2022 Six Shooter Mystery Reading Challenge

Today's highlighted author of 6+ mysteries: Clair Blank creator of the Beverly Gray series. See who is reading this author.

Welcome to the 2022 Six Shooter Challenge! Your goal is to shoot (read) six mysteries by the same target (author). You get one notch on your gun for each target completed. After your first target completion, you get bonus points for each additional notch. Unlike many reading challenges, reading more books may not necessarily help your score. Scores are not based upon quantity, but rather focused shooting in reaching your target(s). In fact, it is possible to rise in the standings by doing nothing, and fall in the standings by reading books that do not complete a target! Anyway, just read a book and submit your entry to set up a target! June 30: This challenge will be updated as soon as Medical Examiner updates are complete. Thank you for your patience. RM

Who else took a shot at my book? Enter Author or Title:

READER BOARD updated FRI JUNE 17 2022 @ 3.00 pm EDT convert
Gunslingers 2 4		Notches 6 0	/ Shots 6 9 0	x6 = TCP	+ bonus	= score	Shooting Gallery	Ricochets
	Sanacrow Tennessee	8	46	1.043	0.700	1.743
	SueC Utah	9	61	0.885	0.800	1.685
	C0NTENTH0MEB0DY USA	6	37	0.972	0.500	1.472
	Traci L. Illinois	7	59	0.711	0.600	1.311
	Jjean Missouri	2	10	1.200	0.100	1.300
	Suzieq Virginia	4	29	0.827	0.300	1.127
	Simone C. Alabama	1	6	1.000	0	1.000
	Tina Hilbert Utah	5	59	0.508	0.400	0.908
	Bev "Quincy" Hankins Indiana	3	26	0.692	0.200	0.892
	YalondaReads Germany	3	34	0.529	0.200	0.729
	Scott Nickels Georgia	2	24	0.500	0.100	0.600
	JenneB Pennsylvania	2	31	0.387	0.100	0.487
Gunslinger		Notches	/ Shots	x6 = TCP	+ bonus	= score	Gallery	Ricochets
	Tari Hann Ohio	2	36	0.333	0.100	0.433
	Karen Baroness Montana	1	18	0.333	0	0.333
	Rick Mills Maine	2	59	0.203	0.100	0.303
	Colleen Illlinois	2	62	0.193	0.100	0.293
	Avid Series Reader New Mexico	1	32	0.187	0	0.187
	Rhonda D Alabama	0	21	0	0	0
	Jen Montana	0	14	0	0	0
	OutsmartYourShelf The United Kingdom	0	9	0	0	0
	Anne A. Maine	0	7	0	0	0
	Dr. Anna Geddes The United Kingdom	0	6	0	0	0
	Lynn Pennsylvania	0	3	0	0	0
	Ena_Reads_Books The United Kingdom	0	2	0	0	0
Gunslinger		Notches	/ Shots	x6 = TCP	+ bonus	= score	Gallery	Ricochets

Key to symbols
	Moved up
	New or updated today
	Perfect TCP (1.000 or multiple)
	Sharpshooter score (1.000+)
	Booksniper score (2.000+)
	High column stat
	2nd place column stat
	Shooting Gallery
	Tracker page
	Blog
	Goodreads profile
	Instagram
	Paperback Swap bookshelf

• Notch = Sets of six books by one author completed
• Shots = Total number of books read
• TCP = Target Completion Percentage. This is similar to a baseball batting average. Ratio of notches achieved to the number of shots taken. The formula is (notches/shots)*6. Shots which complete a target will increase your TCP. Shots which do not complete a target will decrease your TCP. A perfect TCP is 1.000 or any multiple.
• Bonus = Each notch (beyond the first one) directly adds a 0.100 bonus
• Score = TCP + bonus

How to:

1. No advance signup needed. Just jump in.
2. Shoot (read) book #1
3. Submit the form.
4. Reload,repeat until you have read 6 books. Once you complete 6, you get a notch on your gun.
5. Please note the Shooting Gallery does not update in real time. Your submission generates an email to the host, who will post the data. Generally, you should see your submission posted within 24 hours. If you do not see it, click the REFRESH button on your web browser to reload the page.
6. This is a rolling challenge. How does that work? At the end of the year, incomplete targets carry forward to the following year.

Rules:

1. The challenge runs from January 1 - December 31, 2022.
2. Genres: You get to decide what is a 'mystery'. Traditional murder mysteries, thrillers, police procedurals, young adult, short stories, true crime, romances, all are welcome.
3. Formats: Print books, audio books, radio dramatizations, or e-books may be used.
4. Each completed target earns you a notch on your gun.
5. Once you have completed a target, you can target the same author again for additional notches.
6. You can target different authors simultaneously or consecutively.
7. Re-reads count for the same target, if in different years.
8. Pseudonyms count as the same author.
9. Continuations of a series character by a subsequent author count as the same author.
10. Writing reviews is optional. If you supply a link to your blog or Goodreads review, the title of your submission will link to it.
11. Bloggers are welcome to copy any images from this challenge.
12. Honorary Badges: The challege offers two honorary badges, based upon your score. You keep your badges even if your score subsequently drops below the threshold.
    • Sharpshooter: Your score has achieved 1.000 at some point.
    • Booksniper: Your score has achieved 2.000 at some point.

Archive

• 2019 Six Shooter Challenge
• 2020 Six Shooter Challenge
• 2021 Six Shooter Challenge
• The Missing Challenge Reader Case

FAQ

• What about books that are a collaborative effort? The members of the Detection Club wrote a few novels where they (say from 5-7 members) wrote a couple of chapters each.

  I would suggest just calling the author "The Detection Club". We already treat dual authors as one anyway (Frances & Richard Lockridge, for example).

• Questions? Email me at rickmills9@gmail.com. Thank you for participating!

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