Your subject line should read Mystery Item.
In the body of your message, please write the complete name of the item. DO NOT write the word 'contest' ANYWHERE in your message.
Neomail sent to the wrong account may not receive credit. Thank you.
Last week's item was:
Tropical Flora and Fauna
Congratulations to last week's winners: mickeymab, rob3mars1, netprincess1, youngpanthera, agravegal & blythemom
- A picture of the item will be posted each Sunday.
- Item will be ANY item that can be held in your inventory. This means it might be ANY rarity (could be very common, could be very rare!), and ANY price range (could cost 1 NP, could be unbuyable!).
- Users will have until midnight on Saturday night (NST) to find out what the item is and send one neomail to poogle_the_sorcerer
- Subject of neomail should read 'Mystery Item.' Body of neomail should contain the FULL NAME of this week’s mystery item.
- Please DO NOT write the word 'contest' anywhere in your neomail. Neomails containing this word might be deleted without being recorded.
- No one can win more than 2x in a row. If you win 2x in a row, you will be asked to sit out a week to make it fair for the other entrants.
- The first person to send in the name of the item will receive a prize, and from the remainder of those who send in the name of the correct item, 2 additional winners will be randomly selected.
Each winner will receive item(s) totaling around 10,000 NP
Every month the guild recognizes two Pets of the Month. The first pet is recognized for its petpage. The second is recognized for its story. If you think your pet's page or story is worthy of recognition then please let us know following the guidelines below. We review stories and petpages monthly and select the very best to recognize.
Congrats to Januarys Pets of the Month: ChaChaMolena owned by chacha1352 for petpage RKellyT owned by billiegirl20 for best story
Congrats to Decembers Pets of the Month: AFluffyBunny owned by Trickenzie for petpage
There were no entries for Pet Story
Click here to see the trophy and for a link to current and past featured pet pages and stories.
Requirements:
You must be a guild member.
You must write a story or a description of your pet. You may also submit your pet's page. Send your story submissions via email to bookloversguild@animail.net (stories can be up to one page in Microsoft Word, font size 12). Or you can post your story online and send the link to cute_chic4eva or the email account listed above.
Send your petpage URL to cute_chic4eva. All stories and petpages must be received by the end of the month.
Please keep language in your description, petpage, or story appropriate, and everything must be Neopet oriented.
You may resubmit your pet each month (excluding the month after being recognized). Please note this change: Stories and pet pages that have not previously won may be submitted again. We are no longer requiring a new story or pet page to be submitted each time.
Pictures are not necessary.
New pets will be recognized each month and the Grand Librarian will choose which pets are recognized.
Chosen pets will be featured on the guild Awards page for the month, and will receive a gift(s) (worth approximately 50,000 np).
Welcome to the Booklovers’ Guild's Poetry Challenge. Every two weeks (or so) we will be posting some lines of a poem. Your mission, should you choose to accept it, is to track down the title of the poem and the poet's name and neomail your answer to the appropriate person. We will then select the reigning poetry champions at random from those who submit the correct answer before the start of the next round. Enjoy! :)
Important: As a subject line for your neomail, please use "Poetry" and make the content of your message "Poem Title, Poet" (where Poem Title is the title of the poem and Poet is the name of the poet who wrote that week's poem). DO NOT use the word "contest" anywhere in your neomail!
This Week’s Citation:
I love thee to the depth and
breadth and height
My soul can reach, when feeling
out of sight
For the ends of Being and ideal Grace.
I love thee to the level of everyday's
Most quiet need, by sun and candle-light.
Good luck to all the participants!
Challenge Closes: 11:59 pm NST, February 25, 2006
Previous Answer:
He lifts the old unconscious woman from the floor and
places her back on her bed. He reaches
for her quilt and covers her body.
This is "The Healing Quilt" by E. Ethelbert Miller.
Our lucky gift recipients are rjmc8888, laran100741166 & kewlpersonatneo!
Thanks to all who participated, good luck for the next one!
The Rules:
1) You must be a guild member.
