Community Challenge: Battleship

[pumpkinkingmod]

Every year there is a community challenge. This year we will be playing Battleship, the entire community against me. I’ve linked to the Wikipedia article.

In the game you have a 10x10 grid. The rows are A-J the columns are 1-10. On that grid I have hidden a carrier (5 tiles), a battleship (4 tiles), a cruiser (4 tiles), a submarine (3 tiles), and a destroyer (2 tiles).

In the game you call out a square on a grid, such a A7 (row A, column 7). I will say hit or miss. The goal is to find and sink all of my ships.

It would be a pretty short game if the community just got to freely call out squares. Instead, the community has to complete a certain goal in order to call out a specific square. You need to get number of works specified by the criteria.

The community does not need to do all of them to win the challenge, they just need to sink my ships.

The assignment of task to tile will be revealed with assignments, but for planning purposes, here are all one hundred tasks.

The numbers were loosely inspired by how much each tag was used last year, if at all.



Key
😈 - Miss
☠️ - Hit

Thank you fencesit for the html version!

🎃	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10
A	3	81	13	😈	😈	😈	43	77	😈	😈
B	😈	65	☠️	☠️	😈	😈	😈	😈	😈	😈
C	😈	12	😈	😈	72	21	😈	😈	8	96
D	😈	☠️	☠️	78	☠️	😈	😈	☠️	98	73
E	😈	38	😈	1	54	😈	94	☠️	92	😈
F	😈	😈	95	😈	😈	😈	90	88	😈	100
G	6	😈	😈	82	☠️	57	☠️	☠️	☠️	😈
H	😈	😈	☠️	☠️	☠️	☠️	😈	😈	😈	😈
I	46	29	😈	😈	11	32	😈	7	😈	😈
J	30	😈	😈	40	25	😈	31	😈	17	😈

↑ 1 2 gifts/person
↑ 2 One fic that is at least 16,000 words - Hit
↑ 3 60 pieces of art
↑ 4 100 Gen Works - HIT!
↑ 5 100 M/M Works - Miss
↑ 6 100 F/F Works
↑ 7 100 F/M Works
↑ 8 50 Other Works
↑ 9 20 Works involving at least three individuals in a relationship - Miss
↑ 10 20 Major Character Death Works - Miss
↑ 11 20 Graphic Depictions of Violence Works
↑ 12 20 Rape/Non-Con Works
↑ 13 20 Underage Works
↑ 14 50 Alternate Universes (Canon Divergences count) - Miss
↑ 15 13 works with a word count of exactly 666 or 6666 - Miss
↑ 16 20 Drabbles - Miss
↑ 17 5 Ridiculous Disambiguations
↑ 18 5 works in first person - HIT!
↑ 19 5 works in second person - MISS!
↑ 20 Number of works in the collection that is double the number of participants - Miss
↑ 21 20 Crossovers
↑ 22 5 5+1 Things - Miss
↑ 23 1 Variant of 5+1 Things - MISS!
↑ 24 75 Mature/Explicit Works - Hit
↑ 25 10 Poetry
↑ 26 15 Autumn - Miss
↑ 27 20 Halloween - MISS
↑ 28 10 Nighttime - Miss
↑ 29 10 Trick or Treating
↑ 30 25 Cats
↑ 31 20 Costumes
↑ 32 3 All Saints’ Day
↑ 33 5 Pumpkins - MISS!
↑ 34 5 Candy - MISS
↑ 35 1 Work with Elisabeth Bathory (Halloween) - Miss
↑ 36 3 Samhain - Miss
↑ 37 5 Moon - MISS!
↑ 38 3 Oktoberfest
↑ 39 7 Party - Miss
↑ 40 10 Haunted Houses
↑ 41 3 Orange - MISS!
↑ 42 3 Black - MISS!
↑ 43 3 Day of the Dead
↑ 44 2 Candy Corn - MISS!
↑ 45 15 Pining - Miss
↑ 46 7 Tarot
↑ 47 5 Cemetery - MISS
↑ 48 25 Holidays - MISS
↑ 49 2 Corpses - HIT!
↑ 50 4 Festivals - Miss
↑ 51 50 Fluff - Miss
↑ 52 50 Family (this includes incest) - Hit! Sunk my Cruiser (4 tiles)
↑ 53 20 Romance - Miss
↑ 54 50 Friendship
↑ 55 20 Kissing - MISS
↑ 56 25 Hurt/Comfort - MISS
↑ 57 50 Sex
↑ 58 20 Happy Ending - Miss
↑ 59 10 Kid Fic - Miss
↑ 60 2 Dawn - HIT!
↑ 61 25 Humor - MISS!
↑ 62 20 Consent - Hit. Destroyer sunk.
↑ 63 10 Dreams - Miss
↑ 64 3 Peace - MISS!
↑ 65 15 Kinks
↑ 66 10 LGBTQ Themes - Miss
↑ 67 5 Communication - MISS!
↑ 68 3 Hope - MISS!
↑ 69 3 Celebrations - Miss
↑ 70 3 Acceptance - MISS
↑ 71 5 Culture - Hit
↑ 72 3 Elves
↑ 73 7 Fae & Fairies
↑ 74 15 Future Fic - Miss
↑ 75 10 Historical - MISS
↑ 76 50 Ghosts - Miss
↑ 77 20 Vampires
↑ 78 10 Zombies
↑ 79 10 Bad Ending - Hit
↑ 80 10 Were-Creatures - Miss
↑ 81 15 Witches
↑ 82 15 Demons
↑ 83 25 Dark - Hit
↑ 84 2 Dusk - HIT!
↑ 85 3 Selkies - Miss
↑ 86 1 Mummy - MISS!
↑ 87 25 Horror - Miss
↑ 88 9 Serial Killers
↑ 89 5 Transformation - HIT
↑ 90 20 Dub Con
↑ 91 10 Nightmares - HIT
↑ 92 3 Grim Reapers
↑ 93 3 War - MISS!
↑ 94 7 Skeletons
↑ 95 3 Devils
↑ 96 15 Abuse
↑ 97 15 Murder - Hit
↑ 98 15 Tentacles
↑ 99 7 Trapped - Miss
↑ 100 3 Circus


