Official Turn In Post for Bingo 2025!
Congratulations, and thank you for participating in the 2^nd^ Annual Book Bingo for c/[email protected]!
If the existence of this bingo is a surprise to you, or you want to revisit the guide, see this link.
If you would like to join us for 2026 bingo, we'll be posting information on the morning of May 1^st^, US Central Time (UTC -5)!
There are 2 official ways to submit your card and be recognized:
- Fill out the web form we made using Tally, which will organize the data for us. Completing the form will also give you a Markdown-friendly list to copy and post in this thread if you would like.
- Or, if you would prefer, comment in this thread with your list of completed squares, including the titles/authors you read. Here is a list of squares for reference/copypaste:
- Please provide information on all squares you completed a work for, even if it didn't result in a completed bingo for that line.
::: spoiler 2025 Bingo Squares (click to expand)
* 1A: Number in the Title -
* 1B: Author from a Different Continent -
* 1C: Featured Creature -
* 1D: Minority Author -
* 1E: Now a Major Motion Picture -
* 2A: Independent Author -
* 2B: Set in War -
* 2C: Orange Crush -
* 2D: Short and Sweet -
* 2E: Banned Book -
* 3A: Mythology or Legend as Important to Plot -
* 3B: Title: [X] of [Y] -
* 3C: FREE SPACE - Off Your TBR Pile -
* 3D: LGBTQIA+ Lead -
* 3E: Saddle Up -
* 4A: New Release -
* 4B: Alliterative Title -
* 4C: Judge a Book by Its Cover -
* 4D: Award Winner -
* 4E: Gamble, Game, or Contest -
* 5A: Steppin' Up! -
* 5B: Political -
* 5C: Late to the Party -
* 5D: Cozy Read -
* 5E: Jerk with a Heart of Gold -
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ADDITIONAL POINTS TO READ BEFORE TURNING IN YOUR CARDS!
Questions? Please ask!
Turn-in Guidance
- Please make an effort to spell titles and author names correctly! For titles with more than one author, please separate author names with a comma. This will help with data compilation for a bingo stats thread coming later!
- If you didn't do a square, don't list it. Please leave incomplete squares completely blank on the Tally form.
- If you did complete a square, even if that one didn;t directly result in a completed bingo, please fill it in. This will help with the bingo statistics page coming soon.
- You can substitute any square, but please remember: only one substitution per card. On the form, there's a substitution checklist for each square that will trigger a place to fill in the substitution information. If you accidentally choose a substitution for the wrong square, please de-select the substitution to clear it.
- Please make a note if you did a square on hard mode. On the form, there is a hard mode checkbox for each square.
- Only turn in your card(s) once you have finished with bingo; do not submit a card still in progress. If you're using the Tally form, there is a review page before submission; please make sure that you click submit after double-checking your entries! You cannot edit your card once submitted, so if you realize you've made a mistake, please post in this thread to notify us. You can also copy and pase the submission review page to place it in the thread to share with other participants.
- The feedback questions at the end aren't required, but will help us with improving Bingo for all of you in the future.
More than one card?
If you did more than one card, and are submitting via Tally, please differentiate your username for each additional card. For example, I would list my first card under "[email protected]" and my second under "[email protected] - 2".
Timeline
Submit your finished card(s) by May 1st, 2025! This thread and the Tally submission form will remain open until 12 noon, US Central Time (UTC -5) on May 1^st^ as a courtesy, so please make sure your cards are turned in by then, so they can be counted.
Reward
Any five in a row is considered a win! Your only reward this year (as of the time of posting) is the warm glow of satisfaction and bragging rights. However, our ultimate plan is to recognize bingo participation with a flair-like system in the future, so we plan to calculate completion retroactively whenever that's available.
In Closing
Again... HERE IS THE LINK TO THE TALLY FORM TO TURN IN YOUR CARD (or you can comment in this thread). The form goes live on April 17^th^, 2025, and both it and this thread close around noon on May 1^st^, US Central Time (UTC -5). Be sure to get your card(s) in before then!