2) Neomail your guesses to
ka_crow
before the date posted above.
3) Please refrain from posting your answer on the message board.
4) Winners will be selected at random from the correct answers received. Correct answers are those that include both the name of the poem and the poet. Answers that do not include specifically this information will not be eligible for the prize.
5) Prizes are awarded through trades. Winners will be notified of their win and asked to create a junk item trade and the prize (items/NP, approx. value 10K NP) will be bid on that item.
This is a weekly activity. The next date (NST) when I will be posting the next set of statements is April 30th.
1. No payment or donation is required to enter. It's free, so what do you have to lose? :) And, as always, you must be in the ~Guild of Booklovers~ for at least a week and in good standing at the time you submit your entry and winners are announced.
2. Entries are due before midnight to wolflover86 on the Saturday night of April 29th, before I post the new clues. If any are sent after that time, they will not be eligible to be in the drawing.
3. Only one entry per person and each set of statements will describe a Neopian character. You can find the answers in the Neopedia, the Gallery of Evil or possibly elsewhere. ;)
4. A drawing of all the correct entrants will be made on that Sunday. From the drawing, three winners will be picked. A winner cannot win two weeks in a row, but you can continue to enter. Entrants receive points toward rank promotions! The winners will be announced when the new statements are posted, and each will receive a prize (or set of prizes) worth 10K. Wahoo!! Prizes will be sent on that Sunday
Last week's answer was: Branston the Eyrie!!
Congratulations to this week's winners: volpyne, lickitysplat10 & king_james_05!!! :-)
This Week's clues:
- Many thought that I would do better off setting up shop somewhere like Mystery Island, or Neopia Central.
- My wares are extremely rare... be sure to have a pocket full of NP if you come ot MY shop!
- Even if you have a neohome made of dung, people will be banging on your door to come in and see my wares in it.
These activities are over and done with. They are listed here in case you want to see what you've missed!
The Activities Activity
Thanks to everyone who sent ideas! The Council has been sorting through all the suggestions and will be announcing winners soon!
Are you smart? Savvy? Creative? Inventive? Good!!!
We, the Guild, are conducting a massive search for new activities to run--call it "The Activities Activity" if you will.
If you have a great idea for a recurring or one-time activity, neomail Shrike76 with your idea and we can hammer out the details. Final drafts will be reviewed by the Guild Council for approval.
Prizes will be given out to those who suggest ideas that we end up selecting for use (if multiple people send in the same idea, we will give credit to the first sender).
Suggestions will be taken throughout the month of January, so no need to hurry, but don't wait too long!
A guild full of readers must be a guild full of people with great imaginations, right? We would like you to put your imagination to work inventing a new Neopian disease (and a cure for it, of course). Your suggestion should include four things:
Name of disease
Brief description of disease
Name of cure
Brief description of cure
Here's an example (using a current disease):
Achy Head - Your pet will have a nasty headache and feel very under the weather.
Magic Goop - To cure an achy head soak your pet's feet in this magic green goop twice daily.
Send your suggestion to booklovers_pharmacy by midnight Saturday, May 15th. Each entrant will receive a special gift from Flo. (Only one entry per member, please.)
The suggestions will be posted on a web site on May 16th so the entire guild can see them and vote on their favorites through May 30th. Go here to vote. Everyone who votes will be eligible for a random prize drawing.
There will be prizes for the three suggestions that get the most votes, plus a random prize drawn from all the remaining suggestions. Turn on your imaginations and join the fun!
The votes are in! We have our winners, and just to increase the suspense, they will be announced in the first issue of the newspaper! The submitters of the top three choices will each receive 20,000 NPs. The final choice will become the official name of our GOBL newspaper and the submitter's name will appear as sponsor of our first edition.
