Back to Middle-earth Month

Daylight Savings Time Reminder
Today, many countries in Europe switch to daylight savings time, including the United Kingdom. arwen75 was kind enough to point out to me when the U.S. and Canada switched to daylight savings time a few weeks back that GMT remains the same, even when the UK switches to daylight savings time. (Numbers are posted and closed based on GMT, which is apparently different from BST, a fact I wasn't aware of! :) Therefore, unless your country switched to daylight savings time today, the time numbers will be posted and closed will not change for you. If your country did switch to daylight savings time today, the numbers will be posted and closed one hour later.

Error on Colors Card
paranoidangel42 caught a pretty significant error on the numbering of the Colors card. The last column should be O's, not G's. Therefore, the last column of prompts should be:

O61: Blue
O64: Brown
O69: Fuchsia
O73: Bright Green
O75: Copper

Yes, this includes one of today's prompts (for O64), so if you're playing that card and want to claim that stamp, make sure you work that prompt into your story before the number closes today.

Sixth-Place Winners!
And the winners list continues to grow! For O62, congratulations to Jay of Lasgalen, Febobe, CrackinAndProudOfIt, Naurring, Linda Hoyland, Elleth, Cairistiona, IgnobleBard, Alma Heart, Lady Brooke, and havamahal who earned a BINGO on the Injuries and Other Ailments card! CrackinAndProudOfIt also earned a second BINGO on the Let's Get Meta card, and Embi earned a BINGO on the Maglor in History 1 card! Finally, Lady Brooke earned a second BINGO on the Riddle Me Writerly Card. Wow, what a day!

If you've won on a particular number, I will send your banner after the number closes. If you won on a number that's closed, you should have gotten your banner yesterday. If you did not, please let me know.

Actually, we have five seven eight winners on N38, and the day has just begun for many of our participants. :) Congrats to Lady Brooke (who actually hit twice, on both winning cards!), Kim, Starlight, Mirach, Crackinandproudofit, Gwenniel, Linda Hoyland, and Eärille, who are our first players to get a BINGO on their cards! The winning cards were Silmarillion vs. Harry Potter Character Match and Canon Couples.

Anyone who gets BINGO on N38 will join the winners' club. Because our participants hail from timezones all over the world, the B2MeM mods decided we'd rather have multiple winners than declare first, second, third place (and so on) based on the order in which participants report BINGO. Since the BINGO number is posted in the middle of the night for some of our players and late afternoon for others, it puts some at a disadvantage and therefore isn't fair to make winning contingent on the time you report in to request your stamps. So we will in all likelihood have more good news to celebrate as the day wears on!

So what happens next? We're going to keep playing until the end of the month. We'll continue awarding banners for second place, third place, and so on. We have many players who are very close to BINGO and still thirteen numbers yet to call!