Thanks to everyone that participated this year! This was a fun challenge to put together for us. If you are interested in helping to coordinate the bingo challenge or related resources, please reach out to the moderators of ![email protected] and let us know!
I did two cards this year: one was fully hard mode, and the other was fully regular mode (meaning the books couldn't count for hard mode). It was fun (and valuable playtesting), but also a lot. Prolly not gonna do that again.
::: spoiler Hard Mode Card
::: spoiler Regular Mode Card
If you did bingo this year, thank you! We enjoy putting it together, and we hope you enjoy playing it.
No no, that is not how it works. We are going to expect at least three cards from you next year!
D:
Wow, nice job!
I actually completed my card this year! It meants starting several series without finishing them towards the end, which I generally try not to do, but it was fun to branch out my reading a bit. I wasn't planning to complete it necessarily, but I realized I only needed 7 more squares by the time January rolled around so I pushed myself to plan my reading around it.
::: spoiler Books Read 1A: One Word Kill by Mark Lawrence 1B: Hamlet by William Shakespeare 1C: Provenance by Ann Leckie 1D: A Great Country by Shilpi Somaya Gowda 1E: Jurassic Park by Michael Crichton (Hard Mode) 2A: Paternus: Rise of Gods by Dyrk Ashtom (Hard Mode) 2B: Daughter of Smoke and Bone by Laini Taylor 2C: Hojoki by Komo-no-Chomei (Hard Mode) 2D: Silo Stories by Hugh Howey (Hard Mode) 2E: The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood (Hard Mode) 3A: Grendel by John Gardner 3B: Title: Blood of Assassins by RJ Barker 3C: Vita Nostra by Maryna and Serhiy Dyachenko (Hard Mode) 3D: Giovanni's Room by James Baldwin (Hard Mode) 3E: Dragonflight by Anne McCaffrey (Hard Mode) 4A: A Drop of Corruption by Robert Jackson Bennett 4B: The Last Lifeboat by Hazel Gaynor 4C: Lute by Jennifer Thorne 4D: Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro 4E: Wind and Truth by Brandon Sanderson 5A: The Calculating Stars by Mary Robinette Kowal (Hard Mode) 5B: The Justice of Kings by Richard Sean 5C: The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde (Hard Mode) 5D: The House in the Cerulean Sea by TJ Klune 5E: Slow Horses by Mick Herron (Hard Mode) :::
Congrats!
I was reading without specifcally catering to Bingo, and filled the squares naturally, my aim was that I'll target the missing squares when I only have a 2-3 months left and get a Bingo, but life happened and couldn't do it. Still, here's the status:
::: spoiler List of Books
1E: Now a Major Motion Picture - The Last Wish by Andrzej Sapkowski
2D: Short and Sweet - Mistborn: Secret Histories by Brandon Sanderson
2E: Banned Book - Persepolis by Marjane Satrapi
3A: Mythology or Legend as Important to Plot - Whispers Underground by Ben Aronavench
3B: Title: [X] of [Y] - The Bands of Mourning by Brandon Sanderson
3C: FREE SPACE - Off Your TBR Pile - Streams of Silver by R. A. Salvatore
4C: Judge a Book by Its Cover - My Roommate is a Vampire by Jenna Levine
4D: Award Winner - Redshirts by John Scalzi
5C: Late to the Party - Old Man's War by John Scalzi
5E: Jerk with a Heart of Gold - Sunlit Man by Brandon Sanderson :::
And in visual form:
I'll claim 18 titles for 3 bingos: Row 1, Column B, and the main diagonal.
(This should duplicate what I submitted through the form and should be final. I cracked open a long one that I don't expect to finish this month.)
::: spoiler List
::: spoiler Favorites
Saving fish from Drowning. Dead Bibi Chen's ghost was a charming tour guide through SE Asia, patiently and omnisciently watching unheard as her living charges do everything wrong. I thought it was beautifully written and culturally informative.
