CLOSED: Nerd Games - Winter 2020

PROMPT PALACE

Please post your projects with the following header:
Prompt: (Write the name of the prompt you are entering your craft for here. Don’t forget to include the month!)
Team: (Choose one of four, listed below)
Project Name: (Name your craft anything you like; fanciful titles or simple labels/descriptions are all fine)
Project Link: (Paste the link to your community post for the bonus points)
Brief Description: (Tell us anything you’d like to about the craft, such as how you made it, and why it fits the prompt .)
Project Photo(s): (Post photos of your awesome craft here, so we can ooh and aah over it!)

THE PROMPTS

Battle Royale Prompt
Choose a side and craft a project to represent your choice. Must be completed within the month of issue, by 11:59 om, Central US time, on the last day of the month. Players may only submit one project per month/Battle. Battle Royale prompts are worth 20 points each and are eligible for all available Bonus Point opportunities.

  • January Battle: Resolutions vs Status Quo - CLOSED
  • February Battle: Birds vs Squirrels - CLOSED
  • March Battle: TV Sportsball Madness or Netflix

Challenge Prompts
You may complete challenges at any time during the season, but you may only submit each prompt one time. Challenge prompts are worth 20 points each.

January Theme - Resolved, or… not

  • Diet/Exercise: cook or bake something (an old favorite or new dish, healthy or not) or make something that will help you work towards your (gym or couch) goals!
  • Save Money/Eliminate Debt: make something entirely from stash, or purchase ALL NEW materials to make something!
  • Learn a New Skill: try a new skill, pattern, or material, or return to an old favorite!
  • De-Stress: do something that calms you, relaxes you, and that you enjoy, or tackle a project that you think will make you tear your hair out!
  • Travel: make something that will help with traveling, or something for around the home!

February Theme: February is National Bird Feeding month!

  • Vultures - make something using leftovers, or scraps, or something not usually used for crafting.
  • Owls - Make something with big eyes, or something to be used at night.
  • Songbirds - Make something small, musical, or brightly colored.
  • Hawks - Make something that requires keen eyesight to craft, or something swift.
  • Waterfowl - Make something that requires water, or will be used on/in the water.

March Theme: Sportball Madness here in the USA!

  • Bracketology - Craft something that has branching arms, or incorporates lines prominently.
  • Ball - Craft something round(ish) or something orange or made of rubber.
  • Basket - Craft something that holds something, or that is made of string and/or metal.
  • Chips and dip - Craft two things that work together.
  • Mascots - Craft something anthropomorphic, or an animal, or something fuzzy.

Remember, either very straightforward or very creative interpretations of the prompts count, you just have to be able to somehow justify it! :wink:

Additional Prompt Opportunities
You can also submit 2 free range, 3 big time, 5 zaps, and 2 research projects each season. Please see The Points section in the rules of the very first post of this thread for more details.

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