The BingoDOG Suggestion Thread

I got a suggestion to separate out BingoDOG discussion from the CAT discussion, which I think makes sense. So here is where we can discuss BingoDOG plans. First question is whether we want to do a main BingoDOG card next year. Let's leave aside any suggestions for PUPs for now. Please chime in with your thoughts.

We might want to wait until after the CATs have been decided to discuss the BingoDOGs/PUPs in much detail.

For this year (2016) we added Woman BingoPUP since people had voted for the BingoDOG to remain as it was the year before (i.e. general, without a focus on any topic/type of author). I was considering the DOG the "official" Bingo.

Many people played/are playing both the DOG and the PUP this year (2016).

>2 sallylou61: We can get the discussion going but we don't have to make any firm decisions until after the CATs have been voted on.

We'll also allow enough time to make certain everyone gets a chance to vote in >1 sturlington: above.

In the meantime, please share any general thoughts about how the BingoDOG worked for you this year or if you have any suggestions for improving it.

I am definitely hoping Bingo returns next year! I like the fact that, as >2 sallylou61: mentioned, it's a general challenge with no focus on a particular topic or type of author. That's why I didn't do the Woman BingoPUP -- I prefer the more generalized approach of the "official" BingoDOG. Of course, if people want to do a more focused BingoPUP again next year, that's great! But I hope we retain the general option as well.

My only complaint about this year's BingoDOG is some of the tiles were very narrow in focus. I'm happier with tiles that allow a bit more room to interpret them. I'm trying to read my TBR not expand my reading, granted.

I'm in for BingoDOG again next year! I'm happy with how it has been done. There are some trickier squares, but so far, I've managed!

I love the BingoDOG! With two empty squares left, I anticipate filling in the whole card before the end of the year. I'm also doing the Woman BingoPUP, but I don't think I'll be able to fill in every square.

It seemed to me that this year's BingoDOG has improved over last year's card. Some of the squares are challenging but not overly restrictive. I think we're learning from experience!

I also loved the BingoDog and hope we do another one. Like Carrie, I found this year's a little easier to fill in than the previous one.

I enjoyed both BingoDOG and BingoPUP this year (I've got one square in each left to fill) and hope we do both again next year. The few that were outside my normal reading gave it a bit of challenge. Like >7 cbl_tn: and >8 DeltaQueen50: I found it easier this year than last year.

Just checking in here, it looks like many people are interested in continuing the BingoDOG next year. We'll wait until the CATs are decided to start organizing those in detail.

Loved the BingoDOG and am hoping that it returns (only three squares to go this year!). Not sure if I'd do a PUP again as it has been hard for me to fill both for some reason - might just depend on the topic.

>11 LittleTaiko: I agree--I thought two cards were a little too much. I know I'm not going to finish the PUP card, but I have a chance to finish the DOG card. I only have three squares left too.

I have one square for Bingo Dog and it is airplane flight but I am thinking I might have to use rocket flight. I read plenty of those. I have way more squares on the Women bingo card and that is not going to get completed. I liked doing it but it was too specific and narrow. Made it next to impossible unless you made it a focus and I didn't.

I've just joined the group and have been looking through the 2016 happenings -- the BingoDOG looks super fun. I hope there is another one in 2017.

>14 Deesirings: Welcome! Hope you enjoy the Bingo and the group as a whole. :)

>14 Deesirings: Welcome! Just wanted to let you know there has been a bit of BingoDOG discussion already for next year, though mostly just to decide to continue it, then to wait until the CATs are decided before much further discussion.
http://www.librarything.com/topic/233008

The CATs have been decided. Shall we start planning the BingoDOG? In the past, we had volunteers suggest one or two square options. Would you like to do that again?

>17 sturlington: I'd be happy to do it that way again -- it has seemed to work out well in the past! But I'd also be fine with trying something new if the group wants to shake things up.

>17 sturlington: & >18 christina_reads: - Agreed that it's worked well in the past. Looking forward to seeing what everyone suggests this year.

The CATWoman has won as a CAT! This year (2016) we had a Woman BingoPUP instead of a WomanKIT since there seemed to be more interest in the PUP (and it seemed easier to set up). I know that a lot of people played both the DOG and PUP this year, and that some have expressed the idea that 2 bingo cards is too much while others have wanted both to stay.

One other idea about Woman BingoPUP. If we do not want to play 2 cards, perhaps the BingoDOG card could also do for the Woman BingoPUP, just using women authors or about women for the squares. I think it would have worked this year.

What do we want to do? Should we discuss a Woman BingoPUP here, or create another thread for the discussion?

