Western Bingo Fest

[ysabetwordsmith]

The Western Bingo Fest will run from July 1-31. The theme is Westerns and it spans a wide range of subgenres and time periods. Bring out your favorite Wild West fandoms, or contemporary west, or spaghetti western SF ... whatever shines your buckle. Prompt lists include Animals, Characters, Famous Westerns, Motifs, Plots, Quotes, Settings, Songs, and Subgenres. There is a 3x3 card for each prompt list plus a 5x5 mixed card. You can also make your own. See the Western Meet and Greet.

Also on the Bingo Card Generator:
Robert Plutchik's 1980 list of emotions
Color words by Guinevak
Death
Desperate Situations
H/C Bingo (multiple rounds)
Music
Time Periods

* These bingo patterns are relevant to this fest.
-- Camping
-- Horse
-- Nature

* Challenges! These are prompts that make the bingo card more exciting. You can add them to any category, or skip them, as you choose. They do let you claim multiple fills from one work.

=Frontier= match nearest border square with prompt from its opposite border,
=Fastest Gun= write adjacent prompt in 60 minutes or less,
=Long Road= double the fill size of adjacent prompt,
=Ride 'em Cowboy= whole line stuffed into one big fill,
=Waterholes= any 5 prompts make a bingo,


PUBLIC CARD

"Save a horse ride a cowboy!"	The Gambler	Canadian Western	Who Is the Fastest Gun?	Railroad Development
Braids	"That’s how it is in the West: You do what you have to do."	Beans	We're burnin' daylight!"	Deadwood
Lasso / Rope	Badlands	WILD CARD	Grand Canyon	Immigrant
Sunrise / Sunset	Varmint	"He’s all hat and no cattle."	Leather	Chain / Shackles
Beaver	Medicine Show	Brokeback Mountain	Crow / Raven	Wanted Poster

ANIMALS

Pronghorn Antelope	Armadillo	Burro / Mule
Buffalo	Coyote	Wolf
Bear	Deer	Varmint

<br />Armadillo, <br />Cattle, <br />Cougar, <br />Coyote, <br />Crow / Raven, <br />Bear, <br />Beaver, <br />Buffalo, <br />Burro / Mule, <br />Deer, <br />Elk, <br />Gila Monster, <br />Hawk / Eagle, <br />Horse, <br />Jackrabbit / Jackalope, <br />Mountain Goat, <br />Prairie Chicken, <br />Prairie Dog, <br />Pronghorn Antelope, <br />Rattlesnake, <br />Scorpion, <br />Sheep, <br />Sidewinder, <br />Varmint, <br />Vulture, <br />Wolf, <br />


CHARACTERS

Tribal Chief	Greenhorn	Exoduster
Cowhand	Trapper / Hunter	Schoolteacher
Hanging Judge	Captive / Slave	Mestizo

<br />Bartender, <br />Blacksmith / Farrier, <br />Bounty Hunter, <br />Captive / Slave, <br />Cattle Baron, <br />Cattle Rustler,<br />Chinese Launderer / Laborer, <br />City Slicker, <br />Confederate, <br />Cook, <br />Cowhand, <br />Dapper Dandy, <br />The Drifter, <br />Emotionally Constipated Man, <br />Escaped Slave, <br />Exoduster, <br />Freedman / Freedwoman, <br />Frontier Doctor, <br />The Gambler,<br />Greenhorn, <br />Gunslinger, <br />Gunslinging Girl / Woman, <br />Hanging Judge, <br />Homesteader, <br />Horse Archer, <br />Horse Thief, <br />Immigrant, <br />Independent Woman, <br />The Kid, <br />Lady of the Night,<br />Lawman, <br />The Lone Wolf, <br />The Madam, <br />Medicine Man / Woman, <br />Mestizo, <br />Mountain Man, <br />Native Guide / Interpreter, <br />The Oldtimer, <br />Orphan, <br />Outlaw, <br />Piano Man, <br />Posse, <br />Preacher Man, <br />Prospector, <br />Railroad Baron, <br />Rebel, <br />Refugee, <br />Schoolteacher, <br />Self-Made Woman,<br />Soldier, <br />Tomboy, <br />Town Drunk, <br />Trapper / Hunter, <br />Traveling Salesman, <br />Tribal Chief, <br />Tribal Warrior, <br />Two-Spirit, <br />Underground Railroad Conductor, <br />Widow Woman, <br />


