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Note: This is not the beginning of a new fest. It's just an announcement and preparation post for an upcoming event that will run from January 1 to 31. The current [community profile] allbingo event is the awesome and highly recommended Amnesty Festival, which will run until December 31.

Hello, everybody! I'd like to invite you all to take part in the Less Usual Bingo Patterns Fest, which will run from the whole month of January, 2020. This post here is meant to introduce you to the fest and to give you prompt lists and public cards, so that you can start your planning for the event and maybe even create some works in advance.

The goal of the Less Usual Bingo Patterns Fest is to encourage you to achieve all kinds of bingo pattern, EXCEPT for blackouts and single lines, which are by far the most popular in basically every bingo out there. So, please, no traditional blackouts and no traditional single lines (be they horizontal, vertical or diagonal). Everything else goes! Crosses, Xs, borders, postage stamps, alphabet letters, anything really! Yes, that includes double or triple lines, combined single lines (all prompts from the same line are used for the creation of only one work) and combined blackouts (all prompts from the same card are used for the creation of only one work).

To familiarize yourself with a huge variety of patterns, you can visit the resources linked from the Bingo and Achievement page. I also recommend that you take a look at this post from [community profile] hc_bingo and this post from [community profile] ladiesbingo.

This is a multifandom event that welcomes all kinds of works: written, visual, audio, video, anything goes! And it doesn't matter if your works are fannish or original. Both types will be received with open arms!

There are no minimum or maximum requirements for the works you create for this fest. Just make sure to create brand new works for fills.

Prompt Lists

In terms of prompts, this is pretty much an "anything goes" sort of fest. You're welcome to reuse cards from past bingos ([personal profile] taleacorven has compiled a list of links to every fest ever hosted at this community until November, 2019). You can also generate new cards at An Owomoyela - Bingo Generator, selecting prompts from any of the lists over there. Of course, you can also use prompts from any other source you see fit. Regardless of what you decide to do, keep in mind that all card sizes from 2x2 to 7x7 are acceptable.

If you need prompt list suggestions to get you started, feel free to use the ones below. :)



Georges Polti's 19-Century List of 36 Dramatic Situations



Rites of Passage



Supernatural Creatures



Childhood Experiences



Death



Desperate Situations



Food



Music



Swadesh Basic List



Little Actions for Self-Care



Little Housekeeping Tasks





Public Cards

You don't necessarily have to generate a brand new card. You can instead pick one or more of the public cards below and play with them. Or you can do both things, i. e., generate a card and also pick a public one. There's no official limit to the amount of cards you can get, since this is a very simple and low-pressure fest. ;)

All the cards below mix prompts from three or more of the lists above. You're welcome to customize them if you want to.



Read a favorite story Black
Jazz Tomatoes






Saturday morning cartoons Annual festival Discovering your orientation
Involuntary crimes of love FREE SPACE Long pants
Werewolf Yeti/Sasquatch All sacrificed for passion






Naked in Public Sphinx If You Want to Live - Run Reading under the

covers
Snowball fight Water & Electricity Madness Annual festival
Drawing on the sidewalk in chalk Magic Wand Breaks Make yourself a cup of tea / hot cocoa / coffee. First homemade meal
Obstacles to love Ambition Parting from a friend Challenged to a Duel






Will-o-the-wisp Unplanned Pregnancy Eighteen (adult) Thought It Wasn't Loaded Murderous adultery
Elemental Make a to-do list of things you can to in 5 minutes or less... and do one thing. Brake Failure Kraken Cyclops
Infection Snowball fight FREE SPACE Visiting the zoo Alphabet song
Term paper Unicorn Supplication Eating so much

you get sick
Flying a kite
Rolling on the grass Pinned by a Boulder Last dance First day of school Necessity of sacrificing loved ones






Drawing on the sidewalk in chalk First library card Rivalry of superior vs. inferior Convulsions First flirt In Bed Doing It
Suffocation or Strangulation Catching snowflakes on your tongue Nymph Stroke Google images of your favorite animal. Watch a favorite episode or movie.
Blowing seeds off a dandelion Eating dessert before dinner Watching clouds & naming shapes Poison Climbing a tree Trusted with a knife
Deal with any piled-up bills and mail. Conflict with a god Elemental ... from My Cold Dead Hands Take any vitamins or medications you need to. Read a new or favorite poem!
Get a hug! In-person is best... but over email or IM or text is fine. Loss of parent(s) Dwarf Explosive Decompression Scared to Death Don't Speak the Language
First friend Drowning First hangover Wipe down the stovetop. Jumping in a puddle Death






Bananas Horn Apple Pie Rhythm Quartet Earth Oatmeal
Stone Dog Yellow Christmas Cookies Night Say Fire
Stand Pipe Organ Instrumental Jazz Beans or Peas Neck Rain
Foot Peppers Keyboard FREE SPACE Mountain Valentine Candy Berries
Eggplant Eggs Percussion Cloud Garlic Die Walk
Corn Curry Sitar Birthday Cake Small Bird Figs
Brass Feather Good Water Melon Kill Notation





I hope you like the prompts and cards! :) I'll be back on January 1, 2020 with the official opening post for the Less Usual Bingo Patterns Fest. See you soon!

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