>20 sallylou61: I like your idea of restricting the BingoDOG card to just women if you want the extra challenge. I probably would not try to do two cards again.

Not crazy about restricting the BingoDOG to just women authors.

>22 majkia: It would be a choice--you can do it or not.

>23 sturlington: Ah. That's good then.

>22 majkia: I could be mistaken but I'm pretty sure the suggestion is that if people are interested in a women card they can play the DOG using only women authors for it.

Annnd the cat was getting in my way and made me slow. heh.

>20 sallylou61: perhaps the BingoDOG card could also do for the Woman BingoPUP, just using women authors or about women for the squares.

I don't want to do mine this way (especially also with a CATWoman), but there's nothing that says that it can't be a personal choice.

ETA: Ah, I see it being a choice has already been mentioned in >23 sturlington:

>22 majkia:, >26 LibraryCin: Sorry that my suggestion in >20 sallylou61: was not clear. >23 sturlington: and >25 .Monkey.: were correct about using women as being an option.

I was suggesting not making a separate Bingo card for the Woman BingoPUP; using the regular Bingo card instead and aiming it towards women for those who wanted that option. For this year's Bingo cards, I found that I liked the regular Bingo card better than the Woman BingoPUP card, and used a lot of women authors on BingoDOG. At least one participant in the Woman BingoPUP did that as her only challenge (No BingoDOG and no CAT). I think only a few people have mentioned wanting to do two cards this year, and that was before the CAT voting was completed.

Although I do not want to coordinate developing a separate Woman BingoPUP card for 2017, I am willing to help out if there is sufficient demand for a separate card.

(Another option for Woman BingoPUP would be using the Bingo card for either 2015 or 2016 and using women authors. However, people might not want to do the same squares as before with a different slant.)

I like the idea of having one BingoDog and letting people decide whether to go with all women author's or not. I would probably not go with only women authors, but if I decided to do the BingoDog twice during the year, it would be fun to use that option on the second one.

I don't really see why a woman card would be needed since this year women finally made it into the actual CATs. So it would be pretty redundant. Though for anyone looking for even more challenge, doing the DOG with women only ought to work fine.

So we need 24 suggestions for the card. Please send 1 or 2 suggestions to me via private message (try to keep them brief enough to fit in a bingo square). I'll compile into a final list.

Thanks for all the great suggestions I have gotten so far. Need more! Please send them my way.

>31 sturlington: How many more do you need?

>32 leslie.98: I've had some duplicate suggestions, so I think i need around 8 more.

Thanks for the suggestions, everyone! I'll take suggestions for a couple more days just in case there are any latecomers.

Here are the 2017 BingoDOG squares (in no particular order):

1. A satire
2. Set in a country you've never been to
3. Color in the title
4. Set in a place you want to visit
5. One-word title
6. Author uses initials
7. Appeals to the senses
8. Published in the 1940s-1960s
9. Made into a movie
10. Collection of short stories
11. Book about books
12. Title refers to another literary work (for example, the title is a quote from another book)
13. Author shares your first and last initials
14. Owned for more than 5 years
15. Science-related
16. Author was born in 1930s
17. Author abroad*
18. Author born/book published in 1917
19. Debut work
20. About an animal/animal in title
21. Place name in title
22. Set in a beach community/resort
23. Set in a time before you were born
24. Next book in a series you've started
25. Read a CAT (this is usually the center/free square)

*This could be authors writing about their travels (such as Dumas writing about his travels in Russia, or Patrick Leigh Fermor walking across half of Europe); authors who live in another country and set their books there (for instance Martin Walker's mystery books set in France, Donna Leon's series set in Venice); writers who had to go into exile (for example Thomas Mann or Salman Rushdie?); authors who left their country of origin, for whatever reason, and started writing in the language of their new home (such as Nabokov or George Mikes).

Do we have any volunteers to make some cards for us?

>35 sturlington: Thank you so much for organizing and compiling them!

I think the toughest for me is likely to be the "published in 1917"!

>37 LibraryCin: Here are some suggestions: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/1917_in_literature

An author born in 1917 will also work.

>38 sturlington: Thank you!

I see that Parnassus on Wheels is on the "published in 1917" list. It's a lovely little book that I think has aged pretty well, and it would be a great choice for anyone who hasn't yet read it.

>40 cbl_tn: Thanks for that information! I have it waiting on the tbr shelf.

It also works for the books about books square!

>40 cbl_tn: - That was going to be my choice for this square too! I can't remember who I took the book bullet from this year for that title (probably you!) and ended up buying it. Can't wait to read it now.