tl;dr it's like a combination of when we did Bingo and combined with Minesweeper, only you want to find the mines.

Comments

Reference Sheet

[meatball42.livejournal.com]

An open sheet for reference, with the list reordered to match the battleship squares!

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1WR8vrwFsXU6r6nyjInutTxGC46hhzQZA_a0BUc06Ppk/edit?usp=sharing

[(Anonymous)]

The link to Battleship on Wikipedia doesn't work and the "image version" table link also doesn't work!

[pumpkinkingmod]

Can you tell me what the image link is doing when you click the image version? I've tried it on multiple browsers, logged in, logged out, and incognito and the image link works for me.

I don't know why the link to wikipedia isn't working. The html looks correct to me when I go to edit html and the link itself is the correct one used there, but it isn't working right from the post itself. I will have to look into it further but I don't know why it is exhibiting that behavior at this time.

EDIT: So I deleted and retyped the link to wikipedia and it now appears to be working on my end.

Calling out hits

[meatball42.livejournal.com]

Here!

Re: Calling out hits

[meatball42.livejournal.com]

Mummy, Candy Corn, Orange, Hope, Black.

That's A10, B1, C1, C8, and I3.

[(Anonymous)]

at 202 works

Moon, Peace, and Gen works = b9, e6, h6

(before you said that Dawn, G7, wasn't met despite two fics being tagged with it, has it been yet?)

[pumpkinkingmod]

In the future, please put each square's coordinates with its theme.

Dawn was a false positive because of being tagged with characters with the name Dawn, I can't easily check them to see if they feature dawn until reveals. It has not been met as far as I can see.

B9 - Miss
E6 - Miss
H6 - Hit

[(Anonymous)]

1 Variant of 5+1 Things - H9

At 243 Works

Let me know if you need anything! This is one I did, and it doesn't show up under tags.

This game has been so much fun!

[pumpkinkingmod]

H9 - Miss

[(Anonymous)]

I believe we have hit F6, five fics tagged "Communication".

[pumpkinkingmod]

F6 - Miss

[(Anonymous)]

Also, there are two fics tagged "Dawn", G7:

https://archiveofourown.org/collections/trickortreat2019/tags/Dawn/works

[pumpkinkingmod]

They are tagged with characters named Dawn. I will have to wait until work reveals to check to see if they are about dawn.

[shadaras]

We should now have: J8 - 5 works in second person

ETA: And also B4 - 5 works in first person

[pumpkinkingmod]

J8 - Miss
B4 - Hit

[(Anonymous)]

Hello! :D

Is it possible to get clarification on what these two mean?

↑ 1 2 gifts/person
↑ 17 5 Ridiculous Disambiguations

Thank you much! :D

[pumpkinkingmod]

2 gifts/person - Every person in the exchange has two gifts except for people that opted out of extra gifts and people that defaulted.

5 Ridiculous Disambiguations - If you look at the tagset I use nonsense disambiguation to keep certain characters from moving out of their fandoms. For example, all Marvel Cinematic Universe characters are disambiguated with "Moss Covered Unicorn." I'm able to remember that the characters go there because they share the initials MCU. "Ridiculous Disambiguation" means works that use ones of those nonsense disambiguations in them. Here are examples from previous rounds 1, 2, 3, 4. As you can see, they don't need to match the fandom that they came from.

