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<p>We said we’d post the stats from <a href="https://threadiverse.link/lemmy.world/post/14905693" rel="nofollow">last year’s bingo</a>, so here’s the breakdown!</p><p>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”.</p>What got completed?<p>#### 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 &gt; She Blinded Me with Science, 5A &gt; A Change in Perspective</p>What did people read?<p>#### 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 TagsWorks 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%)#### Most Read Titles (2 each)* The Butcher of the Forest by Premee Mohamed* Relic by Douglas Preston &amp; Lincoln Child* The Scarlet Pimpernel by Baroness Emmuska Orczy#### Most Read Authors (2 each)* Ray Bradbury* Becky Chambers* Mareike Fallwickl* Nnedi Okorafor* J.R.R. Tolkien</p>