FAMOUS WESTERNS

The Hateful Eight	No Man's Land	Ned Kelly
Dances with Wolves	Let the Bullets Fly	The Searchers
The Goucho War	Bad Girls	El Topo (The Mole)

<br />Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter, <br />Another Man's Moccasins, <br />Bad Day at Black Rock,<br />Bad Girls, <br />The Big Sky, <br />The Big Valley, <br />Blazing Saddles,<br />The Blessing Way, <br />Bonanza, <br />Bone Tomahawk, <br />Branded, <br />BraveStarr, <br />Brokeback Mountain, <br />Broken Arrow, <br />Buffalo Dreams, <br />The Burrowers, <br />C'era una volta il West (Once Upon a Time in the West), <br />Cowboys & Aliens, <br />Damsel, <br />Dances with Wolves, <br />Dark Winds, <br />Dead Man, <br />Deadwood,<br />Dirty Sally, <br />Django Unchained, <br />Dr. Quinn Medicine Woman, <br />The Drover's Wife, <br />Firefly, <br />A Fistful of Dollars, <br />For a Few Dollars More, <br />From Dusk till Dawn, <br />The Ghost Patrol, <br />Godless, <br />The Good the Bad and the Ugly, <br />The Good Lord Bird, <br />The Goucho War, <br />The Great Sioux Uprising, <br />Gunsmoke, <br />The Hallelujah Trail, <br />The Harder They Fall, <br />The Hateful Eight, <br />The Haunted Mesa, <br />Los hermanos del hierro (My Son the Hero), <br />High Noon, <br />How the West Was Won, <br />The Keeping Room, <br />Kung Fu, <br />Let the Bullets Fly,<br />The Life and Times of Grizzly Adams,<br />Little Big Man, <br />Lonesome Dove, <br />The Magnificent Seven, <br />A Man Called Horse, <br />The Man from Snowy River, <br />The Man Who Loved Cat Dancing, <br />Midnight Cowboy, <br />Millionaires Express,<br />The Mountain Valley War, <br />Ned Kelly, <br />No Man's Land, <br />Preacher, <br />The Power of the Dog, <br />Powwow Highway, <br />Rawhide, <br />Ride the Wind, <br />Riders of the Purple Sage, <br />The Rough Riders, <br />The Quick and the Dead, <br />Savage Pampas, <br />The Searchers, <br />Shanghai Noon, <br />Skinwalkers, <br />Smoke Signals, <br />The Shooting, <br />The Stand, <br />The Sundowners, <br />Those Who Wish Me Dead, <br />The Thousand Crimes of Ming Tsu, <br />Thunderbird, <br />Tiempo de Morir (Time to Die), <br />El Topo (The Mole), <br />The Tracker, <br />Unforgiven, <br />Wagon Train, <br />Western Religion, <br />Westward the Women, <br />Westworld, <br />The Wild Bunch, <br />The Wild Wild West, <br />Wynonna Earp, <br />The Young Rider, <br />Zorro, <br />


MOTIFS

Gravel Gun / Sawed-Off Shotgun	Pony Express	Spurs
Civil War	Braids	Dry Well
Tumbling Tumbleweeds	Stagecoach	Medicine Show

