Nerd Games - Spring 2025

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Welcome to the Nerd Games!

Runs April 1, 2025 - June 30, 2025

This is a craftalong where nerdy crafters all over the world can share our projects and give each other encouragement - that’s really all there is to it! If you feel you might be a nerd, or enjoy some nerdy things of any kind, or if you’re just nerdy about crafting, you’re more than welcome here!

HOW TO JOIN

Simply make any craft, take photos of it, and post them in this group with the following header, which will be explained below:

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 three, 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!)

FAQs

Have more specific questions about the Nerd Games? You can find FAQs here!

THE TEAMS

There are three teams to choose from, and no requirements for joining any of them; simply choose one that speaks to you, put the team name in your first project header, and presto - you’re a member! You will remain on the same team for the entire season. You may change teams in future seasons.

  • Team Running with Scissors
  • Team Knotty By Nature
  • Team Bits and Bobs

THE PROMPTS

Prompts will be posted on a monthly basis in the post below. Please choose a prompt. Monthly battles are the only time sensitive prompts. The non-battle prompts are open for the entire season. See THE POINTS section below for point values and several additional crafting opportunities for each of your crafts. You can craft specifically to fit the prompts, or you can craft first and then find a prompt to fit it into. We’re pretty lax about slightly stretched interpretations of the prompts; just explain in your description how it fits!

  • Monthly prompts will close at 11:59pm Central Time on the last day of the current month.

BONUS POINTS

We are trying to keep things simple, so there will only be one type of bonus point available. COMMUNITY POINTS will be given when you post a link to a post you’ve made within the Lettuce Craft community, and will be worth 20 bonus points for each project shared. Please be sure to participate in the entire community and not just in the craftalong!

THE POINTS

This competition is just for fun and the points are for nothing more than motivation and bragging rights, but go ahead and rack up points by posting projects for you team! Points break down as follows:

  • Monthly battles and prompts: 20 points each (must take at least 30 minutes of crafting time)
  • Free Range: 20 points each (must take at least 30 minutes of crafting time. Up to sixallowed per season
  • Big Time projects: 50 points each (must take at least 5 hours of crafting time. Up to threeallowed per season)
  • Zaps: 10 points each (any craft that takes less than 30 minutes to make. Up to five allowed per season)
  • Research Projects: 100 points (must take at least 20 hours of crafting time. Up to two per season)
  • Bonus Points: COMMUNITY bonus points (worth 20 extra per project) are the only bonus opportunity available at this time.

Special Note:
All prompts are supposed to be crafted within the current season. However, we have decided to make an exception to this rule. Let’s say you craft something for a swap near the end of the Summer season. You’ve sent the swap package, but it hasn’t been received yet. Fall season begins, your partner has received their swap item, and you are ready to post. You may go ahead and post your project from the previous season for the current season.

THE RULES

  • Players must craft to the best of their abilities and have a minimum of 30 minutes of crafting time per submission, unless otherwise noted.
  • A project can only be submitted for one prompt or crafting opportunity.
  • A project does NOT have to be "nerdy,” it only has to fulfill the prompt as you see fit.
  • Submitted projects must be started and completed during the current season, unless otherwise noted.
  • There is SO MUCH to do in the Nerd Games. Do not feel like you have to craft everything. Do what inspires you.
  • We welcome all players from the Nerdyverse, no matter their Geekdom. We even welcome non-nerds!
  • We are never mean.
  • We never exclude someone.
  • We will keep it clean-ish (PG-13).
  • Never hesitate in contacting the gamemakers (@storerboughtcreation or @Smeddley) with your questions, concerns, or ideas.

Previous Seasons:

Winter 2025
Fall 2024
Summer 2024
Spring 2024
Winter 2024
Fall 2023
Summer 2023
Spring 2023
Winter 2023
Fall 2022
Summer 2022
Spring 2022
Winter 2022
Fall 2021
Summer 2021
Spring 2021
Winter 2021
Fall 2020
Summer 2020
Spring 2020
Winter 2020

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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 three, listed above)
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!)

