Submissions are included in the stats as they were reported. In other words, while we do verify that works exist (as a side effect of compiling reading stats), we don't check if they "count".

What got completed?

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Cards

6 cards submitted (1 card per person) Not bad for a niche first-time event on the fediverse!
2 challenge modes completed (review mode, by 2 people)

Bingo Lines

31 bingo lines completed
- 2 cards with 12 bingos done ("blackout"/all squares)
- 1 with 3 bingos
- 1 with 2 bingos
- 2 with 1 bingo
most popular bingo (on 66.7% of cards): row 1

Squares

96 squares completed
- most completed squares (on 83.3% of cards): 1A (Older Than You Are), 1C (What’s Yours Is Mine), 1D (Family Drama), 3A (Eazy, Breazy, Read-zie), 3C (One Less), 4A (Now a Major Motion Picture), 4C (Award Winner)
- least completed squares (on 33.3% of cards): 4B (It’s About Time), 5B (It's a Holiday)
- least favorite square, according to survey: 2B (Plays with Words)
41 hard mode squares (42.71% of completed squares)
- most completed hard modes (on 66.7% of cards): 3B (Stranger in a Strange Land), 3C (One Less)
- hard modes nobody did: 1E (It Takes Two, three authors), 3A (Eazy, Breazy, Read-zie, read on vacation), 4B (It’s About Time, backward in time), 5D (Minority Author, ethnic minority and LGBTQIA+)
- squares submitted only in hard mode: 3B (Stranger in a Strange Land), 3E (LGBTQIA+ Lead), 5B (It's a Holiday)
2 substituted squares (2.1% of completed squares)
- 33.3% of cards included a substitution
- substitutions made: 1B > She Blinded Me with Science, 5A > A Change in Perspective

What did people read?

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Types of Works

93 unique works read
- 68 fiction novels (73.1% of unique works)
- 14 fiction novellas (15.1%)
- 3 fiction or nonfiction short stories or short story collections (3.2%)
- 3 fiction or nonfiction comics, graphic novels, or manga (3.2%)
- 3 verse works (epic poems, novels in verse, or dramatic verse) (3.2%)
- 2 nonfiction biographies or memoirs (2.2%)

Publication Years

before 1900: 3 (3.2% of unique works)
1900–1909: 2 (2.2%)
1910–1919: 0
1920–1929: 4 (4.3%)
1930–1939: 0
1940–1949: 0
1950–1959: 5 (5.4%)
1960–1969: 5 (5.4%)
1970–1979: 3 (3.2%)
1980–1989: 2 (2.2%)
1990–1999: 4 (4.3%)
2000–2009: 5 (5.4%)
2010–2019: 30 (32.3%)
2020–2024: 30 (32.3%)

Notable Content Tags

Works may be in multiple categories/subcategories. A space detective thriller would be counted once for each of the following tags: space, scifi, fantastical, mystery/detective, thriller, and suspenseful.

fantastical: 62 (66.7% of unique works)
- scifi: 22 (23.7%)
  - space: 8 (8.6%)
- supernatural: 11 (11.8%) Surprisingly, not all supernatural titles were also horror.
- dystopian: 6 (6.5%)
- epic fantasy: 5 (5.4%)
- magical realism: 4 (4.3%)
suspenseful: 45 (48.4%)
- mystery/detective: 20 (21.5%)
- horror/gothic: 18 (19.4%)
- thriller: 16 (17.2%)
historical: 21 (22.6%)
romantic: 16 (17.2%) Includes a significant romantic element; does not need to be in a romance genre.
literary/contemporary: 16 (17.2%)
YA/middle grade: 8 (8.6%)
nonfiction: 4 (4.3%)

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