<br />Bar Brawl, <br />Beans, <br />Black Hats / White Hats, <br />Braids, <br />Cacti, <br />Chain / Shackles, <br />Chuckwagon / Chuckbox, <br />Civil War, <br />Cowboy Coffee, <br />Cowboy Hat, <br />Dead Man's Hand,<br />Defenestration, <br />Disguised as a Man / Woman, <br />Dry Well, <br />Feathers, <br />Frontier Justice, <br />Gambling, <br />Gold Fever, <br />Gravel Gun / Sawed-Off Shotgun, <br />Guns and Gunplay, <br />Invasion of Turtle Island / Indian Wars, <br />Jerky, <br />Lasso / Rope, <br />Leather, <br />Liquor, <br />Lock / Key, <br />Medicine Show, <br />Poncho, <br />Pony Express, <br />Quilts / Quilting, <br />Rodeo, <br />Sagebrush, <br />Shoot the Rope, <br />Silver / Gold, <br />Skeleton by a Waterhole, <br />Slavery, <br />Sandstorm,<br />Sombrero, <br />Spurs, <br />Stagecoach, <br />Sunbonnet, <br />Sunrise / Sunset, <br />Tar and Feathers, <br />This Land Will Kill You If It Can, <br />Thunderstorm, <br />Tipi, <br />Tornado, <br />Tumbling Tumbleweeds, <br />Underground Railroad, <br />Wanted Poster, <br />Wildfire, <br />White Stallion, <br />


PLOTS

Quest for the West	Gold Rush	Frontier Struggle
Outlaw Adventures	Cattle Drive	Clean Up the Town
Western Murder Mystery	Redemption Story	I'll Get My Revenge

<br />Bank Robbery, <br />Cattle Drive, <br />The Cavalry Is Coming, <br />Chasing a Dream, <br />Clean Up the Town, <br />Frontier Struggle, <br />Gold Rush, <br />I'll Get My Revenge, <br />I'm the Law in This Town, <br />Not Big Enough for the Two of Us, <br />Outlaw Adventures, <br />Price on Their Head, <br />Protect This Place, <br />Railroad Development, <br />Ranch Story, <br />Redemption Story, <br />Resist Oppression, <br />Run for the Border, <br />Quest for the West, <br />Settling the Frontier, <br />Statehood or Bust, <br />Striking It Rich, <br />Train Job, <br />Western Murder Mystery, <br />Who Is the Fastest Gun?, <br />


QUOTES

"I have a rendezvous with destiny."	"Sorry don't get it done Dude."	"We're gonna give 'em a war."
"We're burnin' daylight!"	"Put me down!"	"Hell's comin' with me!"
"He’s all hat and no cattle."	"We've done the impossible and that makes us mighty."	"If you think you’re important just try bossing a mule around."

<br />"Courage is being scared to death and saddling up anyway!", <br />"A cowboy’s handshake is worth more than a signed contract.", <br />"Fast is fine but accuracy is final.", <br />"The frontier doesn’t give second chances just hard lessons.", <br />"Hell's comin' with me!", <br />"He’s all hat and no cattle.", <br />"I ain’t afraid to love a man. I ain’t afraid to shoot him either.", <br />"I have a rendezvous with destiny.", <br />"I know enough about men to steer clear of them.", <br />"I tried being reasonable. I didn't like it.", <br />"I was happy in the midst of dangers and inconveniences.", <br />"If you think you’re important just try bossing a mule around.", <br />"I'll be damned if she didn't get the last word in again.", <br />"Life is getting up one more time than you’ve been knocked down.", <br />"No hour of life is wasted that is spent in the saddle.", <br />"No man can walk out of his own story.", <br />"Nothing worse than a monster who thinks he's right with God."<br />"The only time black folks are safe is when white folks is disarmed.", <br />"Out here you earn respect with your actions not your talk.", <br />"Put me down!", <br />"Save a horse ride a cowboy!", <br />"Sorry don't get it done Dude.", <br />"Speak your mind but ride a fast horse.", <br />"That’s how it is in the West: You do what you have to do.", <br />"Too much time alone had done something peculiar to his heart.", <br />"Well if there ain’t going to be any rules let’s get the fight started.", <br />"Well right now I don't feel too agreeable.", <br />"Well you were right about this being a bad idea.", <br />"We're burnin' daylight!", <br />"We're gonna give 'em a war.", <br />"We've done the impossible and that makes us mighty.", <br />"The West is where you make your own luck.", <br />"Where the Indian killed one buffalo the hide and tongue hunters killed fifty."<br />"You have no idea how long I've wanted to do that.", <br />"You think you used enough dynamite there Butch?", <br />"You were both a bit late. So I went ahead and saved myself.", <br />"You’ll never catch the sunset sittin’ in the shade.", <br />


