African Violets and Gesneriads: Happy Holidays AV BINGO let the game begin!, 1 by critterologist

critterologist wrote:
Happy Holidays!

I hope everybody had a wonderful Thanksgiving celebration! 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 putting up lights and evergreens, baking cookies and making jam, and shopping for a few more "just right" gifts!

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!

From the previous thread, here's how it works.

I posted a list of 35 African violets with holiday-themed names. The original list is here, http://davesgarden.com/community/forums/p.php?pid=4201694. All players chose 15 names from the list. Those 15 names make up your Bingo "card," which was sent to Plantladylin, our cardholder this month. Thanks, Lin!

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 person to post a legitimate "Bingo!", second place goes to the second to post, etc.

All "Bingo!" wins will be confirmed by Lin -- she will check the list you sent her against the list of calls made. So if you think you have Bingo but three other people have already posted "Bingo,",go ahead and post also... it's possible you could still win a prize. Besides, it's fun to shout "BINGO!" regardless, LOL.

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.

I think we will declare a first, second, third, and possibly a fourth place winner and then offer "biggest loser" prizes. I'll make a final determination when we see how the game is working out at the end. :-)

Prizes -- Can you believe we've got 6 great prizes for this game? :-)
I have donated a 1 year subscription to AVSA as a prize. Kim has offered one of her fabulous handmade doilies.
Jannich has donated a $15 cash prize that the winner may spend as they choose, and an anonymous donor has offered a $15 gift certificate to the place of the winner's choice. Elaine (Kamikid) has offered a lovely box of AV leaves, postage paid,
and Dawna (Ccino42) will send Chirita tamiana seeds to one lucky person.

You can see a photo of the Victorian Lady that Kim has Kreated for us as a prize here, http://davesgarden.com/community/forums/p.php?pid=4204578, although I hope she'll post the photo again!

Anybody else who would like to offer a prize for this game is more than welcome to do so.

Feel free to chat on this thread. Half the fun of playing is in the daily "visiting" that goes on during the game. If the thread gets too long and becomes slow to load, we'll start a second thread for the game and link to it (dial up users, please let me know if a new thread is needed & I don't realize it).

Good luck, and have fun playing!

:-)

edited to update prize list

This message was edited Dec 2, 2007 10:04 AM