Winner Take All Writer Bingo!

Welcome to Writer Bingo!

If this is successful, we'll do it again. For this first round, all of the words are authors.

The game rules:

This game has been set up as a swap to ensure accountability. Each player will choose 25 words that will serve as the bingo card. Each day, I'll randomly pull 5 words and call them by posting in the comments section until someone calls (posts) BINGO by completing all 25 words on her/his their list.

I'll start calling words on Monday, Sept. 14.

Each player will send the winner a book by any one of the authors on the list. That's the winner take all part! I'll send the winner's name/address to the players. (In the event of two or more winners, each person will receive an equal number of books. I'll divide up the players and I'll send the names/addresses of winners.)

It'll be a good idea for you to print out your list so you can mark off the called words each day.

I won't be playing, but will send out a postcard and prize. I will also send a consolation prize to the person with the least number of called words. :)

Group membership and 4.8 or higher rating required to play.

How do I get rated?

So glad you asked. When you get your partner's name, send a postcard with a note. Be sure to put your name/forum name and WTA Writer Bingo on the postcard so they'll know what it's for. When you get your postcard you can rate your partner. The actual game will continue until a winner is announced.

Recap

To play, you'll need to do the following:

a) join the swap

b) choose any 25 of the 100 words on the list below. Those 25 names will represent your "bingo" card. Post your list in the comment section before the last day to sign-up. Be sure to include the number and the word, i.e. 30) Jane Austen for each of your choices.

c) when partners are assigned, send your partner a postcard greeting via snail mail

d) when a bingo winner is announced, mail the winner a book (new or gently used) by any author on the list of 100. The book is sender's choice. Winner(s) cannot specify the author they'd like to receive.

Hope everyone has fun!

The list of 100 Writer Bingo words

1) Agatha Christie

2) Robert B. Parker

3) Ernest Hemingway

4) Emily Dickinson

5) Stephenie Meyer

6) Meg Cabot

7) Emily Bronte

8) Charles Dickens

9) Michael Connelly

10) Nora Roberts

11) Pat Conroy

12) Sandra Brown

13) Audrey Niffenegger

14) James Baldwin

15) J.R.R. Tolkien

16) Toni Morrison

17) Langston Hughes

18) Julia Child

19) Nicholas Sparks

20) James Patterson

21) Daniel Silva

22) Elizabeth Lowell

23) Amanda Quick

24) Lisa Jackson

25) Jodi Picoult

26) J.K. Rowling

27) Charlaine Harris

28) Dan Brown

29) Debbie Macomber

30) Jane Austen

31) Wally Lamb

32) William Styron

33) Terry McMillan

34) Dominic Dunne

35) Randy Pausch

36) Terry Brooks

37) Paulo Coelho

38) Dean Koontz

39) F. Scott Fitzgerald

40) Robert Ludlum

41) Lewis Carroll

42) Anne Lamott

43) Sophie Kinsella

44) Brenda Jackson

45) Louisa May Alcott

46) Willa Cather

47) Henry David Thoreau

48) Octavia Butler

49) Ralph Waldo Emerson

50) Victoria Holt

51) Walt Whitman

52) Shirley Jackson

53) Barbara Samuel

54) Johann Wolfgang van Goethe

55) Nathaniel Hawthorne

56) Tom Clancy

57) Mercedes Lackey

58) E. Lynn Harris

59) Patricia Cornwell

60) LaVryle Spencer

61) V.C. Andrews

62) Louis L’Amour

63) Orson Scott Card

64) David Baldacci

65) Stephen King

66) Michael Crichton

67) William Shakespeare

68) Ken Follett

69) Jan Karon

70) Larry McMurtry

71) John Grisham

72) Anne Tyler

73) Anne Rice

74) Anne Rivers Siddons

75) Anne Perry

76) Anne McCaffrey

77) Kathleen E. Woodiwiss

78) Tony Hillerman

79) Dr. Seuss

80) Janet Evanovich

81) R.L. Stine

82) Alexander McCall Smith

83) Danielle Steele

84) Elmore Leonard

85) Mark Twain

86) Tennessee Williams

87) Carolyn Keene

88) P.D. James

89) Beatrix Potter

90) John Steinbeck

91) Carl Hiaasen

92) Joyce Carol Oates

93) C.S. Lewis

94) Gabriel García Márquez

95) Barbara Delinsky

96) Isabel Allende

97) Barbara Kingsolver

98) Walker Mosley

99) Rita Mae Brown

100) Lisa Scottoline