The choices were:
The Booklovers Report
The Guild of Booklovers Extravaganza
The Benny
GOBL Times
The Gobble (GOBL)
GOBL Baguette Gazette
Baguette Gazette
The Clever Neopian
Benny's Beacon
Metropolitan
The Guild of Booklovers Times: Stories for the Well-read and Extra-ordinary
Booklover's Break
Benny the Booklover News
Hot off the Press
The Bookworm Times
The Bookworm
Neopet Booklovers Things to Know
The Global GOBL
The Literary Journal
Booklovers Daily Bindings
Guild Gazette
Guild Globe
Booklovers Bulletin
Booklovers Beacon
Readers Review
United Guild of Booklovers Times
The Baguette Herald
Monthly BookLovers Gazette
The Daily BookLovers Post
The Neopian Booklovers Gazette
Koob News
The Bookworm Gazette
The GOBD has figured out who kidnapped Benny and why!
And now the guild has voted on the best posts in the story!
A preliminary panel of judges selected nine (9) story segments for guild consideration. The guild has selected its top three (3) favorites.
Click here to read the story and see who was chosen.
There were also two random winners selected from those who did not win the competition. Congratulations to lisaz1a and pistachio_princess_1, whose names were drawn for the random prizes!
The Guild's RPG group (otherwise known as the Guild of Booklovers Detectives, or GOBD) were almost out of things to do. All that was really left for them to solve was that lingering Case of the Missing Petpets... and idle detectives aren't very happy detectives, either.
So the GOBD asked for your help in finding new cases to solve. Just because we hadn't heard of anything didn't mean it wasn't out there!
Guild members were asked to send in ideas for mysteries our intrepid detectives could solve, and then the guild as a whole was invited to vote on which cases we should take on next.
The votes are all in, and here are your winners:
In third place, with twelve votes: Case #2, by cybraria!!
And in second place, with fourteen votes: Case #1, by rosietheriviter!!
And in first place, with a stunning twenty six votes...
Case #3: Recipe for Disaster by lailahr!!!
Congratulations to all our winners, and a big thanks to all who sent in ideas and participated in the voting! Be sure to stop by the RPG Board soon to see how our new cases are progressing, and feel free to pull out your magnifying glass and badge and join in the fun!
Congratulations to our Sole Survivor: wolfiesask!
And congratulations are also due to the runner-up, ciaracat, and our third place winner, ladycatlover. These three were the last to leave the island as the grueling three-month challenge came to an end.
Click here to read all the details of the competition.
Amass those dubloons and codestones! Stock up on the best possible weapons and armor! Run, don't walk, to the battledome!
As you know, war is upon us, and Meridell needs you!
We will be awarding prizes to people based on how well they perform in the war. All you have to do is neomail Shrike76, with the subject line "War Challenge", saying that you want to participate and you will be entered.
We will rank people based on their strongest pets, so that the categories are fair, and award prizes for the leaders in several categories.
Pet stats will be checked at the end of the war to determine rankings.
You can battle with as many pets as you want, because it won't affect your ranking or your final score in the war. :)
UPDATED: 05/17/2004 - 15:00 NST War is over!!! And thus ends the war challenge...
Everything went beautifully for the war challenge, with no unexpected hitches.
Also, all non-war 1-player battledome opponents have returned.
In all, 57 people entered the war challenge, and the winners are here below.
The groups were based on pet statistics. I added together your pets' Hit Points, Strength and Defence, and everyone was grouped together based on the total of those three stats. To find out what group you were in, just add up those three stats and compare it to the ranges in the groups below.
One of the council members kidnapped Benny the Bookworm and hid him somewhere on the guild's web site (angelfire). Guild members were called upon to search each page of the website carefully because the dastardly council member hid him very well.
The booklovers_webmaster account posted a reward for information leading to his return. A prize was awarded to the first person to locate Benny each week and three more prizes were randomly selected from all correct entries. There was also a grand prize selected from the members who located Benny every time.
Congratulations to Staminator, winner of the grand prize! Stam received a gift certificate worth 50,000 nps to be used at the guild shops.
Congratulations are due as well to cybraria, mevard, and coolestkiddo, who also found Benny every week and won gift certificates worth 10,000 nps.
Weekly winners for the last hunt were mom10001(first), hlss, lisaz1a, maccajane, and x_devil_x5.