SETTINGS

Fort	General Store	Denver
Tribal Village	Grand Canyon	Four Corners
The Savage South	Little Italy	Brothel

<br />Badlands, <br />Boomtown, <br />Boot Hill, <br />Brothel, <br />Chinatown, <br />Church, <br />Close-knit Community, <br />Death Valley, <br />Desert, <br />Denver, <br />Dodge, <br />Fort, <br />Four Corners, <br />Gambling Hall, <br />Ghost Town, <br />General Store, <br />Grand Canyon, <br />In a Cavern / Canyon, <br />Indian Territory, <br />Little Italy, <br />Livery Stable, <br />Mountains, <br />OK Corral, <br />Oregon Trail, <br />Outlaw Town, <br />Paha Sapa / Black Hills, <br />Prairie, <br />Railroad / Train, <br />Saloon, <br />Salt Lake City, <br />The Savage South, <br />Santa Fe, <br />South of the Border, <br />Spanish California, <br />Tombstone, <br />Trading Post, <br />Tribal Village, <br />Underground Railroad Station, <br />


SONGS

"Ghost Riders In The Sky"	"The Camp Fire Has Gone Out"	"Home on the Range"
"Mule Train"	"Buttons and Bows"	"Wanted Man"
"Little Sod Shanty"	"Blood On The Saddle"	"A Roundup Lullabye"

<br />"Back In The Saddle Again", <br />"Ballad Of Davy Crockett", <br />"The Battle Of Little Big Horn", <br />"The Battle Of New Orleans", <br />"Beautiful Dreamer", <br />"Big Iron", <br />"Blood On The Saddle", <br />"Buttons and Bows", <br />"The Camp Fire Has Gone Out", <br />"Chisholm Trail", <br />"Cool Water", <br />"Desert Pete", <br />"The Gal I Left Behind Me", <br />"Ghost Riders In The Sky", <br />"Home on the Range", <br />"Little Sod Shanty", <br />"The Long Black Veil", <br />"Lost on the Desert", <br />"the Miner's Song", <br />"Mule Train", <br />"My Darling Clementine", <br />"Nine Pound Hammer", <br />"North Wind", <br />"Ride, Cowboy Ride", <br />"A Roundup Lullabye", <br />"Rovin’ Gambler", <br />"San Antonio Rose", <br />"The Texas Ranger", <br />"Wanted Man", <br />"The Wayward Wind", <br />"When the Work's All Done This Fall", <br />"The Widders Of Bowling Green", <br />"Yellow Rose of Texas", <br />


SUBGENRES

Charro Western	Spaghetti Western	Indian / Native American Western
Space Western	Australian Western	Gaucho Western
Comedy Western	Cattlepunk	Weird West

<br />Acid Western, <br />Australian Western, <br />Canadian Western, <br />Cattlepunk, <br />Charro Western, <br />Chinese Western, <br />Comedy Western, <br />Contemporary Western, <br />Epic Western, <br />Fantasy Western, <br />Gaucho Western, <br />Horror Western, <br />Indian / Native American Western, <br />Spaghetti Western, <br />New Old West, <br />Science Fiction Western, <br />Space Western, <br />Weird West, <br />Wild West, <br />Wuxia Western, <br />

Comments

[pebbleinalake]

Oh, this is perfect timing! My roommate and I just started a marathon of watching old westerns. :D

I tossed all the provided lists of prompts into a randomizer and made a card off the results. This should be fun!

Yay!

[ysabetwordsmith]

>> Oh, this is perfect timing! My roommate and I just started a marathon of watching old westerns. :D <<

Synchronicity is so awesome.

>> I tossed all the provided lists of prompts into a randomizer and made a card off the results. This should be fun! <<

It looks like you got a great set of prompts. I love the picture card you made!