African Violets and Gesneriads: Happy Holidays AV BINGO game, 1 by critterologist

critterologist wrote:
Happy Holidays! With Thanksgiving next week and Christmas and Hannukah just around the corner, the Happy Holiday Season is in full swing around here. Of course, there are still bulbs to be planted and plants to be settled into place on their winter light shelves... but those gardening activities will alternate with cookie baking and jam making and gift gathering!

We have to visit and chat with each other while all this is happening, and what better way to do so than while PLAYING BINGO!

Here's how it works.

I will post a list of 35 African violets with holiday-themed names. Choose 15 names from the list. Those 15 names make up your Bingo "card."

Send your list of 15 choices to Plantladylin, our cardholder for this month. You can Dmail her by going to her memberpage, http://davesgarden.com/members/plantladylin/ and clicking on "send plantladylin a Dmail." Please put "Holiday BINGO card" in the subject line.

You have until TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 20 to send Lin your card. She'll either post a list of participants on this thread or Dmail you back to say that she got your card. You are responsible for making sure that your card is correct... double check to be sure that you have exactly15 names on the list, with no names listed twice (it happens). You must have a card with 15 valid names submitted before the first call is made.

Each day, I'll randomly "call" one or more names from the list and post them on this thread. I'll keep a running list of calls at the top of this thread also, and will try to update it daily. When one of the choices on your list is called, mark it off your card. If all 15 of your choices are called, post "BINGO!" on the game thread. You must post "BINGO!" in order to win. First place goes to the first to post, etc.

I will post the first call after noon on Wednesday, November 21 (the day before Thanksgiving). I'll probably start a new thread for the actual game, but of course I'll post a link to it on this thread. With an average of 2 calls per day, the earliest anybody could possibly get all 15 of their picks called would be Tuesday, so even if people are out of town for the holiday they should be back in plenty of time to check their cards.

Prizes: I have donated a 1 year subscription to AVSA as a prize. Kim has offered one of her fabulous handmade doilies. Jannich has offered a $15 cash prize that the winner may spend as they choose (probably for a plant, if I know this group, LOL). Anybody else who would like to offer a prize for this game is more than welcome to do so. For this game, I think we will not assign prizes in any strict order. The first place winner will get first choice among the prizes. The second place winner will get to choose next, and so forth. I think it's likely that every winner will have a different idea of what the "first place" prize would be, anyway, so this should work out well.

OK!

Have fun chosing your cards!

edited to update prize list.

This message was edited Nov 26, 2007 7:33 PM