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PAX Bingo!

ImperfectImperfect Toronto, Ontario, CanadaRegistered User regular
edited September 2010 in PAX Archive
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:
  • See Gabe
  • See Tycho
  • Watch Keynote
  • Play a Beta
  • Win at Smash Brothers
  • Draw a Wang on Pictochat
If you want a card, PM me your email address (or at least an email address you'll check). If you want to suggest Categories or Experiences, do it right here in this thread.

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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Posts

  • ky13ky13 Registered User regular
    edited July 2010
    Give JoCo bunny ears in a pic.

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  • JonnyNeroJonnyNero Registered User regular
    edited July 2010
    Have a drink with Atlus Parker

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  • <Omicron-8643><Omicron-8643> Just outside DC. Registered User regular
    edited July 2010
    Win at Steel Battalion.

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  • ZeroHourHeroZeroHourHero Allentown, PARegistered User regular
    edited July 2010
    See a custom My Little Pony Outside of BYOC

    Get a Pax Exclusive Item

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  • AlphonsisAlphonsis Registered User regular
    edited July 2010
    win a t-shirt(or something?) at the expo hall. (not just get in a bag)

    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)

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  • StaxeonStaxeon Buffalo, NYRegistered User regular
    edited July 2010
    Imploy Wheaton's Law

    Go all PAX using only Iron Guard, and no handshakes

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  • ZecroZecro Registered User regular
    edited July 2010
    Attend a concert

    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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  • heelsheels Registered User regular
    edited July 2010
    Highfive an enforcer.

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  • VThornheartVThornheart Registered User regular
    edited July 2010
    Get a cookie from the Cookie Brigade!

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  • ZeroHourHeroZeroHourHero Allentown, PARegistered User regular
    edited July 2010
    Get a cookie from the Cookie Brigade!

    I was just about to say that.

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  • Atlus ParkerAtlus Parker Registered User regular
    edited July 2010
    JonnyNero wrote: »
    Have a drink with Atlus Parker

    That would be the free square. :lol:

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  • StaxeonStaxeon Buffalo, NYRegistered User regular
    edited July 2010
    heels wrote: »
    Highfive an enforcer.

    Aw Heels, you bro-blocked my Iron Guard square :(

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  • ZeroHourHeroZeroHourHero Allentown, PARegistered User regular
    edited July 2010
    Another one:

    Try the PAX 10 Games

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  • ImperfectImperfect Toronto, Ontario, CanadaRegistered User regular
    edited July 2010
    "Go To PAX" is basically gonna be the Free square, but there has been a bunch of excellent suggestions so far.

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  • RedshirtDraperRedshirtDraper Registered User regular
    edited July 2010
    Play a board game or a card game in the your hotel's lobby before and/or after PAX.

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  • jenellejenelle Registered User regular
    edited July 2010
    Alphonsis wrote: »
    get pax sars - haha, j/k

    That's not a joke at all, and you know it! I've already started pumping vitamin C to beef up the ol' immune system.

    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

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  • ginsusamuraiginsusamurai Registered User regular
    edited August 2010
    This is the ultimate con scavenger hunt idea and I love it.

    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)

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  • ImperfectImperfect Toronto, Ontario, CanadaRegistered User regular
    edited August 2010
    Sadly, it turns out that the software I was looking for won't do categories like that, so that nixes that idea.

    But I like the ideas for the categories so far - there's no reason we can't use them to spark ideas!

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  • punziepunzie Cookie Pimp Registered User regular
    edited August 2010
    I like this. I'd just like to suggest/ask we hold off on the "win at a game" squares. Cause, you know, some people suck at multiplayer games (that's me!). I'm totally down with try a new game/demo, play a multiplayer in line, play a game with a stranger, etc. I think it should be more about universally achievable things that are sort of your choice to do or not do as opposed to something you may try over and over again to do and ultimately failing to get your stamp.

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  • TenaciousGGTenaciousGG Registered User regular
    edited August 2010
    The "N" category could be Name Drop (for the Gabe/Tycho/JoCo/Specific Cosplayer squares); still can't think of anything for the "B" category.

    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)

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  • ginsusamuraiginsusamurai Registered User regular
    edited August 2010
    Maybe (B) could be "Bragging rights" and include those hard to come by wins, chance meetings with celebrities and autographs. I realize that negates the proposed N category, but I feel like N might have more options of a different variety. In any case, its good category for inspiration.

    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?

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  • TenaciousGGTenaciousGG Registered User regular
    edited August 2010
    Maybe (B) could be "Bragging rights" and include those hard to come by wins, chance meetings with celebrities and autographs. I realize that negates the proposed N category, but I feel like N might have more options of a different variety. In any case, its good category for inspiration.

    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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  • ImperfectImperfect Toronto, Ontario, CanadaRegistered User regular
    edited September 2010
    Shiiiiiiiiiiiit.

    =(

    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!

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