[serie11]

At 464 works:

C4 - Humor
B8 - Halloween
J3 - Holidays
G9 - Nightmares

[pumpkinkingmod]

C4 - Miss
B8 - Miss
J3 - Miss
G9 - Hit

[(Anonymous)]

At 481 works:

F9 #34 5 Candy: I see 9 works tagged with this
B7 #47 5 Cemtery: 5 works showing up for the tag “Cemetery”
H2 #53 20 Kissing: 22 works showing up for the tag “Kissing”
E1 #56 25 Hurt/Comfort: 27 works showing up for “Hurt/Comfort”
F5 #75 10 Historical: 10 works showing up for “Historical” (as a freeform tag)

[pumpkinkingmod]

F9 - Miss
B7 - Miss
H2 - Miss
E1 - Miss
F5 - Miss

[(Anonymous)]

There are well over 50 fics rated M or E. Does that count toward #57/G6 (50 works with sex) or do they need to be tagged "sex"?

—ba_lailah

[(Anonymous)]

Similar question: which tags containing the word "consent" count toward 20 Consent works?

[(Anonymous)]

According to the spreadsheet, we have

D7 - 50 AUs
C7 - 20 drabbles
H4 - 5 transformations
E10 - 5 5+1s
F1 - 7 trapped
F4 - 25 horror
H10 - 15 pining
J6 - 4 festivals
I7 - 15 autumn

[pumpkinkingmod]

D7 - Miss
C7 - Miss
H4 - Hit
E10 - Miss
F1 - Miss
F4 - Miss
H10 - Miss
J6 - Miss
I7 - Miss

[(Anonymous)]

Also

J10 - 50 fluff

—ba_lailah (sorry, I am v bad at signing my comments)

[pumpkinkingmod]

J10 - Miss

[(Anonymous)]

Also also

H1 - 100 M/M works

—ba_lailah

[pumpkinkingmod]

H1 - Miss

[(Anonymous)]

F2, one work with Elisabeth Bathory (Halloween), it's just not showing up as it is not a canonical AO3 tag

[pumpkinkingmod]

F2 - Miss

[snickfic]

I have some attacks!

D1 - 20 Works involving at least three individuals in a relationship
H7 - 13 works with a word count of exactly 666 or 6666
H3 - 75 Mature/Explicit works
I10 - 10 Nighttime

[pumpkinkingmod]

D1 - Miss
H7 - I get 12 works when I set the minimum and maximum word counts to 666 and 0 when I set it to 6666
H3 - Hit
I10 - Miss

[(Anonymous)]

Hey Hey! Is E2 - 32: 3 Oktoberfest going to be hard to place? It doesn't show up in the tag set, but it might be due to because of this: https://archiveofourown.org/tags/Oktoberfest

Just wasn't sure! Thanks! :D Keep being awesome!

[pumpkinkingmod]

In a worst case scenario it will be seen when works are revealed, but if you use the work's filter selections and manually enter Oktoberfest you should still be able to search for it.

[sheliak]

I9 - 20 Major Character Death Works
H8 - 3 Samhain
B5 - 20 Happy Ending
H5 - 50 Family (actually 52 right now!)
A9 - 20 Romance (21!)

[pumpkinkingmod]

I9 - Miss
H8 - Miss
B5 - Miss
H5 - Hit. You sunk my cruiser (4 tiles)
A9 - Miss

[(Anonymous)]

E8 - 10 bad ending
B10 - 10 dreams

[pumpkinkingmod]

E8 - Hit
B10 - Miss

[sheliak]

J2 - Number of works double the number of participants (587 > 292*2)
A5 - 15 Future Fic
B6 - 10 Kid Fic

[pumpkinkingmod]

J2 - Miss
A5 - Miss
B6 - Miss

[(Anonymous)]

G02 - 50 ghosts

—ba_lailah

[pumpkinkingmod]

G2 - Miss

Who still needs gifts?

[(Anonymous)]

Has anyone assembled a list / spreadsheet of who still needs an extra gift? I've checked everyone in my core fandoms but I could maybe get another treat out to somebody?

Re: Who still needs gifts?

[sheliak]

There is this, although I'm not sure how regularly it's updated: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1PmZA75BkeMjxbxy8wFmxAorLw7z_bonhh5ZDwUAAQ_0/edit#gid=0

[(Anonymous)]

D3 -- One fic that is at least 16,000 words

[pumpkinkingmod]

D3 - Hit

[(Anonymous)]

A6 - 80 10 Were-Creatures

[pumpkinkingmod]

A6 Miss