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]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/community.png)
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
hc_bingo and
this post from
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 (
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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. :)
( Prompt Lists Here ) 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.
( Public Cards Here ) 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!
