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PAX Bingo!
Imperfect
Toronto, Ontario, CanadaRegistered User regular
Toronto, Ontario, CanadaRegistered User regular
Bingo! Pastime and social opportunity of the elderly and unemployed, it's also a pretty big hit on roadtrips and conventions. Which conventions? This one!
Well, that is if anyone else is interested.
See, it works pretty simply:
1) We all come up with a list of activities to perform, sights to see, celebrities to accost, etc.
2) I collate these and use them to create a ho-jillion Bingo cards.
3) I distribute these Bingo cards to everyone who wants to participate.
4) You print out and bring your card to PAX and try desperately to get it filled out.
5) We convene either at PAX or in this thread after PAX (or both) and compare cards.
FAQs
Q: Wait, how do you tell who the winner is?
A: Dude, everyone wins. The point isn't to fill up the card so that you win a prize, the point is to fill up your card because IT IS FULL OF AWESOME THINGS TO DO.
Q: How much is this gonna cost?
A: Enh, I'll eat the costs. Basically I buy a copy of Bingo Card Creator and email everyone their created cards.
Q: Wait, I have to print the card myself? On plain paper?
A: There's not much point in printing up Really Nice Cards, since you'll need to bring 'em everywhere with you and they will likely get folded and such. You want a really neat memento of PAX? Go order and trade some buttons, or get in on a challenge coin. PAX Bingo is about experiences, yo.
Categories
A Bingo card has five columns: B, I, N, G, and O. I'm proposing that we make each column a category, and all items have to fit in one of those 5 categories. So I'm taking suggestions for categories as well.
(Disclaimer; I dunno if the software actually does this, but they've got a free trial and I'll check it out shortly.)
Experiences List
Here, lemme toss some out as examples:
It's a little late to be starting this, I know, but whatever, email is a quick delivery service. I figure we have to have this whole deal wrapped up by August 27, so that my lazy ass has a chance to collate everything, make the cards, and go through the email list.
Well, that is if anyone else is interested.
See, it works pretty simply:
1) We all come up with a list of activities to perform, sights to see, celebrities to accost, etc.
2) I collate these and use them to create a ho-jillion Bingo cards.
3) I distribute these Bingo cards to everyone who wants to participate.
4) You print out and bring your card to PAX and try desperately to get it filled out.
5) We convene either at PAX or in this thread after PAX (or both) and compare cards.
FAQs
Q: Wait, how do you tell who the winner is?
A: Dude, everyone wins. The point isn't to fill up the card so that you win a prize, the point is to fill up your card because IT IS FULL OF AWESOME THINGS TO DO.
Q: How much is this gonna cost?
A: Enh, I'll eat the costs. Basically I buy a copy of Bingo Card Creator and email everyone their created cards.
Q: Wait, I have to print the card myself? On plain paper?
A: There's not much point in printing up Really Nice Cards, since you'll need to bring 'em everywhere with you and they will likely get folded and such. You want a really neat memento of PAX? Go order and trade some buttons, or get in on a challenge coin. PAX Bingo is about experiences, yo.
Categories
A Bingo card has five columns: B, I, N, G, and O. I'm proposing that we make each column a category, and all items have to fit in one of those 5 categories. So I'm taking suggestions for categories as well.
(Disclaimer; I dunno if the software actually does this, but they've got a free trial and I'll check it out shortly.)
Experiences List
Here, lemme toss some out as examples:
- See Gabe
- See Tycho
- Watch Keynote
- Play a Beta
- Win at Smash Brothers
- Draw a Wang on Pictochat
It's a little late to be starting this, I know, but whatever, email is a quick delivery service. I figure we have to have this whole deal wrapped up by August 27, so that my lazy ass has a chance to collate everything, make the cards, and go through the email list.
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Get a Pax Exclusive Item
have someone ask to take your picture
play a multiplayer DS game while in a line
get pax sars - haha, j/k
participate in a tournament
nap on a sumo bag
rent a boardgame and play it with strangers
trade for a button (bonus points if you manage to haggle for one w/o having any yourself)
Go all PAX using only Iron Guard, and no handshakes
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Beat someone at a game/lose to someone at a game
Recognize a cosplayer (not a TF2 one)
Attend PAX (free space)
Eat with someone you just met (alt: eat with a complete stranger)
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That would be the free square.
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Suggestions:
Feed an appropriate movie/game quote to a cosplayer
Concoct a mixed drink with Bawls (all-ages: just drink one)
Trade swag with a stranger
Play a game in someone else's hotel room
Take a picture with a witch/wizard on the pub crawl
Act like a zombie at the JoCo concert
Swim in the pool at the Sheraton
Get kicked out of the console freeplay room at 2am (
Yell "FINISH HIM" at any point during the con
I submit for your consideration:
Play anything on a "classic" console
Attend a panel
Meet a PAX attendee outside the convention zone (airport, train depot or greater city zone)
For categories:
(B)
(I)nteractive (you need another person to complete)
(N)
(G)aming
(O)ther
(need some help with B and N)
But I like the ideas for the categories so far - there's no reason we can't use them to spark ideas!
As for ideas for the activities:
Get a photo with a TF2 or other VG-character cosplay group (Namedrop)
Witness the PAX Prank (Namedrop)
Meet [your biggest Video Game Nerd Hero in attendance] (Namedrop)
Be a victim of the PAX Prank (Interactive)
Receive a button (Interactive)
Play a Game (Free Space)
Participate in a Full Pictochat Room (Interactive)
Make a new friend (Interactive)
Fall asleep in the Convention Center (naps in lines, beanbag chair, etc) (Other)
Play a non-electronic game (Gaming)
Teach someone how to play a game (Interactive/Gaming)
If the program won't do the categories, you could put something together with Excel and do random "Data" sorting in various columns to keep shuffling the boards? I know, more work than it's worth, right?
I like the "Bragging Rights" idea; actually, to make it more personal, it could just be an entire column of blanks that you need to fill in completely yourself with your own unique "bragging rights" experiences.
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Sorry guys, my last-minute PAX plans were pretty hectic and I totally forgot about this thread and this idea.
Thankfully, more enterprising folk than me did similar games (the PAX XP thing, the scavenger hunt, etc.) so if you were interested in something like this, hopefully you got the chance to do it!