Pointless Prize – Bicycle Bingo

[Barbara Gusack]

Soccer Goals   Duvall Field   College Park

Announced 1/17/25    Found 1//18/25

[Caitlin Hesser]

January 18

Soccer goal

[Laurie E.]

1/18/25 Park Sign

[bikesnick]

01/19/2025 – flag (other)

Ohio State Universitry

[jlamb]

Flag (other). Open House.

[cvcalhoun]

This is getting exciting!  We have three people who have four in a row, and could win if they just get that fifth one.  But of course, in the interim, people with fewer in a row now could catch up and win.

Given that we are likely close to the end of the first round, a reminder that if you want to change your card for the second round, you’ll need to create (or ask me to create) a new one and post it before the first round ends.  You can create as many as you like to try to get one with items you think you can find (e.g., you might want to avoid those Christmas items at this point).  You just have to tell me which one you will be using.

[Greg Gorman]

https://bingobaker.com/#677436f0590a32da

[Greg Gorman]

Post Office

[sszibler]

I let you arbitrate and get back to me, Carol. Brain is a little too fried to figure this out between the rules and my late night riding style.

Can’t figure out if FLAG (other) AND Sign (Park) can both count. There are flags and park signs on the first ride that started on the 18th, but the photos were actually TAKEN on the 19th. Sign posted by you on the 18th and Flag on the 19th 🤔 On the ride starting on the 19th I got a park, but no SIGN. Rules and riding style are complicated!

Can two items posted by you on different days, be posted on one ride, but different days? I should have gotten a sign at Frederick Douglas House

[Greg Gorman]

Sign (county line)

[sszibler]

[sszibler]

Sign (Park)

Found and posted on 1/19/25, Ride started on 1/18. Posted 1/18

Folger Park

[sszibler]

1/19/25 Flag (Other)
Event posted for 1/19 or later. Ride began on 1/18. Photo taken on 1/19. Photo of Sign (Park) also taken and posted on 1/19. What am I missing. Can both count? Either? ❤️

Oh, flag is at Phoenix park hotel and I think is the hotel flag (not enough wind, but it looks similar to Google Maps post. The far flag is Irish. It’s a historic hotel attached to the Dunliner.

[cvcalhoun]

Sorry, @sszibler, but you can’t have two photos taken on the same ride, even if the ride spans two days. The rides, not just the photos, must be on different days. And a ride is counted on the day it starts, even if it continues on into the next day. (Remember, the ride has to be tagged with #bingo, so there would be no way to give you more than one bingo credit for the same ride.)

You could, of course, stop your Strava after midnight and start a new ride then. But you may not want to do that, for example if you haven’t yet gotten your 10 miles in for purposes of either getting your decasleeze or for purposes of public art.

So you get credit for Sign (park). But you’ll have to go back (today or some later day) for Flag (other).

[sszibler]

Dang, thanks for explaining, Carol. Flag would have gotten me . . . actually, now that I’m looking, not any closer in reality than Sign. Both leave me two away.

And yeah, I was just trying to get the extra bonus miles in and also encouragement to get more miles in the second ride. If I’d remembered to get a flag in the second part, that would have worked, right? But there’s no way I could have gotten a flag on a ride that started on the 18th, correct?

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