Looking forward to joining in with this year.

Do we have any volunteers to make our bingo cards this year?

Are there any instructions on how to create one? If so, I'd be happy to give it a go, however I'm not really sure how to do it from scratch.

>46 LittleTaiko: You could probably use this year's card as a template.

>47 sturlington: - The link for the card takes me to lshelby.com so there isn't much to work with in regards to how to actually set this up. LShelby was the very nice LT member who created these for us last year. I'll see if she can tell me how to do this.

Haven't forgotten about this. Am working with LShelby to get cards for this year. Just sent her our categories and will post the think once she has a chance to create the cards. I'm hoping to get instructions on how to do this so next year we don't need to bother her and I can do it.

>49 LittleTaiko: Thanks so much!

>49 LittleTaiko: Yes, thank you! And thanks to LShelby as well!

So here's some bingo card designs that my daughter came up with for you to use. Hope you like them

If there's a problem and you ask me for help and I don't reply right away, don't panic until at least a full week has gone by. That's about how often I've been managing to get online recently. Alas.

I hope y'all have lots of fun playing BINGO for another year! :)

<img src="http://www.lshelby.com/Utilities/Bingo/bingocardC.php?type=CAT2017-A&color=red&markers=9-13-20-5-24-6">



<img src="http://www.lshelby.com/Utilities/Bingo/bingocardC.php?type=CAT2017-B&color=blue&markers=2-13-19-7-22-14">



Don't forget that you can change the color of the markers to any of the following:
aqua, black, blue, fuchsia, gray, green, lime, maroon, navy, olive, orange, purple, red, silver, teal, white, and yellow

If you weren't around last year and need instructions on how to use the cards, they are at:
https://www.librarything.com/topic/180134#4971850

>52 LShelby: Ahhhh, thank you so much -- they're gorgeous!

>52 LShelby:
oh Lovely! Thanks so much!

>52 LShelby: Thanks so much for your help as well as that of your daughter!

>52 LShelby: Those are both awesome! I won't be able to decide which one to use...

These are wonderful! Thank you and your daughter so much again for all your help.

>52 LShelby: Thanks to you and your daughter for both of these beautiful cards.

Thanks also for creating cards for our BingoDOGs two years straight, and for the Woman BingoPUP last year. We would have been lost without your help.

>52 LShelby: Thank you, they are absolutely wonderful!

>52 LShelby:
Thank you so much!!!

>52 LShelby: Thank you again!!! They're wonderful!

Gorgeous cards, thank you so much for coming to our help once again. I can't wait to start the 2017 BingoDog!

Great cards!! Thanks :)

Thanks, I put my bingo card in my challenge thread. Will see how I do this year. It won't be a priority but still fun to see how it fills in.

>52 LShelby: Yay! I'm liking the maps and though I wouldn't normally choose that colour, I like the "pink" (fushia?) colour chosen with it! I might go with it!

>52 LShelby: Thank you so much, these look wonderful!

Thank you, thank you. I'm having trouble deciding which one to use.

>52 LShelby: Thank you so much! Now comes the difficult part - deciding which one to use! They are both beautiful!

Indeed! The cards are lovely! I ended up going with the map one :)

Is there going to be a BingoDOG wiki this year? Or is it already set up (if so, there is no link from the group's home page)?

Thanks so much!

The BingoDOG wiki: http://www.librarything.com/wiki/index.php/2017_BingoDOG

January thread: http://www.librarything.com/topic/245325

>71 sturlington: Thank you so much!

>71 sturlington: Yay! Thank you!

Am I the first one to notice at least 4 typos?

For the square "title refers to another literary work" - does a song count? I was thinking of reading Eleven Piper's Piping.

>75 dudes22: I suggested that square, and I think a song would count! I always thought that poetry would count, and songs are a type of poetry, so why not? :)

Bob Dylan won last year's Nobel Prize for literature, makes at least his songs literature.

>76 christina_reads: - Great - I wanted to make sure I wasn't stretching too far from the intended.

>77 MarthaJeanne: - so true!

Here is the February thread: https://www.librarything.com/topic/247756

>74 MarthaJeanne: I just noticed that last week.

>75 dudes22: Thank you for asking this! I thought I remembered someone asking and I came back to double check. I'll be using a song title as "another literary work", as well!

The March thread is here: http://www.librarything.com/topic/250437

>82 sallylou61: Thanks!

Thought I would give everyone a heads up:

RE: the wikis.

I posted here:
http://www.librarything.com/topic/274788#6241961

And was referred to another thread where the wikis have been turned off due to spam? Until they get some kind of fix.