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Notorious Bingo
A scavenger hunt of ill-repute, in which cyclists hunt for depravity, debauchery, and repression – open to Freezers anywhere.
D.C. is a town of scandal. While Arlingtonians pine for the “good old days,” Rosslyn used to have a neighborhood known as “Dead Mans Hollow” where farmers returning from the Georgetown Market would get mugged. The Lee Harrison shopping mall was the site of the famous gang fight between the Pagans and Avengers. And then there is Monkey Business (because what would politics be without a sex scandal).
You get a bingo-card of ill-repute. You go out and capture ill-repute. You post it on any social media (with a hashtag to be negotiated). You send in your accomplishments for valuable prizes. So basically its Coffeeneuring except for Bordellos.
Each bingo square will be a category, based on something about D.C.. You can bike to and capture that category in any way you want – you just have to give a good explanation how that captures that category.
Example: Category: Salad Days. That means of course (you know this) punk rock. If you are in D.C., you could for example satisfy this by going and taking a picture in front of Hagen Daz in DC (oh someone PLEASE know why Hagen Daz is a punk rock holy site in D.C.). If you were perhaps in…. oh I dont know…. Manhattan…. you could go take a picture in front of OMFUG. So anyone anywhere can play.
Circle gets the Square. Now fill out the rest of the bingo card.
Bingo cards are being produced by the French Knights at the Doune Castle.
The winner of the game will be hired as a summer tour guide. The second place winner will be arrested and required to serve 6 months in Lorton Prison. (Everyone who completes the bingo card is a winner. I’ll think of something. Probably like Coffeeneuring, only this is Notorious, so I will probably make a profit off of it).
@SarahBee 202774 wrote:
@rcannon100, can I count you in on participating in this PP if I add a category for “Most Lit Doggo”?
I think the only way I can respond to that is, “Challenge Accepted.“
(Note my comment was a general comment re pointless games. Hidden Agenda – many of these games are fantastic – but they are sort of hard to play the winner-take-all games if I have no chance at beating ConsularRider
)Suggestion: Traditionally reindeer games are winner-take-all. This usually means games boil down to a very small number of people – or even just one – playing and winning. Maybe design the games so that many people win. For example, Mary’s Coffeeneuring is a challenge where over several weeks one has to visit 7 unique coffee shops and post on social media about it. And LOTS of people love it – because its a means of telling little social media stories. Anyone who qualifies gets that years Coffeeneuring patch. Another design is a scavenger hunt, and anyone and all who complete the scavenger hunt are winners.
Winner-take-all games mean a very very few people play. A game where more people can complete the challenge means more opportunities to play pointless games.
Well. The Mean-Girls* can correct me. And for all I know I am getting this horribly wrong.
Not long ago, in the distant past, we squabbled about “Team Slackers.” Team Slackers was specifically supposed to be people who wanted to play reindeer games but not compete for miles. The people on Team Slackers and its captain were very happy with the arrangement.
But even tho the people who were on Team Slackers were happy, others… were not. For thousands of reasons. And the short of it was, it was very patronizing.
In the kerfluffle, Team Slackers got put on the leaderboard even tho we had asked not to be. And we didnt care. We were not competing.
But the Mean Girls saw a loop hole in the game. the Mean-Girls ride beastly miles. And they did not compete in the Freezing Saddles team competition. So all of there strava winter miles were building up…. but invisible to the FS leader board.
But they knew, nothing stopped them from joining Team Slacker.
So….. the day before the end of the competition, the Mean-Girls joined Team Slacker en masse. This put Team Slacker in first place by like 4x miles on the leader board.
I thought it was hilarious. It was the true spirit of Freezing Saddles. It was a good joke. And it meant nothing. The #1 team was still #1 – its just that Team Slackers had pulled a funny one – and just ignore it.
Oh but did it piss people off. And I am sure telling the story, someone will step up and say how awful it was.
Freezing Saddles is a game. That’s all it is. It was always meant to be fun. The Mean Girls reminded us of that. I thought it was simply wonderful.
* That is the name Pete Beers game them, so there!
