Leftover Bingo Rules & FAQ
Welcome to the Leftover Bingo
We take your old Bingo cards and mix and match all your unused squares into NEW Bingo Cards. Pretty simple, right?
You send us unfinished cards, marking off which squares you haven’t finished. If you have only a few squares, we’ll make you a small card. If you have a lot of squares you can choose the card size you want and we’ll randomize which squares you get.
During sign up, you’ll let us know if you want new squares to boot –
ie. If you have a number of squares that won’t easily translate into a card, you’ll have 3 choices:
A blank (which counts as filled in)
Free Space (fill as whatever you want)
New square (at the discretion of the card maker – we may ask you more questions if you go this route)
What if there’s a square on an old card I do NOT want to do?
No problem! Just tell us not to include it with the rest – or you can ask us to swap it out with something new/random.
Can I donate my Bingo Cards to this Event?
Absolutely - just fill out the sign up form like everyone else and we’ll contact you.
Can I adopt a donated Bingo Card?
Yes! If we have some available, you sure can.
We will contact you after your sign up to discuss options as needed.
How does an Adopted Card work?
A card that is donated will most likely also be partially filled in, so depending on what is donated, we’ll make smaller cards out of them the same way as the rest and you can pick which one you like the best.
Go for it. As soon as you get your card, it’s yours.
What fandoms can we use for this bingo?
ANY – We’ll mark the fandom and/or ship as needed on the appropriate square along with the square's actual prompt, if you happen to play bingos from different fandoms.
Does the content have to be new?
Yes, though you can always add to pre-existing content if you’d like. I.e. A new chapter, or the next part of a series, etc.
May I combine multiple squares into one work?
Nope. Each square fill should be a new creation. HOWEVER, if you have a multi chapter story, and different chapters can hit different squares – go for it!
What mediums can I use to fill a square?
Anything! Fic, Art, Moodboards – send us an ask or email us if you have something else you’d like to do. It doesn’t matter what the previous requirements were – this is an all new bingo!
We will not limit the content you make, however you will need to be mindful of how you put it out there - remember that Tumblr’s guidelines for NSFW content (Specifically of the Visual variety like art/moodboards) is very strict. Links to the art and/or fic seem to work fine, so if you have a safe place to host the art/moodboards, posting on AO3 would work for us.
Make sure to use the Archive Warnings (Aka: MCD/Major Character Death, Rape/Non Con, Underage, Major Depictions of Violence) and appropriately tag your work for anything that could be triggering when posting.
Will there be an AO3 collection or this?
Yes! Because it may be weird (especially if our requirements don’t match the previous bingo's requirements) to add to the other bingo’s collections after the fact, we are setting up our OWN collection – you can always link to/mention the other bingo if you like to say “Inspired to finish up this card from X bingo” or whatever you want.
Minimum Fill Requirements
Art - decent enough viewing size – 300 x 300 pxls minimum
Moodboards – minimum of 4 images
Can I combine this with another event?
Sure – as long as the event in question also allows it.
You probably already know this, having bingo cards to spare, but anyway:
A straight, unbroken line vertically, diagonally or horizontally across your bingo card counts as a BINGO.
All the squares on your bingo card filled in counts as a BLACKOUT.
Fill as few or as many squares as you like; we can rinse and repeat your card in the next round if you need it. :D
POSTING Template: (but not limited to)
When posting on Tumblr, make sure to tag the blog in your post (actual post, not the tumblr tags. I will never find them) so we can reblog it during the event. If it’s been a week and you haven’t seen it get reblogged, please poke us. Cause Tumblr sucks.
Remember to be respectful of each other. The nature of this event will mean the colliding of different fandoms and different ships.