Alice in Sunderland is a non-fiction comic book with a bibliography. My only complaint is that it should have had an index too. But mainly, I recommend it because it's clearly not the sort of thing you write just to fulfill a publisher's contract. Talbot must have strongly believed that such a book should exist, and that nobody else was going to make it. Moreover, it's a better fit for the category than I initially expected because in the middle of the book, he writes about the cover art, thus making it integral to the content.
Both of these have re-read potential. :::
::: spoiler Classics Three of these, I think are old enough to be considered classics. Steinbeck's wasn't nearly as funny as the cover blurbs said it was. Maybe political satire has a shorter half-life and it hit harder when it was fresh. While Bradbury uses some dated tropes typical of SF from that era, they don't detract from a central plot that is still disturbingly relevant today. Tey's was both old and British, and assumes the reader knows British history better than I do. It's still rather informative, but harder for me to properly appreciate. :::
::: spoiler Diversity Stats
Way to go! Thanks for taking part!
I'm still 90 pages from completing the whole card in Hard Mode, still, I already allowed myself to submit. Gonna finish those in the next week, I'm sure.
::: spoiler List
::: spoiler Diversity stats
Awesome! How hard did you find it?
For me it was fairly easy, as my TBR is huge and there were plenty of options for each theme. I would never have managed to complete the card time-wise without counting audiobooks though.
Well it’s a good thing that we intentionally include audiobooks as a way to fulfill the squares then :D
I completed most of the squares! There were some other books I read as part of a book club. So that was somewhat out of my control, and I couldn't find appropriate places for all of them. I'm probably going to finish one more book before the end of May, but again I don't think that will fit anywhere.
Perhaps I could have substituted in some other squares, but I quite liked the challenge of just sticking to the originals.
::: spoiler Books read
(For books marked with an asterisk, see diversity stats below) :::
I was also keeping track of this in a spreadsheet, so here's a nice visual representation. Dark green are hard mode:
I have a ton of books I've bought on offer over the last couple of years, so this was a great way of tackling my TBR in fun way. Many thanks for running it!
Edit: I like what other users have done with favourites and diversity, so I'll add those to my post!
::: spoiler Favourites
::: spoiler Diversity stats
Thanks for taking part again! Nicely done.
I still managed to get a few bingos, but didn't do a blackout this year. I had too many things pop up as distractions and a couple full series re-reads that ate up a lot of focus.
1A: Number in the Title Twelve Months by Jim Butcher 1B: Author from a Different Continent Royal Gambit by Daniel O'Malley 1C: Featured Creature Operation Bounce House by Matt Dinniman 1D: Minority Author The Night Masquerade by Nnedi Okorafor 1E: Now a Major Motion Picture The Invention of Hugo Cabret by Brian Selnick 2A: Independent Author All Accounts Settled: Fred the Vampire Accountant #9 by Drew Hayes 2B: Set in War Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children by Ransom Riggs (Hard Mode: Yes ) 2C: Orange Crush Binti by Nnedi Okorafor 2D: Short and Sweet Binti: Home by Nnedi Okorafor 2E: Banned Book Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark by Alvin Schwartz (Hard Mode: Yes )
3B: Title: [X] of [Y] A Wizard of Earthsea: A Graphic Novel by Fred Fordham (Adaptor) , Ursula K. Le Guin 3C: FREE SPACE: One Less Super Powereds: Year 1 by Drew Hayes 3D: LGBTQIA+ Lead Someone You Can Build a Nest In by John Wiswell
4A: New Release Rapport: Friendship, Solidarity, Communion, Empathy by Martha Wells 4B: Alliterative Title Brigands & Breadknives by Travis Baldree
4D: Award Winner A Sorceress Comes to Call by T. Kingfisher
5B: Political The Golden Enclaves by Naomi Novik
5D: Cozy Read All Systems Red by Martha Wells 5E: Jerk with a Heart of Gold The Thief Who Pulled on Trouble's Braids by Michael McClung