Pointless Prize – Bicycle Bingo 2026 – Sign up now!

[cvcalhoun]

Note change from prior years:  Participants should post only on Discord, not here!  Please do not reply to this post.

Yes, Bicycle Bingo is returning for 2026.  I’m announcing this one early, because it requires a sign-up before January 1 (at least to play the first round).  To sign up, please go to this link and click on the button to generate a bingo card, then go to Discord and post the URL of the card you generate as a reply to the thread in #bicycle-bingo entitled “Post the URLs of your cards here.”  If your Discord name is not the same as your forum name, please include your forum name or your Strava number in your post.  Once you do that, I will add your information to the spreadsheet for the contest.

Basic premise:

• Daily (starting Jan 1) I will announce the proverbial “bingo number” to the forum (which will actually be an object/thing; see sample card image, below).  The announcement will be made through an edit to this post, via a new post under bicycle-bingo on the Discord server, and via the spreadsheet I will use to keep track of the items people have found.
• If a player has that item on their Bingo card and finds the “thing” on their ride that day or a future day, they will need to do three things:  1.  Take a photo of the item and post a reply to the post for the day it was called (not the day they find it) on the Discord server indicating what they’ve found, including the photo.  2.  Include the photo of the item in their Strava ride for the day and use #Bingo in the Strava ride title. 3. Mark that spot on their Bingo card.  (If you forget the URL of your Bingo card, you can check this link to find it.)
• The rides for each item must be on different days. For example, suppose the object for January 1 is balloon and the object for January 2 is flag.  If you miss that balloon on January 1, you can find a balloon and post it on January 2. But if you do, your ride to find the flag must be on January 3 or later.
• You can post the day of your ride or the next day. But no sandbagging (saving up a bunch of rides and then waiting until you’ve almost achieved Bingo to post). If you do not post your item to Discord by the end of the day after you find it, it will not count and you will have to go find it again to get credit.
• First player to find 5 things making “BINGO” (i.e., five items in a horizontal, vertical, or diagonal row) wins.

Key additional info (and I’ll probably add more later to clarify based on questions I get):

• Although you can find the thing on the day I call it or any day after that, it won’t count if you find the thing before the day for which it is called.  That applies even if I have already posted the item for the next day.  E.g., if I post an item at 8 pm on one day, saying it is the next day’s item, finding it before midnight on the day I post it won’t count.
• I will request to follow everyone who plays this game on Strava so that I can verify their entries. If you have Strava set so that you have to approve people following you, please approve me. I’m Carol ✊ on Strava.
• First person to announce BINGO to this thread (and I verify their entries) wins.
• Once someone wins, I will clear everyone’s card and start a new round.  (I anticipate we will have three rounds before the end of Freezing Saddles.)  I am able to clear your card without anyone’s involvement, so you will just find it blank when you go to use it for the second or third round.  If you want to use a different card for the second round, you will need to post on the Discord server giving the URL of the new card before the first round ends.
• If we haven’t finished the third round by the end of Freezing Saddles, I will continue the game until someone wins that third round.

Other thoughts:

• I plan to post the day’s Bingo# the prior evening.  But I’m only human, and may occasionally fall asleep before doing it.
• Most objects are likely self-explanatory, and I will provide a little more detail with each day’s announcement.
• There are 75 objects/items in total and 25 are randomly selected for each player’s Bingo card.
• Here is the link to the Google sheet I use to track what’s been called, and everyone’s card.
• If you win, I’ll verify you submitted valid photos on the day when you found the item (which must be on or after the day it was called) or the day after.
• If you want to cheat and ruin the fun for everyone, I’m sure you can.
• Prize will likely be a gift card of some kind.

Have fun and let me know any questions!

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[bikingjenn]

logged into Discord but unable to figure it out. Do you make this challenging on purpose?

Here’s my card link:

https://bingobaker.com/view/9746786

[cvcalhoun]

@bikingjenn, that link isn’t working.  Sometimes people have trouble if they use a phone rather than a computer to generate the card.  Would you like me to generate a card for you? Or is this your card?

Also, I think if you go to this link, you’ll be able to get to the Discord server.  You’ll need to be able to do that anyway in order to play.

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