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HOB's 2025 BINGO: Quarter 1
Individual, Self-Paced Challenge
January 1 - March 31, 2025


We're taking a laid-back approach to BINGO this year! No weekly calls. No complicated rules. Just fun and books you're likely already reading!


Here is your individual thread. Your Quarter 1 BINGO card will be posted on December 31, 2024. Books must be completed between the dates of this quarterly challenge. Start date doesn't matter.


You may track your books in any manner that works for you. It can be as simple as something like this:


📚 📚 ✅ 📚 📚
📚 ✅ 📚 📚 📚
📚 📚 ✅ 📚 ✅
✅ 📚 📚 📚 📚
📚 📚 ✅ 📚 📚


Or, it can be as detailed as a spreadsheet...and anything in between.


When you get a BINGO, create a post that I will be able to clearly understand and follow along with, and link to it in the Completion Thread. You can do vertical lines, horizontal lines, diagonal lines, or go all-in with a blackout BINGO!


Have a question about a task or a specific book? Ask them in the Q&A Thread.


Challenge Rules:
📘 Standard Rules Apply
📘 I will create an individual thread for you prior to the start date.
📘 Your first BINGO Card will be posted on December 31, 2024.
📘 Books must be completed after the card officially begins. For example, if your card begins on 1-1, you can't use a book you completed on 12-31.

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Bingo completion- I
set somewhere I never been
A Christmas Memoryby Richard Paul Evans
Date: 1/1/25

Bingo completion- I
female MC
Promise Meby Richard Paul Evans
Date read: 1/2/25

Free space
Eye Spyby Mercedes Lackey
1/31/25

Completion I -an author I love
Arrow's Flightby Mercedes Lackey
read 2/8/25

G-with a male MC
Magician: Apprenticeby Raymond E. Feist
1/16/25

B-the color is my favorite color
]by Mercedes Lackey
mostly blue
completed 2/15/25

I-an author I love
by Mercedes Lackey
2/8/25

O-a new to you author
If I Asked You to Stayby Brianna Remus
completed 3/11/25

O-set in the future
Acorna's Peopleby Anne McCaffrey
completed 3/15/25

Bingo
B-the color is my favorite color
I-set somewhere I've Never Been
N-free space
G-with a male MC
O-a new to me author

HOB's 2025 BINGO: Quarter 2
Individual, Self-Paced Challenge
April 1 - June 30, 2025

HOB's 2025 BINGO: Quarter 3
Individual, Self-Paced Challenge
July 1 - September 30, 2025

I-odd number of pages
Exile's Honorby Mercedes Lackey
Date read: 08/10/25
How it fits: 433 pp

B I N G 0

X

B-adapted into a movie or tv series
Club Deadby Charlaine Harris
Date read: 10/1/25
Pages 291
How it fits: adapted into a tv show on HBO-Trueblood T