Monthly Battles

April Battle - Rain vs Flowers

April Theme: This month’s theme is brought to you by @gozer and SPRING!

  1. Red Poppy – Poppies are used in a lot of medicines that relax you. Craft an item that you can use during sleep, the process is repetitive or relaxing to you, has 4-6 pieces (petals) or red.
  2. Orange marigold – Marigolds ward off negativity & evil spirits. Craft an item that brings you joy, has fringe or is ruffled, or is orange.
  3. Yellow Sunflower – Sunflowers face the sun! Craft an item that is tall or long like a sunflower, includes a sun, requires heat to create, or is yellow.
  4. Green Grass – Grass makes its triumphant return from being dormant in the spring. Craft an item that requires a lot of poking/holes, is something you haven’t done in a long time, has to be cut, or is green.
  5. Blue Rain – The Spring brings rain so all the plants can grow. Craft an item that requires water, has splatters, or is blue.
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Pin Prize Collection

We’re continuing the Nerd Games enamel pin collection! Each season you’ll have the opportunity to earn up to three (or sometimes more) pins. Each pin will be different, and every season the pins offered will be different. Try to collect them all, or have fun picking and choosing ones to work toward!

This year, for Winter, Spring, and Fall rounds, the pins will be themed around the OG Nerd Games teams.

Spring 2025 Nerd Games Pins
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SPRING EVENTS:

NOTE: Feel free to use a single project for as many pin events as possible!

Textbook: Submit FIVE projects that require precision or detail. Create posts for the projects in the appropriate Lettuce Craft categories (and don’t forget to claim Community bonus points).

Wordy: Submit FIVE projects that use, are inspired by, or otherwise incorporate books. Create posts for the projects in the appropriate Lettuce Craft categories (and don’t forget to claim Community bonus points).

Multimedia: Submit FIVE projects inspired by any media, or for which you used some type of media in their creation (such as watching an online tutorial video). Create posts for the projects in the appropriate Lettuce Craft categories (and don’t forget to claim Community bonus points).

Fandom: Submit FIVE projects that reference, represent, or incorporate something you love. Create posts for the projects in the appropriate Lettuce Craft categories (and don’t forget to claim Community bonus points).

Randomizer: Submit FIVE projects that incorporate all of the following colors: RED, BLUE, GREEN, PURPLE, ORANGE (one color per project, or any combo, for a total of all five colors represented over your five projects). Create posts for the projects in the appropriate Lettuce Craft categories (and don’t forget to claim Community bonus points).

To claim your prizes:

Once you have completed the requirements, send the below submission form to LovelyMiss via private message by 11:59 pm (central) on June 30, 2025.

Prizes will be sent after the season ends.

Pin Event Submission Form

I am claiming: (Textbook, Wordy, Multimedia, Fandom, Randomizer)

I attest that I have completed the requirements for the Pin Event(s) I am claiming: Yes/No

My name and mailing address (as it should be formatted for sending, including country) are:

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Prompt: Orange Marigold (April)
Team: Running with Scissors
Project Name: Rainbow jars
Project Link: Rainbows in Jars
Brief Description: I made some rainbowy bits to brighten up a gloomy week.
Project Photo(s):

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Prompt: Blue Rain
Team: Running with Scissors
Project Name: Even more affirmations for abandoning
Project Link: N/A
Brief Description: Another round. I used water to thin and spread the paint on these.
Project Photo(s):

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Prompt: April - Blue Rain
Team: Bits and Bobs
Project Name: Spring Harbinger
Project Link: Spring Harbinger
Brief Description: A bunny watercolor painting with lots of lovely splatters.
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Prompt: April - Green Grass
Team: Bits and Bobs
Project Name: A fuzzy, buzzy bee hoopla
Project Link: Fuzzy bee hoopla
Brief Description: A needle-felted little hoopla that required lots and lots of poking!
Project Photo(s):

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